Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: 100 Best Albums of 2011

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