The Village Voice's Pazz N Job Poll 2011 →
The critics ended with the same top album of 2011 as I did.
Here’s how the rest of my personal list fared in their poll…
01. TUNE-YARDS whokill (#1)
02. CHARLES BRADLEY No Time for Dreaming (#50)
03. RADIOHEAD The King of Limbs (#33)
04. GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost (#25)
05. YELLOWBIRDS The Color (NR)
06. BEIRUT The Rip Tide (#103)
07. THE ANTLERS Burst Apart (#68)
08. FUTURE ISLANDS On the Water (#213)
09. THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Belong (#83)
10. ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy (#12)
11. WYE OAK Civilian (#40)
12. DUM DUM GIRLS Only in Dreams (#55)
13. BON IVER Bon Iver (#9)
14. YUCK Yuck (#24)
15. THE ROOTS undun (#17)
16. REAL ESTATE Days (#32)
17. TV ON THE RADIO Nine Types of Light (#43)
18. THE WEEKND House of Balloons (#13)
19. A.A. BONDY Believers (#207)
20. WIDOWSPEAK Widowspeak (#372)
21. THE BLACK KEYS El Camino (#21)
22. WILCO The Whole Love (#22)
23. THE WAR ON DRUGS Slave Ambient (#49)
24. SHOULD Like a Fire Without Sound (NR)
25. CULTS Cults (#91)
26. THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE Departing (#419)
27. THE ROSEBUDS Loud Planes Fly Low (#398)
28. ACTION BRONSON Dr. Lecter (#199)
29. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS Mirror Traffic (#46)
30. THE DECEMBERISTS The King Is Dead (#29)
31. LYKKE LI Wounded Rhymes (#38)
32. WITCHES Forever (NR)
33. FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues (#18)
34. OTHER LIVES Tamer Animals (#1571)
35. SAIGON The Greatest Story Never Told (#141)
36. FEIST Metals (#59)
37. WASHED OUT Within and Without (#82)
38. M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (#19)
39. SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE Dirty Radio (NR)
40. THE TREE RING Generous Shadows (NR)
