Rise: Records of the Year 2011 [main list]
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Walls — Coracle
- Jonathan Wilson — Gentle Spirit
- Josh T Pearson — Last of the Country Gentlemen
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- Little Dragon — Ritual Union
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Metronomy — The English Riviera
- Balam Acab — Wander / Wonder
- Wooden Shjips — West
- Braids — Native Speaker
- Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise
- Veronica Falls — Veronica Falls
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Real Estate — Days
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- Wye Oak — Civilian
- White Denim — D
- Ghostpoet — Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
- Fair Ohs — Everything Is Dancing
- Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
- Other Lives — Tamer Animals
- The Field — Looping State of Mind
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Lanterns on the Lake — Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
- Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi
- Battles — Gloss Drop
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- Hyetal — Broadcast
- Cults — Cults
- Cat’s Eyes — Cat’s Eyes
- Dutch Uncles — Cadenza
- Blood Orange — Coastal Grooves
- Deerhoof — Deerhoof vs. Evil
- Little Roy — Battle For Seattle
- Mastodon — The Hunter
- PLANNINGTOROCK — W
- Zun Zun Egui — Katang
- Wild Beasts — Smother
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins — Diamond Mine
- James Blake — James Blake
- The Decemberists — The King is Dead
- Summer Camp — Welcome to Condale