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