Under the Radar: Top 80 Albums of 2011
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- The Horrors — Skying
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Yuck — Yuck
- Washed Out — Within and Without
- Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- I Break Horses — Hearts
- Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
- SBTRKT — SBTRKT
- Death Cab for Cutie — Codes and Keys
- Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!
- Youth Lagoon — The Year of Hibernation
- Cat’s Eyes — Cat’s Eyes
- Toro y Moi — Underneath the Pine
- Beirut — The Rip Tide
- John Maus — We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- Slow Club — Paradise
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- Wild Beasts — Smother
- Cut Copy — Zonoscope
- Real Estate — Days
- TV on the Radio — Nine Types of Light
- Hooray for Earth — True Loves
- Atlas Sound — Parallax
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- James Blake — James Blake
- Telekinesis — 12 Desperate Straight Lines
- Metronomy — The English Riviera
- Summer Camp — Welcome to Condale
- Friendly Fires — Pala
- Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
- Dum Dum Girls — Only in Dreams
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Smith Westerns — Dye It Blonde
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart — Belong
- S.C.U.M — Again Into Eyes
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- The Stepkids — The Stepkids
- WU LYF — Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
- British Sea Power — Valhalla Dancehall
- R.E.M. — Collapse Into Now
- Neon Indian — Era Extraña
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Iron & Wine — Kiss Each Other Clean
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Iceage — New Brigade
- Okkervil River — I Am Very Far
- Gruff Rhys — Hotel Shampoo
- Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know
- Memory Tapes — Player Piano
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- Panda Bear — Tomboy
- The Rosebuds — Loud Planes Fly Low
- The Decemberists — The King is Dead
- Battles — Gloss Drop
- The Dodos — No Color
- Big Black Delta — BBDLP1
- Low — C’mon
- Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place
- Eleanor Friedberger — Last Summer
- Lanterns on the Lake — Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Still Corners — Creatures of an Hour
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- Future Islands — On the Water
- The Dears — Degeneration Street
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy — Wolfroy Goes to Town
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Mirror Traffic
- Acid House Kings — Music Sounds Better with You
- Cloud Control — Bliss Release
- Apparat — The Devil’s Walk