Laura Barton, a media journalist at the Guardian and contributor to Intelligent Life, a bi-monthly sister publication to the Economist, features her “best of the year so far” in The Playlist column.

I had P.J. Harvey and Bon Iver already, friends-in-a-networked-sort-of-way had pointed me to most of the rest and I completed the set with a couple of iTunes purchases.

Good stuff, all…

Holocene – Bon Iver [Listen]
On Battleship Hill – PJ Harvey [Listen]
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes [Listen]
Bizness – Tune-Yards [Listen]
Truth – Alexander [Listen]
North – Emmy the Great [Listen]
My Friends – Laura Marling [Listen]
L Y F – WU LYF [Listen]
A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell Cover) – James Blake [Listen]
Out getting ribs – Zoo Kid [Listen]