Year-End Lists

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2011 Albums

Jon Pareles: Top 10 Albums of 2011

15 December 2011

Jon Pareles: Top 10 Albums of 2011, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017]

  1. Feist — Metals
  2. Paul Simon — So Beautiful or So What
  3. Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
  4. Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
  5. Tom Waits — Bad as Me
  6. Drake — Take Care
  7. Tune-Yards — Whokill
  8. Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
  9. Le Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo — Cotonou Club
  10. Liturgy — Aesthethica

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