Year-End Lists

The Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2011

[see also 2012]

1. The Antlers
   Burst Apart
2. Metronomy
   The English Riviera
3. The Horrors
   Skying
4. Smith Westerns
   Dye It Blonde
5. Bombay Bicycle Club
   A Different Kind of Fix
6. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
7. Wild Beasts
   Smother
8. Girls
   Father, Son, Holy Ghost
9. The Vaccines
   What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
10. Battles
    Gloss Drop
11. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
12. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
13. Yuck
    Yuck
14. Friendly Fires
    Pala
15. Anna Calvi
    Anna Calvi
16. Washed Out
    Within and Without
17. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
18. James Blake
    James Blake
19. Veronica Falls
    Veronica Falls
20. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
21. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
22. Real Estate
    Days
23. Black Lips
    Arabia Mountain
24. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
25. White Denim
    D
26. Baxter Dury
    Happy Soup
27. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
28. WU LYF
    Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
29. Braids
    Native Speaker
30. Gardens & Villa
    Gardens & Villa
31. Mazes
    A Thousand Heys
32. Dutch Uncles
    Cadenza
33. Noah & The Whale
    Last Night on Earth
34. Gruff Rhys
    Hotel Shampoo
35. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
36. Arctic Monkeys
    Suck It and See
37. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
38. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
39. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
40. SBTRKT
    SBTRKT
41. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
42. Coldplay
    Mylo Xyloto
43. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
44. Cerebral Ballzy
    Cerebral Ballzy
45. Elbow
    Build a Rocket Boys!
46. The Strokes
    Angles
47. Slow Club
    Paradise
48. British Sea Power
    Valhalla Dancehall
49. The Naked and Famous
    Passive Me, Aggressive You
50. Joy Formidable
    The Big Roar