Over the past year, I’ve listened to a lot of new music, most of which, regrettably, I haven’t liked very much. Because I have my headphones on during much of the day at work, I burn through music pretty quickly. Even though by now I should be content with the music I have, sometimes nothing in my library will do. So I get suggestions from friends, scour the list of new albums at metacritic.com, read Paste Magazine, download the podcast of All Songs Considered, and look out for “best of” lists at the end of the year. Here are a few of the albums that rose to the top of my personal playlist…