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There's not been as many good albums this year as there were at this point last year, but the ones that have been good have all been incredible (what a terribly constructed sentence). Put Your Back In 2 It by Perfume Genius, Young Man in America by Anais Mitchell and Always by Xiu Xiu are all 9/10s, especially happy about that Xiu Xiu record after a few slightly less interesting ones. Lex from Johnny Foreigner's solo EP as Yr Friends is also really great, and the new albums from Springsteen, Cloud Nothings and The Men have all been good. Anticipating now that the new Future of the Left record will be my AOTY. Hope I'm right.