Best Albums of 2011

tUnE-yArDs -- w h o k i l l (my vote for album of the year)



Jens Lekman -- An Argument with Myself (my vote for ep of the year)



Tom Waits -- Bad As Me



Thao and Mirah -- Thao and Mirah



Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks -- Mirror Traffic

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Islands -- Return to the Sea (best older album that I heard for the first time this year / c. 2006)