Top 150 Albums as voted by Reddit:
1 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83 - October 18th on Naïve Records
2 Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes - May 3rd on Sub Pop
3 Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Jun. 21st on Jagjaguwar
4 El Camino - The Black Keys - Dec 6 on Nonesuch Records
5 James Blake - James Blake - February 4th on Atlas
6 Take Care, Take Care, Take Care - Explosions in the Sky - 26 April 2011 on Temporary Residence Limited.
7 The King of Limbs - Radiohead - Feb. 18th, self released
8 House of Balloons - The Weeknd - March 21 2011 - Self released
9 Camp - Childish Gambino - November 15th on Glassnote
10 Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
11 Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Cliff Martinez and Various Artists - September 27th on Lakeshore
12 The King is Dead - The Decemberists - January 14th on Capitol
13 Burst Apart - The Antlers - May 10th on Frenchkiss
14 w h o k i l l ~ tUnE-yArDs - April 19 on 4AD
15 Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - Mogwai
16 Bad As Me - Tom Waits - October 24th on Anti
17 The Hunter - Mastodon - Sep 27th on Reprise
18 Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls - Sept. 7th on True Panther
19 Wasting Light - Foo Fighters - RCA Records, April 12
20 Nine Types of Light ~ TV on the Radio - April 11 on Interscope
21 21 - Adele - February 22 on Columbia
22 Gloss Drop - Battles - June 6 on Warp
23 Watch the Throne - Jay Z & Kanye West - Aug. 8th on Roc-A-Fella
24 Torches - Foster the People - May 2011, Columbia
25 Cults - Cults (In The Name Of | June 7)
26 The Rip Tide - Beirut - Aug. 2 on Pompeii
27 The Whole Love - Wilco
28 Passive Me Aggressive You - The Naked and Famous - March 15, 2011 on Republic;Edit: People have brought it to my attention that this album originally came out on September 6, 2010 under the label Somewhat Damaged. I should have known that, sorry folks.
29 Let England Shake - PJ Harvey - February 11th on Vagrant
30 David Comes to Life - ####ed Up - June 6, 2011 on Matador
31 SBTRKT - SBTRKT - June 28 on Young Turks
32 Hot Sauce Committee Part Two - Beastie Boys - April 27 on Capitol
33 In The Mountain, In The Cloud - Portugal. The Man - July 19th, 2011 on Atlantic
34 Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Here - February 21, 2011 + XL
35 Yuck - Yuck - Feb. 15th on Fat Possum
36 Tomboy - Panda Bear
37 Within and Without - Washed Out - July 11 on Sub Pop
38 Zonoscope - Cut Copy
39 Days - Real Estate - Oct. 18th on Domino
40 Kaputt - Destroyer - Jan. 25th on Merge
41 TRON: Legacy Reconfigured - Daft Punk - Disney Records
42 Ceremonials - Florence and the Machine - Oct 31 on Island Records
43 Kiss Each Other Clean - Iron & Wine - January 25th on Warner Bros./4AD
44 Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li - February 25 on LL/EMI
45 Circuital - My Morning Jacket - May 31st on ATO
46 nostalgia, Ultra - Frank Ocean - Feb. 18 Self-released
47 Metals - Feist - October 4th on Cherrytree
48 Simple Math - Manchester Orchestra - May 9th on Favorite Gentlemen Recordings
49 Black Up - Shabazz Palaces - June 27, 2011 + Sub Pop
50 Parallax - Atlas Sound - Nov 7 on 4AD
51 Smoke Ring For My Halo - Kurt Vile - March 7 on Matador
52 Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar - July 2nd, 2011 - Top Dawg Entertainment
53 Rome - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi -16 May
54 Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
55 The People's Key - Bright Eyes - February 15th on Saddle Creek
56 Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - WU LYF - June 13th on LYF Recordings;EDIT: Fixed release date!
57 Underneath the Pine - Toro Y Moi - February 22, 2011 + Carpark Records
58 Angles - The Strokes - March 18, 2011 + RCA, Rough Trade
59 Making Mirrors - Gotye - 19th August on Eleven
60 Heritage - Opeth - September 13th on Roadrunner Records
61 Era Extraña - Neon Indian - Sep. 13th on Inertia
62 Dye It Blonde - Smith Westerns - Jan, 18 2011 Fat Possum
63 Suck It And See - Arctic Monkeys - 6th June on Domino
64 Welcome Reality - Nero - August 12th on MTA
65 Civilian - Wye Oak - Mar. 8 on Merge
66 Reptilians - Star####er - March 8, 2011 on Polyvinyl Records
67 Slave Ambient - The War on Drugs - Aug. 16th on Secretly Canadian
68 Weightless - Animals as Leaders - Nov 8 Prosthetic Records
69 All Eternals Deck - The Mountain Goats - March 29 + Merge Records
70 Major/Minor - Thrice - Sept 20 on Vagrant Records
71 Return of 4Eva - Big K.R.I.T. - March 28th, self released
72 The Year of Hibernation - Youth Lagoon - Sept 27 2011 - Fat Possum
73 Undun - The Roots - December 6th, 2011 (Has been streaming on NPR past week or so) - Def Jam Records
74 Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
75 Hello Sadness - Los Campesinos! - November 14th on Wichita
76 Empros - Russian Circles
77 Inni - Sigur Ros - November 15 on XL
78 The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues - Between the Buried and Me - March 31st on Metal Blade
79 Biophilia - Björk - October 10 on One Little Indian
80 The Big Roar - The Joy Formidable - January 24, 2011 Atlantic Records
81 Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
82 Space is Only Noise - Nicolas Jaar - 31 January 2011 on Circus Company
83 Grace for Drowning - Steven Wilson - September 26th on kscope
84 England Keep My Bones - Frank Turner
85 English Riviera - Metronomy - April 19, 2011 on 101 DISTRIBUTION
86 A Dramatic Turn of Events - Dream Theater - September 13, 2011 through Roadrunner Records.;Edit: Fixed formatting.
87 Showroom of Compassion - Cake - January 11 on Upbeat Records
88 Thank You, Happy Birthday - Cage the Elephant - Jan. 11 on RCA
89 The Colour Spectrum - The Dear Hunter - June 14th on Triple Crown
90 Ravedeath 1972 - Tim Hecker - February 14, 2011 + Kranky
91 Mirror Traffic - Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
92 Scurrilous - Protest the Hero - March 22, 2011 + on Vagrant Records in the US and Underground Operations in Canada.
93 Eye Contact - Gang Gang Dance - May 10, 2011 + 4AD
94 Odd Soul - MUTEMATH - October 4, 2011 on Teleprompt/Warner Bros.
95 Relax - Das Racist - September 13th on Greedhead Records
96 Wildlife - La Dispute - October 4 on No Sleep
97 Conditions of My Parole - Puscifer - October 18, 2011 - Puscifer Entertainment
98 Goblin - Tyler, The Creator - May 10, 2011 on XL Recordings
99 Isam - Amon Tobin
100 Take Care - Drake - November 15, 2011 on Young Money
101 Deconstruction - The Devin Townsend Project - June 20th on InsideOut Music
102 Grouplove - Never Trust a Happy Song - September 2 / Atlantic
103 Dive - Tycho - November 15th on Ghostly International
104 Smile - The Beach Boys - November 1, 2011 + Capitol
105 Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine
106 Oneirology - Cunninlynguists - March 22 QN5 Music
107 Wild Flag - Wild Flag
108 Build a Rocket Boys! - Elbow - March 4 + FictionRecords/Polydor
109 John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves - June 28th on Ribbon.
110 Megalithic Symphony - AWOLNATION - March 15 on Red Bull Records
111 House of Balloons - The Weeknd - March 2011 - mixtape on the-weenkd.com
112 Looping State Of Mind - The Field - October 11th on Kompakt
113 D - White Denim - 24 May on Downtown Records
114 Wild Beasts - Smother - May 9th on Domino
115 13 Chambers - Wugazi - July 13th 2011 + Doomtree
116 Life Fantastic - Man Man - May 6 on Anti
117 Ritual Union - Little Dragon - Jul. 25th 2011 on Peacefrog Records
118 Endgame - Rise Against - March 11, 2011 - Interscope
119 Green Naugahyde - Primus - September 12 on ATO Records.
120 Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never - Software [november]
121 Join Us - They Might Be Giants - July 19th on Idlewild
122 London Sessions - LCD Soundsystem - January 25th on Virgin
123 Departing - The Rural Alberta Advantage - March 1st on Paper Bag Records/Saddle Creek Records
124 On the Water - Future Islands - October 11 on Thrill Jockey
125 Glass Swords - Rustie - October 11th Warp Records
126 Cole World: The Sideline Story - J. Cole - September 27th, Roc Nation
127 Minecraft-Volume Alpha - C418 - March 04
128 Spiritual State - Nujabes - Dec. 3 Hydeout Productions
129 Exmilitary - Death Grips - April 26th on Third Worlds
130 Apocalypse - Bill Callahan
131 Skying - The Horrors - 11th July on XL Recordings;Can't believe my top album from this year hasn't been posted yet!
132 Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me - Touche Amore - June 7th on Deathwish
133 Gangs - And So I Watch You From Afar - April 29th on Richter Collective
134 Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing - The Wonder Years - June 14th on Hopeless Records
135 Friendly Fires - Pala - May 24 / XL
136 Unto the Locust - Machine Head - Sept. 27 + Roadrunner
137 Arabia Mountain - The Black Lips - June 7th - Vice Records
138 Velociraptor! - Kasabian - September 16 on RCA
139 Vows - Kimbra - Aug 29 Warner bros.
140 The Year of Hibernation - Youth Lagoon - September - Fat Possum Records
141 Conatus - Zola Jesus
142 Seeds - Hey Rosetta! - February 15th
143 ALERT: HIPSTER DETECTED
144 The Devil's Walk - Apparat - September 27 on Mute Records
145 Alpocalypse - Weird Al Yankovic - June 21, 2011 on Volcano Records
146 Only in Dreams - Dum Dum Girls
147 One - TesseracT - March 22, 2011 on Century Media Records.
148 Little Hell - City and Colour - June 7th on Dine Alone
149 Mine Is Yours - Cold War Kids - January 25 on Downtown
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