* * * End of Year Albums/Etc * * *

Best Album
Zola Jesus - Conatus
Nic Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
WU LFY - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain


Best Song

Wise Blood - Darlin' You're Sweet
Gotye Ft Kimbra - Somebody that I Used to Know
Astronautalis - Dimitri Mendeleev

Best Video


Tyler - Yonkers



Best Irish Album

Former Soviet Republic - The Former Soviet Republic is made of this
Land Lovers - Confidants
Jape - Ocean of Frequency


Best promoter
Foggy Notions or Harmonic as it's now known as.



Best Gig

Final Fantasy - Whelans - for a fiver
Mountain Goats - Whelans
Bon Iver - Grand Canal - alot of people i know didn't like this, i loved every second of it.



And here's a few other things that might have slipped by that i also enjoyed.
Wise Blood had an EP during the year that's magic. Ukulele master Peter Delaney had his Duck Egg Blue Album re-released and it is one of the most enjoyable things i've ever heard. EMA,Mark McGuire, J Masics , M83, Decemberists, Austra and Nic Jaar all had brilliant albums that i'd urge everyone to listen to more than twice. And the new Wilco album is there best since A Ghost is Born. A live Sigur Ros album is just out last month and it's a good as you'd expect. I'm sure i'm forgetting loads more.

Song wise - Frank Ocean's Novocain, Joe Goddards Gabriel and tuneyards bizness also are worth alot of listens. And a special mention to Lying on a Deathbed by Jape. Such talent to be able to leave this song off the album.

For those with spotify - here's most of what i listened to this year. 

http://open.spotify.com/user/lordgoat/playlist/5Dx2zNi6Gvb6kjmFL7q0G3


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All is parallel.

Monkey61 wrote: »

Best Album
Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
James Blake - James Blake

Best Songs
EMA - California
Tune-Yards - Bizness
Austra - Lose It

Really enjoyed EMA and Austra this year too, i'd recommend Zola Jesus if you don't know her.

Drum rolls please,


Best Album

Bon Iver - Bon Iver - ran away with it,

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

M83 - Hurry up, we're dreaming

Best Song

Bon Iver - Holocene

M83 - Midnight City (one of 4 songs from the album nominated in this section)
Lana Del Ray - Video Games

Irish Album

ASIWYFA - Gangs

Jape - Ocean of Frequency

Tieranniesaur pipped The Minutes and Lisa Hannigan into 3rd.

Best Gig

Bon Iver - Grand Canal Theatre (getting boring now lads!)

Arcade Fire at EP

Promoter

U-Mack and FoggyNotions share the spoils here. Thankfully Bon Iver didn't put on any shows...


Not doing the video of the year as no one video received any number of votes...

Apologies for the delay!