Some of our 2011 favorites.As 2011 hits the halfway point it’s time to take stock of the year in music so far. Here are each of our five favorite albums of the year’s first six months.

- David Malitz

1. [Expletive] Up, "David Comes to Life" — So much everything: guitars, screaming, lyrics, confusing plot lines, songs. Still want more after 80 minutes.

2. Destroyer, "Kaputt" — Dan Bejar takes a deep breath and finds soft-rock bliss.

3. Yuck, "Yuck" — If you were around in the '90s, this is like the movie version of your favorite book. But hey, sometimes the movie is pretty awesome.

4. Bill Callahan, "Apocalypse" — Direct, oblique, tender and tense.

5. Dirty Beaches, "Badlands" — Like the ghostly remains of a half-century-old jukebox.

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- Allison Stewart

1. Adele, "21" — I should pick something cooler, probably, but I just can't.

2. PJ Harvey, "Let England Shake" — Until this, I was only a Polly fan in theory.

3. My Morning Jacket, "Circuital" — Jim James makes everything awesome-it's like a rule.

4. Yuck, "Yuck" — The best Superchunk album of the year.

5. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, "We're New Here" — Very nicely done, newly depressing.

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- Chris Richards

1. Bon Iver, "Bon Iver" — It's dreamy.

2. Katy B, "On A Mission" — This girl comes bouncing out of dubstepland (London) with so much to teach American pop singers.

3. James Blake, "James Blake" — The more I listen to James Blake, the more his music slips out of focus. Repeat.

4. Trouble - "Decemeber 17th" mixtape —  Feeling woozy on fumes of blog rap absurdity? Trouble brings the smelling salts.

5.  Last summer, I copped out of naming a fifth album by listing a slew of them. This year I'll do something simillar by picking five of my favorite songs from 2011, thus far: YC, "Racks"; Gang Gang Dance, "Glass Jar"; Smith Westerns, "Weekend"; Sunny Sweeney, "A Table Away"; Cass McCombs, "County Line"