NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011, alphabetical
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]
- Adele — 21
- Alexandre Tharaud — Scarlatti: Sonatas
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- Ashton Shepherd — Where Country Grows
- Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal — Chamber Music
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- Beyoncé — 4
- Bombino — Agadez
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- The Book Of Mormon — Cast Recording
- Bright Eyes — The People’s Key
- Brooklyn Rider — Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
- Captain Black Big Band — Captain Black Big Band
- The Civil Wars — Barton Hollow
- Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
- Cormorant — Dwellings
- Davila 666 — Tan Bajo
- Demdike Stare — Tryptych
- Donnacha Dennehy — Gra Agus Bas
- Ebene Quartet — Fiction
- Eric Church — Chief
- Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
- Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
- Girl In A Coma — Exits And All The Rest
- Glenn Jones — The Wanting
- Gretchen Parlato — The Lost And Found
- James Blake — James Blake
- Joseph Calleja — The Maltese Tenor (Decca)
- Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place
- June Tabor — Ashore
- Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
- Kendrick Lamar — Section.80
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins — Diamond Mine
- La Vida Boheme — Nuestra
- London Philharmonic Orchestra — Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
- Los Rakas — Chancletas Y Camiseta Bordada
- Miguel Zenón — Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- The Roots — Undun
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Sonny Rollins — Road Shows, Vol. 2
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- STS — The Illustrious
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Tommy Guerrero — Lifeboats & Follies
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Wye Oak — Civilian