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2011 Winner!! 27th Annual!

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The number-crunching, logarithms, late-night sessions and controversy is finally over and now the time has come to announce the album that wins the 27th Annual Neumie for 2011!! Below is a top ten countdown selected from the nominees ending with the winner!! Wow!! There is an historic first in the Neumie winner this year.
I have rated each album (1 to 5 'n's!)

10) Outer South.............................Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band

Essential Tracks: Spoiled, Air Mattress, Nicorette, Bloodline
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9) Seeing Things..........................................Jakob Dylan

Essential Tracks: Something Good This Way Comes, This End of the Telescope, All Day and All Night, On Up The Mountain
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8) Migonette..................................Avett Brothers

Essential Tracks: Swept Away, At The Beach, Hard Worker, Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane
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7) Funeral........................Arcade Fire

Essential Tracks: Rebellion (Lies), Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Neighborhood #2 (Laika), Wake Up
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6) The King of Limbs....................Radiohead lllll

Essential Tracks: Separator, Lotus Flower, Morning Mr Magpie, Little By Little
Great albums from one of the Leaders--but it's hurt by being only 8 songs long.
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5) Circuital........................My Morning Jacket

Essential Tracks: Circuital, Holding On To Black Metal, First Light, You Wanna Freak Out
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4) All Change......................Cast

Essential Tracks: Alright, Promised Land, Back Of My Mind, Fine Time
Believe it or not, here's another spinoff from the legendary BritAwards 96 CD purchased in London in March of that year. Fifteen years later, it's still influential!
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3) Collapse Into Now.....................R.E.M.

Essential Tracks: Mine Smell Like Honey, It Happened Today, Blue, That Someone Is You
This is the final album for R.E.M. They announced their breakup in September. The numbers on these legends: 16 All-Time Nominations, 3 Neumie Awards, and a spot on the Leaders list. None better.
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2) Seeds We Sow.....................................Lindsay Buckingham iiiiii

Essential Tracks: That The Way That Love Goes, Rockaway Blind, Gone Too Far, In Our Own Time
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1) Give Up The Ghost...........................Brandi Carlile (NEUMIE WINNER!) yyyyy

Essential Tracks: Dreams, Looking Out, Before It Breaks, Caroline
This is the FIRST FEMALE WINNER of the Neumie Award ever!
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Other entrants, 2011:
Street Songs of Love.....................Alejandro Escovedo

Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky........................OK GO

Sign No More...............................Mumford and Sons

One Chord Or Another...........................Sloan

Lasers......................................Lupe Fiasco

Dona Got A Ramblin Mind..............................Carolina Chocolate Drops

On A Fine Spring Morning................................The Tossers

Born Free....................Kid Rock

Strange Girl........................Iva Bittova

Kaivama.........................Kaivama

1915 Phonographic Yearbook............Various

We Shall Be Healed................The Mountain Goats

Brit Awards 2003.............Various