I've been meaning to start this blog for a while now, and I figure a summary of my favorite things from the past year is as good a way as any to kick off the new one. Here are my fifty favorite albums of 2011, out of the five hundred or so new releases I heard over the course of the year. I may come back to this later and add commentary for some or all of the albums.
1) tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
2) Slackeye Slim - El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa
3) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
5) James Blake - James Blake
6) Farmers by Nature - Out of This World's Distortions
7) Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
8) Aram Bajakian - Aram Bajakian's Kef
9) Robyn Ludwick - Out of These Blues
10) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
11) Tony Malaby - Novela
12) Larry and His Flask - All That We Know
13) Steve Coleman and Five Elements - The Mancy of Sound
14) Battles - Gloss Drop
15) Bill Dixon - Envoi
16) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
17) Nels Cline, Tim Berne, and Jim Black - The Veil
18) Chris Thile and Michael Daves - Sleep with One Eye Open
19) Franco Donatoni - 10 Anni Dopo
20) My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
21) Harrison Birtwistle - Night's Black Bird
22) Darius Jones and Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Lieder
23) Tom Waits - Bad As Me
24) Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Apparent Distance
25) honeyhoney - Billy Jack
26) Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
27) The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
28) Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel
29) Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine
30) Lykke Li - Wounded Rhythms
31) Kris Davis - Aeriol Piano
32) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
33) Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel
34) Abigail Washburn – City of Refuge
35) Benoit Delbecq and Francois Houle - Because She Hoped
36) Kaija Saariaho - Saariaho
37) Eilen Jewell - Queen of the Minor Key
38) Sofia Gubaidulina - Glorious Percussion
39) Keith Jarrett - Rio
40) Hellbound Glory - Damaged Goods
41) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
42) Husky Burnette - Facedown in the Dirt
43) William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs
44) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
45) Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used to Sing
46) Cults - Cults
47) Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
48) Tinariwen - Tassili
49) The Weeknd - Balloons
50) Radiohead - The King of Limbs
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