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These are my top six favorite albums of all time – not the best, nor the most brilliant, but simply my personal favorites. And yes, I know that six is an odd number, but I have more than five and less than ten – what can I say?

1) Who You Are, Cary Brothers

1. Jealousy
2. Ride
3. Who You Are
4. The Glass Parade
5. Honestly
6. The Last One
7. Loneliest Girl In The World
8. If You Were Here
9. Think Awhile
10. All the Rage
11. Precious Lie
12. Untitled
13. Untitled
14. Blue Eyes

“The Last One”

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2)Spirit, Jewel

01.Deep Water
02.What’s Simple Is True
03.Hands
04.Kiss The Flame
05.Down So Long
06.Innocence Maintained
07.Jupiter
08.Fat Boy
09.Enter From The East
10.Barcelona
11.Life Uncommon
12.Do You
13.Absence Of Fear / This Little Bird
14.Who Will Save Your Soul

“Hands”

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3)Hopes and Fears, Keane

1. Somewhere Only We Know
2. Bend And Break
3. We Might As Well Be Strangers
4. Everybody’s Changing
5. Your Eyes Open
6. She Has No Time
7. Can’t Stop Now
8. Sunshine
9. This Is The Last Time
10. On A Day Like Today
11. Untitled 1
12. Bedshaped

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4)Once, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova/Strict Joy, The Swell Season

1 Falling Slowly
2 If You Want Me
3 Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy
4 When Your Mind’s Made Up
5 Lies
6  Gold
7  The Hill
8  Fallen From The Sky
9 Leave
10 Trying To Pull Myself Away
11 All The Way Down
12  Once
13  Say It To Me Now

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01. Low Rising
02. Feeling the Pull
03. In These Arms
04. The Rain
05. Fantasy Man
06. Paper Cup
07. High Horses
08. The Verb
09. I Have Loved You Wrong
10. Love That Conquers
11. Two Tongues
12. Back Broke

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5)Since 2007-Vol 1/Remember-Vol 2/Always, Big Bang

I’m going to cheat with Big Bang because, like many Asian artists, they have for the most part released mini-albums instead of full albums, and it wasn’t until quite some time after their initial success that they began releasing real albums. But they so clearly deserve to be on my favorite albums list that I’m going to combine Vol 2-Remember, which has the largest percentage of my favorite tracks, with some of their mini-album songs.

1. Intro(Vol 1)

2.Haru Haru (Vol 2)

3. Geojitmal/Lies (Always)

4. Haru Haru(Acoustic, Vol 2)

5. Together with You feat. Park Bom

6. My Heaven(Big Bang)

7. A Fool’s Only Tears

8. Remember (Vol 2)

9. Always (Always)

10. Remember(Vol 2)

11. My Girl(Vol 1)

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6)One Fell Swoop, The Spill Canvas

01. Lust A Prima Vista
02. Staplegunned
03. Polygraph, Right Now!
04. Dutch Courage
05. Natalie Marie and 1cc
06. Teleport A&B
07. Break a Leg
08. This Is For Keeps
09. Himerus and Eros
10. Valiant
11. Secret Oath
12. Bound to Happen
13. Self-Conclusion

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Listen to a free full sneak of Cary Brother’s new album Under Control here! (note: you have to register first – I know, annoying, but worth it)

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Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea, due out Feb 2, 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg- IRM, due out January 25th, 2010 (read a review here)

Aqualung-Magnetic North, due out March 30th(tentatively)

Cary Brothers – untitled new album, due out April (!!! there are no amount of words to express my unadulterated glee over this)

Hana Pestle – This Way, early 2010

And while we’re at it, The Swell Season’s new album Strict Joy is already out(it’s a sign of my complete removal from Real Life that I have actually not listened to this yet) but here’s their amazing video edited by Sam Beam(!!) of Iron and Wine.

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