Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2011 Albums

Entertainment Weekly: 20 Best Albums of 2011

01 January 2012

Entertainment Weekly: 20 Best Albums of 2011

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014]

  1. Adele — 21
  2. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
  3. Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
  4. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
  5. Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
  6. Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
  7. Demi Lovato — Unbroken
  8. My Morning Jacket — Circuital
  9. Pistol Annies — Hell on Heels
  10. Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
  11. The Black Keys — El Camino
  12. TV on the Radio — Nine Types of Light
  13. Tune-Yards — Whokill
  14. Brad Paisley — This Is Country Music
  15. Alexander — Alexander
  16. Big K.R.I.T. — Return of 4Eva
  17. Mastodon — The Hunter
  18. Rihanna — Talk That Talk
  19. Wilco — The Whole Love
  20. Raphael Saadiq — Stone Rollin’

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