For a year that's been a little short on big time albums, the hits keep on coming! Here's what I've been gettin down with recently...

2011, Vol. 7, aka Boom Sh-Clack Clack

Gotye - Smoke and Mirrors
Blood Orange - Sutphin Boulevard
Phantogram - Don't Move
Little Dragon - Constant Surprises
Atlas Sound - Te Amo
The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
ASAP Rocky - Trilla (Feat. ASAP Twelvy & ASAP Nast)
Kanye West & JAY Z - Ni**as in Paris
Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx – Nightcall
Youth Lagoon – Posters
Zee Avi - Concrete Wall
Mayer Hawthorne - The Walk
Sade - When Am I Going To Make A Living (Poolside's Tons of Drums Edit)
Kisses - Bermuda
Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way
Jonti - Firework Spraying Moon
Teebs - Long Distance ft. Gaby Hernandez
Björk – Crystalline

2011, Vol. 8, aka Gabba Gabba Hey!

The Horrors - Endless Blue
MGMT - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
King Krule - The Noose of Jah City
DJ Shadow - Scale It Back
St. Vincent - Dilettante
The War on Drugs - Come to the City
White Denim - River to Consider
Cut Off Your Hands - You Should Do Better
Future Islands - Balance
The Head And The Heart - Lost In My Mind
Arctic Monkeys - That's Where You're Wrong
Anna Calvi - Desire
Zola Jesus - Vessel
Pure X - Surface
Mazzy Star - Common Burn
Other Lives - Dust Bowl III

"Girll.... don't you worry bout a 'fing"

Not my favorite track from this dude (that would be 'The Noose of Jah City'), but you'll see what you're gettin into. And I'm all about it. Am I being Rick-Rolled? I don't care, I think this kid slays...

You're officially on notice about Other Lives. Carefully crafted but expansive late-Beatles-meets-Grizzly-Bear chamber pop from... wait, WHAT?... apparently Stillwater, OK. Which I can tell you first hand ain't so bad but still would've been my second to last guess after Yemen. Anyway, they're lush and seductive and just right.

This one's got a Western vibe that's a little misleading, but you gotta here the chops on display here. You expect this kind of business from the vets, but not the first time you ever hear an artist. Just a mesmerizing five minutes.