O LCD Soundsystem têm o melhor disco do ano para a revista norte-americana Paste, que este ano deixou de existir em papel, passando a apostar exclusivamente na edição on-line. Também no top 10 da Paste estão Janelle Monáe, Mumford & Sons, Kanye West e Titus Andronicus.
Veja abaixo a lista completa de melhores do ano da revista Paste.
1. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
2. Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid
3. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
6. Sleigh Bells - Treats
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
9. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
10. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
11. The National - High Violet
12. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise: The Lost Sessions of Darkness on the Edge of Town
13. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
14. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
15. Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
16. Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
17. Jónsi - Go
18. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
19. Elizabeth Cook - Welder
20. Suckers - Wild Smile
21. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
22. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
23. Laura Veirs - July Flame
24. Beach House - Teen Dream
25. Various Artists - Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall
26. Lissie - Catching a Tiger
27. Vampire Weekend - Contra
28. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
29. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
30. She & Him - Volume Two
31. The Roots - How I Got Over
32. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig
33. Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void
34. Girl Talk - All Day
35. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
36. Spoon - Transference
37. Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot
38. Josh Ritter - So Runs The World
39. Sarah Jaffe - Suburban Nature
40. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
41. Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
42. Wavves - King of the Beach
43. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
44. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
45. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
46. The Black Keys - Brothers
47. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
48. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
49. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
50. Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
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