Q Magazine: Top 50 Albums of 2011
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012]
- Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Adele — 21
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto
- Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
- Arctic Monkeys — Suck It and See
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- WU LYF — Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
- Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!
- The Horrors — Skying
- Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know
- Bombay Bicycle Club — A Different Kind of Fix
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- Baxter Dury — Happy Soup
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Metronomy — The English Riviera
- Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi
- Cass McCombs — WIT’S END
- The Weeknd — Thursday
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- White Lies — Ritual
- Björk — Biophilia
- Real Estate — Days
- Wild Beasts — Smother
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Ed Sheeran — +
- Gillian Welch — The Harrow & The Harvest
- Kasabian — Velociraptor!
- Lady Gaga — Born This Way
- Beastie Boys — Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Gruff Rhys — Hotel Shampoo
- Cass McCombs — Humor Risk
- Katy B — On A Mission
- Washed Out — Within and Without
- Feist — Metals
- James Blake — James Blake
- Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi — Rome
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Josh T Pearson — Last of the Country Gentlemen
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins — Diamond Mine
- Death In Vegas — Trans-Love Energies
- Miles Kane — Colour of the Trap
- SBTRKT — SBTRKT
- Mastodon — The Hunter
- Noah & The Whale — Last Night on Earth
- Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
- Justice — Audio,Video,Disco