1000 Times Yes

cleaning out my closet: the top 100 records of 2011

1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

2. Liturgy – Aesthetica

3. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres

4. The Men - Leave Home

5. Horseback – Impale Golden Horn

6. Pistol Annies - Pistol Annies

7. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

8. All Pigs Must Die - God Is War

9. Factory Floor – “A Wooden Box”/“R E A L L O V E”/“Two Different Ways” 12-inches

10. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Chamber Music

11. Killer Mike - Pl3dge

12. EMA - Past Lives Martyred Saints

13. Ghost - Opus Eponymous

14. E-40 - Revenue Retrievin: Graveyard Shift

15. Melvins – Endless Residency 4 CD set

16. Israel Martínez - El Hombre Que Se Sofoca

17. Cultus Sabbati - The Garden Of Forking Paths

18. Escort – Escort

19. Big K.R.I.T. - Return Of 4Eva

20. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass

21. Burning Tree - Stinger

22. Danny Brown - XXX

23. Gui Borrato – III

24. Korn – The Path Of Totality

25. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

26. Mouse On The Track - Swagga Fresh Freddie

27. Hubble – Hubble Drums

28. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream

29. Big Business – Quadringle EP

30. Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

31. Drake – Take Care

32. Boris - Attention Please

33. Colin Stetson – Live At ATP 2011

34. The Dirtbombs – Party Store

35. Grails – Deep Politics

36. Don Trip & Starlito – Stepbrothers 

37. Deaf Center – Owl Splinters

38. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – summvs

39. Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

40. Glenn Jones - The Wanting

41. Sick Llama – Fuor Coffins

42. Oh No + Alchemist + Roc Marciano – Greneberg EP

43. Mark Deutrom – The Value Of Decay

44. Psychic Paramount – II

45. DJ Rashad - Just A Taste, Vol. 1

46. Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs

47. Lady Gaga – Born This Way

48. Gunplay – Inglorious Bastard 

49. Group Doueh – Zayna Jumma

50. Soft Moon – Total Decay EP

51. Dayton Family – Charges Of Indictment

52. Grayceon – All We Destroy

53. Kool G Rap – Riches, Royalty & Respect

54. Winter Family – Red Sugar

55. Beyoncé – 4

56. Death Grips – Exmilitary

57. Elzhi – Elmatic

58. Mick Barr – Coiled Malescence

59. Driphouse – Root71

60. The Field – Looping State Of Mind

61. Bruce Lamont – Feral Songs For The Epic Decline

62. The Advisory Circle – As The Crow Flies

63. Terakraft – Aratan N Azawad

64. Mountains – Air Museum

65. DJ Quik – The Book Of David

66. Remember Remember – The Quickening

67. Cam’ron & Vado – Gunz & Butter

68. Mika Vaino – Life (…It Eats You Up)

69. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

70. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

71. Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch The Throne

72. Lloyd - King Of Hearts

73. Juicy J & Lex Luger – Rubba Band Business

74. Tity Boi – Codiene Cowboy

75. Yob - Atma

76. Shinji Masuko – Woven Music

77. S.C.U.M. – Again Into Eyes

78. Juv – Juv

79. White Suns – Waking In The Reservoir

80. Rabbits – Lower Forms

81. Tyler, The Creator – Goblin

82. Windmills By The Ocean – II

83. Subrosa – No Help For The Mighty Ones

84. Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - Horpma

85. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica

86. Mark Fell - Periodic Orbit Of Dynamic System Related To A Knot

87. Das Racist – Relax

88. Pechenga – Helt Borte

89. Tombs – Path Of Totality

90. Craft - Void

91. The Necks - Mindset

92. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

93. Red Horse – Red Horse

94. Wolves In the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage

95. Golden Retriever – Emergent Layer

96. Encoffination - O’ Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres

97. Beauclerk – Beauclerk

98. KEN Mode - Venerable

99. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – From Africa With Fury: Rise 

100. Matthew Cooper – Some Days Are Better Than Others