Best Of The Year 2011: My First Half Honorable Mentions

I just finished putting together my section for the Best Of The Year 2011: First Half Update post, and I figured it would be much easier to put all of my honorable mentions in this one post, rather than taking up lines of space and taking over the entire feature. This does not include every album I enjoy that I've heard so far this year; instead it is more of a "best of the best". Any record that I have heard this year that will be seen in the future with a 2011 release date is eligible for this list, and I would suggest for everyone to listen to any record on here that seems even somewhat interested. The first half update will be up on the first day of July. You can read my honorable mentions below, with my "first five missed" bolded.

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Files

And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

The Antlers - Burst Apart

Blindside - With Shivering Hearts We Wait

Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Bright Eyes - The People's Key

Cass McCombs - Wit's End

City And Colour - Little Hell

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow

Cults - Cults

Cut Copy - Zonoscope

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's A Corporate World

The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum

Eisley - The Valley

Farewell Continental - Hey Hey Pioneers

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Frank Ocean - Nostalgia/Ultra

Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

Go Radio - Lucky Street

Hidden Pictures - Synchronized Sleeping

Hooray For Earth - True Loves

I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business - Gold Rush

Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Jeudah - While We Sleep

Junior Battles - Idle Ages

The Lonely Forest - Arrows

Maniac - Mania

Maybeshewill - I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone

Moonlit Sailor - Colors In Stereo

The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some

Select Start - The New Atlantic EP

Sister City - Carbon Footprint

Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

Starfucker - Reptillians

The Story So Far - Under Sugar and Dirt

The Swellers - Good For Me

Thursday - No Devolucion

Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me

Transit - Promise Nothing 7"

tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

The Weeknd - House Of Balloons

The Wonder Years - Surburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing

Woods - Sun And Shade

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

Yuck - Yuck