Inspired by my friend Aaron, every year I compile a CD of my favorite music that was released that year. Below are the track listings.

2009
Artist	Song	Album
A.C. Newman	Prophets	Get Guilty
White Rabbits	Percussion Gun	It’s Frightening
Band Of Skulls	I Know What I Am	Baby Darling Dollface Honey
Peasant	We’re Good	On the Ground
The Swimmers	Nervous Wreck	People Are Soft
The Builders and The Butchers	Vampire Lake	Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
Ramona Falls	Russia	Intuit
Wild Beasts	Hooting & Howling	Two Dancers
Great Northern	Mountain	Remind Me Where The Light Is
Loch Lomond	Ghost Of An Earthwork	Night Bats
Pomegranates	Southern Ocean	Everybody, Come Outside!
BellX1	The Great Defector	Blue Lights on the Runway
The xx	Shelter	xx
Magnolia Electric Co	The Handing Down	Josephine
Baby Teeth	The Part You Play	Hustle Beach
Lightning Dust	Wondering What Everyone Knows	Infinite Light
Harlem Shakes	Winter Water	Technicolor Health
Girls In Trouble	Mountain/When My Father Came Back	Girls In Trouble
Throw Me The Statue	Waving At The Shore	Creaturesque
Metric	Satellite Mind	Fantasies
Heartless Bastards	The Mountain	The Mountain
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir	Tear Down The Opera House	…and the horse you rode in on

2008
Artist	Song	Album
The Airborne Toxic Event	Sometime Around Midnight	The Airborne Toxic Event
Wild Sweet Orange	House of Regret	We Have Cause to Be Uneasy
Little Joy	Keep Me In Mind	Little Joy
Hayden	Did I Wake Up Beside You?	In Field & Town
The Morning Benders	Patient Patient	Talking Through Tin Cans
The Black Keys	Strange Times	Attack & Release
Blitzen Trapper	Black River Killer	Furr
The Impossible Shapes	Hey!	The Impossible Shapes
My Morning Jacket	Librarian	Evil Urges
Apollo Sunshine	Breeze	Shall Noise Upon
The Mountain Goats	Lovecraft In Brooklyn	Heretic Pride
Bowerbirds	In Our Talons	Hymns For A Dark Horse
Shearwater	The Snow Leopard	Rook
The Constantines	I Will Not Sing a Hateful Song	Kensington Heights
Ra Ra Riot	Suspended In Gaffa	The Rhumb Line
Of Montreal	Gallery Piece	Skeletal Lamping
Frances	Telephone	All The While
The Rural Alberta Advantage	In the Summertime	Hometowns
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons	Take Off Your Sunglasses	Inside The Human Body
Electric Touch	Who Put The Fire Out?	Electric Touch
The French Kicks	With The Fishes	Swimming

2007
Artist	Song	Album
The National	Ada	Boxer
Andrew Bird	Heretics	Armchair Apocrypha
Band of Horses	Cigarettes, Wedding Bands	Cease to Begin
Of Montreal	Cato As A Pun	Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
The Shins	Australia	Wincing The Night Away
Elvis Perkins	While You Were Sleeping	Ash Wednesday
The Polyphonic Spree	Section 22: Running Away	The Fragile Army
Okkervil River	Unless It’s Kicks	The Stage Names
Bonnie “Prince” Billy	The Sun Highlights The Lack In Each	Strange Form Of Life—EP
Kevin Drew	Backed Out On The…	Spirit If…
k-os	Born to Run	Atlantis—Hymns for Disco
Beirut	Guyamas Sonora	The Flying Club Cup
The Arcade Fire	Windowsill	Neon Bible
Erin McKeown	Rhode Island is Famous For You	Sing You Sinners
Modest Mouse	Missed the Boat	We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Port O’Brien	I Won’t Look Back	The Wind And The Swell
Delta Spirit	Gimme Some Motivation	I Think I’ve Found It EP
Feist	Brandy Alexander	The Reminder
Stars	Window Bird	In Our Bedroom After The War

2006
Artist	Song	Album
The Cold War Kids	We Used to Vacation	Up In Rags EP
Trey Anastasio	Let Me Lie	Bar 17
The Decemberists	Sons & Daughters	The Crane Wife
Eef Barzelay	Well	Bitter Honey
Tokyo Police Club	Citizens of Tomorrow	A Lesson In Crime
Sunset Rubdown	Us Ones In Between	Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Belle and Sebastian	Another Sunny Day	The Life Pursuit
Cat Power	Willie	The Greatest
Chin Up Chin Up	Landlocked Lifeguards	This Harness Can’t Ride Anything
The Hold Steady	Stuck Between Stations	Boys and Girls in America
Damien Rice	Me, My Yoke and I	9
Langhorne Slim	She’s Gone	Daytrotter Sessions
Rhett Miller	Singular Girl	The Believer
Two Gallants	Las Cruces Jail	What The Toll Tells
Robbers on High Street	The Fatalist	The Fatalist and Friends EP
Band of Horses	The Great Salt Lake	Everything All The Time
Jennifer O’Connor	Tonight We Ride	Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Stars
My Morning Jacket	One Big Holiday	Okonokos