This year has been a good one for those of us in the department of slow and boring music. As I tried to stay on top of the new releases this year it always felt like there was too much to digest. I blame this on the artists that decided to release 20 things this year. Yet there are other artists like Stars of the Lid , who have not released a major album in 6 years. So I've compiled a list (in no particular order) of what stood out to me. And I wrote some poor descriptions for each album.