An Alphabetical Exercise in Futility
by a man who bought more books
than records in Twenty Eleven

via KFL

The Decemberists, The King is Dead (Rough Trade)
Iceage, New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture)
Cass McCombs, Humor Risk (Domino)
Cass McCombs, Wit’s End (Domino)
Josh T. Pearson, The Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
Real Estate, Days (Domino)
Talons’, Songs for Boats (Own Records)
Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
Tom Waits, Bad as Me (Anti)
The War on Drugs, Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

Song of the Year: “Baby Missiles” by The War on Drugs