Tim Casteel asked me a great question in a comment on a recent post: "I'd be interested to know: what else is on your potential 'best albums of 2011' list?"
There are a bunch that will get my consideration and I can't list them all, nor recall all of them. I expect some to pop up high on the list that just haven't come to mind as I post this. I give each album a good, fresh listen as I work on my list. So don't quote me when my list comes out in December and there are some new names high on the list and listed albums not on the list. :) Here are some I expect to compete for the top albums, in alphabetical order.
What isn't on my list that should be?
- Antlers: Burst Apart
- Beirut: The Rip Tide
- Bon Iver: Bon Iver, Bon Iver
- Cults: Cults
- Dawes: Nothing Is Wrong
- Decemberists: The King Is Dead
- Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
- The Field: Looping State of Mind
- Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
- Frank Turner: England Keep My Bones
- Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest
- Girls: Father, Son, & Holy Ghost
- Ha Ha Tonka: Death of a Decade
- The Head & The Heart: The Head & The Heart
- Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean
- Josh Garrels: Love & War & The Sea In Between
- Joy Formidable: The Big Roar
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine
- Low: C'mon
- The Low Anthem: Smart Flesh
- Megafaun: Megafaun
- Middle Brother: Middle Brother
- My Morning Jacket: Circuital
- Okkervil River: I Am Very Far
- Other Lives: Tamer Animals
- PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
- Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
- Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire
- Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde
- Sojourn: The Water & The Blood
- tUnE-yArDs: W H O K I L L
- Washed Out: Within or Without
- Wilco: The Whole Love
- Wye Oak: Civilian
- Yuck: Yuck