Required Listening: July

July's albums (another short list):

• Nikka Costa- can'tneverdidnothin'
• Emm Gryner- PVT
• Emm Gryner- Songs of Love and Death
• Jimmy Chamberlain Complex- Life Begins Again
• Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak
• The National- Alligator
  
• New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
  
• QOTSA- Lullabies to Paralyze
• Spoon- Gimme Fiction
  
• David Usher- If God Had Curves
• John Vanderslice- Pixel Revolt

Now that I've crossed into the second half of the decade, it's time to say goodbye to the albums that were sacrificed to the Smoke Monster.

• Black Keys- The Big Come Up
• Coldplay- Parachutes
• Nelly Furtado- Woah Nelly!
• Good Life- Novena on a Nocturn
• David Gray- White Ladder
• Emm Gryner- Dead Relatives
• Interpol- Antics
• Long Winters- When I Pretend to Fall
• Muse- Origin of Symmetry
• Muse- Absolution
• Nada Surf- Let Go
• The National- The National
• New Pornographers- Electric Version
  
• Orbit- xlr8r
• Roland Orzabal- Tomcats Screaming Outside
• Placebo- Black Market Music
• Remy Zero- The Golden Hum
• Bic Runga- Beautiful Collision
• Silver Scooter- The Blue Law
• Sunset Valley- Icepond
• Travis- The Man Who
• David Usher- Morning Orbit
  
• John Vanderslice- Mass Suicide Occult Figurines
• John Vanderslice- Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
• John Vanderslice- Cellar Door

This is not to say these albums are bad (although a few are borderline), but to create a top 50 list, some things have gotta go.