The Best Albums Of 2011

Top 50

1. Let England shake - PJ HARVEY
2. Wild Flag - WILD FLAG
3. Only in dreams - DUM DUM GIRLS
4. Anna Calvi - ANNA CALVI
5. Past life martyred saints - EMA
6. Ersatz G.B. - THE FALL
7. Whokill - TUNE-YARDS
8. Nine types of light - TV ON THE RADIO
9. Cults - CULTS
10. Wounded rhymes - LYKKE LI
11. Blood pressures - THE KILLS
12. Suck it and see - ARCTIC MONKEYS
13. Here before - THE FEELIES
14. Veronica Falls - VERONICA FALLS
15. Work (work, work) - HTRK
16. Original colors - HIGH PLACES
17. Soft Metals - SOFT METALS
18. Days - REAL ESTATE
19. Kaputt - DESTROYER
20. Strange mercy - ST. VINCENT
21. El Camino - THE BLACK KEYS
22. Last summer - ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
23. Belong - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
24. The king of limbs - RADIOHEAD
25. Conatus - ZOLA JESUS
26. Eye contact - GANG GANG DANCE
27. West - WOODEN SHJIPS
28. Dynamite steps - TWILIGHT SINGERS
29. Mirror traffic - STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
30. Black up - SHABAZZ PALACES
31. Hot sauce committee part two - BEASTIE BOYS
32. Cherish the light years - COLD CAVE
33. Angles - THE STROKES
34. The king is dead - THE DECEMBERISTS
35. Creatures of an hour - STILL CORNERS
36. Sound kapital - HANDSOME FURS
37. Red barked tree - WIRE
38. D - WHITE DENIM
39. Smoke ring for my halo - KURT VILE
40. In love with oblivion - CRYSTAL STILTS
41. Mazes - MOON DUO
42. Organ music not vibraphone like I'd hoped - MOONFACE
43. In the grace of your love - THE RAPTURE
44. Kiss each other clean - IRON AND WINE
45. Apocalypse - BILL CALLAHAN
46. Collapse into now - R.E.M.
47. Riot now! - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
48. David comes to life - FUCKED UP
49. Parallax - ATLAS SOUND
50. Skying - THE HORRORS

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Yuck - YUCK, The English Riviera - METRONOMY, Dedication - ZOMBY, The big roar - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Bruiser - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Codes and keys - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Degeneration street - THE DEARS, Glass prayer - RELIGIOUS TO DAMN, The rip tide - BEIRUT, The whole love - WILCO, I am very far - OKKERVIL RIVER, Arabia mountain - BLACK LIPS, Share the joy - VIVIAN GIRLS, Endless now - MALE BONDING, Dye it blonde - SMITH WESTERNS, Portamento - THE DRUMS, The people's key - BRIGHT EYES, Lollipop - MEAT PUPPETS, Tao of the Dead - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Moody, standard and poor - OBITS, Hardcore will never die, but you will - MOGWAI, Feel it break - AUSTRA, Violet cries - ESBEN AND THE WITCH, Lenses alien - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, C'mon - LOW, Alela Diane & Wild Divine - ALELA DIANE, Helplessness blues - FLEET FOXES, Bon Iver - BON IVER, Demolished thoughts - THURSTON MOORE, Circuital - MY MORNING JACKET, Hard times and nursery rhymes - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Wasting light - FOO FIGHTERS, Colour trip - RINGO DEATHSTARR, What did you expect from The Vaccines? - THE VACCINES, Leisure seizure - TOM VEK, Passive me aggressive you - THE NAKED AND FAMOUS, Gravity the seducer - LADYTRON, Rolling blackouts - THE GO! TEAM, Ventriloquizzing - FUJIYA & MIYAGI, Hysterical - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Mine is yours - COLD WAR KIDS, Badlands - DIRTY BEACHES, La Sera - LA SERA, E.S.P. - LOVE INKS, Some easy magic - FUNGI GIRLS, Exmilitary - DEATH GRIPS, Beyond living - MILK MUSIC, Living in patterns - POLLYN, 936 - PEAKING LIGHTS, Carrion crawler / The dream - THEE OH SEES, Slave ambient - THE WAR ON DRUGS, Civilian - WYE OAK, New brigade - ICEAGE, Leave home - THE MEN, Goodbye bread - TY SEGALL, Gloss drop - BATTLES, Hurry up, we’re dreaming - M83, The future will destroy you - VIVA VOCE, Twist again - BODIES OF WATER, Tomboy - PANDA BEAR, Raven in the grave - THE RAVEONETTES, Cat's Eyes - CAT'S EYES, Azari & III - AZARI & III, Sets & lights - XENO & OAKLANDER, Within and without - WASHED OUT, Underneath the pine - TORO Y MOI, Pala - FRIENDLY FIRES, Goblin - TYLER THE CREATOR, Mirror, mirror - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, It's all true - JUNIOR BOYS, Skins - BUFFALO TOM, Several shades of why - J MASCIS, Hyphenated-man - MIKE WATT, Go-Go boots - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Babies - THE BABIES, Hunger - FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS, Fluoresence - ASOBI SEKSU, Deerhoof vs. evil - DEERHOOF, Valhalla dancehall - BRITISH SEA POWER, Cloud Nothings - CLOUD NOTHINGS, Outside - TAPES 'N TAPES, White wilderness - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Content - GANG OF FOUR, Space city kicks - ROBERT POLLARD, Rome - DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI, Rock & roll submarine - URGE OVERKILL, Burst apart - THE ANTLERS, Loud planes fly low - THE ROSEBUDS, Mountaintops - MATES OF STATE, Last of the country gentlemen - JOSH T. PEARSON, Go tell fire to the mountain - WU LYF, Smother - WILD BEASTS, Father, Son, Holy Ghost - GIRLS, Dig on - SHE KEEPS BEES, Widowspeak - WIDOWSPEAK, Space is only noise - NICOLAS JAAR, James Blake - JAMES BLAKE, 50 words for snow - KATE BUSH, Biophilia - BJÖRK, Metals - FEIST, Zonoscope - CUT COPY, XXX - DANNY BROWN, Undun - THE ROOTS, Watch the throne - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST, SBTRKT - SBTRKT, Section.80 - KENDRICK LAMAR, Nostalgia, ultra - FRANK OCEAN, Take care - DRAKE, House of balloons - THE WEEKND, Relax - DAS RACIST, Instrumentals - CLAMS CASINO, Replica - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, Looping state of mind - THE FIELD, Ravedeath, 1972 - TIM HECKER, Electronic dream - ARAABMUZIK, Era extrana - NEON INDIAN, W - PLANNINGTOROCK, We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves - JOHN MAUS, Unknown Mortal Orchestra - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, H-P1 - WHITE HILLS, Dancer equired - TIMES NEW VIKING, The year of hibernation - YOUTH LAGOON, Shapeshifting - YOUNG GALAXY, Divine providence - DEER TICK, Again into eyes - SCUM, Absence - SNOWMAN, Cabaret cixous - MARIA MINERVA, Wander / Wonder - BALAM ACAB, Ritual union - LITTLE DRAGON, Velociraptor - KASABIAN, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS, A different kind of fix - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Last night on earth - NOAH & THE WHALE, A creature I don’t know - LAURA MARLING, The harrow & the harvest - GILLIAN WELCH, Bad as me - TOM WAITS, Tassili - TINARIWEN, Sun and shade - WOODS, All things will unwind - MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, Welcome to Condale - SUMMER CAMP, Lights out - BIG DEAL, Headbangers in ecstasy - PURO INSTINCT, Hearts - I BREAK HORSES, Aabenbaringen over aaskammen - CASIOKIDS, Program 91 - RAZIKA, Both ways open jaws - THE DO, Baby Guru - BABY GURU, Last words: The final recordings - SCREAMING TREES.