Rank

Album (2011)

Artist/Group

1

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

2

21

Adele

3

Bon Iver

Bon Iver

4

whokill

tUnE-yArDs

5

Strange Mercy

St. Vincent

6

Watch the Throne

Jay-Z and Kanye West

7

House of Balloons

The Weeknd

8

Helplessness Blues

Fleet Foxes

9

Take Care

Drake

10

Black Up

Shabazz Palaces

11

David Comes to Life

Fucked Up

12

Bad As Me

Tom Waits

13

James Blake

James Blake

14

Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Girls

15

Smoke Ring for My Halo

Kurt Vile

16

Skying

The Horrors

17

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

M83

18

undun

The Roots

19

Kaputt

Destroyer

20

The Whole Love

Wilco

21

Wild Flag

Wild Flag

22

Burst Apart

The Antlers

23

The English Riviera

Metronomy

24

Metals

Feist

25

The King Is Dead

The Decemberists

26

So Beautiful or So What

Paul Simon

27

The King of Limbs

Radiohead

28

El Camino

The Black Keys

29

Nostalgia, Ultra.

Frank Ocean

30

Circuital

My Morning Jacket

31

Days

Real Estate

32

Glass Swords

Rustie

33

The Harrow & The Harvest

Gillian Welch

34

Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition]

Can

35

What's Going On [40th Anniversary Edition]

Marvin Gaye

36

Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1

Miles Davis

37

Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition]

Smashing Pumpkins

38

The SMiLE Sessions

The Beach Boys

39

Icky Mettle [Deluxe Edition]

Archers of Loaf

40

Life's Rich Pageant [25th Anniversary Edition]

R.E.M.

41

Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe Edition]

U2

42

Some Girls [Deluxe Edition]

The Rolling Stones

43

Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

Ry Cooder

44

Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut]

The Who

45

The Greatest Story Never Told

Saigon

46

No Devolucion

Thursday

47

The Wonder Years

9th Wonder

48

Celestial Lineage

Wolves in the Throne Room

49

Space Is Only Noise

Nicolas Jaar

50

Stone Rollin'

Raphael Saadiq

51

Empros

Russian Circles

52

Ravedeath, 1972

Tim Hecker

53

Floreat

Mara Carlyle

54

50 Words for Snow

Kate Bush

55

New Brigade

Iceage

56

Smother

Wild Beasts

57

Looping State of Mind

The Field

58

When the Heart Emerges Glistening

Ambrose Akinmusire

59

Wounded Rhymes

Lykke Li

60

Nine Types of Light

TV on the Radio

61

Build a Rocket Boys!

Elbow

62

Parallax

Atlas Sound

63

Wasting Light

Foo Fighters

64

Ceremonials

Florence + The Machine

65

Born This Way

Lady Gaga