Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2011 Albums

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01 December 2011

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[see also 2012]

  1. M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  2. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
  3. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
  4. Mayer Hawthorne — How Do You Do?
  5. The Weeknd — House of Balloons
  6. Adele — 21
  7. Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!
  8. Black Lips — Arabia Mountain
  9. Washed Out — Within and Without
  10. A$AP Rocky — LIVE.LOVE.A$AP

    Honorable Mentions (in order)

  1. James Blake — James Blake
  2. Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
  3. Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
  4. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
  5. Tom Waits — Bad as Me
  6. Little Dragon — Ritual Union
  7. Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
  8. Radiohead — The King of Limbs
  9. Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
  10. Justice — Audio,Video,Disco

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