seems everyone is doing a best of 2011, so I thought I’d share my two cents on the albums I particularly liked that saw release this year. I was going to do a 11 from 11, but couldn’t whittle it down, so I was going to do a 22 from 11, but it turned into a 30 from 11. Alphabetically sorted and such.
1. arms and sleepers - the organ hearts
2. a winged victory for the sullen - self-titled
3. bill callahan - apocalypse
4. bon iver - self-titled
5. clem leek - home again: live sessions
6. clint maul - great dividing/break open your heart eps
7. crooked fingers - breaks in the armor
8. danny clay - i am a poor wayfaring stranger
9. dave hause - resolutions
10. david bazan - strange negotiations
11. east river pipe - we live in rented rooms
12. great american desert (changed the name from south of lincoln) - homes
13. illuha - shizuku
14. king creosote and john hopkins - diamond mine
15. lawrence english - the peregrine
16. moving mountains - waves
17. offthesky - the beautiful nowhere
18. polar bear club - clash battle guilt pride
19. ryan adams - ashes and fire
20. stephen mathieu - a static place
21. taylor deupree & marcus fischer - in place of such great shapes
22. the boats - the ballad of the eagle
23. tim hecker ravedeath 1972
24. tw walsh - songs of pain and leisure
25. two bicycles - the ocean
26. two people in a room - self-titled
27. we are augustines - rise ye sunken ships
28. widesky - all shimmers here
29. wil bolton - quarry bank
30. youth lagoon - the year of hibernation
