So it's finally here, my Top 100 Albums of 2011 list. And yes it's very late, but I have a very legitimate excuse - I had a baby boy a few months ago. Which brings me to my next point, that I would like to dedicate this list to my son, Emmett James. Since my wife was pregnant with him a large part of the year, Emmett essentially listened to many of these records with me, many times. And so to you, Emmett, I love you more astoundingly than I could have ever imagined. I have a feeling that you may someday makes lists like these, like your papa.
DJ Bunny Ears’ Top Albums of 2011
- Bon Iver Bon Iver
- James Blake James Blake
- Bill Callahan Apocalypse
- The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
- Destroyer Kaputt
- Atlas Sound Parallax
- Peaking Lights 936
- M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- tUnE-yArDs WHOKILL
- John Maus We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
- DRC Music Kinshasa One Two
- Eleanor Friedberger Last Summer
- Jóhann Jóhannsson The Miner’s Hymns
- Youth Lagoon The Year Of Hibernation
- Andy Stott Passed Me By/We Stay Together
- Jay-Z & Kanye West Watch The Throne
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Wolfroy Goes To Town
- Shabazz Palaces Black Up
- Metronomy The English Riviera
- Radiohead The King Of Limbs
- Dirty Beaches Badlands
- Onra Chinoiseries, Pt. 2
- Hanni El Khatib Will The Guns Come Out
- Bahamas Pink Strat
- The Weeknd House Of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes Of Silence
- Tim Hecker Ravedeath ,1972
- Blues Control & Laraaji FRKWYS Vol. 8
- Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx We’re New Here
- Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo
- Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
- Real Estate Days
- Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
- Blood Orange Coastal Grooves
- Panda Bear Tomboy
- Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion
- Omar Souleyman Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts
- Ford & Lopatin Channel Pressure
- Hauschka Salon Des Amateurs
- Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean
- Moon Duo Mazes
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen A Winged Victory For The Sullen
- Hatchback Zeus & Apollo
- High Places Original Colors
- Thundercat Golden Age Of The Apocalypse
- PJ Harvey Let England Shake
- Zomby Dedication
- Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra
- The Black Keys El Camino
- Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming
- Adele 21
- Joseph Arthur The Graduation Ceremony
- Demdike Stare Tryptych
- Beirut The Rip Tide
- Battles Gloss Drop
- Dominant Legs Invitation
- James Pants James Pants
- Toro Y Moi Underneath The Pine
- About Group Start & Complete
- Adventure Lesser Known
- Widowspeak Widowspeak
- Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes
- Kate Bush 50 Words For Snow
- Yelawolf Radioactive
- Cults Cults
- TV On The Radio Nine Types Of Light
- Washed Out Within And Without
- Cold Cave Cherish The Light Years
- Cass McCombs Wit’s End
- Drake Take Care
- Future Islands On The Water
- I Break Horses Hearts
- Tyler, The Creator Goblin
- Bjork Biophilia
- The War On Drugs Slave Ambient
- Wolves In The Throne Room Celestial Lineage
- Tom Waits Bad As Me
- Idiot Glee Paddywhack
- Laura Marling A Creature I Don’t Know
- Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- The Sea And Cake The Moonlight Butterfly
- Danny Brown XXX
- My Morning Jacket Circuital
- Kate Bush Director’s Cut
- Ty Segall Goodbye Bread
- Cut Copy Zonoscope
- Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
- The Roots Undun
- Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
- Pictureplane Thee Physical
- Wild Flag Wild Flag
- Wilco The Whole Love
- The Dodos No Color
- Cave Neverendless
- Balam Acab Wander/Wonder
- Theophilus London Timez Are Weird These Days
- St. Vincent Strange Mercy
- Class Actress Rapprocher
- Wild Beasts Smother
- EMA Past Life Martyred Saints
- Feist Metals
Honorable Mentions
- Beans End It All
- Com Truise Galactic Melt
- Cornershop Cornershop And The Double-O Groove Of
- Withered Hand Good News
- Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde
- The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts
- Netherfriends Barry And Sherry
- Anika Anika
- Belong Common Era
- Clams Casino Instrumentals
- Grouplove Never Trust A Happy Song
- Friends I’m His Girl
- Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See
- Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin’
- Das Rascist Relax
- Wavves Life Sux EP
- Soft Metals Soft Metals
- Yuck Yuck
- SBTRKT SBTRKT
- Modeselektor Monkeytown
- Dum Dum Girls Only In Dreams
- The Drums Portamento
- Mates Of State Mountaintops
- Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost!
- The Joy Formidable The Big Roar
- Portugal. The Man In The Mountain, In The Cloud
- Fucked Up David Comes To Life
- Goyte Making Mirrors
- The Kills Blood Pressures
- White Denim D
- Little Dragon Ritual Union
- Iceage New Brigade
- Wire Red Barked Tree
- Zola Jesus Conatus
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical
- Black Lips Arabia Mountain
- Deer Tick Divine Providence
- The Decemberists The King Is Dead
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. It’s A Corporate World
- Middle Brother Middle Brother
- Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces
- Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights EP
- Motopony Motopony
- Bachelorette Bachelorette
- Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest
- Moby Destroyed
- Paul Simon So Beautiful Or So What
- Veronica Falls Veronica Falls
Compilations, Reissues & Soundtracks
- MGMT Late Night Tales
- Cliff Martinez Drive (Original Soundtrack)
- V/A Those Shocking, Shaking Days
- V/A True Soul: Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax, Vols. 1 & 2
- Talk Talk Laughing Stock
- Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
- The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions
- Willie Wright Telling The Truth
- Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry The Return Of Pipecock Jackson
- V/A This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM 1957 – 1982
- L’Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti Kanaga De Mopti
- Georges Brassens Gare Au Gorille
- El Rego El Rego
- Madlib Madlib Medicine Show – All Volumes
- Lijadu Sisters Danger
- V/A Thai Funk Vol. 1 & 2
- And every Mississippi Records release this past year, see:
- http://littleaxerecords.com/
- http://www.discogs.com/label/Mississippi%20Records