Year-End Lists

Rise: Records of the Year 2011 [main list]

1. The War on Drugs
   Slave Ambient
2. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
3. Walls
   Coracle
4. Jonathan Wilson
   Gentle Spirit
5. Josh T Pearson
   Last of the Country Gentlemen
6. Kurt Vile
   Smoke Ring for My Halo
7. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
8. The Antlers
   Burst Apart
9. Little Dragon
   Ritual Union
10. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
11. Metronomy
    The English Riviera
12. Balam Acab
    Wander / Wonder
13. Wooden Shjips
    West
14. Braids
    Native Speaker
15. Nicolas Jaar
    Space is Only Noise
16. Veronica Falls
    Veronica Falls
17. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
18. Real Estate
    Days
19. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
20. Wye Oak
    Civilian
21. White Denim
    D
22. Ghostpoet
    Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
23. Fair Ohs
    Everything Is Dancing
24. Ryan Adams
    Ashes & Fire
25. Other Lives
    Tamer Animals
26. The Field
    Looping State of Mind
27. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
28. Wilco
    The Whole Love
29. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
30. Lanterns on the Lake
    Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
31. Anna Calvi
    Anna Calvi
32. Battles
    Gloss Drop
33. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
34. Hyetal
    Broadcast
35. Cults
    Cults
36. Cat’s Eyes
    Cat’s Eyes
37. Dutch Uncles
    Cadenza
38. Blood Orange
    Coastal Grooves
39. Deerhoof
    Deerhoof vs. Evil
40. Little Roy
    Battle For Seattle
41. Mastodon
    The Hunter
42. PLANNINGTOROCK
    W
43. Zun Zun Egui
    Katang
44. Wild Beasts
    Smother
45. Bill Callahan
    Apocalypse
46. Gang Gang Dance
    Eye Contact
47. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
    Diamond Mine
48. James Blake
    James Blake
49. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
50. Summer Camp
    Welcome to Condale