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2011 Music

Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2011

16 December 2011

As Bright As Your Night Light - Nerves Junior

Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2011

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

  1. As Bright As Your Night Light
    Nerves Junior
  2. Whokill
    Tune-Yards
  3. Helplessness Blues
    Fleet Foxes
  4. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
  5. Black Up
    Shabazz Palaces
  6. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
  7. Tomboy
    Panda Bear
  8. James Blake
    James Blake
  9. Burst Apart
    The Antlers
  10. Father, Son, Holy Ghost
    Girls
  11. Ceremonials
    Florence + The Machine
  12. Cults
    Cults
  13. The King of Limbs
    Radiohead
  14. Born This Way
    Lady Gaga
  15. Nine Types of Light
    TV on the Radio
  16. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
  17. Watch the Throne
    Jay-Z and Kanye West
  18. The Year of Hibernation
    Youth Lagoon
  19. Take Care
    Drake
  20. Wounded Rhymes
    Lykke Li
  21. Kaputt
    Destroyer
  22. An Album By Korallreven
    Korallreven
  23. Conatus
    Zola Jesus
  24. Parallax
    Atlas Sound
  25. Arabia Mountain
    Black Lips
  26. The Whole Love
    Wilco
  27. We’re New Here
    Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
  28. You Are All I See
    Active Child
  29. In Heaven
    Mr Twin Sister
  30. Slave Ambient
    The War on Drugs
  31. Past Life Martyred Saints
    EMA
  32. Undun
    The Roots
  33. Metals
    Feist
  34. 4
    Beyoncé
  35. New Brigade
    Iceage
  36. Space is Only Noise
    Nicolas Jaar
  37. Skying
    The Horrors
  38. Feel It Break
    Austra
  39. Dye It Blonde
    Smith Westerns
  40. Smother
    Wild Beasts

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