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The obvious: Frank Ocean Kendrick Lamar GY!BE Grizzly Bear Fiona Apple Beach House Grimes Swans Japandroids Tame Impala Possible surprises: Chromatics Andy Stott Dirty Projectors Killer Mike Death Grips Jessie Ware

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

Deakin sounds EXACTLY like José González on this.

Man, I just realized, like, last year how great Random Spirit Lover was after dismissing it in 2007. What was I thinking? Centipede Hz, on the other hand, I actually loved the first time I heard it. It's all over the place in all the right ways.

Tanlines - All of Me

aka the one from Digable Planets

Big Boi's not rapping on the MM album, I think he's just working on production.

This is explained pretty easily. For one, the vast majority of people don't have the time to listen to the tens of thousands of albums that are released every year. There needs to be some way of filtering out what to listen to and what not to listen to, and listening to albums that get good reviews seems to me like as good a way as any to do that. But I feel like you're missing the larger point here which is that this list is an aggregate from EVERYONE who voted in the gummy awards. It stands to reason that the top 10 from such a large group of people would in fact be 10 albums that show up on every other list. You're not going to get something obscure here because, well, that's the nature of a popular vote. It's not to say that people aren't listening to anything outside of these 10 albums, just that these 10 are the most popular. Which seems to be the nature of your complaint.

Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar

No M83 = not a valid list

First the Destroyer album, then Bon Iver's "Beth/Rest", then Holy Ghost working with Michael McDonald, and now this. Yacht rock revival is officially a trend now. I have mixed feelings about this.

I love you stereogum, but our tastes are not in alignment this year. Yuck, The Weeknd, and Fucked Up instead 3 of my favorite albums, Panda Bear, Tune-Yards, and James Blake? And Fleet Foxes only at #19? Personal taste, I guess. But still, no Panda Bear/Tune-Yards/James Blake?!?

I actually really enjoyed this. And I'm a huge National fan, and not an M&S fan at all!

Man, I love TMBG, and I'm kinda lukewarm on TA, but that was goddamn awful.

Obviously they didn't control for gender. Men are more likely to want to have sex on a first date, and men are more likely to listen to Nirvana, Metallica, Linkin Park, etc, Particularly men of the frat boy variety. Women, on the other hand, are more likely to listen to radio pop, and the soft-rock of Coldplay and Kings of Leon. Fail. But I still find Katy Perry on the "least likely" list to be very ironic.

It was exciting for me to see a band of seemingly genuine, humble people with no greater ambitions than to make good music win an award that usually designed for well-oiled pop commodities. It shook things up a bit. Sure, the grammys still suck and all, but they were the last stand. Indie's takeover of mainstream is now complete, and even something so shitty as the grammys can't deny it any longer.