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Date: 2011-05-07 07:07 pm (UTC)That said, here are my 40 favorite albums of the year, as things stand right now. (List could even go a lot longer, actually, but after these, things get more and more marginal). Biggest surprise is that I've been listening to so much jazz -- Somewhere between 7 and 10 of the 40, but zero of the Top 5 (which probably means that there's still a glass ceiling in how much I can get out of jazz these days, though I surprisingly often seem to get something. Too bad I never figured out how to write about the stuff -- well, not counting jazz that has metal in it, anyway.)
1. Randy Montana – Randy Montana (Mercury)
2. Kultur Shock – Ministry Of Kultur (Kultur Shock)
3. Nazareth – Big Dogz (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
4. Cauldron – Burning Fortune (Earache)
5. Stealing Angels – Stealing Angels (Skyville)
6. Yaron Herman Trio – Follow The White Rabbit (ACT)
7. Thompson Square – Thompson Square (Stoney Creek)
8. The Dirtbombs – Party Store (In The Red)
9. Too Slim and the Tail Draggers – Shiver (Underworld)
10. Gutbucket – Flock (Cuneiform)
11. Carl Sims – Hell On My Hands (CDS)
12. Endangered Blood – Endangered Blood (Skirl)
13. Joe Fielder Trio – Sacred Chrome Orb (Yellowsound Label)
14. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Cotonou Club (Strut)
15. Dick Destiny – La Puta (Dick Destiny)
16. Chucha Santamaria Y Usted – Chucha Santamaria Y Usted (Young Cubs)
17. Dennis Coffey – Dennis Coffey (Strut)
18. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang)
19. Donnie Ray – Who’s Rockin’ You? (Ecko)
20. Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures – Both/And (Meta)
21. Sarandon – Sarandon’s Age Of Reason (Slumberland)
22. Honey Ear Trio – Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
23. The Uv Race – Homo (In The Red)
24. The Baseball Project – Vol. 2: High And Inside (Yep Roc)
25. Sunny Sweeney – Sunny Sweeney EP (Republic Nashville EP)
26. Big Freedia – Scion A/V Presents: Big Freedia (Scion A/V EP)
27. The Dunn Boys – Volume 1 (The Dunn Boys)
28. The Ex – Catch My Shoe (Ex)
29. Woods Of Ypres – Woods 4: The Green Album (Earache)
30. Designer Drugs – Hardcore/Softcore (Ultra Music)
31. Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun (Hyperdub)
32. Marika Hughes – Afterlife Music Radio: 11 New Pieces For Solo Cello (DD)
33. Britney Spears – Femme Fatale (Jive)
34. MSG – Tasty! (Plus Loin Music)
35. Left Lane Cruiser – Junkyard Speed Ball (Alive)
36. Vijay Iyer / Prasanna / Nitin Mitta – Tirtha (ACT)
37. Kaboom Karavan – Barra Barra (Miasmah)
38. Tara Nevins – Wood And Stone (Sugar Hill)
39. (Various) – Blues Mix Volume Two: Old School Blues (Ecko)
40. Mary Mary – Something Big (Columbia)