{"id":29830,"date":"2012-01-03T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=29830"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T23:19:11","slug":"my-2011-in-music-honorable-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/my-2011-in-music-honorable-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2011 in Music: Honorable Mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span>ver the next few days, I’ll be listing out my favorite things of 2011 – music, movies, games. I’d do books, but I only made it through a pitiful number of books in 2011, not even worth listing. All this stuff is listed on my 2011 Favorites<\/a> page, which I’ve been keeping updated all year, but calling my favorites out with a bit of explanation is something I always look forward to doing.<\/p>\n

To start things off, here are ten albums (in no order) that I really enjoyed, but didn’t quite make my favorites of the year.<\/p>\n

Neon Indian – Era Extraña<\/em><\/h3>\n

I came across Neon Indian via NPR’s First Listen – I often check First Listen to preview albums I’m planning to buy a week early, but once in a while I find something I’d never heard of before. Neon Indian are a bit heavier on the electronic-sounding distortion than I usually like, but something about their sound really pleases me, especially when it falls into fuzzier distortion. Both “Hex Girlfriend” and “Polish Girl” would rate among my favorite songs of the year, but the rest of the album left me colder – kind of same-y and unmemorable, knocking it down into the honorable mentions.<\/p>\n