List: 11 Best Albums of 2011

My 11 favorite albums in 2011, in alphabetical order:

01. The Black Keys' El Camino 
02. The Decemberists' The King is Dead
03. Explosions in the Sky's Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
04. Girls' Father, Son, Holy Ghost
05. The Go! Team's Rolling Blackouts 
06. The Kills' Blood Pressures
07. Lykke Li's Wounded Rhymes
08. M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
09. Pistol Annie's Hell on Heels

10. PJ Harvey's Let England Shake
11. Wye Oak's Civilian 

Honorable mention, in alphabetical order:
Adele's 21
Bon Iver's Bon Iver
Brad Paisley's This Is Country Music
Childish Gambino's Camp
Gary Clark Jr.'s The Bright Lights EP 
The Civil Wars' Barton Hollow 
Cut Copy's In Ghost Colours
Destroyer's Kaputt
Drake's Take Care
Dum Dum Girls' Only in Dreams
Eric Church's Chief
Feist's Metals
The Field's Looping State of Mind
Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues
Florence & The Machine's Ceremonials
Foster the People's Torches
Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra
Friendly Fires' Pala

Jay-Z & Kanye West's Watch the Throne
Jessica Lea Mayfield's Tell Me
The Joy Formidable's Big Roar
LIGHTS' Siberia
Little Dragon's Ritual Union
Low's C'mon 
Mastodon's The Hunter
Cass McCombs Wit's End/Humor Risk
Miranda Lambert's Four the Record
My Morning Jacket's Circuital 
Liturgy's Aesthethica
Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra
Josh T. Pearson's Last of the Country Gentlemen
Radiohead's The King of Limbs
Russian Circles' Empros 
Those Dancing Days' Daydreams and Nightmares
Tune-Yards' Whokill
Wild Flag's Wild Flag
Youth Lagoon's The Year of Hibernation
Yuck's Yuck