The third, and final, mix in my Year End Review series is comprised of those acts that are "obvious" choices - the music that got plenty of coverage and, assuming you're paying attention at all, you're well aware of. I've also included songs from each of my own releases because, obviously, I love the music included on those - otherwise I wouldn't have put it out.

There are a few artists that didn't make the cut - Broken Social Scene, Menomena and The Books namely - because the albums just didn't strike me as potent as I had hoped for. I have my reasons for this but, basically, I wasn't as jazzed on them as I'd hope to be. Expectations are a pain sometimes.

Anyway, please go download Volume 1 and Volume 2 while you're grabbing Volume 3.. gotta keep the set complete.