Exclaim: 30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- Feist — Metals
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- Braids — Native Speaker
- Austra — Feel It Break
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Timber Timbre — Creep On Creepin’ On
- Sandro Perri — Impossible Spaces
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- Shotgun Jimmie — Transistor Sister
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart — Belong
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- Yuck — Yuck
- Rich Aucoin — We’re All Dying to Live
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Battles — Gloss Drop
- Ty Segall — Goodbye Bread
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Adele — 21
- Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
- Cults — Cults
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- Dog Day — Deformer
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Rural Alberta Advantage — Departing