Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: 100 Best Albums of 2011

[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]

1. The Black Keys — El Camino
2. Metronomy — The English Riviera
3. WU LYF — Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
4. François & the Atlas Mountains — E Volo Love
5. Jonathan Wilson — Gentle Spirit
6. Daniel Darc — La Taille de mon âme
7. Connan Mockasin — Forever Dolphin Love
8. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
9. The Shoes — Crack My Bones
10. Tyler, The Creator — Goblin
11. Gruff Rhys — Hotel Shampoo
12. Cults — Cults
13. Baxter Dury — Happy Soup
14. Other Lives — Tamer Animals
15. James Blake — James Blake
16. Cat’s Eyes — Cat’s Eyes
17. Tinariwen — Tassili
18. Dirty Beaches — Badlands
19. M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
20. SBTRKT — SBTRKT
21. Tom Waits — Bad as Me
22. Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band — Rubber Orchestra
23. Yelle — Safari Disco Club
24. Justice — Audio,Video,Disco
25. The Drums — Portamento
26. Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise
27. Feist — Metals
28. Timber Timbre — Creep On Creepin’ On
29. Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
30. The Rapture — In the Grace of Your Love
31. Beirut — The Rip Tide
32. Drake — Take Care
33. Miles Kane — Colour of the Trap
34. The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
35. Salem — King Night
36. Dum Dum Girls — Only in Dreams
37. The Go! Team — Rolling Blackouts
38. The Horrors — Skying
39. The Do — Both Ways Open Jaws
40. Zola Jesus — Conatus
41. Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi
42. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
43. Orelsan — Le Chant des Sirènes
44. Hanni El Khatib — Will the Guns Come Out
45. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
46. EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
47. Theophilus London — Timez Are Weird These Days
48. Mansfield.TYA — Nyx
49. Miossec — Chanson Ordinaires
50. Arctic Monkeys — Suck It and See
51. Yuck — Yuck
52. David Lynch — Crazy Clown Time
53. Jay-Jay Johanson — Spellbound
54. Austra — Feel It Break
55. Discodeine — Discodeine
56. Hollie Cook — Hollie Cook
57. Piers Faccini — My Wilderness
58. Smith Westerns — Dye It Blonde
59. Sebastian — Total
60. Tune-Yards — Whokill
61. Housse de Racket — Alesia
62. Blood Orange — Coastal Grooves
63. Le Prince Miiaou — Fill the Blank with Your Own Emptiness
64. Brazzaville — Jetlag Poetry
65. Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
66. Yuksek — Living on the Edge of Time
67. The Vaccines — What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
68. Keren Ann — 101
69. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx — We’re New Here
70. Black Lips — Arabia Mountain
71. Zomby — Dedication
72. Michel Cloup — Notre Silence
73. Friendly Fires — Pala
74. John Maus — We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
75. Mehdi Zannad — Fugue
76. Emmanuelle Parrenin — Maison Cube
77. The Antlers — Burst Apart
78. PLANNINGTOROCK — W
79. Weekend — Sports
80. Smith & Burrows — Funny Looking Angels
81. Jeffrey Lewis — A Turn in the Dream-Songs
82. Kouyaté-Neerman — Skyscrapers & Deities
83. Apparat — The Devil’s Walk
84. The Middle East — I Want That You Are Always Happy
85. Battles — Gloss Drop
86. Lil Wayne — Tha Carter IV
87. Jono McCleery — There Is
88. Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
89. Alex Beaupain — Pourquoi battait mon coeur
90. Puro Instinct — Headbangers in Ecstasy
91. Cliff Martinez & various artists — Drive Original Soundtrack
92. Kills — Blood Pressures
93. The Kooks — Junk of the Heart
94. TV on the Radio — Nine Types of Light
95. Class Actress — Rapprocher
96. Saul Williams — Volcanic Sunlight
97. Cascadeur — The Human Octopus
98. Birdy Nam Nam — Defiant Order
99. Foster the People — Torches
100. Dengue Fever — Cannibal Courtship