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2011 Music

Hot Press: Top 30 Albums of 2011

10 January 2012

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

Hot Press: Top 30 Albums of 2011

  1. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
  2. Bad as Me
    Tom Waits
  3. Passenger
    Lisa Hannigan
  4. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
  5. Skying
    The Horrors
  6. To the Death of Fun
    Cashier No. 9
  7. Build a Rocket Boys!
    Elbow
  8. The King of Limbs
    Radiohead
  9. Smother
    Wild Beasts
  10. Biophilia
    Björk
  11. 50 Words for Snow
    Kate Bush
  12. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
  13. The Olympus Sound
    Pugwash
  14. Born This Way
    Lady Gaga
  15. The Whole Love
    Wilco
  16. James Blake
    James Blake
  17. Closer To You
    The Coronas
  18. Suck It and See
    Arctic Monkeys
  19. Ceremonials
    Florence + The Machine
  20. Metals
    Feist
  21. Watch the Throne
    Jay-Z and Kanye West
  22. Marcata
    The Minutes
  23. Wounded Rhymes
    Lykke Li
  24. Camp
    Childish Gambino
  25. Anna Calvi
    Anna Calvi
  26. Today I Realised I Could Walk Home Backwards
    We Cut Corners
  27. SBTRKT
    SBTRKT
  28. Fallen Empires
    Snow Patrol
  29. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
  30. An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
    The Waterboys

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