Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Atlas Sound — Parallax
- The Wind — Harum Scarum
- Real Estate — Days
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Smith Westerns — Dye It Blonde
- Toro y Moi — Underneath the Pine
- The Field — Looping State of Mind
- Junior Boys — It’s All True
- Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place
- Wolves in the Throne Room — Celestial Lineage
- Wild Beasts — Smother
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- Kate Bush — 50 Words for Snow
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- James Blake — James Blake
- Washed Out — Within and Without
- Cass McCombs — WIT’S END
- NewVillager — New Villager
- The Black Keys — El Camino
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy — Wolfroy Goes to Town
- Grimes & d’Eon — Darkbloom
- Timber Timbre — Creep On Creepin’ On
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Russian Circles — Empros
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
- Cass McCombs — Humor Risk
- Panda Bear — Tomboy
- Mr. Gnome — Madness in Miniature
- Marissa Nadler — Marissa Nadler
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Cut Copy — Zonoscope
- Drake — Take Care
- The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- Neon Indian — Era Extraña
- Man Man — Life Fantastic
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- John Maus — We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- Matthew Herbert — One Pig
- Quichenight — Quichenight I
- Moonface — Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped
- Dirty Beaches — Badlands