Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2011

1. Bon Iver
   Bon Iver
2. Fleet Foxes
   Helplessness Blues
3. My Morning Jacket
   Circuital
4. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
5. Middle Brother
   Middle Brother
6. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
   It’s A Corporate World
7. Wilco
   The Whole Love
8. Dawes
   Nothing is Wrong
9. M83
   Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
10. The Decemberists
    The King is Dead
11. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
12. Iron & Wine
    Kiss Each Other Clean
13. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
13. Girls
    Father, Son, Holy Ghost
14. Adele
    21
15. Deer Tick
    Divine Providence
16. Yuck
    Yuck
17. The Civil Wars
    Barton Hollow
18. Wye Oak
    Civilian
19. Cults
    Cults
20. Beirut
    The Rip Tide
21. Charles Bradley
    No Time for Dreaming
22. The Black Keys
    El Camino
23. The Belle Brigade
    The Belle Brigade
24. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
25. The Antlers
    Burst Apart
26. The Low Anthem
    Smart Flesh
27. Black Lips
    Arabia Mountain
28. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
29. Feist
    Metals
30. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
31. Telekinesis
    12 Desperate Straight Lines
32. Ryan Adams
    Ashes & Fire
33. The Head and the Heart
    The Head and the Heart
34. Seryn
    This Is Where We Are
35. Childish Gambino
    Camp
36. Mister Heavenly
    Out of Love
37. The War on Drugs
    Slave Ambient
38. Over the Rhine
    The Long Surrender
39. Foster the People
    Torches
40. Portugal. The Man
    In the Mountain in the Cloud
41. James Blake
    James Blake
42. Wild Flag
    Wild Flag
43. Joy Formidable
    The Big Roar
44. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
45. Those Darlins
    Screws Get Loose
46. Holy Ghost!
    Holy Ghost!
47. Real Estate
    Days
48. Drake
    Take Care
49. Mates of State
    Mountaintops
50. Frank Turner
    England Keep My Bones