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Highest Rated Albums of 2011

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Genre

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- - All
  - Alternative Rock
  - Art Pop
  - Dance Pop
  - Dream Pop
  - Dubstep
  - Electronic
  - Electropop
  - Experimental
  - Experimental Rock
  - Folk
  - Garage Rock
  - Hip Hop
- - Indie Folk
  - Indie Pop
  - Indie Rock
  - Lo-Fi
  - Noise Rock
  - Pop
  - Pop Rap
  - Post-Punk
  - Psychedelic
  - Punk
  - Rock
  - Singer-Songwriter
  - Synthpop

2011

This is an ordered list of NME's highest rated albums of 2011. Check out NME's Year End List.

1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

February 15, 2011

Alternative Rock

Score

100

2. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

January 25, 2011

Score

3. Glasvegas - EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\

$Glasvegas - EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\$

April 5, 2011

Score

4. Wild Beasts - Smother

May 10, 2011

Score

5. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

March 1, 2011

Score

6. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See

June 7, 2011

Score

7. Metronomy - The English Riviera

April 12, 2011

Score

8. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

September 13, 2011

Score

9. Björk - Biophilia

October 11, 2011

Score

10. Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal?

July 26, 2011

Score

11. Alessi's Ark - Time Travel

April 25, 2011

Score

12. David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding

June 13, 2011

Score

13. The Rifles - Freedom Run

September 19, 2011

Score

14. Bill Ryder-Jones - If

November 14, 2011

Score

15. The Death Set - Michel Poiccard

March 15, 2011

Score

16. Milk Maid - Yucca

June 20, 2011

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17. Kai Fish - Life in Monochrome

September 26, 2011

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18. The Strange Boys - Live Music

October 25, 2011

Score

19. The Sound of Arrows - Voyage

November 7, 2011

Score

20. Pete and the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures

May 23, 2011

Score

21. Warm Brains - Old Volcanoes

August 15, 2011

Score

22. Destroyer - Kaputt

January 25, 2011

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23. Broken Records - Let Me Come Home

January 11, 2011

24. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

January 18, 2011

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25. Bright Eyes - The People's Key

February 15, 2011

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings NME awarded albums throughout 2011.

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