Using a random number generator and a list of all the follows/likes/re-tweets and illegal bribes we took during the long and fruitful month of January, we have finally come up with a winner for The Greatest Contest Ever.
Look at the bright side. You no longer need to manifest your antagonism towards the universe at misdirected amorphous anxieties, death drives, or all-encompassing forms of existentialism. Now you may point all your pent up ire at this one guy named Antonio Arias from LA, who will win all of these releases, while you will have none of them:
Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma (limited gold foil edition CD)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Before Today (CD)
Big Boi, Sir Luscious Left Foot
Women, Public Strain (CD)
Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern (LP)
Guilty Simpson, OJ Simpson
Jneiro Jarel, Android Love Mayhem
Aloe Blacc, Good Things
Prince Rama, Shadow Temple (LP)
Cloud Nothings, Turning On (CD)
Toro Y Moi, Causers of This (LP)
How to Dress Well, Love Remains (CD)
Walkmen, Lisbon
Javelin, No Mas (CD)
Adam Green, Minor Love
Thee Oh Sees, Warm Slime (CD)
Ty Segall, Melted
Beach Fossils, Beach Fossils
Fresh & Onlys, Play it Strange
Strange Boys, Be Brave
White Fence, White Fence
La Sera
Sonny & the Sunsets, Tomorrow is Alright
Gary War, Police Water EP (LP)
Woodsman, Woodsman EP (LP)
Future Islands, In Evening Air (CD)
Beach House, Teen Dream
Teengirl Fantasy, 7AM (LP)
Delorean, Subiza (CD)
Dirty Beaches, “True Blue” b/w “Sweet 17” (7-inch)
Flight, Lead Riders (12-inch)
Dunes, Old Souls (7-inch)
Heavy Hawaii, HH EP (12-inch)
Las Robertas, Cry Out Loud (LP)
All Saints Day, “It'll Come Around” (7-inch)
Air Waves, Dungeon Dots (12-inch)
Darkthrone, Circle the Wagons
Ceremony, Rohnert Park (LP)
Dax Riggs, Say Goodnight to the World
Greatest Hits
Total Slacker, “Crystal Necklace” (7-inch)
Weekends, Psychedelic Mice (Cassette)
Birthdays, Hawaiian Punch Wave (Cassette)
Blissed Out, Second Plabe (Cassette)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Happiness Only Real When Shared (Cassette)
Lower Dens / Talk Normal split (Cassette)
CoConuts, CoConuts
La Station Radar Compilation
PC Worship (7-inch)
Kamialliset Yastavat, Ullakkopal
Games (7-inch)
Open Mike Eagle
Danny Brown, The Hybrid (LP)
J. Irvin Daly
Idle Times, Self Titled (LP)
Rayon Beach, Memory Teeth (12-inch)
Woven Bones, In and Out… (LP)
Various Artists, Hookup Klub Round One (LP)
Super Wild Horses, Fifteen (LP)
Burning Yellows (7-inch)
Liminanas (7-inch)
People’s Temple (7-inch)
Fey Gods (7-inch)
Fungi Girls (7-inch)
Outer Minds (7-inch)
Heavy Times (7-inch)
The Girls (7-inch)
The Fun Years, God Was Like No (CD)
Messages, After Before
Jailbreak, The Rocker
Mi
Ami, Steal Yr Face
Yellow Swans, Going Places
Books:
Tao Lin, Richard Yates
Jeff Parker, Taste of Penny
Sam Pink, The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home
Justin Taylor, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Sam Lipsyte, The Ask
Better luck next year, everyone else!
