My top ten so far in no particular order:
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Savages - Silence Yourself
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
No Joy - Wait To Pleasure
Amplifier - Echo Street
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Of course this is going to look widely different come December and some of these albums will probably be nowhere near my top ten. Overall not a bad first half of the year with a handful of albums getting some heavy rotation from me. Even June is looking like a good month with new albums from Boards of Canada and Sigur Ros to keep my headphones busy.
Looking forward, after June there doesn't seem to be many forthcoming releases that interest me. There's the as yet untitled new album from The Horrors expected in September and the debut album from Chvrches but not much else. Hopefully there will be a flurry of activity towards the end of the year to round off the year on a high.
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