Pitchfork's Top Albums Of 2011

Pitchfork has shared its Top Albums Of 2011. Check it out below, along with its Top Tracks Of 2011, here.



50. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation [Fat Possum/Lefse]
49. Wild Flag - Wild Flag [Merge]
48. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine [Carpark]
47. Sepalcure - Sepalcure [Hotflush]
46. Cults - Cults [In the Name Of/Columbia]
45. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 [Top Dawg]
44. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges [Constellation]
43. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes [Atlantic/LL]
42. SBTRKT - SBTRKT [Young Turks]
41. Liturgy - Aesthethica [Thrill Jockey]
40. AraabMuzik - Electronic Dream [Duke]
39. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient [Secretly Canadian]
38. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces [Constellation]
37. Iceage - New Brigade [What's Your Rupture?]
36. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow [Anti-/Fish People]
35. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra. [Self-Released]
34. Katy B - On a Mission [Columbia/Rinse]
33. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life [Matador]
32. Panda Bear - Tomboy [Paw Tracks]
31. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread [Drag City]
30. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 [Kranky]
29. DJ Quik - The Book of David [Mad Science]
28. Cut Copy - Zonoscope [Modular]
27. Beyoncé - 4 [Columbia]
26. The Field - Looping State of Mind [Kompakt]
25. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact [4AD]
24. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place [Asthmatic Kitty]
23. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse [Drag City]
22. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World [History Always Favours the Winners]
21. Jay-Z / Kanye West - Watch the Throne [Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation]
20. Nicolas Jaar - pace Is Only Noise [Circus Company]
19. Danny Brown - XXX [Fool's Gold]
18. Atlas Sound - Parallax [4AD]
17. Clams Casino - Instrumentals [Self-Released]
16. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo [Matador]
15. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues [Sub Pop]
14. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up [Sub Pop]
13. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints [Souterrian Transmissions]
12. James Blake - James Blake [A&M/Atlas]
11. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy [4AD]
10. The Weeknd - House of Balloons [Self-Released]
09. Real Estate - Days [Domino]
08. Drake - Take Care [Cash Money/Young Money/Universal Republic]
07. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l [4AD]
06. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica [Mexican Summer/Software]
05. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost [True Panther]
04. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake [Vagrant/Island Def Jam]
03. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming [Mute]
02. Destroyer - Kaputt [Merge]
01. Bon Iver - Bon Iver [Jagjaguwar]



Honorable Mention

Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together [Modern Love]
Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva [Self-Released]
Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sect(s) / The Desanctification [Debemur Morti]
Cass McCombs - WIT'S END [Domino]
Dirty Beaches - Badlands [Zoo]
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer [Merge]
Gil Scott-Heron / Jamie xx - We're New Here [XL/Young Turks]
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer / A I A: Dream Loss [Yellowelectric]
Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost! [DFA]
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves [Ribbon/Upset the Rhythm]
Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler [Box of Cedar]
The Men - Leave Home [Sacred Bones]
Neon Indian - Era Extraña [Mom & Pop/Static Tongues]
Nguzunguzu - The Perfect Lullaby [Self-Released]
The Psychic Paramount - II [No Quarter]
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream [In the Red]
Wild Beasts - Smother [Domino]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage [Southern Lord]
Yuck - Yuck [Fat Possum]
Zola Jesus - Conatus [Sacred Bones]


* I realize that reading these lists may get old, but I thoroughly enjoy seeing and feel like sharing what my fellow blogger's dig.


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