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KCRW DJ Anne Litt’s Top 10 Albums of 2011
1. Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi (Domino)
2. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys (Fiction/Downtown)
3. Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti)
4. Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire (Capitol)
5. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)
6. Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’ (Columbia)
7. St Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
8. The Kills – Blood Pressures (Domino)
9. SBTRKT – SBTRKT (Young Turks/XL)
10. Portugal The Man – In The Mountain, In The Cloud (Atlantic)
Honorable Mentions:
Diego Garcia – Laura (Nacional)
Motopony – Motopony (tinyOGRE)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador)
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – Rome (Capitol)
REM – Collapse Into Now (Warner Bros)
Tinariwen – Tassili (Anti)
Cage the Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday (Jive)
Shelby Lynne – Revelation Road (Everso)
John Tejada – Parabolas (Kompakt Germany)
Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
Death Cab For Cutie – Codes & Keys (Atlantic)
Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine (Carpark)
Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Peacefrog)