Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2011

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