The best albums of 2011

[heroicraptor]

Portal 2's soundtrack, Songs To Test By. Fantastic.

[Carpathian Psychonaut]

If there isn't something for you to discover in my list for last year then you might as well go hang your ears up. Last year was wonderful and, if anything, I'm still way behind on releases still.

Even just the extraordinary Icelandic store gogoyoko gave me HAM, Dillon, Sóley and about 6 more I'm still working through. 2011 was, for me, deceptively fertile.

Roly Porter - Aftertime
Planningtorock - W
Austra - Feel It Break
Gazelle Twin - The Entire City
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy Jam
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Opeth - Heritage
Devin Townsend
Lamb - 5
Fatima Al Qadiri - Genre Specific Xperience
Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
My Dying Bride - The Barghest O' Whitby
Emika - Emika
Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer
Sóley - We Sink
Alva Noto - Univrs
Bjork - Biophilia
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
I Break Horses - Hearts
St Vincent - Strange Mercy
HAM - Svik, harmur og dauði
Younger Brother - Vacine
Death Grips - Exmilitary
Grimes/D'Eon - Darkbloom
The Weeknd - House Of Balloons / Thursday / Echoes Of Silence
Dillon - This Silence Kills
Snowman - Absence