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You Ain’t No Picasso: Matt Jordan: 30 Favorite Albums of 2011

22 December 2011

Circuital - My Morning Jacket

Matt Jordan of You Ain’t No Picasso: 30 Favorite Albums of 2011

  1. Circuital
    My Morning Jacket
  2. Sound Kapital
    Handsome Furs
  3. Out of Love
    Mister Heavenly
  4. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
  5. Hilarious
    Louis C.K.
  6. Finest Hour
    Patton Oswalt
  7. In the Mountain in the Cloud
    Portugal. The Man
  8. Cults
    Cults
  9. Golden Record
    Little Scream
  10. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
    Beastie Boys
  11. Whokill
    Tune-Yards
  12. Dracula Is Only The Beginning
    COOLRUNNINGS
  13. El Camino
    The Black Keys
  14. Wounded Rhymes
    Lykke Li
  15. Gimme Some
    Peter Bjorn and John
  16. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  17. WHALE
    Yellow Ostrich
  18. Join Us
    They Might Be Giants
  19. The King is Dead
    The Decemberists
  20. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
  21. Gloss Drop
    Battles
  22. Deerhoof vs Evil
    Deerhoof
  23. Paddywhack
    Idiot Glee
  24. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
  25. Dye It Blonde
    Smith Westerns
  26. WIT’S END
    Cass McCombs
  27. Celabrasion
    Sleeper Agent
  28. Thank You, Happy Birthday
    Cage the Elephant
  29. Stage Whisper
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
  30. Classic Creeps
    Fishboy

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