Year-End Lists
A browsable archive of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2020
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
2011 Music
Under the Radar: Top 80 Albums of 2011
18 December 2011
Under the Radar
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Top 80 Albums of 2011
[see also
2018
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2017
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2015
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Strange Mercy
St. Vincent
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
M83
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes
Skying
The Horrors
Past Life Martyred Saints
EMA
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
Yuck
Yuck
Within and Without
Washed Out
Anna Calvi
Anna Calvi
Slave Ambient
The War on Drugs
Hearts
I Break Horses
Ceremonials
Florence + The Machine
SBTRKT
SBTRKT
Codes and Keys
Death Cab for Cutie
Build a Rocket Boys!
Elbow
The Year of Hibernation
Youth Lagoon
Cat’s Eyes
Cat’s Eyes
Underneath the Pine
Toro y Moi
The Rip Tide
Beirut
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
John Maus
Whokill
Tune-Yards
Wild Flag
Wild Flag
Kaputt
Destroyer
Paradise
Slow Club
Smoke Ring for My Halo
Kurt Vile
Smother
Wild Beasts
Zonoscope
Cut Copy
Days
Real Estate
Nine Types of Light
TV on the Radio
True Loves
Hooray for Earth
Parallax
Atlas Sound
Eye Contact
Gang Gang Dance
James Blake
James Blake
12 Desperate Straight Lines
Telekinesis
The English Riviera
Metronomy
Welcome to Condale
Summer Camp
Pala
Friendly Fires
David Comes to Life
Fucked Up
Only in Dreams
Dum Dum Girls
The Whole Love
Wilco
Dye It Blonde
Smith Westerns
Belong
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Again Into Eyes
S.C.U.M
The King of Limbs
Radiohead
The Stepkids
The Stepkids
Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
WU LYF
Valhalla Dancehall
British Sea Power
Collapse Into Now
R.E.M.
Era Extraña
Neon Indian
Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Girls
Kiss Each Other Clean
Iron & Wine
Bad as Me
Tom Waits
New Brigade
Iceage
I Am Very Far
Okkervil River
Hotel Shampoo
Gruff Rhys
A Creature I Don’t Know
Laura Marling
Player Piano
Memory Tapes
House of Balloons
The Weeknd
Tomboy
Panda Bear
Loud Planes Fly Low
The Rosebuds
The King is Dead
The Decemberists
Gloss Drop
Battles
No Color
The Dodos
BBDLP1
Big Black Delta
C’mon
Low
The Magic Place
Julianna Barwick
Last Summer
Eleanor Friedberger
Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
Lanterns on the Lake
Wounded Rhymes
Lykke Li
Creatures of an Hour
Still Corners
Burst Apart
The Antlers
On the Water
Future Islands
Degeneration Street
The Dears
Wolfroy Goes to Town
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Apocalypse
Bill Callahan
Mirror Traffic
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Music Sounds Better with You
Acid House Kings
Bliss Release
Cloud Control
The Devil’s Walk
Apparat