Dammit, is it really December? Anyway, this is what I listened to this year:
- Albemarle Ramblers — Gentleman from Virginia
- Amanda Palmer — Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele
- The Apples in stereo — Travellers in Space and Time
- Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
- Bart Veerman — Some o’ Mine and Some I Like (2003)
- Basia Bulat — Heart Of My Own
- Belle & Sebastian — Write About Love
- Ben Veneer — Ben Veneer
- Bertrand Belin — Hypernuit
- Bill Holt — Dreamies (1973)
- Brett Dennen — Brett Dennen (2005)
- Brian Wilson — Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
- Broken Social Scene — Forgiveness Rock Record
- Calvin, Don’t Jump! — Under Bridges
- Caribou — Swim
- Carolina Chocolate Drops — Genuine Negro Jig
- Charlotte Gainsbourg — IRM (2009)
- Chris Coole & Ivan Rosenberg — Farewell Trion
- Colleen and Paul — Colleen and Paul
- The Corin Tucker Band — 1,000 Years
- Dan Jones — Dan Jones and The Squids:Live 09
- Dan Jones & Peter Wilde — My Name Is John Smith
- The Delgados — The Great Eastern (2000)
- Dum Dum Girls — I Will Be
- Eels — End Times
- Eels — Tomorrow Morning
- Elf Power — Elf Power
- Entertainment For The Braindead — Roadkill
- Final Fantasy — Heartland
- Forest City Lovers — Carriage
- Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People — The Sacred Prune Of Remembrance
- Frightened Rabbit — The Winter of Mixed Drinks
- Frontier Ruckus — Deadmalls and Nightfalls
- Germans — Elf Shot Lame Witch (2008)
- Goldfrapp — Head First
- Gonja Sufi — A Sufi And A Killer
- The Good Right Arm Stringband — The Good Right Arm Stringband
- High Places — High Places vs. Mankind
- Hold Your Horses! — 70 Million
- The Hungry Moment — Phantom 45
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — Young Blood Blues
- James Blackshaw — All Is Falling
- Joanna Newsom — Have One On Me
- Jónsi — Go
- Kyle Creed — Liberty (1977)
- Ladies of the Canyon — Haunted Woman
- M.I.A. — Maya
- Macy Gray — The Sellout
- Major Organ And The Adding Machine — Major Organ and the Adding Machine (re-release)
- MGMT — Congratulations
- Miles Kurosky — The Desert of Shallow Effects
- Mojave 3 — Ask Me Tomorrow (1995)
- Nana Grizol — “Ruth”
- Nesey Gallons — Southern Winter by Smouldering Porches
- The New Pornographers — Together
- of Montreal — False Priest
- Old Man Luedecke — My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs
- The Open Letters — Bicycle EP
- Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps — Outertainment
- Peter Stampfel & Zöe Stampfel — Ass in the Air
- Pocahaunted — Make It Real
- Princess Pangolin — Princess Pangolin
- Raymond Scott — Soothing Sounds For Baby (1963)
- Robyn Hitchcock — Propellor Time
- The Ruby Suns — Fight Softly
- Smoosh — Withershins
- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — Let It Sway
- Stereo Total — Baby Ouh!
- Suckers — Wild Smile
- Sufjan Stevens — All Delighted People EP
- Sufjan Stevens — The Age of Adz
- Sunbear — Moonbath
- The Superions — the Superions
- The Tallest Man On Earth — The Wild Hunt
- Tune-Yards — Bird-Brains (2009)
- The Turtles — The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands (1968)
- Vampire Weekend — Contra
Must be getting old; two of the albums (Bertrand Belin and Brett Dennen) I bought because I heard tracks on the radio. Consequently, I predict Lawrence Welk in my best of 2011.
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