it's getting close to the end of the year, been a good one for music. what is your proclaimed album of the year? if not one, what were your top 5 releases?
if you want to add a bonus, add your favorite and least favorite song on each album if you have one.
also feel free to post songs from these albums but please keep them in a spoiler.
also also feel free to rate other peoples musical tastes as if music had an objective taste.

mine in no particular order:

1. Death Grips - niggas on the moon
fav: Have A Sad Cum
least: Fuck Me Out

2. Aphex Twin - Syro
fav: Minipops 67
least: Fz pseudotimestretch+e+3

3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
fav: Jeopardy
least: Love Again

4. Flying Lotus - You're Dead
fav: Dead Man's Tetris
least: Never Catch Me

5. Machine Girl - WFLGRL
fav: Excruciating Deth
least: Out By 16, Dead on the Scene

1. jenny death

I only listened to 3 albums released this year that I feel are worth mentioning.

3. Run The Jewels 2
Solid followup to their first album, and I think its just about on par with it. Not anything I would call a strong artistic statement or innovative or anything, but its definitely a lot of fun that doesn't feel like its dumbing itself down for that purpose.

2. Clipping - CLPPNG
This album is frustrating to me because it has some crazy quality fluctuation in the songs. There are some songs which are outright fantastic, like Body & Blood and Or Die, which make me think that these guys could become my favorite rap group. That is as long as they don't start making more songs that sound like Work Work or, god forbid, Tonight.

1. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
Technically not out yet, I found a leak online and this is a great followup to what was my AOTY 2012, Luxury Problems. Seriously, Andy Stott is probably my favorite electronic music producer ever. His music is so lush while at the same time dark and brooding. There's even some trap influence on this album which gave it a swagger which previously wasn't in his music.

A little premature since some stuff I think will be good is still coming out this year, but so far I'm thinking my top 5 is something like this (in no real order)

Buzz Osborne - This Machine Kills Artists
It's a solo album from the guy that created sludge metal, but on a shitty acoustic guitar. It's great.

Shellac - Dude Incredible
Probably my second favorite Shellac album just barely under At Action Park.

Carla Bozulich - Boy
Spooky experimental rock album by some old lady. Actually gets pretty catchy at times and the singing is very good.

Jucara Marcal - Encarnado
Vanguarda paulistana album by like the one person that actually makes that kind of stuff nowadays. Not as good as her work with Meta Meta (which is amazing,) but still an enjoyable listen.

Young Widows - Easy Pain
Like noise rock being played in a cave, or if Steve Albini was sad in an abandoned warehouse full of reverb pedals. It's catchy as fuck.