[tintin47]

For me, Grizzly Bear's Ready, Able andAbout Face is the one-two punch of the year.

Also, Bluish by Animal Collective and Two Planets by Bat for Lashes.

 

[joincoolkidclub]

First to it: "Stillness is the Move" Dirty Projectors (taken as a whole I preferred Rise Above as an album).

Also: "My Girls" Animal Collective, as the song of the millennium.

 

[DeusEx]

"Ghost in the Rain" - by The Hiatus
(Japanese alternative rock band, but lead vocals' english is superb)

"503" - by Hans Zimmer (violin solo by Joshua Bell) from the film Angels & Demons

"Prime" - by Steve Jablonsky from the film Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
(the first Transformers soundtrack was immensely better though...)

 

[SweetAdeline]

Japandroids- Sovereignty
Future of the Left- I Am Civil Service
Condo Fu*_s- With a Girl Like You
Art Brut- Alcoholics Unanimous

 

[venomousbeavers]

Bat For Lashes - Glass
Eat Skull - Stick to the Formula
Fever Ray - Triangle Walks
Future of the Left - Throwing Bricks at Trains
Micachu and the Shapes - Calculator
Narrows - Chambered
Neko Case - Magpie to the Morning
Sharon Van Etten - For You
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood

 

[limpidglitch]

My iTunes says it's Better Together – Jack Johnson, but in reality it's Across The Universe – The Beatles.

 

[virometal]

No Turning Back - Gui Boratto
Castle Rising - Nathan Fake
The Czar - Mastodon
Seamonkey - Moderat
Dorchester Hotel - The Sounds