Top 20 Albums of 2011

Author: Matt Moeller

31 Dec

#	Artist	Album	Label
1.	Wooden Birds	Two Matchsticks	Barsuk	\|Listen\|Buy\|
2.	Fruit Bats	Tripper	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
3.	Joy Formidable	The Big Roar	Atlantic	\|Listen\|Buy\|
4.	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	Mirror Traffic	Matador	\|Listen\|Buy\|
5.	Decemberists	The King Is Dead	Capitol	\|Listen\|Buy\|
6.	Gillian Welch	The Harrow & The Harvest	Acony	\|Listen\|Buy\|
7.	Dodos	No Color	Frenchkiss	\|Listen\|Buy\|
8.	Richard Buckner	Our Blood	Merge	\|Listen\|Buy\|
9.	Mates Of State	Mountaintops	Barsuk	\|Listen\|Buy\|
10.	Gruff Rhys	Hotel Shampoo	Wichita	\|Listen\|Buy\|
11.	Fleet Foxes	Helplessness Blues	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
12.	Beastie Boys	Hot Sauce Committee Part 2	Capitol	\|Listen\|Buy\|
13.	Cults	Cults	Columbia	\|Listen\|Buy\|
14.	Sloan	The Double Cross	Yep Roc	\|Listen\|Buy\|
15.	Lykke Li	Wounded Rhymes	Atlantic	\|Listen\|Buy\|
16.	Iron & Wine	Kiss Each Other Clean	Warner Bros.	\|Listen\|Buy\|
17.	Vaccines	What Did You Expect From The Vaccines	Columbia	\|Listen\|Buy\|
18.	Gang Of Four	Content	Yep Roc	\|Listen\|Buy\|
19.	Feist	Metals	Interscope	\|Listen\|Buy\|
20.	Lonely Island	Turtleneck & Chain	Republic	\|Listen\|Buy\|

Honorable Mention:

Peter Bjorn & John – Gimme Some (Almost Gold)

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)

Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)

Phantogram – Nightlife EP (Barsuk)

Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)

Head & The Heart – S/T (Sub Pop)

Thao & Mirah – S/T (Kill Rock Stars)

Sondre Lerche – Sondre Lerche (Redeye)

Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Slumberland)

Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations – S/T (Bedroom Classics)

Rubblebucket – Omega La La (Megaforce)

Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)

Please see also: my “selections from” playlists for the top 20 list and the honorable mentions. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

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Playlist: Selections from my Top Albums of 2011 – Honorable Mention

Author: Matt Moeller

31 Dec

Considering the faltering legal status of my usual go to music playlist site Grooveshark.com, I am also including a link to the playlist through Spotify.

Selections from Top Albums of 2011 – Honorable Mention

Until its future demise I will continue embedding playlists from Grooveshark.

If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link or check it on Spotify through the link above.

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Playlist: Best Songs of 2009

Author: Matt Moeller

27 Jan

Running a little late on this one… As a companion to my list of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring one of the best cuts off of each of those albums, re-sequenced for maximum enjoyment.

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Top 20 Albums of 2009

Author: Matt Moeller

10 Jan

#	Artist	Album	Label
1.	Metric	Fantasies	Metric/Last Gang	\|Listen\|Buy\|
2.	Dirty Projectors	Bitte Orca	Domino	\|Listen\|Buy\|
3.	Handsome Furs	Face Control	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
4.	Camera Obscura	My Maudlin Career	4AD	\|Listen\|Buy\|
5.	Joe Henry	Blood From Stars	Anti	\|Listen\|Buy\|
6.	Why?	Eskimo Snow	Anticon	\|Listen\|Buy\|
7.	Jason Lytle	Yours Truly, The Commuter	Anti	\|Listen\|Buy\|
8.	Dinosaur Jr.	Farm	Jagjaguwar	\|Listen\|Buy\|
9.	Andrew Bird	Noble Beast	Fat Possum	\|Listen\|Buy\|
10.	Bill Callahan	Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle	Drag City	\|Listen\|Buy\|
11.	Doves	Kingdom Of Rust	EMI	\|Listen\|Buy\|
12.	Built To Spill	There Is No Enemy	Warner Bros.	\|Listen\|Buy\|
13.	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Domino	\|Listen\|Buy\|
14.	Antlers	Hospice	Frenchkiss	\|Listen\|Buy\|
15.	Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Slumberland	\|Listen\|Buy\|
16.	jj	jj n° 2	Sincerely Yours	\|Listen\|Buy\|
17.	Lou Barlow	Goodnight Unknown	Merge	\|Listen\|Buy\|
18.	Sonic Youth	The Eternal	Matador	\|Listen\|Buy\|
19.	Mountain Goats	Life of The World To Come	4AD	\|Listen\|Buy\|
20.	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	It’s Blitz	Interscope	\|Listen\|Buy\|