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Top Ten Year End Lists


Posted by Sarah On Dec 16, 2011

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To save you the trouble of having to read Pitchfork's Top 50 albums of 2011 to see how many Bank Robber acts you can spot, we'll just go ahead and spoil it to say we have the Top 3 of the year.  No surprises here:

M83's juggernaut of a double album (Mute) clocks in at #3:


Destroyer's Kaputt (Merge) comes in at number 2 with the smooth jams:


And of course, Jagjaguwar's (multiple Grammy nominee) Bon Iver checks in with the top slot:


But that's not all, read a little further down the list for some year-end high fives for Wild Flag (49), Liturgy (41), The War On Drugs (39), Ty Segall (31), Cut Copy (28), and Bill Callahan (23).

And now for a few Honorable Mentions that Pitchfork seems to have forgotten:


Best Use of a Tank Top in a Music Video goes to Sara Barthel for Phantogram's "When I'm Small" video:

This may be controversial considering the number of saxophones that cropped up in various albums this year, but we're gonna go ahead and give the Best Non-Ironic Use of a Saxophone to The Rapture's "How Deep Is Your Love."  By the time that solo kicks in around the 4 minute mark, I'm willing to forget how many times I cursed saxophone solos this year...

Best Album Not Eligible for Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums Because it was Only a 4-song EP goes to the Secretly Canadian duo Exitmusic.  If you slept on this one, better ask us for it:

 

And in a tie for the Best Albums You Can't Believe Bank Robber Was Allowed to Work, we have Mocean Worker and They Might Be Giants:

 

That's it for 2011 folks, unless Lyle decides to post his 8-part Hanukkah inspired wrap-up next week.  See you in January,

Sarah

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