Last year this list was pretty short, and admittedly it got better by the end of the year and I missed a few on my final Best of 2008 list (most glaring: Cursed, Trap Them, LeLe, Janelle Monae, Flying Lotus, Hercules and Love Affair, Cut Copy, Darkthrone, Aura Noir, Ne-Yo, and Jake One). This year, the shit is pretty long, and hip-hop even seems pretty decent shape. So in no particular order except alphabetical, here are the best albums so far:Absu Absu
Antony & The Johnsons The Crying Light
Aviv Cohn The Widest Smiling Faces
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
DJ Quik and Kurupt BlaQKout
Dinosaur Jr. Farm
DOOM Born Like This
General Surgery Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism
Grand Puba Retroactive
Magrudergrind Magrudergrind
Major Lazer Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing
Maria Bamford Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome
Mos Def The Ecstatic
Rick Ross Deeper Than Rap
The Sa-Ra Creative Partners Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
Wavves Wavvves
And then there's some additional things, like Grizzly Bear, Camera Obscura, The Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Sunn0))), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, St. Vincent and etc. that I either refuse to listen to out of backward principle or know are good and haven't gotten around to giving a shit about yet because of my admittedly jerky prejudices.
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