Salı 17 May 2011, 13:40

Hot off the heels of publishing my 2010 list, it's time to get cracking on this year's choices. This list will change week-to-week as I listen through everything that's coming out. Let me know your recommendations!

Nominees:
beyonce - 4
Adele - 21
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Foster the People - Torches
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Feist - Metals
Mates of State - mountaintops
St. Vincent - Strange mercy
mates of state - mountaintops
wilco - the whole love
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Drake - Thank me later
Tapes 'n Tapes - Outside
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Noah and the Whale - Last night on earth
youth lagoon - the year of hibernation
girls - father, son, holy ghost
The go! Team - Rolling blackouts
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
dawes - Nothing is wrong

Considered but not likely to contend:
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & the Cairo Gang - island brothers
M.I.A. - Vicki Leekx
Thao & Mirah - Thao & Mirah
Julianna barwick - The Magic Place
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
jim ward Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins & The Electric Six
Wild Beasts - Smother
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
Mogwai - Hardcore WIll Never Die, But you Will
James Blake - James Blake
Cut Copy - ZOnoscope
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each other Clean
R. Kelly - love letter
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
Thursday - No Devolucion
DJ Quik - the book of david
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Bright Eyes - the People's Key
The Rural Alberta Advantage - departing
R.E.M. - Collapse into now
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
The Get Up Kids - There are rules
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
The Elected - bury me in my rings
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
death cab for cutie - Codes and Keys
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Dodos - No Color
Eisley - the valley
Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
tune-yards - w h o k i l l
Letlive - Fake History
Destroyer - kaputt
Okkervil River - I am very far
City and Colour - Little Hell
ARchers of Loaf - Icky mettle
Idaho - you were a dick
lil wayne - tha carter iv
beirut - the rip tide
mayer hawthorne - how do you do
bjork - biophilia
neon indian - era extrana
nick lowe - the old magic
blind pilot - we are the tide
ryan adams - ashes & fire