Rough Trade – TOP 100 Albums of the Year 2011
01) Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
02) Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
03) Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
04) Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest
05) PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
06) Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
07) Zomby – Dedication
08) John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
09) The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart
10) White Hills – H-p1
11) Sbtrkt – Strkt
12) Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
13) Metronomy – The English Riviera
14) Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
15) Bon Iver – Bon Iver
16) Pollyn – Living in Patterns
17) Beirut – The Rip Tide
18) Ema – Past Life Martyred Saints
19) Cults – Cults
20) Balam Acab – Wander / Wonder
21) Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
22) Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide Take Me Home
23) Drive By Truckers – Go-Go Boots
24) Tom the Lion – The Adventures of Tom the Lion
25) Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
26) Emmy the Great – Virtue
27) The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
28) Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
29) Seahawks – Invisible Sunrise
30) Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer – Re: ECM
31) Jeb Loy Nichols – The Jeb Loy Nichols Special
32) Wild Beasts – Smother
33) Wild Flag – Wild Flag
34) Yuck – Yuck
35) Hollie Cook – Hollie Cook
36) Wooden Shjips – West
37) Tom Waits – Bad as Me
38) Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
39) Still Corners – Creatures of an Hour
40) Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
41) Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See
42) Wilco – The Whole Love
43) The Stepkids – The Stepkids
44) Washed Out – Within and Without
45) The Leisure Society – Into the Murky Water
46) Mara Carlyle – Floreat
47) Iceage – New Brigade
48) Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
49) James Blake – James Blake
50) The Vaccines – What Do You Expect from the Vaccines
51) Peaking Lights – 936
52) Radiohead – King of Limbs
53) Azari and III – Azari and III
54) Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome
55) Male Bonding – Endless Now
56) Cashier No. 9 – To the Death of Fun
57) The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
58) Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
59) Bjork – Bibliophilia
60) Cat’s Eyes – Cat’s Eyes
61) Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
62) Little Dragon – Ritual Union
63) King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
64) The Field – Looping State of Mind
65) Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
66) The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
67) Martyn – Ghost People
68) Flashman – To the Victor – The Spoils
69) Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
70) Other Lives – Tamer Animals
71) Explosions in the Sky – Take Care Take Care Take Care
72) Cornershop featuring Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop and the Double ‚o‘ Groove
73) The Felice Brothers – Celebration Florida
74) Dirty Beaches – Badlands
75) Real Estate – Days
76) Richmond Fontaine – The High Country
77) Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
78) She Keeps Bees – Dig On
79) Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go
80) PanningToRock – W
81) Pete and the Pirates – One Thousand Pictures
82) Kitty, Daisy and Lewis – Smoking in Heaven
83) Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
84) The Horrors – Skying
85) Moon Duo – Mazes
86) Big Deal – Lights Out
87) Locussolus – Locussolus
88) New Look – New Look
89) Kode 9 and the Spaceape – Black Sun
90) Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
91) Woods – Sun and Shade
92) Love Inks – Esp
93) Summer Camp – Welcome to Condale
94) Jehst – The Dragon of an Ordinary Family
95) I Break Horses – Hearts
96) Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
97) Big Troubles – Romantic Comedy
98) Neon Indian – Era Extrana
99) tUnE-yArDs – Whokill
100) Tyler the Creator – Goblin
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