2011 - My Top 50
List is albums that stuck with me most this year and kept me coming back for more. 1-5 is pretty well in order. Found it way too hard picking the rest in order. |
| 1 |  | Scale the Summit
The Collective
Who needs vocals when you can play your instruments this beautifully? - Black Hills. |
| 2 |  | Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Love can hardly leave the room with your heart. - Michicant. |
| 3 |  | Submotion Orchestra
Finest Hour
My finest hour is lost on you my dear, and it's all for you. - Finest Hour. |
| 4 |  | Raekwon
Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
Travelin' the continents with confidence, Cuban Linx III Comin', don't know when but the time is runnin' - Silver Rings. |
| 5 |  | The Weeknd
House of Balloons
Now we're lying about the nights, hiding it behind all the smiles. Take a look at what you did. - The Knowing. |
| 6 |  | Counterparts
The Current Will Carry Us
Reflection. |
| 7 |  | Foo Fighters
Wasting Light
These Days. |
| 8 |  | Uneven Structure
Februus
Frost. |
| 9 |  | Maybeshewill
I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone
To the Skies From a Hillside. |
| 10 |  | Thrice
Major/Minor
Promises. |
| 11 |  | Born of Osiris
The Discovery
Recreate. |
| 12 |  | City and Colour
Little Hell
Sorrowing Man. |
| 13 |  | Mastodon
The Hunter
The Sparrow. |
| 14 |  | CunninLynguists
Oneirology
Stars Shine Brightest. |
| 15 |  | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Omens. |
| 16 |  | The Roots
Undun
The Other Side |
| 17 |  | Thursday
No Devolucion
Sparks Against the Sun. |
| 18 |  | August Burns Red
Leveler
Poor Millionaire. |
| 19 |  | Deafheaven
Roads to Judah
Violet. |
| 20 |  | Kendrick Lamar
Section 80
Kush & Corinthians. |
| 21 | | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Reunion. |
| 22 |  | Decoder
Decoder
Conflicts. |
| 23 |  | Trap Them
Darker Handcraft
The Facts. |
| 24 |  | Destroyer
Kaputt
Downtown. |
| 25 |  | ASAP Rocky
Live.Love.A$AP.
Peso. |
| 26 |  | Drake
Take Care
Cameras / Good Ones Go. |
| 27 |  | Protest the Hero
Scurrilous
C'est la Vie. |
| 28 |  | Pianos Become the Teeth
The Lack Long After
Spine. |
| 29 |  | Opeth
Heritage
Folklore. |
| 30 |  | Last Chance to Reason
Level 2
The Prototype. |
| 31 |  | Big K.R.I.T.
ReturnOf4Eva
The Vent. |
| 32 |  | Former Thieves
The Language That We Speak
Dead Horses Are Turned Into Glue. |
| 33 |  | La Dispute
Wildlife
The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit. |
| 34 |  | Gotye
Making Mirrors
Somebody That I Used To Know. |
| 35 |  | The Milk Carton Kids
Prologue
I Still Want A Little More. |
| 36 |  | Vildhjarta
Masstaden
All These Feelings. |
| 37 |  | Decapitated
Carnival Is Forever
A View From A Hole. |
| 38 |  | Shabazz Palaces
Black Up
Are You Can You Were You. |
| 39 |  | Sleepmakeswaves
...and so we destroyed everything
A Gaze Blank And Pitiless As The Sun. |
| 40 |  | Cut Copy
Zonoscope
Take Me Over. |
| 41 |  | Light Bearer
Lapsus
Primum Movens. |
| 42 |  | Ocoai
The Electric Hand
Grimpeur. |
| 43 |  | BADBADNOTGOOD
BBNG
Fall In Love. |
| 44 |  | Consciousness Removal Project
The Last Season
Soil Sacrifice. |
| 45 |  | King Creosote and Jon Hopkins
Diamond Mine
Bats in the Attic. |
| 46 |  | Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Sit Resist
The Wait. |
| 47 |  | Tycho
Dive
Dive. |
| 48 | | Jack's Mannequin
People and Things
People, Running. |
| 49 |  | The Horrible Crowes
Elsie
Ladykiller. |
| 50 |  | Wolves in the Throne Room
Celestial Lineage
Thuja Magus Imperium. |
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