Albums of the Year

2011 / Don't Count On It

  1. The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
  2. Njiqahdda - The Path of Liberation From Birth and Death
  3. Crooked Necks - Alright Is Exactly What It Isn't
  4. TesseracT - One
  5. Servile Sect - TRVTH
  6. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
  7. Mastodon - The Hunter
  8. Circle of Ouroborus - Eleven Fingers
  9. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
  10. Blut Aus Nord - 777-Sect(s)
  11. Smohalla - Résilience
  12. The Axis of Perdition - Tenements (of The Anointed Flesh)
  13. Aenaon - Cendres Et Sang
  14. Mount Moriah - Mount Moriah
  15. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
  16. Locrian - The Clearing
  17. Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings
  18. Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii
  19. Execration - Odes to The Occult
  20. Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
  21. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
  22. Panopticon - Social Disservices
  23. Krallice - Diotima
  24. Aelter - Aelter III
  25. Hexvessel - Dawnbearer
  26. Barn Owl - Lost In The Glare
  27. Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness
  28. King Dude - Love
  29. Shining - VII: Född Förlorare
  30. Stielas Storhett - Expulse
  31. A Storm of Light - As The Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade
  32. Cara Neir - Stagnant Perceptions
  33. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
  34. Uneven Structure - Februus
  35. Heinali & Matt Finney - Ain't No Night
  36. Opeth - Heritage
  37. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In The Rotten Woods
  38. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass
  39. Eskhaton - Nihilgoety
  40. Bloodiest - Descent
  41. Ulver - Wars of The Roses
  42. Owl - Owl
  43. Botanist - I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From The Dead
  44. Oaks of Bethel - The Ghosts That We Are
  45. Nightbringer - Hierophany of The Open Grave
  46. Thomas Giles - Pulse
  47. Sutekh Hexen - Luciform
  48. Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument
  49. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
  50. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
http://dontcountonitreviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-50-albums-of-2011.html

2011 / Mick Mercer

  1. FEAR INCORPORATED - Sawney’s Cave
  2. MARK SINNIS - The Undertaker In My Rearview Mirror
  3. THE GHOST EFFECT - TGE
  4. THE SPIRITUAL BAT - Cruel Machine
  5. NOSFERATU - Wonderland
  6. VENUS FLY TRAP - Nemesis
  7. THE MiLLiPEDE ENGiNE - Bye Bye … We’re Melting
  8. GRAVETOWN - Red River
  9. CHRISTINE PLAYS VIOLA - Innocent Awareness
  10. VENDEMMIAN - One In A Million
  11. INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRY - Dreams Never End
  12. PLASTIC PEOPLE - Pink Narcisius
  13. 23 TRUBLION 23 - Chants Et Danses Au Temps De Graffen Walder
  14. ISOLATION/DIVISION - Sotto Voce
  15. THE DANSE SOCIETY - Change Of Skin
  16. SEVENTH HARMONIC - Garden Of Dilmun
  17. GAE BOLG - La Nef Des Fous 1
  18. LOS CARNICEROS DEL NORTE - Santa Sangre
  19. LOTUS FEED - A Different Place
  20. THE HIRAM KEY - Amerikafka
  21. THE EMPIRE HIDEOUS - The Time Has Come
  22. THE DAUGHTERS OF BRISTOL - Holts Summit
  23. ACTION DIRECTE - The Red Album
  24. CRIMSON MUDDLE - Nocturne
  25. PEELING GREY - The World’s Not Sorry
  26. EVERY SILVER LINING HAS A CLOUD - E.S.L.H.A.C.
  27. GROOVING IN GREEN - Post Traumatic Stress
  28. PLASTIQUE NOIR - Affects
  29. ARS PHOENIX - Hanging Fire
  30. ROSE LAND - Au Mont Des Soupirs
http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/1153122.html

2012 / Brainwashed Readers

  1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  2. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  3. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
  4. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
  5. Grouper - A I A: Dream Loss
  6. Current 93 - Honeysuckle Aeons
  7. Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos
  8. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  9. Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare
  10. Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain
  11. Grails - Deep Politics
  12. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
  13. The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
  14. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  15. Peaking Lights - 936
  16. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
  17. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  18. Fovea Hex - Here is Where We Used To Sing
  19. Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
  20. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
  21. Alva Noto - Univrs
  22. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
  23. Cut Hands - Afro Noise I
  24. Æthenor - En Form For Blå
  25. Natural Snow Buildings - Waves of the Random Sea
  26. Barn Owl and the Infinite Strings Ensemble - The Headlands
  27. Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
  28. Charalambides - Exile
  29. Zomby - Dedication
  30. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
  31. Prurient - Bermuda Drain
  32. The Psychic Paramount - II
  33. Kreng - Grimoire
  34. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
  35. Wire - Red Barked Tree
  36. Belong - Common Era
  37. Wooden Shjips - West
  38. Julia Holter - Tragedy
  39. Moon Duo - Mazes
  40. Zola Jesus - Conatus
  41. Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
  42. Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sect(s)
  43. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
  44. Andrew Chalk - Violin By Night
  45. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
  46. Kangding Ray - Or
  47. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  48. Asva - Presences of Absences
  49. Leyland Kirby - Eager to Tear Apart the Stars
  50. Low - C'mon
  51. Skullflower - Fucked On a Pile of Corpses
  52. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
  53. Jesu - Ascension
  54. Hype Williams - One Nation
  55. Amon Tobin - Isam
  56. Jacaszek - Glimmer
  57. Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva
  58. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  59. Locrian - The Clearing
  60. Der Blutharsch And The Church Of Leading Hand/Aluk Todolo - S/T
  61. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Luminaries & Synastry
  62. Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place
  63. Pete Swanson - Man with Potential
  64. Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
  65. Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony
  66. Byetone - Symeta
  67. Cindytalk - Hold Everything Dear
  68. Natural Snow Buildings - Chants of Niflheim
  69. Implodes - Black Earth
  70. Liturgy - Aesthethica
  71. Lawrence English - The Peregrine
  72. Biosphere - N-Plants
  73. Christina Vantzou - No. 1
  74. The Field - Looping State of Mind
  75. The Men - Leave Home
  76. Clams Casino - Instrumentals
  77. Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings
  78. HTRK - Work (Work, Work)
  79. Sonic Youth - SYR 9: Simon Werner a Disparu
  80. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres
  81. Sol Invictus - The Cruellest Month
  82. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  83. Seefeel - Seefeel
  84. Baby Dee - Regifted Light
  85. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
  86. Higuma - Pacific Fog Dreams
  87. Iceage - New Brigade
  88. The Necks - Mindset
  89. Fennesz/Sakamoto - Flumina
  90. Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore - Feasting With Panthers
  91. *AR - Wolf Notes
  92. Glenn Jones - The Wanting
  93. Sean McCann - The Capital
  94. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
  95. Nicholas Szczepanik - Please Stop Loving Me
  96. Mika Vainio - Life ( ... It Eats You Up)
  97. Battles - Gloss Drop
  98. Vladislav Delay Quartet - Vladislav Delay Quartet
  99. Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth
  100. Hecker - Speculative Solution
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9060:2011-readers-poll-the-results&catid=80:annual-readers-polls&Itemid=97

2011 / Pitchfork Readers

  1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  4. James Blake - James Blake
  5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
  6. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
  8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  9. Jay-Z / Kanye West - Watch the Throne
  10. Destroyer - Kaputt
  11. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
  12. Real Estate - Days
  13. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
  14. Panda Bear - Tomboy
  15. Drake - Take Care
  16. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  17. The Antlers - Burst Apart
  18. Childish Gambino - Camp
  19. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
  20. Yuck - Yuck
  21. Atlas Sound - Parallax
  22. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  23. Washed Out - Within and Without
  24. Wilco - The Whole Love
  25. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
  26. Cults - Cults
  27. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
  28. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
  29. The Black Keys - El Camino
  30. Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
  31. Feist - Metals
  32. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
  33. Wild Beasts - Smother
  34. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
  35. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
  36. Beirut - The Rip Tide
  37. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
  38. Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
  39. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
  40. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
  41. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
  42. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
  43. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
  44. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
  45. The Horrors - Skying
  46. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
  47. Battles - Gloss Drop
  48. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
  49. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  50. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra.
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8747-2011-pitchfork-readers-poll/

2011 / Igloo Magazine Readers

  1. Plaid - Scintilli
  2. Amon Tobin - ISAM
  3. Access to Arasaka - Orbitus
  4. Dreissk - The Finding
  5. Mobthrow - Mobthrow
  6. V/A - Emerging Organisms 4
  7. Stendeck - Scintilla
  8. Burial - Street Halo
  9. Phoenecia - Demissions
  10. Randomform - Enfeld
  11. DNN - When Things Stop to Move
  12. Hecq - Avenger
  13. Datacrashrobot - Asynchronous I-O
  14. Tycho - Dive
  15. Erode - Horizon
  16. Ben Milstein - Untitled
  17. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  18. Displacer - Night Gallery
  19. IoNiZer - New Global Disorder
  20. Machinedrum - Room(s)
  21. Apparat - Devil’s Walk
  22. Ambidextrous - Elephant Effect
  23. Esoteric Sob - Abnormal Psychology
  24. Mint - The Metronomical Boy
  25. Skytree - Crystal Consciousness
  26. ADJ - Beats, Blips & Other Dimensions
  27. Proqxis - Parallax Utopia
  28. Anklebiter - Queue
  29. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
  30. Richard Devine - RiSP
  31. This Morn’ Omina - L’unification Des Forces Opposantes
  32. Soundex Phonetic - Metaphonic
  33. FMcontrol - Genetic Control Frequencies
  34. Tay0 - There Is A Shining Point…
  35. Gescom - Skull Snap
  36. Undermathic - Deleted
  37. Subractivelad - Kindred
  38. Veell - Dreamorphine
  39. Mothboy - Yields
  40. Subjex - Echo System
  41. V/A - Nothing Left For Us
  42. Somatic Reponses - Concrete Glider
  43. Karsten Pflum - No Noia My Love
  44. Ahnst Anders - Home
  45. Infinite Scale - Ekko Location
  46. Lingouf - Doeme
  47. Floex - Zorya
  48. Mitoma - Interstellar Debris
  49. Rusty - Glass Swords
  50. ADJ - Hand of Mysteries
  51. Tobias Lilja - Delirium Portraits
  52. Ignatius - The 2EPs
  53. Port-royal - 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
  54. Lackluster - The Invisible Spanish Inquisition
  55. Somatic Responses - Disruption Of Space
  56. Architect - Upload Select Remix
  57. Kreng - Grimoire
  58. Zombi - Escape Velocity
  59. 100blumen - Surveillance
  60. Opposite Exhale - Misunderstand
  61. Dday One - Mood Algorithms
  62. The Black Dog - Liber Dogma
  63. Zola Jesus - Conatus
  64. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
  65. Rumpistol - Talk To You
  66. Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour
  67. Exeisms - Problem Locket
  68. Robot Koch - The Other Side
  69. Kuedo - Severant
  70. Cavalcade - The Variable
  71. Twenty Knives - The Royal We
  72. Raoul Sinier - Guilty Cloaks
  73. R.roo - Broken Time
  74. M.Cadoo - Density
  75. Nest - Body Pilot
  76. The New Division - Shadows
  77. Materia - Razorball/Underfall
  78. Xiescive - Nexus
  79. Quasi Dub Development - Limousine To The Guillotine
  80. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  81. Patch - 1 Degree C
  82. Buraka Som Sistema - Komba
  83. Various Artists - These Sounds Will Have to Meet…
  84. Sleepingdog - With Our Heads in the Clouds…
  85. Austra - Feel It Break
  86. Kloudbreak - Elements
  87. Com Truise - Galactic Melt
  88. Integral - The Past Is My Shadow
  89. Exocet - Consequence
  90. The New Division - Shadows
  91. Ezekiel Honig - Folding In On Itself
  92. Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony
  93. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
  94. Vincent Parker - Respecanize
  95. Deadsound and Videohead - Pench
  96. Kayo Dot - Stained Glass
  97. 13 & God - Own Your Ghost
  98. Ricardo Donoso - Progress Chance
  99. Cuttooth - Elements
http://igloomag.com/newswire/your-top-releases-of-2011