Pure Pop’s resident elder-statesman Michael Briener emailed me over his year end list; I highly recommend tracking him down and making him make you a mix CD from these selections. And a word of advice if you do, don’t get into a conversation with him about Graceland, i promise it won’t end well.

Aidan Baker — I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed

Laura Marling — Alas, I Cannot Dance

High Places — 03/07-09/07 (EP) ; High Places (full length)

A Sunny Day in Glasgow --Scribble Mural Comic Journal

Madlib — WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip ; Beat Konducta, vol. 5-6

Johnny Dowd — Drunkard’s Masterpiece

Peter Broderick — Float ; Home

Fennesz — Black Sea

Sigur Ros — Heima (DVD)

Joe Strummer — The Future is Unwritten (DVD)