Best of 2011 (First Half)

"Best of" lists have always been contentious, so here goes anyway...

1. Destroyer – Kaputt

2. elbow – build a rocket boys!
3. White Denim – D
4. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
5. I’m from Barcelona – Forever Today
6. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
7. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
8. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
9. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
10. Bright Eyes – The People’s Keys
11. The Antlers – Burst Apart
12. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
13. Battles – Gloss Drop
14. tUnE-yArDs - WHOKILL
15. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
16. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
17. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
18. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
19. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
20. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
21. Wire - Red Barked Tree
22. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
23. Digitalism – I Love You Dude
24. James Blake - James Blake
25. The Strokes – Angles
25. The Kills – Blood Pressures
Bubbling under...
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?
R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
Toro y Moi – Underneath the Pine

Let's see how this changes at the end of this year...

Some upcoming releases:
Wilco - The Whole Love, Bjork - Biophilia, Beirut - The Rip Tide, Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I'm with You, Modest Mouse - TBA, Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?, Brian Eno - Drums Between the Bells and U2's yet to be released Songs of Ascent