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Top 50 Albums of 2011

01 | Bon Iver: Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
02 | M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
03 | Low: Cmon (Sub Pop)
04 | Bonnie Prince Billy: woflroy goes to town (Drag City)
05 | Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence)
06 | Pentagram: Last Rites (Metal Blade)
07 | Mike Watt: HyphenatedMan (ClenchedWrench)
08 | PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant)
09 | Earth: Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord)
10 | Adele: 21 (XL/Columbia)
11 | Animals As Leaders: Weightless (Prosthetic Records)
12 | Cut Copy: Zonoscope (Modular)
13 | Feist: Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope)
14 | Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
15 | Krallice: Diotima (Profound Lore)
16 | Tori Amos: Night of Hunters (Deutsche Grammophon)
17 | Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will (Sub Pop)
18 | Smoke Fairies: Through Low Light and Trees (Year Seven Records)
19 | Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
20 | Scattered Trees: Sympathy (Musebox)
21 | the Black Keys: El Camino (Nonesuch)
22 | the Decemberists: The King is Dead (Capitol)
23 | Crooked Fingers: Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
24 | Gillian Welch: the Harrow & the Harvest (Acony Records)
25 | Tone: Priorities (self-released)
26 | Florence and the Machine: Ceremonials (Universal Republic)
27 | Wye Oak: Civilian (Merge)
28 | Okkervil River: I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
29 | Givers: In Light (Glassnote Entertainment)
30 | Mastodon: the Hunter (Reprise)
31 | Dum Dum Girls: Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
32 | Bill Callahan: Apocalypse (Drag City)
33 | David Bazan: Strange Negotiations (Barsuk)
34 | Smith-Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
35 | Borracho: Splitting Sky (self-released)
36 | the Sea and Cake: the Moonlight Butterfly (Thrill Jockey)
37 | the Antlers: Burst Apart (Frenchkiss)
38 | Iris Divine: Convergence (Iris Divine)
39 | Danielson: Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
40 | Rural Alberta Advantage: Departing (Saddle Creek)
41 | Kasey Chambers: Little Bird (Sugar Hill Records)
42 | Indian: Guiltless (Relapse)
43 | the War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
44 | the Field: Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
45 | Arbouretum: the Gathering (Thrill Jockey)
46 | Wild Flag: Wild Flag (Merge)
47 | O'Death: Outside (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
48 | Iron and Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros)
49 | Dream Theater: A Dramatic Turn of Events (Roadrunner)
50 | Hammer No More the Fingers: Black Shark (Churchkey Records)