End of the Year Awards

#5 Album: Kanye West ‰ÛÒ My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy After his self-imposed exile, Kanye West found his way back into the public consciousness via Twitter (“Why girls from Stockholm be so fresh????!!!!”) and has come back in the biggest way possible. Over the...

#6 Album: Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest On their followup to 2008‰'s Microcastle/Weird Era Cont., Bradford Cox and his four-piece Deerhunter finally make it to the big leagues with a more mature, sonically diverse album. Halycon Digest is immediately more accessible...

#7 Album: The National – High Violet Coming off their success of their breakthrough album, Boxer, it would have been easy for the National to sit back on their newfound success and play it safe. Fortunately, High Violet is much more then Boxer Pt. 2. It is, on first...

#8 Album: The Black Keys – Brothers We’ll get a write-up on here soon! Until then, here are some songs from the album. Listen for yourself to see why the DJs have made Brothers one of our most-played albums of the year here at the station. #8 Song: Twin Sister – All...

#9 Album: Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty If you are looking for a commercial hip-hop album with lyrics about “Popping Bottles in the Club‰” or “Throwing Your Hands Up in The Air‰” Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is not for you....

#10 Album: Janelle MonÁe – The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) I imagine that somewhere in Atlanta twenty-something years ago a mad scientist was trying to create the perfect artist. Stealing DNA from James Brown, Andre 3000 (he‰'s a very forward thinking scientist),...