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Girl In a Coma makes NPR’s list of the year’s Top 50 albums
NPR is out with its list of the year’s Top 50 albums — and San Antonio-based Girl In a Coma made the cut.
Joining “Exits and All the Rest” are releases from a number of heavy hitters, including Adele, Jay-Z, Radiohead and Wilco.
Albums were selected by the public broadcaster’s critics and on-air hosts.
Now it’s NPR listeners’ turn to pick their faves. Head to the “All Songs Considered” website to cast your vote. The deadline is 4 p.m. Dec. 13.
The list:
Adele: 21
Alexandre Tharaud Scarlatti: Sonatas
Antlers: Burst Apart
Ashton Shepherd: Where Country Grows
Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal: Chamber Music
Beirut: The Rip Tide
Beyonce: 4
Bombino: Agadez
Bon Iver: Bon Ivre
Book of Mormon: Original Cast Recording
Bright Eyes: The People’s Key
Brooklyn Rider: Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
Captain Black Big Band: Captain Black Big Band
Civil Wars: Barton Hallow
Colin Stetson: New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges
Cormorant: Dwellings
Crash Ensemble: Gra Agus Bas
Davila 666: Tan Bajo
Demdike Stare: Tryptych
Ebene Quartet: Fiction
Eric Church: Chief
Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, ULTRA
(Expletive) Up: David Comes to Life
Girl In A Coma: Exits and All the Rest
Glenn Jones: The Wanting
Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found
James Blake: James Blake
Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne
Joseph Calleja: The Maltese Tenor
Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place
June Tabor: Ashore
Kendrick Lamar: Section.80
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine
La Vida Boheme: Nuestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Vladimir Jurowski): Mahler: Symphony No. 2 — Resurrection
Los Rakas: Chancletas y Camisetas Bordada
Miguel Zenon: Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Radiohead: The King of Limbs
Roots: undun
Shabazz Palaces: Black Up
Sonny Rollins Road: Shows Vol. 2
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
STS: The Illustrious
Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
Tom Waits: Bad as Me
Tommy Guerrero: Lifeboats and Follies
tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l
Wilco: The Whole Love
Wye Oak: Civilian
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By Jack Hays
December 7, 2011 9:13 AM | Link to this
The NPR list online has only 49 entries, missing the Jay-Z album. Huh?
By Welding Electrodes
December 19, 2011 9:56 AM | Link to this
Hah, seriously? That’s rediculous. No way