ktru top 35 albums – January 1, 2012
1 – m83 – hurry up, we’re dreaming – mute
2 – highlife – best bless – new high records
3 – kable – the hand – deep dot records
4 – jonti – twirligig – stones throw
5 – the men – leave home – sacred bones
6 – led bib – bring your own – cuneiform
7 – various – bollywood bloodbath – b-music
8 – tim hecker – dropped pianos – kranky
9 – dj shadow – the less you know, the better – island
10 – the big pink – a brief history of love – 4ad
11 – group inerane – guitars from agadez, volume 3 – sublime frequencies
12 – buxton – nothing here seems strange – new west
13 – helado negro – canta lechuza – asthmatic kitty
14 – indian jewelry – totaled – we are free
15 – the twenty-three string band – catch twenty-three – s/r
16 – gauntlet hair – s/t – dead oceans
17 – dungen – skit i allt – kemado records
18 – tobacco – maniac meat – anticon
19 – wild flag – wild flag – merge
20 – fennesz – seven stars – touch
21 – clinic – bubblegum – domino
22 – the headhunters – platinum – owl studios
23 – olof arnalds – vid og vid – one little indian
24 – build an ark – the stars are singing too – disques corde
25 – gem club – breakers – hardly art
26 – holy fuck – latin – youngturks
27 – staff benda bilili – tres tres fort – crammed discs
28 – claudia quintet, the – royal toast – cuneiform
29 – mike and the censations – don’t sell your soul – ubiquity
30 – they might be giants – join us – rounder records
31 – the stepkids – the stepkids – stones throw
32 – grody, danny paul – fountain – root strata
33 – baths – cerulean – anticon
34 – da cruz – sistema subversiva – six degrees
35 – tinariwen – tassili – anti-
