Prefix Magazine: Top Albums of 2011
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- Danny Brown — XXX
- Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
- Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Real Estate — Days
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Drake — Take Care
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
- James Blake — James Blake
- Panda Bear — Tomboy
- Das Racist — Relax
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons & Thursday
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Yuck — Yuck
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- Big K.R.I.T. — Return of 4Eva
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- SBTRKT — SBTRKT
- Josh T Pearson — Last of the Country Gentlemen
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- Ghostpoet — Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
- Austra — Feel It Break
- Cass McCombs — WIT’S END
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- Atlas Sound — Parallax
- Youth Lagoon — The Year of Hibernation
- Dirty Beaches — Badlands
- Cloud Nothings — Cloud Nothings
- Washed Out — Within and Without
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Grails — Deep Politics
- Matana Roberts — COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
- Peaking Lights — 936
- Clams Casino — Instrumental Mixtape
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Replica
- Young Widows — In and Out of Youth and Lightness
- Beyoncé — 4
- Mogwai — Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
- Vetiver — The Errant Charm