Sonic Magazine: Best Albums of 2011 [staff lists]
[see also 2012]
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Gillian Welch — The Harrow & The Harvest
- My Morning Jacket — Circuital
- Paul Simon — So Beautiful or So What
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- James Blake — James Blake
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
- Tinariwen — Tassili
- Feist — Metals
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
- A.A. Bondy — Believers
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Adele — 21
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Tyler, The Creator — Goblin
- Deportees — Islands & Shores
- Zomby — Dedication
- Ison & Fille — För evigt
- Holy Ghost! — Holy Ghost!
- Jonathan Johansson — Klagomuren