OLD SCHOOL EMO

These were my 5 FAVORITE EPs that came out this year:
1. Carissa’s Weird – Tuscon/Meredith & Iris
2. Circle Takes The Square – Decompositions, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation
3. Crash of Rhinos – Distal
4. Childish Gambino - Childish Gambino
5. Park Jefferson – Weekdays

And these were my 20 FAVORITE FULL LENGTHs that came out this year:
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
1. Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
1. Small Brown Bike - Fell & Found
4. Pygmy Lush - Old Friends
4. Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire
6. Bridge & Tunnel - Rebuilding Year
7. Touche Amore - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
8. Beau Navire - Hours
9. Prawn - You Can Just Leave It All
10. Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
11. Rival Schools - Pedals
12. Raein - Sulla linea d’orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti
13. Football, etc. - The Draft
14. Beirut - The Rip Tide
15. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
16. Owen - Ghost Town
17. Mansions - Dig Up the Dead
18. Samiam - Trips
19. Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
20. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will

And these are 10 RELEASES FROM FRIENDS that I think are quite good (in no order):
Apart - Only Revolutions
Aspiga - How I’m Not Feeling
Coastal - Demonstration
Warren Franklin - Your Heart Belongs to the Midwest
The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms
Into It Over It - Proper
Restorations - Restorations
Secret Plot to Destroy the Entire Universe - Montauk
Ship Wrecks - Better
Shooting Pains - Devolve
The Spinning Game - Rats
These Branches -  The Payoff
White Wives - Happeners