| 2011 Top Albums |
Plays |
| 1 |
Wild Flag – Wild Flag |
69 |
| 2 |
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints |
62 |
| 3 |
Wire – Red Barked Tree |
60 |
| 4 |
Mark McGuire – A Young Person's Guide To Mark McGuire |
56 |
| 5 |
Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
55 |
| 6 |
Megafaun – Megafaun |
53 |
| 7 |
Panda Bear – Tomboy |
52 |
| 8 |
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life |
50 |
| 9 |
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake |
48 |
| 9 |
Sic Alps – Napa Asylum |
48 |
| 9 |
Pure X – Pleasure |
48 |
| 9 |
Feist – Metals |
48 |
| 13 |
Eleven Tigers – Clouds Are Mountains |
45 |
| 13 |
Jenny and Johnny – I'm Having Fun Now |
45 |
| 15 |
CANT – Dreams Come True |
44 |
| 16 |
The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient |
43 |
| 17 |
Actress – Splazsh |
42 |
| 17 |
Neon Indian – Era Extraña |
42 |
| 17 |
Lushlife – No More Golden Days |
42 |
| 20 |
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong |
41 |
| 20 |
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up |
41 |
| 20 |
Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation |
41 |
| 23 |
Metronomy – The English Riviera |
40 |
| 23 |
The Antlers – Burst Apart |
40 |
| 23 |
TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light |
40 |
| 26 |
Yuck – Yuck |
39 |
| 26 |
Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner |
39 |
| 26 |
British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall |
39 |
| 26 |
Bright Eyes – The People's Key |
39 |
| 26 |
Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror |
39 |
| 26 |
Elite Gymnastics – Ruin |
39 |
| 32 |
Clams Casino – Instrumentals |
38 |
| 32 |
Akron/Family – The Cosmic Birth & Journey of Shinju TNT |
38 |
| 32 |
Battles – Gloss Drop |
38 |
| 32 |
Wugazi – 13 Chambers |
38 |
| 36 |
Villagers – Becoming A Jackal |
37 |
| 36 |
Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer |
37 |
| 38 |
The Reatards – Teenage Hate |
36 |
| 38 |
McCarthy – That's All Very Well, But... |
36 |
| 38 |
The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck |
36 |
| 38 |
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 Disc 1 |
36 |
| 38 |
Pantha Du Prince – XI Versions of Black Noise |
36 |
| 38 |
Tom Vek – Leisure Seizure |
36 |
| 38 |
Gabriel Ananda – Selected Techno Works |
36 |
| 45 |
B.A.L.L. – Bird Period |
35 |
| 45 |
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
35 |
| 45 |
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo |
35 |
| 45 |
tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l |
35 |
| 45 |
BOAT – Dress Like You Idols |
35 |
| 45 |
Popol Vuh – Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999 |
35 |
| 45 |
M83 – Hurry Up We're Dreaming |
35 |
| 45 |
Four Tet – FABRICLIVE 59 |
35 |
| 45 |
U.S. Girls – U.S. GIRLS on KRAAK |
35 |
| 54 |
Wye Oak – Civilian |
34 |
| 54 |
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine |
34 |
| 56 |
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard – Old Devils |
33 |
| 56 |
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo |
33 |
| 56 |
Sonny Smith – 100 Records Volume II: I Miss the Jams |
33 |
| 56 |
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse |
33 |
| 56 |
Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs The Best Of Jad Fair CD2 |
33 |
| 56 |
Moonface – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped |
33 |
| 62 |
Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) |
32 |
| 62 |
Malachai – Return To the Ugly Side |
32 |
| 64 |
Ty Segall – Melted |
31 |
| 64 |
Frankie Rose and The Outs – Frankie Rose And The Outs |
31 |
| 64 |
Low – C'mon |
31 |
| 64 |
The Radio Dept. – Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 Disc 2 |
31 |
| 64 |
Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact |
31 |
| 64 |
Radiohead – The King of Limbs |
31 |
| 64 |
David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights – Left By Soft |
31 |
| 71 |
James Blake – James Blake |
30 |
| 71 |
Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise |
30 |
| 71 |
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 |
30 |
| 71 |
About Group – Start And Complete |
30 |
| 75 |
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country |
29 |
| 75 |
Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings |
29 |
| 75 |
Woods – At Echo Lake |
29 |
| 75 |
John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves |
29 |
| 75 |
J Mascis – Several Shades of Why |
29 |
| 75 |
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines |
29 |
| 75 |
Little Roy – Battle For Seattle |
29 |
| 75 |
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler / The Dream |
29 |
| 83 |
Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn in the Dream Songs |
28 |
| 83 |
The Mekons – Ancient and Modern 1911-2011 |
28 |
| 83 |
R.E.M. – Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982
- 2011 |
28 |
| 86 |
NME C81 – NME C81 |
27 |
| 86 |
Roommate – Guilty Rainbow |
27 |
| 86 |
Wild Beasts – Smother |
27 |
| 86 |
Action Bronson – Dr. Lecter |
27 |
| 86 |
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy |
27 |
| 86 |
Atlas Sound – Parallax |
27 |
| 92 |
Bon Iver – Bon Iver |
26 |
| 92 |
Callers – Life Of Love |
26 |
| 92 |
Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence |
26 |
| 92 |
Sons & Daughters – Mirror Mirror |
26 |
| 96 |
Apparat – DJ-Kicks (Mixed By Apparat) |
25 |
| 96 |
Ladytron – Best Of 00 To 10 |
25 |
| 96 |
Wooden Shjips – West |
25 |
| 96 |
Screaming Trees – Last Words: The Final Recordings |
25 |
| 100 |
Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju
TNT |
24 |
| 100 |
Okkervil River – I Am Very Far |
24 |
| 100 |
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues |
24 |
| 100 |
Various Artists – At The Controls 1 |
24 |
| 100 |
White Denim – D |
24 |
| 100 |
Africa Hitech – 93 Million Miles |
24 |
| 100 |
The Beets – Let the Poison Out |
24 |
| 100 |
Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos |
24 |
| 108 |
The Twilight Singers – Dynamite Steps |
23 |
| 108 |
Danielson – Best of Gloucester County |
23 |
| 108 |
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes |
23 |
| 108 |
Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine |
23 |
| 108 |
Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs |
23 |
| 108 |
Mick Harvey – Sketches From The Book Of The Dead |
23 |
| 108 |
Drugstore – Anatomy |
23 |
| 108 |
The Horrors – Skying |
23 |
| 108 |
Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness |
23 |
| 117 |
The Fall – Middle Class Revolt |
22 |
| 117 |
Cluster – Sowiesoso |
22 |
| 117 |
Grass Widow – Past Time |
22 |
| 117 |
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead |
22 |
| 117 |
Elbow – build a rocket boys! |
22 |
| 117 |
Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years |
22 |
| 117 |
My Morning Jacket – Circuital |
22 |
| 117 |
Death in June – Nada Plus |
22 |
| 117 |
Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010 |
22 |
| 126 |
We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships |
21 |
| 126 |
The Fall – Ersatz G.B. |
21 |
| 126 |
The War On Drugs – Daytrotter Session - 10/27/2011 |
21 |
| 129 |
The Cravats – Colossal Tunes Out |
20 |
| 129 |
Thao & Mirah – Thao & Mirah |
20 |
| 129 |
The People's Temple – Sons of Stone |
20 |
| 129 |
Robin Pecknold – Three Songs |
20 |
| 129 |
Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams |
20 |
| 134 |
SBTRKT – SBTRKT |
19 |
| 134 |
Dimlite – Prismic Tops |
19 |
| 134 |
Fur – Witches |
19 |
| 134 |
Destroyer – Kaputt |
19 |
| 134 |
Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place |
19 |
| 134 |
Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs The Best Of Jad Fair CD1 |
19 |
| 134 |
Kurt Vile – So Outta Reach |
19 |
| 141 |
Jeffrey Lewis – It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light
Shines Through |
18 |
| 141 |
fIREHOSE – Ragin', Full-On |
18 |
| 141 |
The Fall – Shift-Work |
18 |
| 141 |
How To Dress Well – Love Remains |
18 |
| 141 |
Jamie Woon – Mirrorwriting |
18 |
| 141 |
YACHT – Shangri-La |
18 |
| 141 |
Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic! |
18 |
| 141 |
Junior Boys – It's All True |
18 |
| 141 |
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts |
18 |
| 141 |
LCD Soundsystem – Live at Madison Square Garden |
18 |
| 141 |
Andy Stott – Passed Me By |
18 |
| 141 |
Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania |
18 |
| 141 |
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic |
18 |
| 141 |
Male Bonding – Endless Now |
18 |
| 141 |
Gonjasufi – The Ninth Inning |
18 |
| 141 |
Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door |
18 |
| 157 |
The Bats – Daddy's Highway |
17 |
| 157 |
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ventriloquizzing |
17 |
| 157 |
Iceage – New Brigade |
17 |
| 157 |
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire – Trouble Books & Mark
McGuire |
17 |
| 157 |
Tinariwen – Tassili |
17 |
| 157 |
Real Estate – Days |
17 |
| 157 |
The Field – Looping state of mind |
17 |
| 164 |
Robert Wyatt – Shleep |
16 |
| 164 |
Jeffrey Lewis – The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane |
16 |
| 164 |
Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks |
16 |
| 164 |
Black Eagle Child – Lobelia |
16 |
| 164 |
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon |
16 |
| 164 |
Grant Hart – Oeuvrevue |
16 |
| 164 |
Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 |
16 |
| 164 |
Current 93 – HoneySuckle Æons |
16 |
| 164 |
Oddisee – Rock Creek Park |
16 |
| 164 |
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica |
16 |
| 174 |
Cult Of Youth – Cult of Youth |
15 |
| 174 |
Women – Public Strain |
15 |
| 174 |
Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion |
15 |
| 174 |
Blue Sky Black Death – NOIR |
15 |
| 174 |
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges |
15 |
| 179 |
Eluvium – Copia |
14 |
| 179 |
The Moodists – Two Fisted Art - Disc 1 |
14 |
| 179 |
Zs – New Slaves |
14 |
| 179 |
Six Organs Of Admittance – Asleep On The Floodplain |
14 |
| 179 |
FaltyDL – You Stand Uncertain |
14 |
| 179 |
The Juan MacLean – Everybody Get Close |
14 |
| 185 |
The Gun Club – Mother Juno |
13 |
| 185 |
White Williams – Smoke |
13 |
| 185 |
Rangda – False Flag |
13 |
| 185 |
WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
13 |
| 185 |
Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean |
13 |
| 185 |
Atlas Sound – Bedroom Databank Vol. 2 |
13 |
| 185 |
Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island |
13 |
| 185 |
Richard Buckner – Our Blood |
13 |
| 193 |
Richard Buckner – The Hill |
12 |
| 193 |
Richard Buckner – Devotion & Doubt |
12 |
| 193 |
The Cravats – In Toytown |
12 |
| 193 |
Amadou & Mariam – Remixes |
12 |
| 193 |
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt |
12 |
| 193 |
Quantic presenta Flowering Inferno – Dog With A Rope |
12 |
| 193 |
Health – DISCO2 |
12 |
| 193 |
Demdike Stare – Liberation Through Hearing |
12 |
| 193 |
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Cervantine |
12 |
| 193 |
The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange |
12 |
| 193 |
Cornershop – Cornershop & The Double 'O' Groove Of |
12 |
| 193 |
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See |
12 |
| 193 |
Washed Out – Within and Without |
12 |
| 206 |
Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand |
11 |
| 206 |
The Concretes – The Concretes |
11 |
| 206 |
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik |
11 |
| 206 |
Coil – Black Antlers (deluxe edition) |
11 |
| 206 |
Theo Parrish – Ugly Edits |
11 |
| 206 |
Cults – Cults |
11 |
| 206 |
Phosphorescent – Here's To Taking It Easy |
11 |
| 206 |
Belle and Sebastian – Belle & Sebastian Write About Love |
11 |
| 206 |
Cut Copy – Zonoscope |
11 |
| 206 |
Bill Wells – Everything's Getting Older |
11 |
| 206 |
Aztec Camera – Walk Out To Winter - The Best Of Aztec Camera -
CD1 |
11 |
| 206 |
Youth Lagooon – The Year Of Hibernation |
11 |
| 218 |
Masta Ace – A Long Hot Summer |
10 |
| 218 |
Black Tambourine – Complete Recordings |
10 |
| 218 |
The Kallikak Family – May 23rd 2007 |
10 |
| 218 |
Yo La Tengo – The Sounds of the Sounds of Science |
10 |
| 218 |
Gold Panda – Companion |
10 |
| 218 |
Weekend – Sports |
10 |
| 218 |
Pariah – Safehouses EP |
10 |
| 218 |
DJ O-Face – Jay Bells (Jay-Z vs. Sleigh Bells) |
10 |
| 218 |
Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs The Best Of Jad Fair CD3 |
10 |
| 218 |
Balam Acab – Wander / Wonder |
10 |
| 218 |
Oneida – Absolute II |
10 |
| 218 |
Sun Araw – Ancient Romans |
10 |
| 218 |
The Decemberists – iTunes Session (2011) |
10 |
| 218 |
White Denim – Takes Place In Your Work Space |
10 |
| 232 |
My Morning Jacket – Okonokos (2 of 2) |
9 |
| 232 |
PJ Harvey – ITunes Session |
9 |
| 232 |
The Icicle Works – If You Want To Defeat Your Enemy, Sing His
Song |
9 |
| 232 |
C86 – NME C86 |
9 |
| 232 |
The Streets – Computers and Blues |
9 |
| 232 |
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I'm Here? |
9 |
| 232 |
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz |
9 |
| 232 |
Black Twig Pickers – Ironto Special |
9 |
| 232 |
Teebs – Ardour (BFDNL010) |
9 |
| 232 |
The New Pornographers – Togetherness: The New Pornographers
Play Outrageous Cherry (Matador 45) |
9 |
| 232 |
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? |
9 |
| 232 |
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro – Caliventura |
9 |
| 232 |
Zomby – Dedication |
9 |
| 232 |
Best Coast – iTunes Session |
9 |
| 232 |
AraabMUZIK – Electronic Dream |
9 |
| 232 |
Wilco – The Whole Love |
9 |
| 232 |
Mark McGuire – Get Lost |
9 |
| 232 |
Gauntlet Hair – Stereogum Monthly Mix: September 2011 |
9 |
| 232 |
Family Band – Stereogum Monthly Mix: September 2011 |
9 |
| 232 |
Mike Watt – Daytrotter Session - 11/4/2011 |
9 |
| 252 |
The Mekons – So Good It Hurts |
8 |
| 252 |
Perfume Genius – Learning |
8 |
| 252 |
Black Milk – Album of the Year |
8 |
| 252 |
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk |
8 |
| 252 |
The Walkmen – Lisbon |
8 |
| 252 |
Mark McGuire – Living With Yourself |
8 |
| 252 |
OFF! – First Four EPs |
8 |
| 252 |
British Sea Power – Valhalla V.I.P. |
8 |
| 252 |
The Books – Thought For Food (Remastered) |
8 |
| 252 |
Radiohead – The King of Limbs Remixes |
8 |
| 252 |
Eric Copeland – Waco Taco Combo |
8 |
| 252 |
Magik Markers – Isolated From Exterior Time |
8 |
| 252 |
White Denim – The Warm Up at Ardent Studios (6/16/11) |
8 |