2011 Top 10 List

Top 30 albums of 2011 (in no particular order)
Peaking Lights – 936 (Not Not Fun)
Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
Anne-James Chaton – Événements 09 (Raster-Noton)
Chancha Via Circuito – Río Arriba (ZZK)
Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact (4AD)
Master Musician of Bukkake – Totem 3 (Important)
Cut Hands – self-titled [aka Afro Noise] (Very Friendly/Susan Lawly)
Clams Casino – Instrumentals (self-released)
Pure X – Pleasure (Acephale)
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
Bombino – Agadez (Cumbancha)
Deadbeat – Drawn and Quartered (BLKRTZ)
Reinhold Friedl – Inside Piano (Zeitkratzer)
John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Upset!The Rhythm)
Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer – RE:ECM (ECM)
Corrupted – Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain)
John Wiese – Seven of Wands (Pan)
Bee Mask – Elegy for Beach Friday (Spectrum Spools)
Amen Dunes – Through Donkey Jaw (Sacred Bones)
Laurel Halo – Hour Logic (Hippos in Tanks)
Ensemble Economique – Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight (Dekorder)
John Wall & Alex Rodgers – Work 2006-2011 (Entr’acte)
Eli Keszler – Cold Pin (Pan)
Prurient – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
Total Control – Henge Beat (Fuse Group)
FWY! – CA 80’s-90’s (Brave Mysteries)
The Necks – Mindset (Recommended)
Real Estate – Days (Domino)
Konntinent – Down With Candy (Debacle)
Demian Johnston & Mink Stole – Trailed & Kept (Debacle)

Top Compilations & Reissues (in no particular order)
Tindersticks – Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009 (Constellation)
Steve Roden – I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces (Dust-To-Digital)
Delta Swamp Rock: Sounds from the South (Soul Jazz)
Opika Pende: Africa at 78RPM (Dust-To-Digital)
Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds (Soul Jazz)
Ongaku 70: Vintage Psychedelia in Japan (Hiruko)
The Ronettes – Be My Baby: The Very Best of the Ronettes (Phil Spector/EMI)
MZ.412 – Domine Rex Inferum / Nordik Battle Signs (Cold Spring)
Mickey Newbury – An American Trilogy (Saint Cecilia Knows/Mountain Retreat/Drag City)
Disco Inferno – The 5 EPs (One Little Indian)
Jeff & Jane Hudson – Flesh (Dark Entries/Captured Tracks)
The Durutti Column – Vini Reilly (Kooky)
Creation Rebel – Starship Africa (On-U Sound)
The Bill Dixon Orchestra – Intents & Purposes (RCA Victor)
T.K. Ramamoorthy – Fabulous Notes and Beats of the Indian Carnatic-Jazz (EM)
Barbecue Any Old Time (Dust-To-Digital)