Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 80 Albums of 2011

1. St. Vincent
   Strange Mercy
2. M83
   Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
3. Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
4. Fleet Foxes
   Helplessness Blues
5. The Horrors
   Skying
6. EMA
   Past Life Martyred Saints
7. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
8. Yuck
   Yuck
9. Washed Out
   Within and Without
10. Anna Calvi
    Anna Calvi
11. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
12. I Break Horses
    Hearts
13. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
14. SBTRKT
    SBTRKT
15. Death Cab for Cutie
    Codes and Keys
16. Elbow
    Build a Rocket Boys!
17. Youth Lagoon
    The Year of Hibernation
18. Cat’s Eyes
    Cat’s Eyes
19. Toro y Moi
    Underneath the Pine
20. Beirut
    The Rip Tide
21. John Maus
    We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
22. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
23. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
24. Destroyer
    Kaputt
25. Slow Club
    Paradise
26. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
27. Wild Beasts
    Smother
28. Cut Copy
    Zonoscope
29. Real Estate
    Days
30. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
31. Hooray for Earth
    True Loves
32. Atlas Sound
    Parallax
33. Gang Gang Dance
    Eye Contact
34. James Blake
    James Blake
35. Telekinesis
    12 Desperate Straight Lines
36. Metronomy
    The English Riviera
37. Summer Camp
    Welcome to Condale
38. Friendly Fires
    Pala
39. Fucked Up
    David Comes to Life
40. Dum Dum Girls
    Only in Dreams
41. Wilco
    The Whole Love
42. Smith Westerns
    Dye It Blonde
43. Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    Belong
44. S.C.U.M
    Again Into Eyes
45. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
46. The Stepkids
    The Stepkids
47. WU LYF
    Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
48. British Sea Power
    Valhalla Dancehall
49. R.E.M.
    Collapse Into Now
50. Neon Indian
    Era Extraña
51. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
52. Iron & Wine
    Kiss Each Other Clean
53. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
54. Iceage
    New Brigade
55. Okkervil River
    I Am Very Far
56. Gruff Rhys
    Hotel Shampoo
57. Laura Marling
    A Creature I Don’t Know
58. Memory Tapes
    Player Piano
59. The Weeknd
    House of Balloons
60. Panda Bear
    Tomboy
61. The Rosebuds
    Loud Planes Fly Low
62. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
63. Battles
    Gloss Drop
64. The Dodos
    No Color
65. Big Black Delta
    BBDLP1
66. Low
    C’mon
67. Julianna Barwick
    The Magic Place
68. Eleanor Friedberger
    Last Summer
69. Lanterns on the Lake
    Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
70. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
71. Still Corners
    Creatures of an Hour
72. The Antlers
    Burst Apart
73. Future Islands
    On the Water
74. The Dears
    Degeneration Street
75. Bonnie “Prince” Billy
    Wolfroy Goes to Town
76. Bill Callahan
    Apocalypse
77. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
78. Acid House Kings
    Music Sounds Better with You
79. Cloud Control
    Bliss Release
80. Apparat
    The Devil’s Walk