In no particular order here are some our favourite albums we’ve heard so far in 2011…

• J. Mascis | Several Shades of Why

• Bon Iver | Bon Iver

• Yuck | Yuck

• John Maus | We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

• Robag Wruhme | Thora Vukk

• Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer

• Gillian Welch | The Harrow & The Harvest

• Pure X | Pleasure

• The Horrors | Skying

• Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will

• Those Darlins | Screws Get Loose

• Low | C’mon

• Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues

• Bill Callahan | Apocalypse

• Cut Off Your Hands | Hollow

• Destroyer | Kaputt

• The Felice Brothers | Celebration, Florida

• Iron & Wine | Kiss Each Other Clean

• The Low Anthem | Smart Flesh

• James Blake | James Blake

• Neil Young | A Treasure

• PJ Harvey | Let England Shake