Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde [Fat Possum]
Hands and Knees: Wholesome [Self Released]
01-25
Destroyer: Kaputt [Merge]
Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean [Warner Bros./4AD]
John Vanderslice: White Wilderness [Dead Oceans]
01-31
Nicolas Jaar: Space is Only Noise [Circus Company]
02-08
Akron/Family: S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT [Dead Oceans]
The Babies: The Babies [Shrimper]
Cut Copy: Zonoscope [Modular]
James Blake: James Blake [Atlas/A&M]
02-15
Bright Eyes: The People's Key [Saddle Creek]
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake [Vagrant]
Yuck: Yuck [Fat Possum]
Radiohead: The King of Limbs [Self-Released]
Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 [Kranky]
02-22
Beach Fossils: What a Pleasure EP [Captured Tracks]
Toro Y Moi: Underneath the Pine [Carpark]
03-01
Dum Dum Girls: He Gets Me High EP [Sub Pop]
03-05
Gracious Calamity: Carefree Since '83 [Whitehaus Family Record]
03-08
Dodos: No Color [Frenchkiss]
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo [Matador]
Wye Oak: Civilian [Merge]
03-29
The Mountain Goats: All Eternal's Deck [Merge]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong [Slumberland]
Dirty Beaches: Badlands [Zoo]
04-01
Girlfriends: Cave Kids 7" [Black Bell]
04-12
Cass McCombs: Wit's End [Domino]
Panda Bear: Tomboy [Paw Tracks]
Vivian Girls: Share the Joy [Polyvinyl]
04-19
tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l [4AD]
04-26
Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care [Temporary Residence]
05-03
Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues [Sub Pop]
05-10
The Antlers: Burst Apart [Frenchkiss]
Karl Blau: Max 12" EP [K]
Man Man: Life Fantastic [Anti-]
Mountains: Air Museum [Thrill Jockey]
Okkervil River: I Am Very Far [Jagjaguwar]
EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints [Souterrain Transmissions]
05-24
David Bazan: Strange Negotiations [Barsuk]
05-31
Death Cab for Cutie: Codes and Keys [Atlantic]
06-07
Sondre Lerche: Sondre Lerche [Mona]
Cults [Columbia]
06-14
Woods: Sun & Shade [Woodsist]
The Music Tapes: Purim's Shadows [Merge]
WU LYF: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain [LYF]
06-21
Bon Iver [Jugwajar]
The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond this World [Haft]
07-04
Bright Eyes: Live Recordings EP [HMV]
07-05
Brian Eno: Drums Between the Bells [Warp]
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't: Lost in the Pancakes [Cloud]
07-12
Washed Out: Within or Without [Sub Pop]
07-28
John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves [Ribbon]
Handsome Furs: Sound Kapitol [Sub Pop]
08-02
Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle Reissue [Merge]
08-23
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Mirror Traffic [Matador]
08-30
Beirut: The Rip Tide [Pompeii Recordings]
Male Bonding: Endless Now [Sub Pop]
Glen Campbell: Ghost on the Canvas [Surfdog]
09-02
The Drums: Portamento [Island]
09-13
Neon Indian: Era Extraña [Static Tongues]
Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know [Ribbon]
Memoryhouse: The Years EP [Sub Pop]
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy [4AD]
09-20
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!: Hysterical [Self-Released]
09-27
Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation [Fat Possum]
Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams [Sub Pop]
Twin Sister: In Heaven [Domino]
10-04
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien [Barsuk]
Emperor X: Western Teleport [Bar None]
Prince Rama: Trust Now [Paw Tracks]
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Wolfroy Goes to Town [Drag City]
Feist: Metals [Cherrytree/Interscope]
MGMT: Late Night Tales [LateNightTales
S.C.U.M.: Again Into Eyes [Mute]
10-11
Girls: Record 3: Father, Son, Holy Ghost [True Panther]
Crooked Fingers: Breaks in the Armor [Merge]
Bjork: Biophilia [Nonesuch/One Little Indian]
James Blake: Enough Thunder [Atlas]
10-18
M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming [Mute]
10-24
She & Him: A Very She & Him Christmas [Merge]
10-25
Justice: Audio, Video, Disco [Ed Banger/Because/Elektra]
Tom Waits: Bad as Me [Anti-]
11-01
The Beach Boys: SMiLE [Capitol/EMI]
Kurt Vile: So Outta Reach EP [Matador]
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whisper [Because Music / Elektra]
11-08
Atlas Sound: Parallax [4AD]
Quilt: Quilt [Mexican Summer]
Cass McCombs: Humor Risk [Domino]
Florence and the Machine: Ceremonials [Island/Universal Republic]
David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time [Sunday Best Recordings/PIAS America]
Owen: Ghost Town [Polyvinyl]
Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica [Mexican Summer]
11-15
Los Campesinos!: Hello Sadness [Arts and Crafts]
Olivia Tremor Control: Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol 1. Reissues [Chunklet Industries]
11-18
Brian Eno: Panic of Looking [Warp]
11-22
Neutral Milk Hotel: Discography Box Set [Self Released]
12-06
The Black Keys: El Camino [Nonesuch]
12-11
James Blake :: Love What Happened Here [R&S]
