Best Albums of the Years: 2011

by 5:4

Original Top 40

  1. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Anthropomorphic
  2. Three Trapped Tigers – Route One Or Die
  3. Monty Adkins – Fragile.Flicker.Fragment
  4. Indignant Senility – Blemished Breasts
  5. Fovea Hex – Here Is Where We Used To Sing
  6. Black Swan – The Quiet Divide
  7. Xela – Exorcism
  8. Grutronic And Evan Parker – Together In Zero Space
  9. Access to Arasaka – Geosynchron
  10. Svarte Greiner – Twin
  11. Ektoise – Kiyomizu
  12. Björk – Biophilia
  13. Jenny Hval – Viscera
  14. Hecq – Avenger
  15. Tartar Lamb II – Polyimage of Known Exits
  16. Akita / Gustafsson / O’Rourke – One Bird Two Bird
  17. aTelecine – A Cassette Tape Culture Phase Two
  18. Chubby Wolf – Los que No Son Gentos
  19. Ulver – Wars of the Roses
  20. Merzbow – Kamadhenu
  21. Celer – Noctilucent Clouds
  22. Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 2)
  23. Frank Zappa – Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison
  24. Stephan Mathieu – A Static Place
  25. Christopher William Anderson – Moskenstraumen
  26. Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta
  27. Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil
  28. Braids – Native Speaker
  29. Roly Porter – Aftertime
  30. Patrick Wolf – Lupercalia
  31. David Lynch – INLAND EMPIRE (Original Motion Picture Score)
  32. Autechre & The Hafler Trio – ae3o3
  33. John Cage – 108/109/110
  34. Arlene Sierra – Arlene Sierra Vol. 1
  35. Kate Wax – Dust Collision
  36. Aleks Kolkowski & Ute Wassermann – Squall Line
  37. Kate Havnevik – You
  38. Philippe Petit – Nyctalopia
  39. This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
  40. Uh Huh Her – Nocturnes

Revised Top 30​

  1. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Anthropomorphic
  2. Three Trapped Tigers – Route One Or Die
  3. Monty Adkins – Fragile.Flicker.Fragment
  4. Indignant Senility – Blemished Breasts
  5. Fovea Hex – Here Is Where We Used To Sing
  6. Xela – Exorcism
  7. Grutronic & Evan Parker – Together In Zero Space
  8. Access to Arasaka – Geosynchron
  9. Collin Thomas – April Triptych
  10. Christopher McFall & David Velez – Credence
  11. Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek – Grower
  12. Diamond Catalog – Magnified Palette
  13. Gareth Davis, Jan Kleefstra & Romke Kleefstra – Sieleslyk
  14. Svarte Greiner – Twin
  15. Björk – Biophilia
  16. Jenny Hval – Viscera
  17. Yugen – Ae’shT’aT’aQ
  18. Tartar Lamb II – Polyimage of Known Exits
  19. Akita, Gustafsson & O’Rourke – One Bird Two Bird
  20. aTelecine – A Cassette Tape Culture Phase Two
  21. Ulver – Wars of the Roses
  22. Gazelle Twin – The Entire City
  23. Celer – Noctilucent Clouds
  24. Merzbow – Kamadhenu
  25. Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 2)
  26. irr. app. (ext.) – Orgonosis #4
  27. Andrzej Panufnik – Symphonic Works Vol. 4 [Konzerthausorchester Berlin / Borowicz]
  28. Stephan Mathieu – A Static Place
  29. Frank Zappa – Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison
  30. Chubby Wolf – Maudlin & Elusive