Top 10s

TOP 10 NATIONAL

1) Beach House, Devotion (Carpark)

2) Tuxedomoon, Vapour Trails (Crammed Discs)

3) Portishead, Third (Mercury/Island)

4) Torche, Meanderthal (Hydra Head)

5) Frida Hyvönen, Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)

6) Thee Oh Sees, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (Tomlab/Castle Face)

7) Indian Jewelry, Free Gold (We Are Free)

8) Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky/4AD)

9) Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)

10) Women (Jagjaguwar)

TOP 10 Texas

1) Horse + Donkey

2) Harlem, Free Drugs (Female Fantasy)

3) Hacienda, Loud Is the Night (Alive Natural Sound)

4) Weird Weeds, I Miss This (Autobus)

5) Shearwater, Rook (Matador)

6) The Black Angels, Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic)

7) Golden Boys, Goodbye Country (Monofonus Press)

8) White Denim, Exposion (Transmission Entertainment)

9) Grupo Fantasma, Sonidos Gold (Aire Sol)

10) Dana Falconberry, Oh Skies of Grey (00:02:59)

LOCAL CHORUS LINE

1) Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, The Golden Calves (Business Deal)

2) The Sour Notes, The Meat of the Fruit

3) Mammoth Grinder, Rage and Ruin (Depleted Resource)

4) The Ape-Shits, La Pollution Culturelle (Super Secret)

5) Silver Pines, Forces

6) Pillow Queens, Kookoolegit (Monofonus Press)

7) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Not Noiice (Chalk Circle)

8) Gretchen Phillips, I Was Just Comforting Her (Seasick Sailor)

9) My Education, Bad Vibrations (Strange Attractors Audio House)

10) Murdocks, Roar! Roar! Roar! (Surprise Truck)