Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011, alphabetical

• Adele
  21
• Alexandre Tharaud
  Scarlatti: Sonatas
• The Antlers
  Burst Apart
• Ashton Shepherd
  Where Country Grows
• Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
  Chamber Music
• Beirut
  The Rip Tide
• Beyoncé
  4
• Bombino
  Agadez
• Bon Iver
  Bon Iver
• The Book Of Mormon
  Cast Recording
• Bright Eyes
  The People’s Key
• Brooklyn Rider
  Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
• Captain Black Big Band
  Captain Black Big Band
• The Civil Wars
  Barton Hollow
• Colin Stetson
  New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
• Cormorant
  Dwellings
• Davila 666
  Tan Bajo
• Demdike Stare
  Tryptych
• Donnacha Dennehy
  Gra Agus Bas
• Ebene Quartet
  Fiction
• Eric Church
  Chief
• Frank Ocean
  Nostalgia, Ultra
• Fucked Up
  David Comes to Life
• Girl In A Coma
  Exits And All The Rest
• Glenn Jones
  The Wanting
• Gretchen Parlato
  The Lost And Found
• James Blake
  James Blake
• Joseph Calleja
  The Maltese Tenor (Decca)
• Julianna Barwick
  The Magic Place
• June Tabor
  Ashore
• Jay-Z and Kanye West
  Watch the Throne
• Kendrick Lamar
  Section.80
• King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
  Diamond Mine
• La Vida Boheme
  Nuestra
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
  Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
• Los Rakas
  Chancletas Y Camiseta Bordada
• Miguel Zenón
  Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
• PJ Harvey
  Let England Shake
• Radiohead
  The King of Limbs
• The Roots
  Undun
• Shabazz Palaces
  Black Up
• Sonny Rollins
  Road Shows, Vol. 2
• St. Vincent
  Strange Mercy
• STS
  The Illustrious
• Tim Hecker
  Ravedeath, 1972
• Tom Waits
  Bad as Me
• Tommy Guerrero
  Lifeboats & Follies
• Tune-Yards
  Whokill
• Wilco
  The Whole Love
• Wye Oak
  Civilian