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The Eight Best Albums of 2011

The Eight Best Albums of 2011 My guesses about the future are almost always wrong, and here's one of them: I always thought that digital music would lead to big changes in how albums were constructed. I figured that bands that stuck to a pop or rock sound would go mostly with singles and more frequent, smaller releases, and that full albums would be longer, would be either more conceptual or spottier (the 'great singles with filler' albums) and be a wide variation of musical styles. But 2011 has produced a bunch of fantastic albums that are none of those things. They stick to [...]
Artist:Beirut
Title:Santa Fe
Link Text:Listen: “Santa Fe”
File Name:Santa Fe.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Pop
Year:2011
Artist:Cults
Title:You Know What I Mean
Link Text:Listen: “You Know What I Mean”
File Name:You Know What I Mean .mp3
Genre:Alternative Rock
Year:2011
Artist:Eleanor Friedberger
Title:Roosevelt Island
Link Text:Listen: “Roosevelt Island”
File Name:Roosevelt Island.mp3
Genre:Alternative Rock
Year:2011
Artist:The Dodos
Title:Black Night
Link Text:Listen: “Black Night”
File Name:Black Night.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:The Go! Team
Title:Apollo Throwdown
Link Text:Listen: “Apollo Throwdown”
File Name:Apollo Throwdown.mp3
Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:The Sea and Cake
Title:Up on the North Shore
Link Text:Listen: “Up On The North Shore”
File Name:Up on the North Shore.mp3
Genre:Indie
Year:2011
Artist:Veronica Falls
Title:Come On Over
Link Text:Listen: “Come On Over”
File Name:Come On Over.mp3
Genre:Indie Pop
Year:2011