best new year

so pitchfork awarded an absurd 53 BNMs this year. no wonder i concurred with them so much--law of averages.

for fun i wanted to count how many of them i actually heard so i made myself this neat little chart

an X indicates that i played it once or at least gave it a hard skim (41 of the 53)
an XX indicates that i played it more than once and would claim to know it well enough to render a useful opinion (27)
an XXX means it made my own a-list (14 counting some fence-straddlers)
an XXXX means it's making my top 10 (7 counting kanye and no age, which i'm still scrutinizing)

and they're in chronological order:

XXXX 1. vampire weekend 8.6
X 2. owen pallett 8.6
XXX 3. surfer blood 8.2
XX 4. four tet 8.6
XX 5. beach house 9.0
6. charlotte gainsbourg 8.4
XX 7. hot chip 8.4
8. gil scott-heron 8.5
XX 9. local natives 8.4
10. pantha du prince 8.3

X 11. joanna newsom 9.2
12. gonjasufi 8.4
X 13. liars 8.1
X 14. gorillaz 8.5
XX 15. titus andronicus 8.7
16. fang island 8.3
17. the morning benders 8.2
18. the tallest man on earth 8.5
XXX 19. caribou 8.4
20. delorean 8.4

XX 21. the radio dept 8.3
X 22. crystal castles 8.5
X 23. broken social scene 8.3
XX 24. flying lotus 8.8
XXXX 25. the national 8.7
XX 26. male bonding 8.5
XXXX 27. sleigh bells 8.7
XXX 28. lcd soundsystem 9.2
X 29. janelle monae 8.5
XX 30. james blake 8.3

31. tame impala 8.5
XXXX 32. robyn 8.5
33. wild nothing 8.2
XXX 34. ariel pink's haunted graffiti 9.0
X 35. emeralds 8.3
36. julian lynch 8.5
37. ceo 8.5
XX 38. wavves 8.4
XXXX 39. big boi 9.2
X 40. the-dream 8.6

XXX 41. best coast 8.4
XXX 42. curren$y 8.4
XXX 43. arcade fire 8.6
X 44. matthew dear 8.4
45. the walkmen 8.6
XX 46. das racist 8.7
XX 47. how to dress well 8.7
XX 48. deerhunter 9.2
XXXX 49. no age 8.8
50. twin shadow 8.4
51. sufjan stevens 8.4
52. girls 8.7
XXXX 53. kanye west 10.0
XXXX 54. robyn 8.7

theon's gonna yell at me for this retarded 5 am nadir of my whole existence but i'm 60 pages into his novel so he can eat a big box of dickholes