Ok OK so here is my nominees for the Top Ten Rock(?) discs of the year.
The Hold Steady-"Boys and Girls in America" (Damn, Deep Purple meets Thin Lizzy and Van Morrison with a library card)

Joanna Newsom-"Ys"( A poetic and orchestral masterpiece)

Tom Waits-"Orphans"(I'm still digesting this enormous work)

Destroyer-"Destroyer's Rubies"

Various Artists-"Tropicalia"

TV on the Radio- "Return to Cookie Mountain"

Tapes N Tapes-"The Loon"

Neko Case-"Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"(That Voice. Could be the clone of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn)

Vince Gill-"These Days"

Herbert-"Scales"