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KCRW DJ Travis Holcombe’s Top 10 Albums of 2011
2. Cymbals – Unlearn (Tough Love)
3. Bosco Delrey – Everybody Wah (Mad Decent)
4. Paul White – Rapping With Paul White (One-Handed Music)
5. VA – Life Is Dance! (Finders Keepers)
6. VA – Acid Rumba: Spanish Gypsy Grooves 1969-1976 (Hundergrum)
7. Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Ghostly International)
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Fat Possum)
9. Planningtorock – W (DFA)
10. Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Peacefrog)
Honorable Mentions:
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia)
Drums – Portamento (Frenchkiss)
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger / Because / Elektra)
John Tejada – Parabolas (Kompakt)
John Maus – We Must Become Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Ribbon Music)
Rizzle Kicks – Stereo Typical (Island)
Davila 666 – Tan Bajo (In The Red)
Araabmuzik – Electronic Dream (Duke Productions)
VA – German Punk & Wave (Vinyl-On-Demand)
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain (Vice)
VA – Thai Dai: The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground (Finders Keepers)
Dirtbombs – Party Store (In The Red)
Locussolus – Locussolus
The Rapture – In The Grace Of Your Love (DFA)
A$AP Rocky – LiveLoveA$AP
Metronomy – The English Riviera (Because Music)
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – Rome