The Best Fit Fifty: Albums of 2011

This list is a selection of some of the records we’ve come to love over the course of the last twelve months.We hope there’s something here you love. Either way, we look forward to the flurry of tweets telling us how irredeemably shit our taste is, and…

Published: December 22, 2011 00:00 Source

# 1
Album • Aug 22 / 2011 Dream Pop Shoegaze
# 2
Album • Nov 15 / 2011 Chillwave Dream Pop
# 3
Album • Aug 16 / 2011 Indie Rock
# 4
Album • Mar 07 / 2011 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter
# 5
Album • Oct 04 / 2011 Indie Pop
# 6
Album • May 16 / 2011 Synthpop Indietronica Art Pop
# 7
Album • Sep 26 / 2011 IDM Outsider House
# 8
Album • Mar 21 / 2011
# 9
Album • Dec 29 / 2012 Hypnagogic Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 10
Album • Aug 23 / 2011 Dream Pop Art Pop Alt-Pop
# 11
Album • Apr 04 / 2011 Dance-Pop UK Funky
# 12
Album • May 17 / 2011 Electropop
# 13
Album • Jan 01 / 2011 Alt-Country Singer-Songwriter
# 14
Album • Sep 26 / 2011 Indietronica
# 15
Album • May 09 / 2011 Neo-Psychedelia Art Pop
# 16
Album • May 31 / 2011 Psychedelic Folk Slacker Rock
# 17
Album • Apr 11 / 2011 Indie Pop Indietronica
# 18
Album • Jun 21 / 2011
# 19
Album • Jul 05 / 2011 Dream Pop Slacker Rock
# 20
Album • Jan 01 / 2011 Indie Pop Art Pop
# 21
Album • Feb 03 / 2011
# 22
Album • Sep 13 / 2011 Indie Rock Indie Pop Indie Surf
# 23
Album • Feb 07 / 2011 UK Hip Hop
# 24
Album • May 24 / 2011 Indie Folk
# 25
Album • Sep 12 / 2011 Indietronica Art Pop Dream Pop
# 26
Album • Oct 21 / 2011
# 27
Album • Oct 18 / 2011 Indie Pop Jangle Pop
# 28
Album • Jan 01 / 2011 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk Americana
# 29
Album • Jan 01 / 2011 Dream Pop Synthpop
# 30
Album • Jul 11 / 2011 Dubstep Future Garage
# 31
Album • Jan 01 / 2011 Indie Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 32
Album • Jun 27 / 2011 Future Garage
# 33
Album • Jun 28 / 2011 Experimental Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop
# 34
Album • Jan 18 / 2011 Neo-Psychedelia Indie Pop
# 35
Album • Mar 28 / 2011 Psychedelic Pop Neo-Psychedelia
# 36
Album • Apr 18 / 2011
# 37
Album • Jan 25 / 2011 Sophisti-Pop Art Pop
# 38
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Album • Apr 25 / 2011 UK Hip Hop Glitch Hop
# 39
Album • Jun 20 / 2011 Math Rock Neo-Psychedelia Experimental Rock Math Pop
# 40
Album • Oct 21 / 2011 Minimal Techno Electroacoustic
# 41
Album • Sep 30 / 2011 UK Bass IDM
# 42
Album • May 16 / 2011 Math Rock Post-Rock
# 43
Album • Jun 21 / 2011 Post-Punk Art Punk
# 44
Album • Feb 15 / 2011 Post-Rock
# 45
Album • May 10 / 2011 Indie Rock Chamber Pop
# 46
Album • Oct 10 / 2011 Modern Classical Ambient
# 47
Album • Feb 11 / 2011 Ambient Ambient Pop
# 48
Album • Nov 08 / 2011 Math Rock
# 50
Album • Oct 10 / 2011 Purple Sound Future Bass Wonky