Year-End Lists

Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2011

1. Nerves Junior
   As Bright As Your Night Light
2. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
3. Fleet Foxes
   Helplessness Blues
4. Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
5. Shabazz Palaces
   Black Up
6. St. Vincent
   Strange Mercy
7. Panda Bear
   Tomboy
8. James Blake
   James Blake
9. The Antlers
   Burst Apart
10. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
11. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
12. Cults
    Cults
13. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
14. Lady Gaga
    Born This Way
15. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
16. PJ Harvey
    Let England Shake
17. Jay-Z and Kanye West
    Watch the Throne
18. Youth Lagoon
    The Year of Hibernation
19. Drake
    Take Care
20. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
21. Destroyer
    Kaputt
22. Korallreven
    An Album By Korallreven
23. Zola Jesus
    Conatus
24. Atlas Sound
    Parallax
25. Black Lips
    Arabia Mountain
26. Wilco
    The Whole Love
27. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
    We’re New Here
28. Active Child
    You Are All I See
29. Mr Twin Sister
    In Heaven
30. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
31. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
32. The Roots
    Undun
33. Feist
    Metals
34. Beyoncé
    4
35. Iceage
    New Brigade
36. Nicolas Jaar
    Space is Only Noise
37. The Horrors
    Skying
38. Austra
    Feel It Break
39. Smith Westerns
    Dye It Blonde
40. Wild Beasts
    Smother