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MUSIC OF 2011

the following is just a list of my personal favourite releases of the year.

TOP 30:

30. Girls’ Generation – The Boys
29. Counterparts – The Current Will Carry Us
28. O’Brother – Garden Window
27. Grails – Deep Politics
26. *shels – Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
25. Trophy Scars – Never Born, Never Dead EP
24. North Korea – Basement Tapes Vol. 1 EP
23. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
22. Basement – I Wish I Could Stay Here
21. Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After
20. Blu – J e s u s
19. Dumbfoundead - DFD
18. La Dispute – Wildlife
17. Mastodon – The Hunter
16. Wilco – The Whole Love
15. Touche Amore – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
14. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
13. Pulling Teeth – Funerary
12. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
11. Portugal The Man – In The Mountain, In The Cloud
10. Russian Circles – Empros
9. City And Colour – Little Hell
8. Curren$y – Covert Coup
7. The Story So Far – Under Soil And Dirt
6. Glassjaw – Coloring Book EP
5. And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs
4. Deafheaven – Roads To Judah
3. Thrice – Major/Minor
2. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
1. The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (Complete) [disclaimer: I consider the entire collection to be one release, so yup]

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Animals As Leaders – Weightless
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Corelia – Nostalgia
Crash Of Rhinos – Distal
Crosses – Crosses EP
CunninLynguists – Oneirology
Curren$y –Weekend At Burnie’s
Defeater – Empty Days And Sleepless Nights
The Dodos – No Color
Fireworks – Gospel
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Frameworks – Every Day Is The Same
Full Of Hell – Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home
Funeral For A Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon
Hawkboy – Hawkboy EP
I Am The Avalanche – Avalanche United
Into It. Over It. - Proper
Lydia - Paint It Golden
Martyn - Ghost People
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Northlane – Discoveries
The Roots – Undun
Sainthood Reps – Monoculture
sleepmakeswaves - …and so we destroyed everything
Submotion Orchestra – Finest Hour
This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
Thursday – No Devolucion
Title Fight – Shed
Vessels - Helioscope
Wild Beasts  - Smother
A Winged Victory For The Sullen – A Winged Victory For The Sullen
The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing

other great albums to check out:

Ampere – Like Shadows
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – Tao Of The Dead
Architects – The Here And Now
Astronautalis – This Is Our Science
Astronote – Weapon Of The Future
Atmosphere – The Family Sign
August Burns Red - Leveller
Barrows – Imprecari Island
Battles – Gloss Drop
Bayside – Killing Time
The Black Keys – El Camino
Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart
Blanck Mass – Blanck Mass
Blind Pilot – We Are The Tide
Blu – No York!
Blue Sky Black Death – Noir
Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation
Born Of Osiris – The Discovery
Boy & Bear - Moonfire
Boys No Good - Never Felt Better
Breakbot – Fantasy
Capsule – No Ghost
Caravels – Caravels EP
Carridale – Relapse In The River City
Common – The Dreamer, The Believer
Curren$y – Verde Terrace
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien
Dananananaykroyd – There Is A Way
Dance Gavin Dance – Downtown Battle Mountain II
Dead And Divine – Antimacy
Deaf Havana - Fools And Worthless Liars
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Decoder – Decoder
Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Are Here To Help You
Discerned - Discerned
Down I Go - Gods
Duck. Little Brother, Duck! – Survival Is Not A Workout
Emery – We Do What We Want
Empire! Empire (I Was a Lonely Estate) – Home After Three Months Away
Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Fair To Midland – Arrows & Anchors
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
Funeral Party – The Golden Age Of Knowhere
The Getaway Plan – Requiem
Ghostlimb – Infrastructure
Givers – In Light
Grieves – Together/Apart
Grouplove – Never Trust A Happy Song
Hands – Give Me Rest
Hawkboy – King Folly EP
Heart In Hand - Only Memories
Hetfield & Hetfield – Tidal Wave Dreams
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
Incubus - If Not Now, When?
Into It. Over It. – Twelve Towns
Ironhide - Create/Collapse/Repeat
Iselia – Life From Dead Limbs
IU - Last Fantasy
Jebediah – Kosciuszko
Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner Vs Everything
Just Die! – A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking
Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground – Introducing Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground
Kendrick Lamar – Section.80
Koji Kondo - The Legend Of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony
Manbearpig – Ruined Emo
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
Mansions – Dig Up The Dead
Mariachi El Bronx  - Mariachi El Bronx
Memory Tapes – Player Piano
The Milk Carton Kids - Prologue
MNMNTS – The Good Life
Moonlit Sailor – Colors In Stereo
My Dad Vs Yours – Little Symphonies
Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
Okkoto - Childhood/Brotherhood
Old Gods – Old Gods
Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride
Pour Habit – Got Your Back
Protest The Hero – Scurrilous
Psychic Babble - My Brother’s Ears/My Sister’s Eyes
Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
Raekwon – Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang
Red City Radio – The Dangers Of Standing Still
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles – Brick City Ghosts
Royce da 5’9” – Success Is Certain
Safe Hands – Oh The Humanity
Save Your Breath – Vices
SebastiAn – Total
Shabazz palaces – Black Up
SHUT EYE – Soft For Sight
Sleep City – Still Breathing
The Speed Of Sound In Seawater – Under Water Tell Each Other Secrets
The Strokes – Angles
Structures – Divided By
Submerse – Mecha EP
Super Minerals – The Hoax
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving – Deaden The Fields
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
Tellison – The Wages Of Fear
They Come In Waves - Transience
Thrown To The Sun – Of Oceans and Raindrops
To The North - Lustre
Tubelord – Romance
Until Your Heart Stops - Errors
Vakill – Armor Of God
Volumes – Via
The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
We Made God – Fragments
Weerd Science – Sick Kids
With Words - Cagebound
Wugazi – The 13th Chamber
Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation
65daysofstatic – Silent Running
9th Wonder – The Wonder Years