Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 12/9/11

1. Icebird - The Abandoned Lullaby (RJ's Electrical Connections)

2. Jeff the Brotherhood - "Whatever I Want" [Single] (Third Man)

3. Cass McCombs - Humor Risk (Domino)

4. Jane Jane Pollock - Jane Jane Pollock (Flea Ridden Kitten)

5. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)

6. Wise Blood - These Wings [EP] (Dovecote)

7. Wooden Wand - Briarwood (Fire)

8. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)

9. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti)

10. Future Islands - On The Water (Thrill Jockey)

11. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)

12. Real Estate - Days (Domino)

13. Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti)

14. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)

15. Donora - Boyfriends, Girlfriends (Rostrum)

16. Megafaun -Megafaun (Hometapes)

17. Phantogram - Nightlife (Barsuk)

18. Dirty Projectors and Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)

19. Dessa - Castor, The Twin (Doomtree)

20. Beets - Let The Poison Out (Hardly Art)

21. Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A Fucking Liar (Bad Blood)

22. Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)

23. Joker - The Vision (4AD)

24. Holiday Shores - New Masses For Squaw Peak (Twosyllable)

25. Orchestra of Spheres - Nonagonic Now (Fire)

26. Touché Amoré - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me (Deathwish)

27. Neon Indian - Era Extrana (Mom And Pop)

28. Friends - College Sampler (Lucky Number)

29. Sparkadia - The Great Impression (Ok! Good)

30. Canyons - Keep Your Dreams (Modular)

Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 12/2/11

1. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation (Fat Possum)

2. Icebird - The Abandoned Lullaby (RJ's Electrical Connections)

3. Class Actress - Rapproacher (Carpark)

4. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)

5. Jane Jane Pollock - Jane Jane Pollock (Flea Ridden Kitten)

6. Jeff the Brotherhood - "Whatever I Want" [Single] (Third Man)

7. Drums - Portamento (Frenchkiss)

8. Real Estate - Days (Domino)

9. Future Islands - On the Water (Thrill Jockey)

10. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)

11. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti)

12. Dirty Projectors and Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)

13. Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti)

14. Viva Voce - The Future Will Destroy You (Vanguard)

15. Ryan Adams - Ashes And Fire (Capitol)

16. Neon Indian - Era Extrana (Mom And Pop)

17. Megafaun - Megafaun (Hometapes)

18. Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace (Iamsound)

19. Donora - Boyfriends, Girlfriends (Rostrum)

20. Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town (Drag City)

21. Apparat - The Devil's Walk (Mute)

22. Friends - College Sampler (Lucky Number)

23. Gauntlet Hair - Gauntlet Hair (Dead Oceans)

24. Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian)

25. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)

26. Memoryhouse - The Years (Sub Pop-Arcade Sound)

27. Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)

28. Pack A.D. - Unpersons (Mint)

29. Patti Smith - Outside Of Society (Columbia)

30. Widowspeak - Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)