Parallax View Albums Of The Year 2011

The 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 BEASTS
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Past Life Martyred Saints - EMA
4. Watch The Throne - Jay-Z and Kanye West
5. Computers And Blues - The Streets
6. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
7. Bad As Me - Tom Waits
8. Space Is Only Noise - Nicolas Jaar
9. Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li
10. Hurry Up We're Dreaming - M83
11. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
12. Parallax - Atlas Sound
13. Conatus - Zola Jesus
14. Leisure Seizure - Tom Vek
15. Within And Without - Washed Out
16. Credo - The Human League
17. Nine Shades Of Light - TV On The Radio
18. Black Up - Shabazz Palaces
19. The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
20. The House Of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes Of Silence - The Weeknd
21. Yuck - Yuck
22. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
23. Last Summer - Eleanor Friedberger
24. We Should Be The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves - John Maus
25. Belong - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
26. A Creature I Don't Know - Laura Marling
27. w h o k i l l - tUnE-yArDs
28. Last - The Unthanks
29. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? - The Vaccines
30. On A Mission - Katy B
31. A Different Kind Of Fix - Bombay Bicycle Club
32. Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholic Jam - Ghostpoet
33. Several Shades Of Why - J Mascis
34. Cults - Cults
35. Angles - The Strokes
36. Gravity The Seducer - Ladytron
37. The Words That You Said Are Still Wet In My Head - Ace Bushy Striptease
38. 1977 - Terius Nash
39. On The Water - Future Islands
40. Skins - Buffalo Tom