Absolutely Love & Adore:
Sea Wolf “Leaves in the River” – So awesome. Love the lyrics, and the mood, and the harmonies. Just lovelovelove.
Bat for Lashes “Fur and Gold” – Eccentric and layered. Worried it’d be too Tori Amos for me but the music behind the voice (almost Berlin-like or Cocteau Twins. lordie this brings me back in time) is so much more enjoyable (to me) that the comparison falls away fast (phew).
The Avett Brothers “Emotionalism” – A little bit country, a little bit folk rocky. Lots of enthusiasm and fun.
Lupe Fiasco “The Cool” – This kid is a blast. Love how he’s mixing in lots of sung vocals as well.
Random Singles:

• “Skinny Love” Bon Iver (break my heart much, would ya)
  
• “In the Sun” Donna De Lory (cover of Joseph Arthur, so many people have covered this now, it’s almost unbelievable)
  
• “Work That” Mary J. Blige
  
• “Just Fine” Mary J. Blige
  
• “Apologize” OneRepublic & Timbaland (LOVELOVELOVE)
  
• “Raining in Baltimore” Brandi Carlile (cover of Counting Crows)
  
• “Thou Shalt Always Kill” Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (so much fun!)
  
• “Paperweight” Joshua Radin & Schuyler Fisk
  
• “Endless Shovel” Rogue Wave

Other Albums I Liked:

• Augie March “Moo, You Bloody Choir” – Aussie rock.
  
• Brother Ali “The Undisputed Truth” – Really enjoy…to a point. It’s a LONG album and I start to forget who I’m listening to…
  
• The Foxboro Hot Tubs “Stop Drop and Roll” – Whether or not this is actually Green Day, I think it’s a LOT of fun.
  
• Simple Kid “2” – sounds like a combination of Beck and Elliott Smith.
  
• Nick Light “The World Forgetting by the World Forgot” – kinda Matt Nathanson-y. Not sure he’s made himself distinctive enough to really break out. I’ll be interested to see.
  
• UGK “Underground Kingz” – I’m not sure I’ve ever made it all the way through (what’s up with rap albums having like 38.5 songs?), but I like it in select doses.
  
• Juno soundtrack – Love (LOVE!) a lot of this but can’t listen to it in one go, gets monotonous. Taken in doses, however, the sweetness and the romance bring you right back to the mood of the movie, which is AWESOME.
  
• Hard-Fi “Stars of CCTV” – Really liked their new one (first to me); just catching up on the back catalog.
  
• The White Stripes “Conquest” EP – Sort of a “protest against the press” album to me, if you dig into the lyrics. Just as good as their recent album, just shorter!
  
• Jay-Z “American Gangster” – I don’t buy ALL his albums but I think this one is a solid “entire album” listen. Love all the movie references and the tough guy talk.

Not really for me / but maybe for you!:
Radiohead “In Rainbows” – I stopped being a Radiohead fan such a long time ago (sorry, I’m just not THAT COOL); you should be surprised I even gave this a chance. I do find this album “LISTENABLE” and honestly that’s a compliment given what I thought of the previous couple. And there are a couple songs I actually LIKE (“House of Cards” would be one), but I don’t enjoy enough of it and I often “fast forward” when random songs from it come on up shuffle. It’s just not really my thing.
Siobhan Donaghy “Revolution in Me” – I bought this hoping to get a pop diva fix. It’s got some nice songs, but I don’t find myself looking for it on the Pod.
Shamefully have either not listened to at all, or not all the way through, or so few times that I can’t legitimately offer an opinion:

• Mavis Staples “We’ll Never Turn Back” (loved the samples I listened to on iTunes but just haven’t gotten around to it)
  
• Dyme Dec “Space Music” (although I have listened to the one song “Let It Be” a bunch, which features speeded-up Beatles and is AWESOME!! I’ve told you about it before.)