2011

1. Seapony – Go With Me (Hardly Art)
2. Air Waves – Dungeon Dots (Underwater Peoples)
3. Computer Magic – Electronic Fences (White Isis)
4. Xeno & Oaklander – Sets & Lights (Wierd)
5. Wise Blood – These Wings (Dovecote)
6. Still Corners – Creatures Of An Hour (Sub Pop)
7. Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere (Fat Cat)
8. Tristen – Charlatans At The Garden Gate (American Myth)
9. Beirut – The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
10. Mode Moderne – Undiscovered Country (Light Organ)
11. Austra – Feel It Break (Domino)
12. Starfucker – Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
13. Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
14. Hooray For Earth – True Loves (Dovecote)
15. Tycho – Dive (Ghostly International)
16. Neon Indian – Era Extrana (Static Tongues)
17. Nurses – Dracula (Dead Oceans)
18. Young Galaxy – Shapeshifting (Paper Bag)
19. Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer (Merge)
20. Myrmyr – Firestar (Under The Spire)

• Times New Viking – Dancer Equired (Merge)
• Pete Swanson – I Don’t Rock at All (Three Lobed)
• Higuma – Pacific Fog Dreams (Root Strata)
• War on Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
• Young Prisms – Friends for Now (Kanine)
• Milk Music – Beyond Living (Perennial)
• Greg Davis – Eyebright (AOC)
• Lucky Dragons – Shape Tape (Teenage Teardrops)
• Marijata – This is Marijata (Academy)

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – S/T (Fat Possum)
• Wanda Jackson – The Party Ain’t Over (Nonesuch)
• Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’ (Columbia)
• Wrong Words – S/T  (Trouble In Mind)
• Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers Guild)
• John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Upset the Rhythm)
• Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
• Shannon and The Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)
• Cults – S/T (ITNO/Columbia)
• Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)

7” Singles

• Dirty Ghosts – “Shout It In” (Classic Bar Music)
• Bleached – “Searchin’ Through The Past” (Suicide Squeeze)
• Wax Idols – “All Too Human” (Hozac)

1. Active Child – You Are All I See (Vagrant)
2. Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear (ESL)
3. Hooray for Earth – True Loves (Secretly Canadian)
4. SBTRKT – S/T (Young Turks)
5. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (LL)
6. James Blake – S/T (Universal Republic)
7. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)
8. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
9. Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain in the Cloud (Atlantic)
10. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l (4AD)
11. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)

11 Notable Tracks of 2011

• Austra – “Spellwork“
• Friends – “I’m His Girl”
• Gardens & Villa – “Orange Blossom” 
• Grimes – “Oblivion”  
• Jamie xx – “Far Nearer”
• Mr. Little Jeans – “The Suburbs”
• Purity Ring – “Lofticries“
• Theophilius London – “Why Even Try” 
• Toro Y Moi – “New Beat” 
• White Denim – “Street Joy”
• Zion I & the Grouch – “I Used to Be a Vegan”

1. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – S/T (Sour Mash)
2. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See (Domino)
3. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)
4. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
5. Wilco – The Whole Love (dBpm)
6. Tyler, the Creator – Goblin (XL)
7. Radiohead – The King of Limbs (S/R)
8. Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
9. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? (Columbia)
10. Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys! (Polydor)
11. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light (Interscope)
12. Beirut – The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
13. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
14. The Black Keys – El Camino (Nonesuch)
15. Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire (PAX AM)
16. Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (Brownswood)
17. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones (Epitaph)
18. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
19. Miracles of Modern Science – Dog Year (S/R)
20. The Weeknd – House of Balloons (XO)
21. Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)
22. The Antlers – Burst Apart (Frenchkiss)
23. The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)
24. Alex Turner – Submarine OST (Domino)
25. The Lonely Island – Turtleneck and Chain (Universal Republic)

• Been Porter and Mark Melincore – Music for Children of All Ages (Turned Wood)

See my playlist on 1/26/12 for Best of the Thrifts 2011