Trigger Cut’s Top 20 Albums of 2011

In no particular order:

Atlas Sound – Parallax (4AD)
Battles – Gloss Drop (Domino)
Clams Casino – Rainforest & Instrumentals (Tri Angle)
Ducktails – Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics (Woodsist)
The Fall – Ersatz G.B. (Cherry Red)
The Feelies – Here Before (Bar None)
Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact (4AD)
John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon Music)
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
Lil B – I’m Gay (I’m Happy) (Based World)
Moon Duo – Mazes (Sacred Bones)
The Oh Sees – Castlemania & Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In The Red)
Peaking Lights – 936 (Not Not Fun)
Real Estate – Days (Domino)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador)
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread (Drag City)
The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
Wooden Shijips – West (Thrill Jockey)
Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)
Zola Jesus – Conatus (Sacred Bones)

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