ktru top 35 albums – August 21, 2011

1 – various – daptone 45 singles spring/ summer 2011 – daptone
2 – washed out – within and without – sub pop
3 – booker t. jones – the road from memphis – anti
4 – black lips – arabia mountain – vice
5 – deaf center – owl splinters – type
6 – grieves – together/apart – rhymesayers
7 – jorge ben – forca bruta – dusty groove america
8 – ocote soul sounds – taurus – esl
9 – mice parade – what it means to be left-handed – fatcat records
10 – various – 101 things to do in bongolia – electric cowbell
11 – boris – heavy rocks – sargent house
12 – bon iver – bon iver – jagjaguwar
13 – handsome furs – sound kapital – sub pop
14 – biosphere – n-plants – touch
15 – the third twin – direkttt – s/r
16 – one, two, three – new heaven – frenchkiss
17 – unknown mortal orchestra – unknown mortal orchestra – fat possum
18 – brian lavelle – suburban electrification – overland shark
19 – the whitefield brothers – in the raw – now again
20 – fucked up – david comes to life – matador
21 – deerhoof – deerhoof vs. evil – polyvinyl
22 – mem1 and stephen vitiello – age of insects – dragon’s eye
23 – blurt – blurt + singles – ltm
24 – various – new breed jumbo pack vol. two – new breed
25 – infant mortality rate – down in waves of ether – mayday records
26 – archie shepp – the new york contemporary five – delmark
27 – to rococo rot – speculation – domino
28 – panda bear – tomboy – paw tracks
29 – psychedelic horseshit – laced – fat cat
30 – femi kuti – africa for africa – knitting factory
31 – afrocubanismo – afrocubanism – world circuit
32 – lady lazarus – mantic – apartment life
33 – blake, james – james blake – universal republic records
34 – ladysmith black mambazo – songs from a zulu farm – listen 2 entertainment group
35 – hauschka – salon des amateurs – fat cat