While their return has enough artistic merit to make it more than a simple cash-in on instant nostalgia, Cry Cry Cry lacked the standout songs that marked Wolf Parade’s previous work, with the album seeming to be more competent than anything. It should come to no surprise for our readers the band who inspired our site’s name would crack our Top Ten with our return, though their low placement on the list may raise some eyebrows. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps Fleet Foxes – The Crack-Up Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry (7 plays) If you’re really intent on focusing on only 10, I guess take the 10 highest performing albums from the list, but you really shouldn’t limit yourself like that if you can help it.ġ0. Note: Though the list is a Top 10, there are more albums than slots, because we don’t like breaking ties for the same play count. It has served us well in years past, and a quick glance at our list this year proves that it has worked once again. However, we are still in the process of attempting to patent and trademark The Process, which if you may recall, is simply tallying up the play counts on iTunes for each album. The process that is used to determine this list is highly rigorous and hardly scientific. We follow this unusual schedule for a few reasons: 1) It allows some of the albums that are released at the end of the calendar year to get some recognition, since they usually get swallowed up in the attention of the flurry of year-end lists 2) We get the chance to analyze other lists to pick up on albums that somehow escaped our attention during the course of the year and 3) It provides a handy consumer guide for people to focus where to spend their tax refund. Today is April 17, and while the rest of the nation trudges through another Tax Day (a few days later this year), we here at Rust Is Just Right choose this occasion to return from the dead and release our Best Albums of the Year list.
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