Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: 100 Best Albums of 2011

1. The Black Keys
   El Camino
2. Metronomy
   The English Riviera
3. WU LYF
   Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
4. François & the Atlas Mountains
   E Volo Love
5. Jonathan Wilson
   Gentle Spirit
6. Daniel Darc
   La Taille de mon âme
7. Connan Mockasin
   Forever Dolphin Love
8. PJ Harvey
   Let England Shake
9. The Shoes
   Crack My Bones
10. Tyler, The Creator
    Goblin
11. Gruff Rhys
    Hotel Shampoo
12. Cults
    Cults
13. Baxter Dury
    Happy Soup
14. Other Lives
    Tamer Animals
15. James Blake
    James Blake
16. Cat’s Eyes
    Cat’s Eyes
17. Tinariwen
    Tassili
18. Dirty Beaches
    Badlands
19. M83
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
20. SBTRKT
    SBTRKT
21. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
22. Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band
    Rubber Orchestra
23. Yelle
    Safari Disco Club
24. Justice
    Audio,Video,Disco
25. The Drums
    Portamento
26. Nicolas Jaar
    Space is Only Noise
27. Feist
    Metals
28. Timber Timbre
    Creep On Creepin’ On
29. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
30. The Rapture
    In the Grace of Your Love
31. Beirut
    The Rip Tide
32. Drake
    Take Care
33. Miles Kane
    Colour of the Trap
34. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
35. Salem
    King Night
36. Dum Dum Girls
    Only in Dreams
37. The Go! Team
    Rolling Blackouts
38. The Horrors
    Skying
39. The Do
    Both Ways Open Jaws
40. Zola Jesus
    Conatus
41. Anna Calvi
    Anna Calvi
42. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
43. Orelsan
    Le Chant des Sirènes
44. Hanni El Khatib
    Will the Guns Come Out
45. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
46. EMA
    Past Life Martyred Saints
47. Theophilus London
    Timez Are Weird These Days
48. Mansfield.TYA
    Nyx
49. Miossec
    Chanson Ordinaires
50. Arctic Monkeys
    Suck It and See
51. Yuck
    Yuck
52. David Lynch
    Crazy Clown Time
53. Jay-Jay Johanson
    Spellbound
54. Austra
    Feel It Break
55. Discodeine
    Discodeine
56. Hollie Cook
    Hollie Cook
57. Piers Faccini
    My Wilderness
58. Smith Westerns
    Dye It Blonde
59. Sebastian
    Total
60. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
61. Housse de Racket
    Alesia
62. Blood Orange
    Coastal Grooves
63. Le Prince Miiaou
    Fill the Blank with Your Own Emptiness
64. Brazzaville
    Jetlag Poetry
65. Bill Callahan
    Apocalypse
66. Yuksek
    Living on the Edge of Time
67. The Vaccines
    What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
68. Keren Ann
    101
69. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
    We’re New Here
70. Black Lips
    Arabia Mountain
71. Zomby
    Dedication
72. Michel Cloup
    Notre Silence
73. Friendly Fires
    Pala
74. John Maus
    We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
75. Mehdi Zannad
    Fugue
76. Emmanuelle Parrenin
    Maison Cube
77. The Antlers
    Burst Apart
78. PLANNINGTOROCK
    W
79. Weekend
    Sports
80. Smith & Burrows
    Funny Looking Angels
81. Jeffrey Lewis
    A Turn in the Dream-Songs
82. Kouyaté-Neerman
    Skyscrapers & Deities
83. Apparat
    The Devil’s Walk
84. The Middle East
    I Want That You Are Always Happy
85. Battles
    Gloss Drop
86. Lil Wayne
    Tha Carter IV
87. Jono McCleery
    There Is
88. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
89. Alex Beaupain
    Pourquoi battait mon coeur
90. Puro Instinct
    Headbangers in Ecstasy
91. Cliff Martinez & various artists
    Drive Original Soundtrack
92. Kills
    Blood Pressures
93. The Kooks
    Junk of the Heart
94. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
95. Class Actress
    Rapprocher
96. Saul Williams
    Volcanic Sunlight
97. Cascadeur
    The Human Octopus
98. Birdy Nam Nam
    Defiant Order
99. Foster the People
    Torches
100. Dengue Fever
     Cannibal Courtship