Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2011
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Replica
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Drake — Take Care
- Real Estate — Days
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- James Blake — James Blake
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Clams Casino — Instrumentals
- Atlas Sound — Parallax
- Danny Brown — XXX
- Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise
- Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
- The Caretaker — An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- The Field — Looping State of Mind
- Beyoncé — 4
- Cut Copy — Zonoscope
- DJ Quik — The Book of David
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Ty Segall — Goodbye Bread
- Panda Bear — Tomboy
- Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
- Katy B — On A Mission
- Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
- Kate Bush — 50 Words for Snow
- Iceage — New Brigade
- Sandro Perri — Impossible Spaces
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- AraabMuzik — Electronic Dream
- Liturgy — Aesthethica
- SBTRKT — SBTRKT
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
- Kendrick Lamar — Section.80
- Cults — Cults
- Sepalcure — Sepalcure
- Toro y Moi — Underneath the Pine
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- Youth Lagoon — The Year of Hibernation