The Raveonette's Observator album cover
This week, The Raveonettes’ Observator pulls rank with its blend of fuzzed-out haze and quick cuts of pop. Following up is The XX’s Coexist which topped the charts last week, and Cat Power’s Sun – her first album in six years! You can check out all of these albums and more by tuning your dial to 91.1!
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version 1 RAVEONETTES Observator Vice 2 THE XX Coexist XL 3 CAT POWER Sun Matador 4 YEASAYER Fragrant World Secretly Canadian 5 DUM DUM GIRLS End Of Daze SUB POP 6 BONDE DO ROLE Tropicalbacanal Mad Decent 7 TWO GALLANTS The Bloom And The Blight ATO 8 MINUS THE BEAR Infinity Overhead Dangerbird 9 SERA CAHOONE Deer Creek Canyon SUB POP 10 IIRIS The Magic Gift Box EMI FINLAND 11 LUPE FIASCO Lupe Fiasco’s Food And Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 Atlantic 12 WE NEED SURGERY We Need Surgery Light Organ 13 LOCAL NATIVES “Breakers” [Single] Frenchkiss 14 BENJAMIN GIBBARD Former Lives Barsuk 15 HEAVY The Glorious Dead Counter 16 BAD BOOKS Bad Books II Triple Crown 17 MUMFORD AND SONS Babel Glassnote 18 BAND OF HORSES Mirage Rock Brown-Columbia 19 MOUNTAIN GOATS Transcendental Youth Merge 20 MATT AND KIM Lightning Fader 21 TALLHART Bloodlines Equal Vision 22 TAME IMPALA Lonerism Modular 23 FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes Warp 24 DEERHOOF Breakup Song Polyvinyl 25 AMAZING Gentle Stream Partisan 26 TAKEN BY TREES Other Worlds Secretly Canadian 27 CUFF THE DUKE Union paper bag 28 SAVOIR ADORE Our Nature Self-Released 29 BLESSED FEATHERS Peaceful Beats In An Ocean Of Weeds Self-Released 30 SHINY TOY GUNS III 10th Street