Top 89 albums of 2011
January 01, 2012
The Top 89 albums of 2011, as voted on by listeners of The Current.
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1. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
2. Adele — 21
3. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
4. The Black Keys — El Camino
5. Foster The People — Torches
6. The Decemberists — The King Is Dead
7. Florence and the Machine — Ceremonials
8. Dawes — Nothing Is Wrong
9. My Morning Jacket — Circuital
10. Wilco — The Whole Love
11. tUnE-yArDs — w h o k i l l
12. Fitz and The Tantrums — Pickin' Up The Pieces
13. Dessa — Castor, The Twin
14. Atmosphere — The Family Sign
15. Mason Jennings — Minnesota
16. Iron and Wine — Kiss Each Other Clean
17. Radiohead — The King Of Limbs
18. M83 — Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
19. Doomtree — No Kings
20. Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
21. 4ontheFloor — 4X4
22. Girl Talk — All Day
23. Beirut — The Rip Tide
24. Band of Horses — Infinite Arms
25. Feist — Metals
26. TV On The Radio — Nine Types Of Light
27. Tom Waits — Bad As Me
28. Ryan Adams — Ashes and Fire
29. The Head and the Heart — The Head and the Heart
30. Cults — Cults
31. St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
32. Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto
33. Death Cab for Cutie — Codes and Keys
34. Tapes 'n Tapes — Outside
35. Beastie Boys — Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
36. Polica — Polica
37. Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
38. Eddie Vedder — Ukulele Songs
39. Low — C'mon
40. Blitzen Trapper — American Goldwing
41. Haley Bonar — Golder
42. Rogue Valley — False Floors
43. Belle and Sebastian — Write About Love
44. The Rural Alberta Advantage — Departing
45. The Wombats — This Modern Glitch
46. The Strokes — Angles
47. Phantogram — Nightlife EP
48. Cake — Showroom of Compassion
49. The Jayhawks — Mockingbird Time
50. Bright Eyes — The People's Key
51. Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi — Rome
52. Cage The Elephant — Thank You, Happy Birthday
53. Arctic Monkeys — Suck It and See
54. The Kills — Blood Pressures
55. James Blake — James Blake
56. Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps — Little Wind
57. Halloween, Alaska — All Night The Calls Came In
58. Sims — Bad Time Zoo
59. Rogue Valley — Geese in the Flyway
60. Cold War Kids — Mine Is Yours
61. Noel Gallagher — Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
62. Raphael Saadiq — Stone Rollin'
63. DeVotchKa — 100 Lovers
64. Peter Wolf Crier — Garden of Arms
65. Astronautalis — This Is Our Science
66. Kings Of Leon — Come Around Sundown
67. Sharon Van Etten — Epic
68. Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest
69. Red Hot Chili Peppers — I'm With You
70. The Joy Formidable — The Big Roar
71. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake
72. Ben Folds and Nick Hornby — Lonely Avenue
73. Lucinda Williams — Blessed
74. Broken Bells — Meyrin Fields EP
75. Wye Oak — Civilian
76. The Decemberists — Long Live The King
77. The Roots — Undun
78. Various Artists — Minnesota Beatle Project Vol. 3
79. Jessica Lea Mayfield — Tell Me
80. Cut Copy — Zonoscope
81. Two Door Cinema Club — Tourist History
82. Washed Out — Within and Without
83. Lupe Fiasco — Lasers
84. Girls — Father, Son, Holy Ghost
85. Drive-By Truckers — Go-Go Boots
86. Pearl Jam — Twenty
87. Laura Marling — A Creature I Don't Know
88. Grouplove — Never Trust a Happy Song
89. Explosions in the Sky — Take Care, Take Care, Take Care