SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2012
In 2012, R&B crooned underwater, metal went not-metal, and hip-hop fell into a K-hole, and these were just a few of the ways to make a big bang this
Published: December 03, 2012

Stereogum's Top 25 Albums of 2012 So Far
The year isn’t half over yet. We know that. But since everyone starts unveiling their year-end lists in November, we figured we wouldn’t be too far out of pocket if we unveiled our favorites of the 2012 calendar year the week before Memorial Day. Our favorite album of the year (so far) is the one […]
Published: May 23, 2012

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

Complex's 25 Best Albums of 2011
We listened to everything, argued a lot, and came back with these, the albums we just can't live without.
Published: December 19, 2011

Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2011
Lived any good albums lately?
Published: December 16, 2011

Slant Magazine's 25 Best Albums of 2011
The ladies truly dominate the upper reaches of our 2011 albums list in a way they haven’t ever before.
Published: December 14, 2011

SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011
Everywhere you looked this year there was an absurd or chaotic or turbulent situation that made absolutely no sense whatsoever — people all over the world
Published: December 12, 2011

Treble's Top 50 Albums of 2011

Published: December 11, 2011

A.V. Club's Best Music of 2011
Every year, The A.V. Club invites its music writers to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. (Since we vote in mid-November, this takes us back to December 2010. That means late 2011 albums like The Roots Undun will be eligible next year.) Then we ask that they disperse 100 points over no more than 15 of…
Published: December 06, 2011

Stereogum's Top 50 Albums of 2011
2011 was the year music learned to float. Actually, that’s not true at all; music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe since the first caveman licked a frog and figured out that his grunts got extra-spacey. But surveying our 2011 top […]
Published: December 05, 2011

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2011
The complete collection of NPR's recommendations for the best music of 2011.
Published: December 05, 2011

Idolator's Favorite 10 Albums of 2011
Since January, our ears have reveled in hearing new LPs from several bona fide superstars and promising debuts from up-and-coming artists. Of course…
Published: November 29, 2011

Stereogum's Top 20 Albums Of 2011 So Far
We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we’re at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was some science behind the final tally: Each one of us made a list and […]
Published: June 21, 2011