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2011 Music

Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011

12 December 2011

Kaputt - Destroyer

Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011

[see also 2024]

  1. Kaputt
    Destroyer
  2. Father, Son, Holy Ghost
    Girls
  3. Bad as Me
    Tom Waits
  4. Parallax
    Atlas Sound
  5. Harum Scarum
    The Wind
  6. Days
    Real Estate
  7. Black Up
    Shabazz Palaces
  8. Strange Mercy
    St. Vincent
  9. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
  10. Dye It Blonde
    Smith Westerns
  11. Underneath the Pine
    Toro y Moi
  12. Looping State of Mind
    The Field
  13. It’s All True
    Junior Boys
  14. The Magic Place
    Julianna Barwick
  15. Celestial Lineage
    Wolves in the Throne Room
  16. Smother
    Wild Beasts
  17. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
  18. 50 Words for Snow
    Kate Bush
  19. Burst Apart
    The Antlers
  20. James Blake
    James Blake
  21. Within and Without
    Washed Out
  22. WIT’S END
    Cass McCombs
  23. New Villager
    NewVillager
  24. El Camino
    The Black Keys
  25. Wolfroy Goes to Town
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  26. Darkbloom
    Grimes & d’Eon
  27. Creep On Creepin’ On
    Timber Timbre
  28. Helplessness Blues
    Fleet Foxes
  29. Ravedeath, 1972
    Tim Hecker
  30. Empros
    Russian Circles
  31. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
    M83
  32. New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
    Colin Stetson
  33. Humor Risk
    Cass McCombs
  34. Tomboy
    Panda Bear
  35. Madness in Miniature
    Mr. Gnome
  36. Marissa Nadler
    Marissa Nadler
  37. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
  38. Zonoscope
    Cut Copy
  39. Take Care
    Drake
  40. All Eternals Deck
    The Mountain Goats
  41. The Rip Tide
    Beirut
  42. Era Extraña
    Neon Indian
  43. Life Fantastic
    Man Man
  44. Apocalypse
    Bill Callahan
  45. We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
    John Maus
  46. Eye Contact
    Gang Gang Dance
  47. One Pig
    Matthew Herbert
  48. Quichenight I
    Quichenight
  49. Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped
    Moonface
  50. Badlands
    Dirty Beaches

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