Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2011 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- Tune-Yards — Whokill
- PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
- Jay-Z and Kanye West — Watch the Throne
- Wild Flag — Wild Flag
- Tom Waits — Bad as Me
- Adele — 21
- Destroyer — Kaputt
- Drake — Take Care
- Bon Iver — Bon Iver
- Shabazz Palaces — Black Up
- Fucked Up — David Comes to Life
- St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
- The Weeknd — House of Balloons
- Paul Simon — So Beautiful or So What
- EMA — Past Life Martyred Saints
- Frank Ocean — Nostalgia, Ultra
- The Roots — Undun
- Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
- M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- Kurt Vile — Smoke Ring for My Halo
- The Black Keys — El Camino
- Wilco — The Whole Love
- Pistol Annies — Hell on Heels
- Yuck — Yuck
- Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Beyoncé — 4
- Gillian Welch — The Harrow & The Harvest
- Danny Brown — XXX
- The Decemberists — The King is Dead
- Lady Gaga — Born This Way
- Bill Callahan — Apocalypse
- Real Estate — Days
- Radiohead — The King of Limbs
- James Blake — James Blake
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Replica
- Tim Hecker — Ravedeath, 1972
- Kate Bush — 50 Words for Snow
- Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
- Raphael Saadiq — Stone Rollin’
- Wye Oak — Civilian
- Ryan Adams and the Cardinals — Ashes & Fire
- Colin Stetson — New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
- TV on the Radio — Nine Types of Light
- Kendrick Lamar — Section.80
- The Beach Boys — The SMiLE Sessions
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks — Mirror Traffic
- Mastodon — The Hunter
- Das Racist — Relax
- The War on Drugs — Slave Ambient
- Charles Bradley — No Time for Dreaming
- Gang Gang Dance — Eye Contact
- Katy B — On A Mission
- Britney Spears — Femme Fatale
- Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
- Dum Dum Girls — Only in Dreams
- Iceage — New Brigade
- The Men — Leave Home
- Joy Formidable — The Big Roar
- Feist — Metals
- Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
- Clams Casino — Instrumental Mixtape
- Atlas Sound — Parallax
- Fountains of Wayne — Sky Full of Holes
- My Morning Jacket — Circuital
- The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck
- Nicolas Jaar — Space is Only Noise
- Big KRIT — Return of 4Eva
- The Antlers — Burst Apart
- Panda Bear — Tomboy
- Tinariwen — Tassili
- Kills — Blood Pressures
- Low — C’mon
- R.E.M. — Collapse Into Now
- Demdike Stare — Tryptych
- Nick Lowe — The Old Magic
- Hayes Carll — KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)
- Beastie Boys — Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
- Matana Roberts — COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
- Zola Jesus — Conatus
- The Horrors — Skying
- White Denim — D
- Washed Out — Within and Without
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart — Belong
- The Caretaker — An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
- Austra — Feel It Break
- Julianna Barwick — The Magic Place
- Miranda Lambert — Four the Record
- Liturgy — Aesthethica
- Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!
- Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know
- Cults — Cults
- DJ Quik — The Book of David
- A$AP Rocky — LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
- Lou Reed & Metallica — Lulu
- The Feelies — Here Before
- Grouper — A I A
- Eric Church — Chief
- Tyler, The Creator — Goblin
- Braids — Native Speaker
- Ty Segall — Goodbye Bread