After much deliberating here is the top 50 albums of 2011…

Key Tracks: The Look, The Bay, Corinne

Key Tracks: Gold On The Ceiling, Lonely Boy, Nova Baby

Key Tracks: Ice Cream, Futura, Sundome

Key Tracks: Santa Fe, The Rip Tide, East Harlem

Key Tracks: Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust, Space Is The Only Noise If You Can See, I Got A Woman

Key Tracks: Natalia's Song, A Devil Lay Here, Riding With Death

Key Tracks: House Of Balloons - Glass Table Girls, The Morning, Wicked Games

Key Tracks: My Cloud, NY Is Killing Me, I'll Take Care Of U

Key Tracks: Head For The Country, Hey Moon, Matter Of Fact

Key Tracks: Holocene, Calgary, Towers

Key Tracks: Glass Jar, Adult Goth, Romance Layers

Key Tracks: Wild Fire, Right Thing to Do, Pharoahs

Key Tracks: French Exit, Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out, Parentheses

Key Tracks: Anything New, Light Seep, K is For Kelson

Key Tracks: Jesus Fever, On Tour, In My Time

Key Tracks: Niggas in Paris, Murder to Excellence, Why I Love You

Key Tracks: Dirt, Heavy Pop, Summas Bliss

Key Tracks: Interplanetary Music, Close To Everything, We'll Meet Again

Key Tracks: It's Real, Easy, Kinder Blumen

Key Tracks: Headlines, Take Care, The Motto

Bubbling under...

• 21. Toro Y Moi: Underneath the Pine
• 22. Radiohead: The King of Limbs
• 23. Jessica 6: See The Light
• 24. Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
• 25. Destroyer: Kaputt
• 26. Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
• 27. Cass McCombs: Wit's End
• 28. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
• 29. Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes
• 30. The Rapture: In The Grace of Your Love
• 31. Tom Waits: Bad As Me
• 32. Florence + The Machine: Ceremonials
• 33. The Horrors: Skying
• 34. Art Department: The Drawing Board
• 35. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome
• 36. Wye Oak: Civillian
• 37. Hercules And Love Affair: Blue Songs
• 38. Iceage: New Brigade
• 39. The Field: Looping State Of Mind
• 40. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
• 41. Modeselektor: Monkeytown
• 42. Cults: Cults
• 43. Arctic Monkeys: Suck it and See
• 44. I Break Horses: Hearts
• 45. Maceo Plex: Life Index
• 46. Memory Tapes: Player Piano
• 47. Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
• 48. James Blake: James Blake
• 49. Little Dragon: Ritual Union
• 50. Africa Hitech: 93 Million Miles

Nearly made it...

St. Vincent: Strange Mercy, Oneohtrix point never: replica, Iron & Wine: Monkey Uptown, Wild Beasts: Smother, Crazy P: When We On, Pantha Du Prince: XI Versions of Black Noise, Neon Indian: Era Extraña, Friendly Fires: Pala, Washed Out: Within and Without, SebastiAn: Total, Thundercat: The Golden age of the Apocalypse, Martyn: Ghost People, Justice: Audio, Video, Disco, Mastodon: The Hunter, Kuedo: Severant, Feist: Metals