Year-End Lists

PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2011

1. Fleet Foxes
   Helplessness Blues
2. Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
3. Fucked Up
   David Comes to Life
4. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
5. M83
   Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
6. The Weeknd
   House of Balloons
7. St. Vincent
   Strange Mercy
8. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
9. Gillian Welch
   The Harrow & The Harvest
10. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
11. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
12. Adele
    21
13. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
14. James Blake
    James Blake
15. Yuck
    Yuck
16. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
17. Raphael Saadiq
    Stone Rollin’
18. Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band
    American Legacies
19. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
20. Elbow
    Build a Rocket Boys!
21. The Antlers
    Burst Apart
22. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
23. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
24. Destroyer
    Kaputt
25. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
26. Peter Bjorn and John
    Gimme Some
27. Wilco
    The Whole Love
28. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
29. Ryan Adams
    Ashes & Fire
30. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
31. The Mountain Goats
    All Eternals Deck
32. Washed Out
    Within and Without
33. Paul Simon
    So Beautiful or So What
34. Big K.R.I.T.
    Return of 4Eva
35. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
36. Panda Bear
    Tomboy
37. Cults
    Cults
38. DJ Quik
    The Book of David
39. Okkervil River
    I Am Very Far
40. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
41. Foo Fighters
    Wasting Light
42. The Horrors
    Skying
43. Ambrose Akinmusire
    When the Heart Emerges Glistening
44. Eleanor Friedberger
    Last Summer
45. Charles Bradley
    No Time for Dreaming
46. Hammers of Misfortune
    17th Street
47. Drive-By Truckers
    Go-Go Boots
48. Tim Hecker
    Ravedeath, 1972
49. Watt Sun
    The Inside Room
50. Wye Oak
    Civilian
51. Smith Westerns
    Dye It Blonde
52. Black Lips
    Arabia Mountain
53. Colin Stetson
    New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
54. My Morning Jacket
    Circuital
55. They Might Be Giants
    Join Us
56. Jay-Z and Kanye West
    Watch the Throne
57. Battles
    Gloss Drop
58. Mogwai
    Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
59. Bright Eyes
    The People’s Key
60. Feist
    Metals
61. Mastodon
    The Hunter
62. Austra
    Feel It Break
63. Joy Formidable
    The Big Roar
64. Dawes
    Nothing is Wrong
65. Mayer Hawthorne
    How Do You Do?
66. Atlas Sound
    Parallax
67. The Airborne Toxic Event
    All at Once
68. Slow Club
    Paradise
69. Lucinda Williams
    Blessed
70. The Field
    Looping State of Mind
71. Gang Gang Dance
    Eye Contact
72. The Vaccines
    What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
73. Zola Jesus
    Conatus
74. Amon Tobin
    ISAM
75. My Brightest Diamond
    All Things Will Unwind