I’ll be the first to admit I probably haven’t been as tuned into new music this year as I was last year. I’m not sure what to blame, really, but I will say that the albums I loved this year have made up for it all with sheer quality. So, in keeping with the theme of sparseness (and because I totally want to be like Spin Magazine), I present to you my top seven albums of the year, summarized in [...]