Best Music Of 2011

Ah 2011. The year of the saxophone. A time hit heavy with the likes of the lady singers, weird synthy goodness and sweet and lovely lullabies. My listening habits have once again taken a turn, for the worst for the first for the thirst. Whatever it is, it's a good thing. Prerequisites abound with my environment dictating all and every mood shift on a daily basis, but isn't that what keeps it all from boring me to death. As is this list, if a little late, but 2011 took time to settle. It still isn't completely but enough's enough. I got 2012 to worry about. Without furt..

150) Cloud Nothings - s/t
149) Yawn - Open Season
148) Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstacy
147) Gotye - Making Mirrors
146) Warm Ghost - Narrows
145) Tapes 'N' Tapes - Outside
144) Luke Roberts - Big Bells & Dime Songs
143) Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
142) Forest Fire - Staring At The X
141) Yellow Ostrich - The Mistress
140) Waters - Out In The Light
139) That Ghost - Songs Out Here
138) Key Losers - California Lite
137) Scarlet Chives - s/t
136) Rubik - Solar
135) Happy Particles - Under Sleeping Waves
134) M+A - Things. Yes
133) Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil
132) Cults - s/t
131) Snowblink - Long Live
130) Tandy Love - Turk Jerk
129) We Are Trees - Girlfriend
128) Knxledge - Gwapes
127) Oh No Oh My - People Problems
126) Ganglians - Still Living
125) Atlas Sound - Parallax
124) Is Tropical - Native To
123) Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
122) Danny Paul Grody - In Search Of Light
121) Teenage Cool Kids - Denton After Sunset
120) Avishai Cohen - Seven Seas
119) Cat's Eyes - s/t
118) Vetiver - The Errant Charm
117) The Felice Brothers - Celebration, Florida
116) Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
115) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
114) Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
113) Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
112) Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
111) Foster The People - Houdini
110) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
109) Blessed Feathers - From The Mouths Of The Middle Class
108) King Creosote - Thrawn 
107) Empty Space Orchestra - s/t
106) Woods - Sun And Shade
105) Triptides - Psychic Summer
104) Richard Swift - Walt Wolfman 
103) Caveman - Coco Beware
102) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
101) Saves The Day - Daybreak
100) Ryan York - Zipperlegs / If I Am This Forest
99) Treefight For Sunlight - s/t
98) DeVotchKa - 100 Lovers
97) Magnus Moriarty - Kodachromerockopera
96) Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
95) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
94) Matt Bauer - The Jessamine County Book Of Living
93) Snowmine - Laminate Pet Animal
92) Lukestar - Taiga
91) The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave
90) John Zorn - At The Gates Of Paradise / Nova Expres
89) Misuse - April
88) Ernest Ellis & The Panamas - Kings Canyon
87) Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
86) Little Wings - Black Grass
85) Fair Ohs - Everything Is Dancing
84) Cut Copy - Zonoscope
83) The Black Ghosts - When Animals Stare
82) Who Are You - Breizh
81) Peter Bjorn And John - Gimme Some
80) Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting
79) The Strokes - Angles
78) The Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
77) Trunks - On The Roof
76) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysteria
75) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town
74) Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure
73) Blouse - s/t
72) Real Estate - Days
71) Geoffrey O'Connor - Vanity Is Forever
70) Mirel Wagner - s/t
69) Tennis - Cape Dory
68) La Sera - s/t
67) Esta Vivo - Together We Step
66) Monster Rally - Coral
65) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
64) Cass McCombs - Wit's End / Humor Risk
63) In The Country - Sounds And Sights
62) The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
61) Your Headlights Are On - s/t
60) Colour Sun - ...
59) Sergius Gregory - Sounds Like People
58) Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
57) Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
56) Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Oscillate Wisely
55) Elk - Let's Get Married
54) Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
53) John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
52) Wild Beasts - Smother
51) The Greg Foat Group - Dark Is The Sun
50) Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
49) Low - C'mon
48) I Break Horses - Hearts
47) Josh Rouse - The Mediterranean Sounds Of / And The Long Vacations
46) 40 Winks - It's The Trip
45) King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
44) Animation - Asiento
43) Canon Blue - Rumspringa
42) Jolie Holland & The Grand Chandeliers - Pint Of Blood
41) Givers - In Light
40) Ducktails -  Arcade Dynamics
39) The Sandwitches - Mrs. Jones' Cookies
38) Maggie Bjorklund - Coming Home
37) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
36) Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
35) Das Racist - Relax
34) Low Roar - s/t
33) Jono McCleery - There Is
32) Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer / Dream Loss
31) My Morning Jacket - Circuital

TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2011

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30) Gem Club - Breakers

29) Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On

28) James Vincent McMorrow - Early In The Morning

27) Future Islands -On The Water

26) Bell - Diamonite

25) The High Llamas - Talahomi Way

24) Wilco - The Whole Love

23) Elbow -Build A Rocket Boys!

22) Tom Waits - Bad As Me

21) O'Death - Outside

20) The Horrors - Skying

19) EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

18) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - s/t

17) Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L

16) Lucrecia Dalt -Congost

15) Akron/Family - The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT

14) The Drums - Portamento

13) Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace

12) The Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work

11) Anna Calvi - s/t

10) Nurses - Dracula

9) White Denim - D

8) Battles - Gloss Drop

7) Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

6) TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light

5) Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

4) Bon Iver - s/t

3) The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

2) Destroyer - Kaputt

1) Lia Ices - Grown Unknown

That's it! That's the best I can do. Take it or leave it. Go 2011. All I know is I've been shuffling thru this playlist (plus spots 150-344) and it's pretty spot on. Largest admittance into the best of yet, by quite a bit. Maybe I'm becoming more versatile. Wanna borrow my ears?