Year-End Lists

Piccadilly Records: Albums of 2011

[see also 2012]

1. Peaking Lights
   936
2. Kurt Vile
   Smoke Ring for My Halo
3. The Phoenix Foundation
   Buffalo
4. Maria Minerva
   Cabaret Cixous
5. Metronomy
   The English Riviera
6. Wooden Shjips
   West
7. Other Lives
   Tamer Animals
8. Kills
   Blood Pressures
9. Black Lips
   Arabia Mountain
10. Widowspeak
    Widowspeak
11. Shimmering Stars
    Violent Hearts
12. Dum Dum Girls
    Only in Dreams
13. Pure X
    Pleasure
14. Jonathan Wilson
    Gentle Spirit
15. PJ Harvey
    Let England Shake
16. Harvey Presents Locussolus
    Locussolus
17. Vetiver
    The Errant Charm
18. J Mascis
    Several Shades of Why
19. Real Estate
    Days
20. Washed Out
    Within and Without
21. Sun Araw
    Ancient Romans
22. Soft Metals
    Soft Metals
23. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
    Smoking In Heaven
24. Crystal Stilts
    In Love With Oblivion
25. Beirut
    The Rip Tide
26. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
27. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
    We’re New Here
28. Dirty Beaches
    Badlands
29. Moon Duo
    Mazes
30. SBTRKT
    SBTRKT
31. Lanterns on the Lake
    Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
32. Baxter Dury
    Happy Soup
33. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
    Diamond Mine
34. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
35. Thee Oh Sees
    Castlemania
36. Holy Other
    With U
37. James Blake
    James Blake
38. Still Corners
    Creatures of an Hour
39. Hatchback
    Zeus and Apollo
40. John Stammers
    John Stammers
41. A Winged Victory For The Sullen
    A Winged Victory for the Sullen
42. Arthur’s Landing
    Arthur’s Landing
43. Cashier No. 9
    To the Death of Fun
44. Thurston Moore
    Demolished Thoughts
45. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
46. Strange Boys
    Live Music
47. Dutch Uncles
    Cadenza
48. 6th Borough Project
    One Night in the Borough
49. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
50. Walls
    Coracle
51. Björk
    Biophilia
52. Almunia
    New Moon
53. Thundercat
    The Golden Age of Apocalypse
54. Gillian Welch
    The Harrow & The Harvest
55. Destroyer
    Kaputt
56. Nicolas Jaar
    Space is Only Noise
57. Craft Spells
    Idle Labor
58. James Ferraro
    On Air
59. Eternal Tapestry
    Beyond the 4th Door
60. Beastie Boys
    Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
61. The Field
    Looping State of Mind
62. Sarabeth Tucek
    Get Well Soon
63. Tropics
    Parodia Flare
64. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
65. Hercules and Love Affair
    Blue Songs
66. Boxcutter
    The Dissolve
67. Gruff Rhys
    Hotel Shampoo
68. Crazy P
    When We On
69. Cults
    Cults
70. John Maus
    We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
71. White Hills
    H-p1
72. Seahawks
    Vision Quest One: Spaceships Over Topanga Canyon
73. Woods
    Sun and Shade
74. KWJAZ
    KWJAZ
75. Bibio
    Mind Bokeh
76. I Break Horses
    Hearts
77. Big Troubles
    Romantic Comedy
78. Carlton Melton
    Country Ways
79. John Tejada
    Parabolas
80. Azari & III
    Azari & III
81. Sepalcure
    Sepalcure
82. Water Borders
    Harbored Mantras
83. Ganglians
    Still Living
84. Panda Bear
    Tomboy
85. Little Dragon
    Ritual Union
86. Ryan Adams
    Ashes & Fire
87. Balam Acab
    Wander / Wonder
88. LA Vampires Goes Ital
    Streetwise
89. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
90. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
91. WU LYF
    Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
92. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
93. Wild Beasts
    Smother
94. The Stepkids
    The Stepkids
95. Ty Segall
    Goodbye Bread
96. Toro y Moi
    Freaking Out
97. Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi
    Rome
98. Zola Jesus
    Conatus
99. Tinariwen
    Tassili
100. Josh T Pearson
     Last of the Country Gentlemen