Albums of the Year For 2011

Let me just say that this has been the best year in music since 2005 in my opinion. It actually may even be a bigger in music this year than any since my inception into the underworld that is Indie Music, which was around 2001 (my Freshman year in High School). I decided to just do a Top 50 in one shot instead of doing tracks too and releasing it over the period of a week. So here it is!

50. Sepalcure - Sepalcure

49. TV On the Radio - Nine Types of Light

48. SBTRKT - SBTRKT 

47. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

46. Tom Waits - Bad As Me

45. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine

44. Adele - 21

43. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

42. Battles - Glass Drop

41. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blond

40. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

39. Radiohead - King of Limbs

38. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

37. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne

36. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

35. The Antlers - Burst Apart

34. The Horrors - Skying

33. Future Islands - On The Water

32. Zola Jesus - Conatus

31. Yuck - Yuck

30. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

29. Drake - Take Care

28. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

27. Washed Out - Within and Without

26. Real Estate - Days

25. Cults - Cults

24. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

23. Atlas Sound - Parallax

22. Destroyer - Kaputt

21. Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

20. Beirut - The Rip Tide

19. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

18. Iceage - New Brigade

17. Panda Bear - Tomboy 

16. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation

15. Wild Beasts - Smother

14. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

13. Neon Indian - Era Extrana

12. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient

11. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 

10. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

9. Tune-Yards - WHOKILL

8. The Weeknd - House of Balloons 

7. Austra - Feel It Break

6. James Blake - James Blake

5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

3. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

1. Girls - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost