Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2011 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

1. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
2. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
3. Jay-Z and Kanye West
   Watch the Throne
4. Wild Flag
   Wild Flag
5. Tom Waits
   Bad as Me
6. Adele
   21
7. Destroyer
   Kaputt
8. Drake
   Take Care
9. Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
10. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
11. Fucked Up
    David Comes to Life
12. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
13. The Weeknd
    House of Balloons
14. Paul Simon
    So Beautiful or So What
15. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
16. Frank Ocean
    Nostalgia, Ultra
17. The Roots
    Undun
18. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
19. M83
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
20. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
21. The Black Keys
    El Camino
22. Wilco
    The Whole Love
23. Pistol Annies
    Hell on Heels
24. Yuck
    Yuck
25. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
26. Beyoncé
    4
27. Gillian Welch
    The Harrow & The Harvest
28. Danny Brown
    XXX
29. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
30. Lady Gaga
    Born This Way
31. Bill Callahan
    Apocalypse
32. Real Estate
    Days
33. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
34. James Blake
    James Blake
35. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Replica
36. Tim Hecker
    Ravedeath, 1972
37. Kate Bush
    50 Words for Snow
38. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
39. Raphael Saadiq
    Stone Rollin’
40. Wye Oak
    Civilian
41. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
    Ashes & Fire
42. Colin Stetson
    New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
43. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
44. Kendrick Lamar
    Section.80
45. The Beach Boys
    The SMiLE Sessions
46. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
47. Mastodon
    The Hunter
48. Das Racist
    Relax
49. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
50. Charles Bradley
    No Time for Dreaming
51. Gang Gang Dance
    Eye Contact
52. Katy B
    On A Mission
53. Britney Spears
    Femme Fatale
54. Foo Fighters
    Wasting Light
55. Dum Dum Girls
    Only in Dreams
56. Iceage
    New Brigade
57. The Men
    Leave Home
58. Joy Formidable
    The Big Roar
59. Feist
    Metals
60. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
61. Clams Casino
    Instrumental Mixtape
61. Atlas Sound
    Parallax
63. Fountains of Wayne
    Sky Full of Holes
64. My Morning Jacket
    Circuital
65. The Mountain Goats
    All Eternals Deck
66. Nicolas Jaar
    Space is Only Noise
67. Big KRIT
    Return of 4Eva
68. The Antlers
    Burst Apart
69. Panda Bear
    Tomboy
70. Tinariwen
    Tassili
71. Kills
    Blood Pressures
72. Low
    C’mon
73. R.E.M.
    Collapse Into Now
74. Demdike Stare
    Tryptych
74. Nick Lowe
    The Old Magic
76. Hayes Carll
    KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)
77. Beastie Boys
    Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
78. Matana Roberts
    COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
79. Zola Jesus
    Conatus
80. The Horrors
    Skying
81. White Denim
    D
82. Washed Out
    Within and Without
83. Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    Belong
84. The Caretaker
    An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
85. Austra
    Feel It Break
86. Julianna Barwick
    The Magic Place
87. Miranda Lambert
    Four the Record
88. Liturgy
    Aesthethica
89. Elbow
    Build a Rocket Boys!
89. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
91. Cults
    Cults
92. DJ Quik
    The Book of David
93. A$AP Rocky
    LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
94. Lou Reed & Metallica
    Lulu
95. The Feelies
    Here Before
96. Grouper
    A I A
97. Eric Church
    Chief
98. Tyler, The Creator
    Goblin
99. Braids
    Native Speaker
100. Ty Segall
     Goodbye Bread