Top 77 Albums of 2011

  ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
1 BON IVER Bon Iver Jagjaguwar
2 M83 Hurry Up We're Dreaming Mute
3 tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l 4AD
4 FLEET FOXES Helplessnee Blues Sup Pop
5 RADIOHEAD The King Of Limbs XL/TBD
6 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 4AD
7 LYKKE LI Wounded Rhymes Atlantic/LL
8 PANDA BEAR Tomboy Paw Tracks
9 DOOMTREE No Kings Doomtree
10 KURT VILE Smoke Ring For My Halo Matador
11 WASHED OUT Within and Without Sub Pop
12 REAL ESTATE Days Domino
13 SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY You and Me, Ghost Science of Sound
14 JAMES BLAKE James Blake A&M/Atlas
15 NEON INDIAN Era Extrana Mom & Pop/Static Tongues
16 BERIUT The Riptide Pompeii
17 ATLAS SOUND Parallax 4AD
18 WYE OAK Civilian Merge
19 CULTS Cults In the Name Of
20 TV ON THE RADIO Nine Types Of Light Interscope
21 DUM DUM GIRLS Only In My Dreams Sub Pop
22 PJ HARVEY Let England Shake Vagrant/Island Def Jam
23 BRIGHT EYES The People's Key Saddle Creek
24 FEIST Metals Interscope
25 YOUTH LAGOON The Year Of Hibernation Fat Possum
26 JOHN MAUS We Must Become the Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves Domino
27 TORO Y MOI Underneath the Pine Carpark
28 BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse Drag City
29 FUCKED UP David Comes to Life Matador
30 LOW C'mon Sup Pop
31 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost True Panther
32 SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up Sub Pop
33 WILD FLAG Wild Flag Merge
34 SIMS Bad Time Zoo Rhymesayers
35 CUT COPY Zonoscope Modular
36 IRON & WINE Kiss Each Other Clean Sub Pop
37 BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Capital
38 THE WAR ON DRUGS Slave Ambient Secretly Canadian
39 TWIN SISTER In Heaven Domino
40 LITTLE DRAGON Ritual Union Peace Frog
41 PETER WOLF CRIER Garden Of Arms Jagjaguwar
42 PETER, BJORN & JOHN Gimme Some StarTime
43 BATTLES Gloss Drop Warp
44 CAROLINE SMITH AND THE GOODNIGHT SLEEPS Little Wind Self-Released
45 ARCTIC MONKEYS Suck It and See Domino
46 BUFFALO MOON Selva Surreal Moon Glyph
47 YELLOW OSTRICH The Mistress Barsuk
48 FUTURE ISLANDS On the Water Thrill Jockey
49 THE WEEKND House of Balloons Self-Released
50 PORTUGAL. THE MAN In the Mountain In the Cloud Atlantic
51 TAPES 'N TAPES Outside Ibid
52 DESTROYER Kaputt Merge
53 BRAIDS Native Speaker Kanine
54 TEENAGE MOODS Mood Ring YEYE
55 PINK MINK Pink Mink Self-Released
56 EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Temporary Residence
57 DEVOTCHKA 100 Lovers Anti-
58 DEERHOOF Deerhoof vs. Evil Polyvinyl
59 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Belong Slumberland
60 CRIMES Good Hope Self-Released
61 THE ANTLERS Burst Apart Frenchkiss
62 ASTRONAUTALIS This Is Our Science Fake Four Inc.
63 THE RAVEONETTES Raven In the Dark Vice
64 HANDSOME FURS Sound Kapital Sub Pop
65 FOOD PYRAMID III Moon Glyph
66 AUSTRA Beat and the Pulse Domino
67 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Sleep Talk 1-2-3-4-Go!
68 WU LYF Go Tell Fire To the Mountain L Y F
69 ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Tao Of the Dead Richter Scale/Superball
70 THURSTON MOORE Demolished Thoughts Matador
71 HUNX AND HIS PUNX Too Young To Be In Love Hardly Art
72 BRUTE HEART Lonely Hunter Soft Abuse
73 DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. It's A Corporate World Warner Bros.
74 THE DRUMS Portamento Frenchkiss
75 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS All Eternals Deck Merge
76 CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion Slumberland/Fortuna Pop!
77 ELITE GYMNASTICS Ruin I & II Acephale