2011 Top Ten List Spotlight Cheryl Waters

The Joy Formidable at KEXP's SXSW broadcast 3/17/11
photo credit: Jim Bennett (more photos)

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! Voting ends on Monday, December 19th, so let us know your favorites now, and tune in on Friday, December 30th to hear which albums made the list!

Cheryl Waters’ 2011 Top Ten Albums

album	artist	label
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming	M83	Mute
El Camino	The Black Keys	Nonesuch
Sound Kapital	Handsome Furs	Sub Pop
The Harrow & The Harvest	Gillian Welch	Acony
Burst Apart	The Antlers	Frenchkiss
Helplessness Blues	Fleet Foxes	Sub Pop
My Head Is An Animal	Of Monsters And Men	Record
The Big Roar	The Joy Formidable	Canvasback/Atlantic
In the Mountain, In The Cloud	Portugal, The Man	Atlantic
You Are All I See	Active Child	Secretly Canadian

Cheryl Waters is the host of The Midday Show, airing Monday through Friday, 10AM-2PM.