I love making lists, reading statistics, viewing top 10’s, and the list goes on (too obvious, I know). In honor of our summer and its approaching demise, here are six albums released this summer that you should already know about. If not, that’s okay, there’s still time!

I started this article on the precipice of new tech news coming out today to talk about my last month and a half of diving into social networking and my findings might surprise you. In that time I signed up for Google Plus wrote a few glowing reviews, deactivated my Facebook, reactivated, deactivated and reactivated Facebook again, stopped using Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux and then dove back into Windows again in order to rediscover my passions using these tools. This may all seem like a form of digital schizophrenia to the average reader that could frankly care less about all of these things and isn’t giving up their Facebook for anything.

We could probably debate ad nauseum about the greatest albums of each decade – The Beatles vs. Beach Boys in the 60s, Radiohead vs. Buckley in the 90s, et all – but what you hear talked about far less are the albums that were completely underappreciated. Not so much underrated, in that no one knew they were supposed to be great; rather they never got their due because they were mostly unknown at the time or have been forgotten by future generations.