The KEXP DJs hear thousands of albums every year, but in 2011, which ten really stood out for them? Find out as KEXP looks at each DJ’s list through the month of December, leading up to our 2011 Top 90.3 Countdown, as voted on by YOU, the KEXP listener! Tune in on Friday, December 30th to hear if your favorites made the list!

tUnE-yArDs in the KEXP studio 2011-04-29 // photo credit: Dave Lichterman (more photos)
Abe Beeson’s 2011 Top Ten Albums
| rank | album | artist | label |
| 10 | Risk | Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts | Burning Building |
| 9 | Wilderness | The Features | Serpents and Snakes |
| 8 | Cape Dory | Tennis | Fat Possum |
| 7 | Bad As Me | Tom Waits | Anti- |
| 6 | Only in Dreams | Dum Dum Girls | Sub Pop |
| 5 | No Time for Dreaming | Charles Bradley | Daptone |
| 4 | Mirrorwriting | Jamie Woom | Polydor |
| 3 | W H O K I L L | tUnE-yArDs | 4AD |
| 2 | The Front Bottoms | The Front Bottoms | Bar/None |
| 1 | You’re Fucking Out, I’m Fucking In | Rockwell Knuckles | Self Released |
Abe Beeson is a fill-in DJ at KEXP.




