Parallax View Albums Of The Year 2011The usual disclaimers apply: we can't pretend to have listened to every single new record released in the UK during the calendar year of 2011 but of those we did, these were the best, and in this precise order -
1. SMOTHER -
WILD BEASTS2. Bon Iver -
Bon Iver3. Past Life Martyred Saints -
EMA4. Watch The Throne -
Jay-Z and Kanye West5. Computers And Blues -
The Streets6. Let England Shake -
PJ Harvey7. Bad As Me -
Tom Waits8. Space Is Only Noise -
Nicolas Jaar9. Wounded Rhymes -
Lykke Li10. Hurry Up We're Dreaming -
M8311. A Winged Victory For The Sullen -
A Winged Victory For The Sullen12. Parallax -
Atlas Sound13. Conatus -
Zola Jesus14. Leisure Seizure -
Tom Vek15. Within And Without -
Washed Out16. Credo -
The Human League17. Nine Shades Of Light -
TV On The Radio18. Black Up -
Shabazz Palaces19. The King Of Limbs -
Radiohead20. The House Of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes Of Silence -
The Weeknd21. Yuck -
Yuck22. SBTRKT -
SBTRKT23. Last Summer -
Eleanor Friedberger24. We Should Be The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves -
John Maus25. Belong -
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart26. A Creature I Don't Know -
Laura Marling27. w h o k i l l -
tUnE-yArDs28. Last -
The Unthanks29. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? -
The Vaccines30. On A Mission -
Katy B31. A Different Kind Of Fix -
Bombay Bicycle Club32. Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholic Jam -
Ghostpoet33. Several Shades Of Why -
J Mascis34. Cults -
Cults35. Angles -
The Strokes36. Gravity The Seducer -
Ladytron37. The Words That You Said Are Still Wet In My Head -
Ace Bushy Striptease38. 1977 -
Terius Nash39. On The Water -
Future Islands40. Skins -
Buffalo TomLabels: announcements, better late than never stop complaining