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2011 Music

Exclaim: 30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011

09 December 2011

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Exclaim: 30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011

[see also 2023]

  1. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
  2. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
  3. Metals
    Feist
  4. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
  5. Kaputt
    Destroyer
  6. Native Speaker
    Braids
  7. Feel It Break
    Austra
  8. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
  9. Creep On Creepin’ On
    Timber Timbre
  10. Impossible Spaces
    Sandro Perri
  11. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
  12. Transistor Sister
    Shotgun Jimmie
  13. Belong
    Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  14. The Rip Tide
    Beirut
  15. Father, Son, Holy Ghost
    Girls
  16. Apocalypse
    Bill Callahan
  17. Yuck
    Yuck
  18. We’re All Dying to Live
    Rich Aucoin
  19. Bad as Me
    Tom Waits
  20. Gloss Drop
    Battles
  21. Goodbye Bread
    Ty Segall
  22. Wounded Rhymes
    Lykke Li
  23. 21
    Adele
  24. Sound Kapital
    Handsome Furs
  25. Cults
    Cults
  26. Past Life Martyred Saints
    EMA
  27. Deformer
    Dog Day
  28. Smoke Ring for My Halo
    Kurt Vile
  29. The Whole Love
    Wilco
  30. Departing
    The Rural Alberta Advantage

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