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Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2011

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// For GAF's favorite albums, check out Toma's thread here! //

Top 100 Tracks | Honorable Mention

Top 50 Albums
50. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
49. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
48. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
47. Sepalcure - Sepalcure
46. Cults - Cults
45. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
44. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
43. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
42. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
41. Liturgy - Aesthethica
40. ArabMuzik - Electronic Dream
39. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
38. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
37. Iceage - New Brigade
36. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
35. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra.
34. Katy B - On a Mission
33. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
32. Panda Bear - Tomboy
31. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
30. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
29. DJ Quik - The Book of David
28. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
27. Beyonce - 4
26. The Field - Looping State of Mind
25. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
24. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
23. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
22. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
21. Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch the Throne
20. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
19. Danny Brown - XXX
18. Atlas Sound - Parallax
17. Clams Casino - Instrumentals
16. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
15. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
13. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
12. James Blake - James Blake
11. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
10. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
9. Real Estate - Days
8. Drake - Take Care
7. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
 
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Lafiel

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None of my top 10 (Tim hecker, Kate bush, Panda bear) are in the Top 10 therefore this list sucks...
 
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PhoenixDark

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Watch The Throne over Section 80 lol

I shouldn't hate too much, apparently they're going to have Danny Brown pretty high on the list
 
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GodfatherX

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let's see what they do for Bon Iver, Adele and Oneirology.

My predictions Oneirology won't make the list, and they'll give Bon Iver the nod over Adele
 
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Poimandres

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What I dislike about Pitchfork are their reviews of pop, electronic and other things outside of their area of "expertise". With these things they can be well off the mark, and totally skip many of the years best releases.
 
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theBishop

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Off to a decent start.

Personally, I have Gang Gang Dance's Eye Contact higher.

I have a feeling M83 is going to get grossly overrated.
 
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theBishop

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It's crazy that Caretaker is making so many lists. It flew under the radar all year, and very few copies were pressed.

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BenjaminBirdie

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This is all that matters anyway. Singles, baby.

05. Real Estate: "It's Real" [Domino]

Even Real Estate's most ardent supporters admitted that their 2009 self-titled album was a bit on the hazy, noncommittal side. (That was even part of the draw for a few of us.) On that record, the Ridgewood, New Jersey, natives were rocking the beach, fetching cans of Sprite and Budweiser from the cooler. Two years later, "It's Real" finds them scraping off tree bark to proclaim their love. As it turns out, clarity in both sound and emotion suits them well.

Propelled by an instantly memorable guitar lead from Matthew Mondanile that would make any Postcard Records band seethe with envy, the track has frontman Martin Courtney spouting an uncomplicated, addictive vocal melody that's plaintive without being apathetic, emotive but not cloying. The uncertainty in the first verse quickly falls away and is replaced by a confidence in his love. Before, not even a summertime poolside jaunt could quell the creeping dread of adulthood. Now, the brutal cold of a frozen-solid river evokes wistful romantic nostalgia. "It's Real" nails the feeling of when love goes from being The Great Intangible to something that settles in your bones. --Martin Douglas
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http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8726-the-top-100-tracks-of-2011/10/
 
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They always push a random mega-successful musician on the singles chart, but to put Beyonce's album that high means that they clearly just tallied votes. There's no way a bunch of music nerds congregate, debate, and put Beyonce over Lykke Li (in her genre) or Tim Hecker. I generally judge lists by how interesting its point-of-view is, but that's just dumb.
 
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BenjaminBirdie

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GhaleonQ said:
They always push a random mega-successful musician on the singles chart, but to put Beyonce's album that high means that they clearly just tallied votes. There's no way a bunch of music nerds congregate, debate, and put Beyonce over Lykke Li (in her genre) or Tim Hecker. I generally judge lists by how interesting its point-of-view is, but that's just dumb.
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That's crazy talk. "Countdown" is one of the finest songs of our generation, from Pavement to Aesop Rock to like I don't know Wynton Marsalis.
 
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GhaleonQ said:
They always push a random mega-successful musician on the singles chart, but to put Beyonce's album that high means that they clearly just tallied votes. There's no way a bunch of music nerds congregate, debate, and put Beyonce over Lykke Li (in her genre) or Tim Hecker. I generally judge lists by how interesting its point-of-view is, but that's just dumb.
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Don't they pull that shit with mainstream musicians just to appear less "hipsterish" or "snobbish" rather?
 
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BenjaminBirdie said:
That's crazy talk. "Countdown" is one of the finest songs of our generation, from Pavement to Aesop Rock to like I don't know Wynton Marsalis.
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Maybe. It doesn't make her album a tenth as ambitious as Ravedeath, 1972, nor does it make her album wholly embody her "thing" as much as Hecker does his.

Lafiel said:
Don't they pull that shit with mainstream musicians just to appear less "hipsterish" or "snobbish" rather?
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Maybe. If they didn't do it for that reason, it's weird that there's never more than 1 or 2 on each top 100 list. You'd think there would be more if really popular music was of such a high quality.
 
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Midnight City was the song of the year? I always viewed it as a pleasant enough synthpop song.
Pitchfork said:
Midnight City feels like a song destined to move and change as it continues into the future. Rather than tapping into our collective memory, it's a soundtrack for building new ones.
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hmmmmmm
 
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