-God Help The Girl, a side project from Belle & Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch is very enjoyable.

-Them Crooked Vultures is interesting hard rock. The album is a collaboration between Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame, and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.

-The Beatles mono boxed set probably isn't entirely an answer in the spirit of your question but it's given a couple of generations a chance to hear The Beatles as they intended, in mono. Plus the upgrade in sound quality from the remastering was very welcome too.

I've been thinking about this all year, and my list changes pretty much every day. I think this has been an amazing year for new music. A few random selections that I keep turning to:

Girls: Album
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
Cold Cave: Loves Comes Close
Gary War: Horribles Parade
Zola Jesus: the Spoils
Talk Normal: Sugarland
Vivan Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
Ramses III: I Could Not Love You More
Lights: Rites
Bowerbirds: Upper Air
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
Tom Abbs: Lost & Found
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz
Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away
Growing: All The Way
Psychic Ills: Mirror Eye
IUD: The Proper Sex
Pens: Hey Friend!...
Espers: III
Ducktails: Landscapes
Wye Oak: The Knot
Health: Get Color
Pontiak: Sea Voids
Valet: False Face Society
OOIOO: Arminico Hewa
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: s/t

Too much great stuff.

Abums:
Bob Dylan-"Together Through Life"
Wilco-(the album)
Neil Young-"Fork in the Road"
Tortoise-"Beacons of Ancestorship"

Reissue that wasn't The Beatles or Neil Young-"Crazy Rhythms"--The Feelies

Download Only-"Buddha Machine 2.0"

Book-"Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer"

Live: Wilco and Yo La Tengo at Keyspan Park, Coney Island, NY

Quote:
Reissue that wasn't The Beatles or Neil Young-"Crazy Rhythms"--The Feelies

Betty Davis: Is It Love or Desire