Best Albums of 2011 - Version 3.0

Best Albums of 2011

Version 3.0

(Jan-Aug)

List subject to extensive revision throughout the year.

LPs

1. Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
4. Battles – Gloss Drop
5. R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
7. Death Cab for Cutie – Codes and Keys
8. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
9. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
10. Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth 
11. The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart
12. The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
13. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
14. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
15. Cold War Kids - Mine is Yours
16. The Wooden Birds – Two Matchsticks
17. Okkervil River – I am Very Far
18. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
19. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
20. Maritime - Human Hearts
21. Fruit Bats - Tripper
22. Collections of Colonies of Bees - Giving
23. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
24. Damien Jurado – Live at Landlocked
25. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
26. John Vanderslice - White Wilderness
27. David Bazan – Strange Negotiations
28. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
29. Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh
30. Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
31. Cake - Showroom of Compassion
32. Saul Williams – Volcanic Sunlight
33. Shearwater – The Island Arc Live (Excerpts)
34. Ben Harper – Give Until It’s Gone
35. Amos Lee - Mission Bell

EPs

1. Grand Archives - Villains Demos I and Villains Demos II 
2. The Appleseed Cast – The Middle States
3. Matt Pond PA – Spring Fools

Singles / 7 inches / Misc

1. The National - Think You Can Wait (From the Film Win Win)
2. Bon Iver - Calgary / I Can't Make you Love Me
3. The National – Exile Vilify (From the Game Portal 2)
4. Radiohead – Supercollider / The Butcher
5. Battles - My Machines / AM Gestalt
6. Dent May - Fun / Wedding Day 
7. Owen - O, Evelyn
8. Lifesavas - And The Soul Goes On (From the Best Ever Mixtape, Portland, OR)
9. RA Scion - Under the Gun
10. Pinback – Information Retrieved Pt. A
11. Blue Scholars - John Delorean
12. Okkervil River - Wake & Be Fine
13. Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror
14. Okkervil River - Mermaid
15. Bright Eyes - Singularity
16. The Ataris -  All Souls' Day / The Graveyard of the Atlantic