• Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming (LIVE)
• Justice vs Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends
• Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men
• C2C - The Road
• Purity Ring - Fineshrine
• Atoms for Peace - Judge, Jury, & Executioner
• The Uncluded - Delicate Cycle
• Robert DeLong - Global Concepts
• Allen Stone - Sleep
• Of Monsters and Men - King and Lion

• H.D. Harmsen - Teetotaler
• Gadema - Salute the Sun
• Ira Grace & The Bible Belt Prophets - Old Train
• Aeon Grey - Milk & Bullets
• Ladysoal - Sunshine
• Maxilla Blue - Perfect Mal-F
• Parlours - Dreamers
• Blocko feat. MC Genetics - Leave it Alone
• Holy White Hounds - Black Sun

Uncluded - "Hokey Fright"

As soon as something is described to me as "quirky" I'm out...I can't hang.  I immediately picture the most ironic of hipsters praising their latest bootleg of Tuvan throat singing while wearing some obnoxious pastel t-shirt announcing to the world that they "run on puppy power...quirky indeed

This record will probably be described as quirky by the blogosphere but please friends, do NOT let that turn you off.  

This is probably the most lyrically well-crafted album to grace my ears so far this year.  Kimya Dawson's gentle, quasi-innocent words dance around the gruff verbal maypole that Aesop Rock has firmly planted into a musical landscape that could easily be straight from the pages of the brothers Grimm.

Humor twirls with sadness, introspection bows to sharp observation, minutea has meaning...this record is deeper than it appears yet it can easily be put on as background music to make heads bob.

TLDR? - Magic words from Kimya Dawson and Aesop Rock.