My Best of 2011: Top 25 Albums

1. Bon Iver: Bon Iver

2. Feist: Metals

3. Wilco: the Whole Love

4. Radiohead: King of Limbs

5. James Blake: James Blake

6. Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean

7. the Civil Wars: Barton Hollow

8. M83: Hurry Up We're Dreaming

9. Other Lives: Tamer Animals

10. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

11. the Head & the Heart: the Head & the Heart

12. Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

13. the War on Drugs: Slave Ambient

14. SBTRKT: SBTRKT

15. the Weeknd: House of Balloons

16. Gillian Welch: the Harrow & the Harvest

17. the Decemberists: the King is Dead

18. the Joy Formidable: Big Roar

19. Real Estate: Days

20. Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire

21. Ben Sollee: Inclusions

22. Los Camposinos: Hello Sadness

23. Ha Ha Tonka: Death of a Decade

24. Cults: Cults

25. Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes

Next Five:

Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra

Youth Lagoon: the Year of Hibernation

St. Vincent: Strange Misery

the Weeknd: Echoes of Silence

Noel Gallagher & His High Flying Birds: Noel Gallagher & His High Flying Birds