Year-End Lists

Piccadilly Records: Albums of 2011

[see also 2012]

1. Peaking Lights — 936
2. Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
3. The Phoenix Foundation — Buffalo
4. Maria Minerva — Cabaret Cixous
5. Metronomy — The English Riviera
6. Wooden Shjips — West
7. Other Lives — Tamer Animals
8. Kills — Blood Pressures
9. Black Lips — Arabia Mountain
10. Widowspeak — Widowspeak
11. Shimmering Stars — Violent Hearts
12. Dum Dum Girls — Only in Dreams
13. Pure X — Pleasure
14. Jonathan Wilson — Gentle Spirit
15. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
16. Harvey Presents Locussolus — Locussolus
17. Vetiver — The Errant Charm
18. J Mascis — Several Shades of Why
19. Real Estate — Days
20. Washed Out — Within and Without
21. Sun Araw — Ancient Romans
22. Soft Metals — Soft Metals
23. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis — Smoking In Heaven
24. Crystal Stilts — In Love With Oblivion
25. Beirut — The Rip Tide
26. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
27. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx — We’re New Here
28. Dirty Beaches — Badlands
29. Moon Duo — Mazes
30. SBTRKT — SBTRKT
31. Lanterns on the Lake — Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
32. Baxter Dury — Happy Soup
33. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins — Diamond Mine
34. Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know
35. Thee Oh Sees — Castlemania
36. Holy Other — With U
37. James Blake — James Blake
38. Still Corners — Creatures of an Hour
39. Hatchback — Zeus and Apollo
40. John Stammers — John Stammers
41. A Winged Victory For The Sullen — A Winged Victory for the Sullen
42. Arthur’s Landing — Arthur’s Landing
43. Cashier No. 9 — To the Death of Fun
44. Thurston Moore — Demolished Thoughts
45. Tom Waits — Bad as Me
46. Strange Boys — Live Music
47. Dutch Uncles — Cadenza
48. 6th Borough Project — One Night in the Borough
49. The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
50. Walls — Coracle
51. Björk — Biophilia
52. Almunia — New Moon
53. Thundercat — The Golden Age of Apocalypse
54. Gillian Welch — The Harrow & The Harvest
55. Destroyer — Kaputt
56. Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise
57. Craft Spells — Idle Labor
58. James Ferraro — On Air
59. Eternal Tapestry — Beyond the 4th Door
60. Beastie Boys — Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
61. The Field — Looping State of Mind
62. Sarabeth Tucek — Get Well Soon
63. Tropics — Parodia Flare
64. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Mirror Traffic
65. Hercules and Love Affair — Blue Songs
66. Boxcutter — The Dissolve
67. Gruff Rhys — Hotel Shampoo
68. Crazy P — When We On
69. Cults — Cults
70. John Maus — We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
71. White Hills — H-p1
72. Seahawks — Vision Quest One: Spaceships Over Topanga Canyon
73. Woods — Sun and Shade
74. KWJAZ — KWJAZ
75. Bibio — Mind Bokeh
76. I Break Horses — Hearts
77. Big Troubles — Romantic Comedy
78. Carlton Melton — Country Ways
79. John Tejada — Parabolas
80. Azari & III — Azari & III
81. Sepalcure — Sepalcure
82. Water Borders — Harbored Mantras
83. Ganglians — Still Living
84. Panda Bear — Tomboy
85. Little Dragon — Ritual Union
86. Ryan Adams — Ashes & Fire
87. Balam Acab — Wander / Wonder
88. LA Vampires Goes Ital — Streetwise
89. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
90. Tune-Yards — Whokill
91. WU LYF — Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
92. Radiohead — The King of Limbs
93. Wild Beasts — Smother
94. The Stepkids — The Stepkids
95. Ty Segall — Goodbye Bread
96. Toro y Moi — Freaking Out
97. Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi — Rome
98. Zola Jesus — Conatus
99. Tinariwen — Tassili
100. Josh T Pearson — Last of the Country Gentlemen