NPR has released their top ten albums of the year, even though there is a almost full month left.
Based on their list, I’m fairly sure they listened to only ten albums. Of the top ten, I have listened to four of the albums on the list–Regina Spektor’s Begin to Hope, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins’ Rabbit Fur Coat, Cat Power’s The Greatest, and TV On the Radio’s Return to Cookie Mountain–and none of them are very good, and I consider myself a big fan of Spektor and Lewis.
While I do appreciate NPR’s recent (within the past year or so) focus on music, it really is designed for the wannabe hipster or older person with a young ear. They are about as pop as you can get for “indie.” Ugh, I totally sound like a hipster.