re: Your Top Ten for the 2011 Year in Music

I also want to post some other albums of 2011 that just missed out on my top 10, and haven't been mentioned yet.

True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth: The best shoegaze album in recent memory. IMO.

Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine: If 2009 had the summer of Chill Wave, 2010 was the year chill wave turned into synth pop. Neion Indian, Washed Out, and Memory Tapes all kind of went in the same direction, but Toro Y Moi really stood out to me with the funk influence. His recent EP is great too.

John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves: = Joy Division/New Order. Whats not to like?

Iceage - New Brigade: Second best punk album of the year.

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien: Not as popular as their first album, but I actually preferred this one. A bit more of a matured sound I suppose.

Best Reissues/Collected Works/Release of "Previously Unreleased" Material

1. Void - Sessions 1981-83: Biased pick as they are my favorite hardcore punk band of all time.

2. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle: I was just a kid in the early 90s, so had it not been for this reissue I might not have ever heard them. Great album.

3. The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions: I haven't even listened to it all yet