In one of the best release weeks of the year, the Must Haves are most everything listed here, and the Honorable Mentions are much more than that.---

Must Have:
Animal Collective, Centipede Hz

”Today’s Supernatural”

Best Music By Way of Provo:
Imagine Dragons, Hight Visions

”It’s Time”

Best Surprising Direction Change:
Cat Power, Sun

”Cherokee”

Best Ecstatic Frenzy of Fun:
Deerhoof, Breakup Song

Full album stream

Honorable Mentions:
Bob Mould, Silver Age
Mount Eerie, Ocean Roar
Stars, The North
The Fresh & Onlys, Long Slow Dance
The Vaccines, The Vaccines Come of Age
Two Gallants, The Bloom and the Blight