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2011 Music

Austin Town Hall: Top 50 Albums of 2011

20 December 2011

Civilian - Wye Oak

Austin Town Hall: Top 50 Albums of 2011

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012]

  1. Civilian
    Wye Oak
  2. The Twerps
    Twerps
  3. The Ornament
    Gold Leaves
  4. Days
    Real Estate
  5. Cloud Nothings
    Cloud Nothings
  6. Pleasure
    Pure X
  7. Go With Me
    Seapony
  8. Burst Apart
    The Antlers
  9. New Brigade
    Iceage
  10. Helplessness Blues
    Fleet Foxes
  11. Tamer Animals
    Other Lives
  12. Light for Fire
    Light for Fire
  13. Dead to Me
    Girls Names
  14. Belong
    Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  15. Diamond Mine
    King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
  16. Laminate Pet Animal
    Snowmine
  17. Portamento
    The Drums
  18. Howl of the Lonely Crowd
    Comet Gain
  19. The Big Roar
    Joy Formidable
  20. Yuck
    Yuck
  21. Idle Labor
    Craft Spells
  22. Mind Spiders
    Mind Spiders
  23. Parallax
    Atlas Sound
  24. Fading Parade
    Papercuts
  25. Ducktails III
    Ducktails
  26. Slave Ambient
    The War on Drugs
  27. Hollow
    Cut Off Your Hands
  28. Prom
    Grooms
  29. No Future
    Wax Idols
  30. Dye It Blonde
    Smith Westerns
  31. Hit After Hit
    Sonny and the Sunsets
  32. I Am Very Far
    Okkervil River
  33. Euphoria
    Devon Williams
  34. Cherish the Light Years
    Cold Cave
  35. In Love With Oblivion
    Crystal Stilts
  36. Nothing Hurts
    Male Bonding
  37. Diaper Island
    Chad Van Gaalen
  38. Apokalypsis
    Chelsea Wolfe
  39. Kings of the Weekend
    Bad Sports
  40. Magic Trick
    Tim Cohen
  41. Loud Planes Fly Low
    The Rosebuds
  42. Moody, Standard and Poor
    Obits
  43. Kaputt
    Destroyer
  44. Only in Dreams
    Dum Dum Girls
  45. Vanity is Forever
    Geoffrey O'Connor
  46. Embracing the Modern Age
    Blue Skies for Black Hearts
  47. Departing
    The Rural Alberta Advantage
  48. Celestial Electric
    AM & Shawn Lee
  49. Strange Hearts
    Secret Cities
  50. The New Tigers
    The New Tigers

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