Year-End Lists

DIY Magazine: Albums of 2011

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1. Ghostpoet
   Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
2. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
3. Metronomy
   The English Riviera
4. Wild Beasts
   Smother
5. The Antlers
   Burst Apart
6. Girls
   Father, Son, Holy Ghost
7. St. Vincent
   Strange Mercy
8. Gang Gang Dance
   Eye Contact
9. The Weeknd
   House of Balloons
10. Adele
    21
11. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
12. The Horrors
    Skying
13. Arctic Monkeys
    Suck It and See
14. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
15. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
    We’re Here Now
16. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
17. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
18. Los Campesinos
    Hello Sadness
19. Slow Club
    Paradise
20. Yuck
    Yuck
21. Summer Camp
    Welcome to Condale
22. Eleanor Friedberger
    Last Summer
23. Three Trapped Tigers
    Route One Or Die
24. Cymbals Eat Guitars
    Lenses Alien
25. Destroyer
    Kaputt
26. James Blake
    James Blake
27. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
28. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
29. Gruff Rhys
    Hotel Shampoo
30. Banjo or Freakout
    Banjo or Freakout
31. Male Bonding
    Endless Now
32. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
33. patten
    Glaqco Xaacsso
34. Bright Eyes
    The People’s Key
35. Tyler, The Creator
    Goblin
36. Real Estate
    Days
37. Björk
    Biophilia
38. Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    Belong
39. Battles
    Gloss Drop
40. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
41. Washed Out
    Within and Without
42. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
43. British Sea Power
    Valhalla Dancehall
44. Veronica Falls
    Veronica Falls
45. Iceage
    New Brigade
46. Korallreven
    An Album By Korallreven
47. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
48. Other Lives
    Tamer Animals
49. Peggy Sue
    Acrobats
50. Ben Howard
    Every Kingdom