An Alphabetical Exercise in Futility by a Man Who Bought More Books than Records in Twenty Eleven
The Decemberists | The King is Dead (Rough Trade)
Iceage | New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture)
Cass McCombs | Humor Risk (Domino)
Cass McCombs | Wit’s End (Domino)
Josh T. Pearson | The Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute)
Real Estate | Days (Domino)
Talons’ | Songs for Boats (Own Records)
Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
The War on Drugs | Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
Song of the Year: “Baby Missiles” by The War on Drugs
Bonus: Pearson’s haunting rendition of “O Holy Night.”
