More than 100,000 albums were released this year. What were the best? No one's list is definitive because no one could've possibly listened to them all. And, as always, this year's list could've easily been several times longer. But when forced to choose my favorites, I went with the music that I played the most, the albums that kept revealing new pleasures every time I listened to them. Here they are...
---Greg Kot, Tribune critic
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