Rick Rubin: Rock Album of the Year

[Tommy Bunz]

From the List:

The Black Keys - Turn Blue
U2 - Songs of Innocence
Lee Fields - Emma Jean
Drive-by Truckers - English Oceans
Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
Ty Segall - Manipulator
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
Eagulls - Eagulls
Swans - To Be Kind
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Beck - Morning Phase
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Alt-J - This is All Yours
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom

[Employee]

Parquet Courts

[LilLeftBrain]

will roll with DBT but pom pom and spoon were aces as well

[unclebengi]

A lot I liked this year, but Pom Pom and Benji are classic albums to me, albums I'll be pulling out for years to come, I'd have to put Pom Pom at #1 though. I also loved the albums from Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, and Parquet Courts. I actually like Parquet Courts 2nd album of the year Content Nausea (released under the Parkay Quarts moniker) better than Sunbathing Animal, but they're both great. I'm pretty new to their music, but I've already bought their whole discog on vinyl, great band.

[Gregg Popabitch]

That Swans album rocked so fucking hard.