Forget Singles: The Albums You Needed to Own This Year

Forget Singles: The Albums You Needed to Own This Year: It's easy to cherry-pick quick hits off iTunes, but what moved us most this year were the musical releases that were more than just the sum of their parts -- the albums that demanded to be heard in full, like Frank Ocean's genre-defying masterpiece channel Orange, the cool sizzle of The xx returning to form on Coexist, or the lyrical thrill of Kendrick Lamar living up to his hype in good kid, m.A.A.d city.