Top Eleven Of 2011

After much consideration, here are my top eleven albums (which is not to say songs) of the year, and YES, i AM aware how WHITE i am:

1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy





2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming



3. Destroyer - Kaputt




4. Washed Out - Within And Without


5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver



6. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams



7. Real Estate - Days



8. Tune-Yards - Whokill



9. Tom Waits - Bad As Me



10. Tennis - Cape Dory



11. now here is where i cheat, because i don't understand how to choose between Wye Oak's Civilian and Atlas Sound's Parallax and White Denim's D and James Blake's self titled album and i STILL haven't even listened to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake.

so:

here's the video for the runaway song of the summer 2011 and let's just pretend all of the above albums shared that 11 spot.