- Bare Wires – “Sweet Little Stranger” – Cheap Perfume (Southpaw)
- Battles – “Ice Cream” – Gloss Drop (Warp)
- Bleeding Knees Club – “Truth or Dare” – Virginity (I Am Sound)
- Dum Dum Girls – “He Gets Me High” – He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)
- Emily’s Army – “Broadcast This” – Don’t Be a Dick (Adeline)
- Eleanor Friedberger – “My Mistakes” – Last Summer (Merge)
- Graham Repulski – “Bulletproof Skull” – Into an Animal Together (Shorter)
- Hauschka – “Cube” – Salon Des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
- Low Anthem – “Apothecary Love” – Smart Flesh (Nonesuch)
- Buddy Miller – “I Want to Be With You Always” – Majestic Silver Strings (New West)
- Personal & the Pizzas – “I Don’t Feel So Happy No More” – Raw Pie (1-2-3-4-Go!)
- War on Drugs - “Baby Missiles” – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
- Misisipi Mike Wolf – “I Don’t Miss You Anymore” – The Cold Hard Facts of Mike (Western Independent)
2011
In Which Certain Albums of the Year Two Thousand Eleven Were Particularly Admired by DJ Sharkey
- Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart (Jocoserious)
- Prurient – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
- Bjork – Biophilia (Nonesuch)
- Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
- Cornershop with Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop & the Double ‘O’ Groove of (Ample Play)
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (Matador)
- Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
- Goodbye the Band – Uncle Narratologist (soundcloud.com/goodbyetheband)
- Kool A.D. – “DUMMO” (S/R)
- James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual (Hippos in Tanks)
- James Blake – S/T (Universal Republic)
- Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
- Matthew Friedberger – Old Regimes (Thrill Jockey)
- Radiohead – The King of Limbs (S/R)
- Julia Holter – Tragedy (Leaving)
- John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon)
- Meshell Ndegeocello – Weather (Naive)
- Van Hunt – What Were You Hoping For? (godless-hotspot)
In Which Certain Songs of Two Thousand Eleven, Either Contained Within or Apart from Aforementioned Albums, Endeared Themselves to DJ Sharkey
- Controlled Bleeding - “A Love Song (in Two Parts)” – Odes to Bubbler (Soleilmoon)
- Prurient – “A Meal Can Be Made” – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
- tUnE-YaRdS - “Bizness” – w h o k i l l (4AD)
- They Might Be Giants – “Can’t Keep Johnny Down” – Join Us (Idlewild)
- Todd Edwards – “Head Held High” – toddedwards.bandcamp.com (S/R)
- DJ Quik – “Killer Dope” – The Book of David (Mad Science)
- Reggie Watts – “Panther Quest” – Daytrotter Session 5/23/2011 (Daytrotter)
- Lindsey Buckingham – “Seeds We Sow” – Seeds We Sow (Mind Kit)
- R. Kelly – “Shut Up!” – twitter.com/kellzodiac (Twitvid)
- S*A*M – “STRAWBERRY LOVERR” – youtube.com/user/samtvofficial1 (YouTube)
- Planningtorock – “The One” – W (DFA)
Roscoe 2000 Top 10 2011 / late 2010 (in order of release)
- Celer – Dying Star (Dragon’s Eye)
- Steve Daubenspeck – Driftin’ With Our Shadows (Magnetic)
- Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits (Cruz Del Sur)
- Odean Pope – Universal Sounds (Porter)
- Hélène Renaut – The Deer Convention (S/R)
- Chris Forsyth – Paranoid Cat (Family Vineyard)
- Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
- The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble In Mind)
- Carlos Forster – Family Trees (Hush)
- Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers’ Guild)
E. Lit’s Favorite Albums of 2011
- Sims – Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree)
- Qwazaar & Batsauce – Bat Meets Blaine (Galapagos4)
- Open Mike Eagle – Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Hellfyre Club)
- Gel Roc – Beautiful Tragedy (Abolono)
- Blueprint – Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers)
- Void Pedal – Omni-Colour (Fieldwerk)
- Astronautalis – This is Our Science (Fake Four Inc.)
- One Be Lo – L.A.B.O.R (Subterraneous)
- Moka Only & Chief – Crickets (Feelin)
- Candy’s .22 – A Girl And Her Gun (Grimm Image)
Honorable Mentions
- IAME - Lame (Taxidermy)
- Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
- Senor Kaos – The Kaos Effect (High Water Music)
- Doomtree – No Kings (Doomtree)
- Sole & the Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World (Fake Four Inc.)
- Noah23 – Fry Cook on Venus (Fake Four Inc.)
- Knives & Gasoline – Love Songs for Crime Scenes (Grimm Image)
(20)11 Albums Worth Stealing Back from Your Ex
- Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
- Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest (Fortuna Pop!)
- Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps – Little Wind (S/R)
- The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze)
- The Drums – Portamento (Moshi Moshi)
- Generationals – Actor-Caster (Park the Van)
- Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
- Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)
- Mike James Kirkland – Don’t Sell Your Soul (Luv N’ Haight)
- Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On (Full Time Hobby)
- Shannon & The Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)
Faves of 2011
- tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l (4AD)
- Strange Boys – Live Music (Rough Trade)
- Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
- Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
- Shannon and the Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)
- Timber Timbre – Creep on Creepin’ On (Arts & Crafts)
- Smith Westerns – Dye it Blonde (Fat Possum)
- Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
- Dreamdate – Melody Walk (Tic Tac Totally)