Kitties
It's football season, and I'm trying to pay attention.
This list has been updated to include a late-comer with Cotton Jones' killer country-tinged ep titled Rio Ranger. Mike Nau and his lady Whitney McGraw (paired together with an assortment of other players here or there) have made some very seriously fucking great pop tunes over five or so years, most of which have been under-appreciated, which is a wrong that I'm certain will one day be right-ed.
In no particular order:
Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
Other Girls Perfect Cities
The Big Pink A Brief History of Love
Girls Girls
The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
The Growlers Are You In or Out
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus
Cotton Jones Rio Ranger EP
Clients who were not considered for this list due to professional conflicts & complications, but put out great records this year:

Dischord's ongoing Re-cut and Re-issued series has driven me to the legendary DC-label's webstore several times this year for some pretty weighty purchases. I haven't paid much mind to their output over the past several years, but I would have to assume that my LP bins hold a higher percentage of their catalog than any other label.
Listening to Rites of Spring and One Last Wish today led me to a Google image search for classic Guy Picciato live photos, and then thirty or forty minutes of festisizing over the live shots in each of the early Fugazi full-lengths. Maybe the best photographed band of all time, in particular so many classic shots with co-frontman Guy doing his thing!
Cover and interior shot (shown above) from their debut mini-album: totally magic! Interior shots from Margin Walker: grainy pieces of fucking genius! Repeater's blocked out cover shot: a trend starter in record design if ever there were one! Some more of my Guy favs below.



