Top Releases of 2011

1. trap them - darker handcraft
2. beneath oblivion - from man to dust
3. lee bozeman - giftmouth b/w the moment is gone
4. lee bozeman - the secret's always safe with  me b/w soft sins
5. pj harvey - let england shake
6. washed out - in and without
7. justin ww - ...of arches ep
8. vaccine - crimes in blood ep
9. enabler - year one
10. jay-z and kanye west - watch the throne
11. jedi mind tricks - violence begets violence
12. rise against - endgame
13. drainland - and so our troubles began
14. today is the day - pain is a warning
15. waka flocka flame and gucci mane - ferrari boyz
16. gigan - quasi-hallucinogenic sonic landscapes
17. radiohead - the king of limbs
18. custodian and gnawed (collab)
19. cloud rat/oily menace/wolbachia - split lp
20. cloud rat - fever dreams
21. nukkehammer - soviet rust belt ep
22. pusha t - fear of god II: let us pray
23. tyler, the creator - goblin
24. authority - stone craft cs
25. discretion - the scrubbing hole cs
26. vacation - s/t
27. rank/xerox - rank/xerox
28. dead north - spot remover (demo)
29. nukkehammer - demos lp
30. trophy wives - old scratch
31. white lung/nu sensae - split ep
32. disma - towards the megalith
33. hatred surge/mammoth grinder - split lp
34. negative plane - stained glass revelations
35. exit hippies/asocial terror fabrication - split ep
36. solstafir - svartir sandar
37. northless - clandestine abuse
38. warning//warning ep
39. fuck the facts - die miserable
40. immolation - providence ep
41. peter j. woods - songs for nothing
42. iceage - new brigade (came out in the US this year)
43. from ashes rise - live hell
44. oathbreaker - maelstrom
45. authority - protect us, o lord

reissues:

nirvana - nevermind super deluxe (disc THREE only...)
no comment - downsided ep
no comment - common senseless ep
dishammer - vintage addiction
general surgery - necrology ep


honorable mentions:

witch mountain - south of salem
brody's militia/breathilizor - split ep
austra - feel it break
heartless - hell is other people
brainoil - death of this dry season
gucci mane - the return of mr. zone 6

(Local bands are bolded.)