Album roundup

[credoimprobus]

So seeing as it's practically November now, let's talk POPTIMIST ESSENTIALS. Or in other words put: what albums will it be beneficial to have heard once year-end polling season rolls around again?

(I'm especially keen to hear about any albums that came out between abt midsummer and the end of September, because that time really struck me as a POP BLACK HOLE. Mind, that may well have been because I spent that time period buried up to my ears in obscurist electronic bobbins, rather than an actual lack of Big Albums...)

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I'll semi-vouch for that Vitalic album, but the only song I'm obsessed with from it is "One Above One."

MUST HEAR NOW:

The-Dream - Love vs. Hate
Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Shakira - She-Wolf

MIGHT SORTA WANNA HEAR NOW-ISH:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart [enter piratemoggy smackdown in 3...2...]
VV Brown - Travelling Like the Light
Lovers Electric - Whatever You Want (technically an '08 release I think)
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Music Go Music - Expressions (indie ABBA!)

OTHER STUFF:
Pill - 4180 The Prescription Mixtape
New Boyz - Skinny Jeans and A Mic (first ten tracks only)
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Meg and Dia - Here, Here, and Here
Gorilla Zoe - Don't Feed Da Animals
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Selena Gomez and the Scene - Kiss & Tell
Ryan Leslie - self-titled and Transition
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
Mario - DNA
YACHT - See Mystery Lights