33 Favorite Albums of 2011

Notice, these are my favorite albums of 2011, not the best.  It's all love here.  There are many amazing records which did not make my list, and one of the primary factors is whether I own the album or not.  For a list of the 2011 albums I'm excited to spend more time with in 2012, click here.

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2011

33 | JONATHAN WILSON - GENTLE SPIRIT
     Favorite track:  Ballad of the Pines

32 | CHARLES BRADLEY - NO TIME FOR DREAMING
     Favorite track:  Why Is It So Hard

31 | CASHIER NO. 9 - TO THE DEATH OF FUN
     Favorite track:  Goldstar

30 | GARY CLARK, JR. - BRIGHT LIGHTS EP
     Favorite track:  Bright Lights

29 | THE NAKED & FAMOUS - PASSIVE ME, AGGRESSIVE YOU
     Favorite track:  All Of This

28 | THE O'S - BETWEEN THE TWO
     Favorite track:  In Numbers We Survive

27 | THOMAS JOHNSON & THE PEOPLE - BENEATH THE TREES
     Favorite track:  Dancer

26 | BLIND PILOT - WE ARE THE TIDE
     Favorite track:  Keep You Right

25 | MY MORNING JACKET - CIRCUITAL
     Favorite track:  Wonderful (The Way I Feel)

24 | WHITE DENIM - D
     Favorite track:  It's Him!

23 | DOM - SUN BRONZED GREEK GODS
     Favorite track:  Living In America

22 | LYKKE LI - WOUNDED RHYMES
     Favorite track:  I Know Places

21 | SERYN - THIS IS WHERE WE ARE
     Favorite track:  Of Dead Moroz

20 | FRANK OCEAN - NOSTALGIA, ULTRA.
     Favorite track:  Songs for Women

19 | TV ON THE RADIO - NINE TYPES OF LIGHT
     Favorite track:  Keep Your Heart

18 | THE STROKES - ANGLES
     Favorite track:  Taken for a Fool

17 | AMY WINEHOUSE - LIONESS: HIDDEN TREASURES
     Favorite track:  Like Smoke (feat. Nas)

16 | THE BLACK KEYS - EL CAMINO
     Favorite track:  Dead and Gone

15 | RYAN ADAMS - ASHES & FIRE
     Favorite track:  Chains of Love

14 | DALE EARNHARDT, JR. JR. - IT'S A CORPORATE WORLD
     Favorite track:  We Almost Lost Detroit (Gil Scott Heron cover)

13 | WILCO - THE WHOLE LOVE
     Favorite track:  One Sunday Morning

12 | FEIST - METALS

     Favorite track:  How Come You Never Go There

11 | GIVERS - IN LIGHT
     Favorite track:  Saw You First

10 |  BON IVER - BON IVER
     Favorite track:  Towers

9 | THE CIVIL WARS - BARTON HOLLOW
     Favorite track:  Poison & Wine

8 | GENERATIONALS - ASTOR-CASTER
     Favorite track:  Ten-Twenty-Ten

7 | THE HEAD & THE HEART - THE HEAD & THE HEART (2010)
     Favorite track:  Couer D'Alene

6 | FLEET FOXES - HELPLESSNESS BLUES
     Favorite track:  Bedouin Dress

5 | WASHED OUT - WITHIN AND WITHOUT

     Favorite track:  Amor Fati

4 | FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - CEREMONIALS

     Favorite track:  No Light, No Light

3 | DAWES - NOTHING IS WRONG

     Favorite track:  If I Wanted Someone

2 | ELLIE GOULDING - LIGHTS

     Favorite track:  Your Biggest Mistake

1 | MIDDLE BROTHER - MIDDLE BROTHER

     Favorite track:  Daydreaming