Blitzen Trapper -- Furr
This Portland sextet has released their most cohesive album in Furr, their fourth effort overall. Really, it would have been hard to follow their last record Wild Mountain Nation with anything as dense as that, so they took the much smarter route and, well, didn't. Instead they put out an album full of Dylan-esque twang ("Black River Killer"), bittersweet piano hymns ("Not Your Lover") and straight-up rock gems ("Gold For Bread", "Sleepy Time in the Western World"). Blitzen Trapper have taken their vast sound and toned it down to a more focused, calculated approach -- something that sounds not-so-great on the surface, but it's a tactic that has made this already-amazing band even better.
Honorable Mentions:
Deerhunter -- Mircocastle
I love this record(s) so much it hurts sometime. I kept it off the official list because I felt it lacked some of the pop sensibility of their other stuff, but there's no denying that Deerhunter has soaked up Radiohead's aural tendencies without becoming carbon copies. Good for them.
Lil Wayne -- Tha Carter III
The greatness of this album need not be explained.
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