Christianity Today gives its Album of the Year Award to Josh Garrels's Love and War & the Sea In Between. It's available for free at Garrels's website here.
Here are CT's top 12 albums of 2011, with links to their original reviews.
- Josh Garrels, Love & War & the Sea In Between (Small Voice Records)
- Gillian Welch, The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony)
- Over the Rhine, The Long Surrender (Great Speckled Dog)
- Burlap to Cashmere, Burlap to Cashmere (Jive Records)
- Joe Henry, Reverie (Anti)
- Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music)
- Alison Krauss & Union Station, Paper Airplane (Rounder)
- Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain (Nonesuch Records)
- Sara Groves, Invisible Empires (Fair Trade Services)
- Mutemath, Odd Soul (Teleprompt/Warner Bros.)
- Laura Marling, A Creature I Don't Know (Ribbon Records)
- Gungor, Ghosts upon the Earth (Brash Music)