Thursday, December 29, 2011

My Top 50 Albums of 2011




50. Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines



49. Tom Waits - Bad As Me


48. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math



47. MUTEMATH - Odd Soul



46. Sims - Bad Time Zoo


45. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient


44. Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Sit Resist

43. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far


42. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness


41. Panda Bear - Tomboy



40. Atlas Sound - Parallax


39. The Decemberists - The King is Dead


38. Radiohead - The King of Limbs


37. Memory Tapes - Player Piano


36. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts


35. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic


34. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien


33. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse 


32. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean



31. Washed Out - Within and Without


30. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will


29. Yuck - Self Titled


28. Real Estate - Days


27. Starfucker - Reptilians



26. Wilco - The Whole Love


25. Joan of Arc - Life Like


24. Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies


23. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

22. Lotus - Self Titled


21. Bright Eyes - The People's Key


20. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo


19. Owen - Ghost Town


18. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow


17. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy


16. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues


15. Wild Beasts - Smother



14. The Antlers - Burst Apart


13. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light


12. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck


11. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain


10. Wild Flag - Self Titled



9. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall


8. Battles - Gloss Drop


7. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost


6. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life


5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver


4. Destroyer - Kaputt



3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

2. Doomtree - No Kings


1. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming


2 comments:

  1. Thanks for this, Melanie. I'm going to check some of these out now and see what I like.

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  2. Pretty solid list, definitely better than a lot of the ones the most popular music blogs have shit out recently. But a few complaints. First= Needs More metal


    Battles = Not good enough to warrant being so high on the list

    Algernon Cadwaller = Too good to be so low

    m83 = Half their shit sounds like the same song. If you started in the middle of either Steve McQueen or We own the Sky, I wouldn't be able to tell you which of the 2 it was

    Sims = Shouldn't even be on a list of 500,000. Dudes just too far below the rest of Doomtree in everything from eloquence and intelligence of the rhymes he writes to the passion/inflection in his delivery of them.

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