Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011, alphabetical

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• 21
  Adele
• Scarlatti: Sonatas
  Alexandre Tharaud
• Burst Apart
  The Antlers
• Where Country Grows
  Ashton Shepherd
• Chamber Music
  Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
• The Rip Tide
  Beirut
• 4
  Beyoncé
• Agadez
  Bombino
• Bon Iver
  Bon Iver
• Cast Recording
  The Book Of Mormon
• The People’s Key
  Bright Eyes
• Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
  Brooklyn Rider
• Captain Black Big Band
  Captain Black Big Band
• Barton Hollow
  The Civil Wars
• New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  Colin Stetson
• Dwellings
  Cormorant
• Tan Bajo
  Davila 666
• Tryptych
  Demdike Stare
• Gra Agus Bas
  Donnacha Dennehy
• Fiction
  Ebene Quartet
• Chief
  Eric Church
• Nostalgia, Ultra
  Frank Ocean
• David Comes to Life
  Fucked Up
• Exits And All The Rest
  Girl In A Coma
• The Wanting
  Glenn Jones
• The Lost And Found
  Gretchen Parlato
• James Blake
  James Blake
• The Maltese Tenor (Decca)
  Joseph Calleja
• The Magic Place
  Julianna Barwick
• Ashore
  June Tabor
• Watch the Throne
  Jay-Z and Kanye West
• Section.80
  Kendrick Lamar
• Diamond Mine
  King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
• Nuestra
  La Vida Boheme
• Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
  London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Chancletas Y Camiseta Bordada
  Los Rakas
• Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
  Miguel Zenón
• Let England Shake
  PJ Harvey
• The King of Limbs
  Radiohead
• Undun
  The Roots
• Black Up
  Shabazz Palaces
• Road Shows, Vol. 2
  Sonny Rollins
• Strange Mercy
  St. Vincent
• The Illustrious
  STS
• Ravedeath, 1972
  Tim Hecker
• Bad as Me
  Tom Waits
• Lifeboats & Follies
  Tommy Guerrero
• Whokill
  Tune-Yards
• The Whole Love
  Wilco
• Civilian
  Wye Oak