...since the Holidays are all about sharing and caring (meh!), let's start (and probably, possibly end) our fin d’année blog review/whatever with this year's musical epiphanies.

In no particular order:

• my choices, from the top of my fingers

Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Daughter - If You Leave

• last.fm's statistics

Natalie Merchant
Queens of the Stone Age
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

• special mentions

Gold Panda
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Boards of Canada

• your choices? Well, I'll be waiting for them in the comments section, you know...