Kosmik Radiation Radio Top 20 New Releases of 2011

1		Peaking Lights "936" (Not Not Fun)
2		Master Musicians Of Bukkake "Totem Three" (Important)
3		Lunar Dunes "Galaxsea" (4Zero)
4		Mike Watt "hyphenated-man" (Clenchedwrench)
5		Daughters Of The Sun "Ghost With Chains" (Not Not Fun)
6		Lumerians "Transmalinnia" (Knitting Factory)
7		Earthling Society "Stations Of The Ghost" (4Zero)
8		The Black Lips "Arabia Mountain" (Vice)
9 (tie)		Sun Araw "Ancient Romans" (Drag City) and Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw "Night Gallery" (Thrill Jockey)
10		Eleanor Friedberger "Last Summer" (Merge)
11 (tie)		Thee Oh Sees "Castlemania" (In The Red) and "Carrion Crawler - The Dream" (In The Red)
12		White Fence "Is Growing Faith" (Woodsist)
13		Van der Graaf Generator "A Grounding In Numbers" (Esoteric)
14		MV & EE "Country Stash" (Three Lobed)
15		Sonic Youth "Simon Werner a Disparu" (SYR)
16		Moon Duo "Mazes" (Sacred Bones)
17		Solus 3 "Corner Of The World" (Solus 3 Recordings)
18		Zun Zun Egui "Katang" (Yep Rock)
19		Wooden Shjips "West" (Thrill Jockey)
20 (tie)		Black Tempest "Secret Astronomies" (Tempest Towers) and "Supernormal Recordings" (Tempest Towers)

Akron/Family "S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT" (Dead Oceans)
Battles “Gloss Drop” (Warp)
Chain & The Gang “Music's Not For Everyone” (K)
Cheer-Accident “No Ifs Ands Or Dogs” (Cuneiform)
Cornershop featuring Bubley Kaur “And The Double-O Groove Of” (Ample Play)
Cranium Pie “Mechanisms Part 1” (Regal Crabmophone)
The Cynics “Spinning Wheel Motel” (Get Hip)
Dead Skeletons “Dead Magick” (Cargo)
Deerhoof “Deerhoof Vs. Evil” (Polyvinyl)
Dirty Beaches “Badlands” (Zoo Music)
Duchess Says “In A Fung Day T!” (Alien8)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring “So Many Things” (Goner)
Brian Eno & Rick Holland “Drums Between The Bells” (Warp)
The Fall “Ersatz GB” (Cherry Red)
The Feelies “Here Before” (Bar/None)
Grails “Deep Politics” (Temporary Residence)
Graveyard “Hisingen Blues” (Nuclear Blast)
The Hanna Barbarians “Syzygy” (self release)
High Pink Clouds “Sabkha Remix” (self release)
High Wolf “Étoile 3030” cassette (Not Not Fun)
Hot Tuna “Steady As She Goes” (Red House)
Joan Of Arc “Life Like” (Polyvinyl)
The Luck Of Eden Hall “Butterfly Revolutions Vol. 1" & "Vol. 2” (two albums - self released)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks “Mirror Traffic” (Matador)
Meat Puppets “Lollipop” (Megaforce)
Mogwai “Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will” (SubPop)
Thurston Moore “Demolished Thoughts” (Matador)
Mr. Free & The Satellite Freakout “Guru Gaga” (Bloat)
Paris Suit Yourself “My Main Shitstain” (Big Dada)
Psychedelic Horseshit “Laced” (Fat Cat)
Psychic Ills “Hazed Dream” (Sacred Bones)
Radio Moscow “The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz” (Alive Natural Sound)
Ringo Deathstarr “Colour Trip” (Sonic Unyon)
Rocket From The Tombs “Barfly” (Hearpen/Smog Veil)
Six Organs Of Admittance “Asleep On The Floodplain” (Drag City)
The Skull Defekts “Peer Amid” (Thrill Jockey)
White Hills “Hp-1” (Thrill Jockey)
Wild Flag “Wild Flag” (Merge)
Wire “Red Barked Tree” (Pink Flag/Mute)
Neil Young & The International Harvesters “A Treasure” (Reprise)
Yuck “Yuck” (Fat Possum)

Best Local Albums (from Madison, WI):

(in alphabetical order)

The Antiprism "Age Of Wonders" (self release)
Dead Luke "Meanwhile ... In The Midwest" (Moon Glyph)
The Honey Slides "The Honey Slides" EP (self release)
Icarus Himself "Career Culture" (Science Of Sound)
Guzzo Pinc & The Longsleeves "The Clap" (Free Agent)

AND THIS YEAR'S #1 RECORD PEAKING LIGHTS "936" IS ALSO A LOCAL ALBUM!!