Top Albums of the Year

Here are my favorite albums of the year. The following caveats apply:

• I'm not rich or immoral enough to procure every single CD released this year (sorry My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, Bon Iver, Wolf Parade, etc), so these are just the favorites that I own.
• They are in the order of how much I enjoyed them, so this is VERY subjective.
• If there's an indie music lover in your life, any of the CD's would make wonderful Winter Solstice gifts.
  

1. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us.
2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours.
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend.
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular.
5. Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line.
6. Los Campesinos- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
7. Passion Pit- Chunk of Change.
8. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive.
9. Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords
10. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
11. m83 - Saturdays = Youth
12. Black Kids- Partie Traumatic
13. Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
14. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
15. Cold War Kids- Loyalty to Loyalty