Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2011
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- My Morning Jacket — Circuital
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Middle Brother — Middle Brother
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. — It’s A Corporate World
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Dawes — Nothing is Wrong
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- The Decemberists — The King is Dead
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- Iron & Wine — Kiss Each Other Clean
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Adele — 21
- Deer Tick — Divine Providence
- Yuck — Yuck
- The Civil Wars — Barton Hollow
- Wye Oak — Civilian
- Cults — Cults
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- Charles Bradley — No Time for Dreaming
- The Black Keys — El Camino
- The Belle Brigade — The Belle Brigade
- TV on the Radio — Nine Types of Light
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- The Low Anthem — Smart Flesh
- Black Lips — Arabia Mountain
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Feist — Metals
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Telekinesis — 12 Desperate Straight Lines
- Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
- The Head and the Heart — The Head and the Heart
- Seryn — This Is Where We Are
- Childish Gambino — Camp
- Mister Heavenly — Out of Love
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- Over the Rhine — The Long Surrender
- Foster the People — Torches
- Portugal. The Man — In the Mountain in the Cloud
- James Blake — James Blake
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- Joy Formidable — The Big Roar
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Those Darlins — Screws Get Loose
- Holy Ghost! — Holy Ghost!
- Real Estate — Days
- Drake — Take Care
- Mates of State — Mountaintops
- Frank Turner — England Keep My Bones