We're going to start off List Week with something of a teaser. I can't say that I've heard a definitive amount of local albums [Side note: for the unaware, we're talking Minneapolis, St. Paul, and sometimes Duluth, but the Hold Steady are disqualified for one, not being Lifter Puller, and two, not actually being located here. Does this album make Sufjan Stevens an Illinois native?] but I've heard enough to make a short list of recommendations. Let's say, well, we'll do six, for the route I drive most frequently.

1. Seawhores - Forest
2. A Whisper In the Noise - As The Bluebird Sings
3. STNNNG - Fake Fake
4. The Plastic Constellations - Crusades
5. Zebulon Pike - Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight
6. Haley Bonar - Lure The Fox

As always, dissenting comments are cherished here.