MeggaMusic - Best Albums of 2011
Note: In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 65daysofstatic - Silent Running (Dustpunk)
- 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Northern Sky (In At The Eye)
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen (Kranky / Erased Tapes)
- aAirial - Together EP (Imaginary Nonexistent Records)
- African Head Charge - Voodoo of the Godsent (On-U Sound)
- Airship - Stuck In This Ocean (PIAS)
- Agnes Obel - Philharmonics (PIAS)
- Akara - Extradimensional Ethnography (Bandcamp)
- Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill Sounds Box (8xCD) (Konami)
- Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT (Dead Oceans)
- Alice SpaceDoll - Sunships & Starseeds (Bandcamp)
- Alluste - Digital Age (Alluste / Bandcamp)
- Alpha Wave Movement - Soniq Variants (Harmonic Resonance)
- aMute - Black Diamond Blues (Humpty Dumpty)
- Amygdala Projects - Shortcut To Heaven (BFW Recordings)
- An Emerald City - The Fourth (Banished From The Universe)
- Apparat - The Devil's Walk (Mute)
- Astral Waves - Magique (Altar)
- Atomic Skunk - Alchemy (Organic Robot)
- Awolnation - Megalithic Symphony (Red Bull)
- Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare (Thrill Jockey)
- Be Forest - Cold. (We Were Never Being Boring)
- Beats Antique - Elektrafone (Bandcamp)
- Birds Of Passage - Without The World (Denovali)
- Black Market Karma - All That I've Made (Flower Power)
- Black Market Karma - Comatose (Flower Power)
- Black Tempest - Supernormal Recordings (Tempest Towers)
- Blackmill - Miracle // Reach For Glory (Blackmill / Bandcamp)
- Blue Lunar Monkey - Here & Now (Tycho)
- Bob Holroyd - Afterglow // Beachcombing (Soundscape / Bandcamp)
- Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Beileid (PIAS)
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
- Brujo's Bowl - Healing With Sound (Arkona)
- Bruno Sanfilippo - Subliminal Pulse (Spotted Peccary)
- Bryan Carrigan - Passing Light (Peonies Music)
- bvdub - Tribes at the Temple of Silence (Home Normal)
- Can Atilla - Hi-Story (Groove Unlimited)
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - Endospore
- Cary Grace - Constant Things (Door 13 Music)
- Cave - Neverendless (Drag City)
- Chang - Calling EP (Bass Star)
- Chinmaya Dunster - Gaia's Garden (New Earth)
- Chronos - Inspirational Power (Beats & Pieces)
- Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (EMI)
- Consciousness Federation - Extrospection (Uxmal)
- Covenant - Modern Ruin (Synthetic Symphony / Metropolis)
- Cranium Pie - Mechanisms Pt.1 (Regal Crabomophone)
- Cuts - Hold The Sun (Aleph Zero)
- Cygna - Opus ένα (iT)
- Damon McU - Dreams (Bandcamp)
- Darshan Ambient - Dream In Blue (Lotuspike)
- DaSputnik - Cyclokosmia (Art Safari)
- Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick (A Records)
- Deftones - Covers (Reprise)
- Desert Dwellers - Downtemple Dub: Lost Mixes/Lost Grooves (White Swan)
- Desert Dwellers - Muladhara Yoga Dub (Yogitunes)
- Diatonis - Because Words Can't Take You There
- Downliners Sekt - The Saltire Wave (Pavillon36)
- Dream Conspiracy - Your World Is But One (Perge Music)
- Dredg - Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy (Universal)
- Dubtrak - Rapture (Bandcamp)
- Dungen - Skit I Allt (Instrumental) (Subliminal Sounds)
- Earthling Society - Stations Of The Ghost (4 Zero)
- East Forest - Crystal Starship (Bandcamp)
- Eguana - Space Lines (Cosmicleaf)
- Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (Headspin / MeteorCity)
- Electric Moon - Flaming Lake (Sulatron)
- Electric Moon - The Doomsday Machine (Nasoni)
- Electric Orange - Netto (Sulatron)
- Emma Ruth Rundle - Electric Guitar I (Errant Child)
- Entheogenic Sound Explorers - Magic Garden (Databloem)
- Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie - Winter Garden (RareNoise)
- Eternal Tapestry - Beyond The 4th Door (Thrill Jockey)
- Evanescence - Evanescence (Wind-Up)
- Evi Vine - ...And So The Morning Comes (Evi Vine)
- Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Bella Union)
- Exxasens - Eleven Miles (Aloud Music)
- Feist - Metals (Arts & Crafts / Polydor / Interscope)
- Field Rotation - Acoustic Tales (Fluid Audio)
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop / Bella Union)
- Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing (Janet Records)
- Free System Projekt & Gert Emmens - Legacy (FSP)
- Frost-RAVEN - Deep In Blue (Elephant Head)
- Geodesium - Stella Novus (Loch Ness Productions)
- Gert Emmens & Cadenced Haven (Bekki Williams) - Life In Cosmic Highway (Groove Unlimited)
- Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij - Return To The Origin (Groove Unlimited)
- Glenn Jones - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
- Gnod - Chaudelande (Tamed / Rocket)
- Gnomes Of Kush - California Kush (Tycho)
- God Is An Astronaut - A Moment Of Stillness (Revive)
- Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub (Wall of Sound)
- Grouper - A | A : Alien Observer / Dream Loss (Yellow Electric)
- Helm & Phil Thornton - Tribal Spirit (FatChanceBellyDance)
- Hey Colossus - RRR (Riot Season)
- Hinkstep - Sunrise From The Treetops (Omnitropic)
- Ian Neal - Out Of The Woods (Bandcamp)
- Indigolab - Outlander
- Ishq - And Awake (Interchill)
- Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood - The Vivid Unmapped (dataObscura)
- Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell - Psychic Life (Cherry Red)
- Jaja - OUM (Cyan Music)
- Jeffrey Koepper - Arctisonia (Air Space)
- Jessie J - Who You Are (Lava / Universal)
- Jim Kirkwood - Down The Crow Road
- Jim Kirkwood - Relics From A Future Age
- John Beltran - Ambient Selections (Delsin)
- John Foxx & Harold Budd - Nighthawks (Edsel)
- Jónsi - We Bought A Zoo (Columbia)
- Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Juliana Hatfield - There's Always Another Girl / Change The World (Ye Olde Records)
- Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (Fish People)
- King Midas Sound - Without You (Hyperdub)
- Koan - The Fables Of Belovodye (Blue Tunes)
- Krusseldorf - From Soil To Space (Aleph Zero)
- Lab's Cloud - Organic Mathematics (Altar)
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way ! (Streamline / Interscope)
- Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer (Nettwerk)
- Lamb - 5 (Strata)
- Lauge & Baba Gnohm - Langbortistan (Altar)
- Lee 'Scratch' Perry - On-U Sound Presents Nu Sound & Version (On-U Sound)
- Lemongrass - Sirius (Lemongrassmusic)
- Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars (History Always Favours The Winners)
- Lia Ices - Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar)
- Lisa Hannigan - Passenger (ATO / Hoop)
- Lisbeth Scott - Om Sweet Om (Hearts of Space)
- Little Axe - If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog (On-U Sound)
- Lord of the Ants - Mind Like Water
- Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - On Welfare (Captcha Records)
- Low - C'Mon (Sub Pop)
- Lowercase Noises - Vivian (Bandcamp)
- Ludovico Einaudi - Islands: Essential Einaudi (Decca)
- Lumerians - Transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)
- Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic / LL)
- Mac of BIOnighT - From Other Planets (Bandcamp)
- Maharishi - Sense Of Feather (Space Baby)
- Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (Domino / Double Six)
- Marconi Union - Ambient Transmissions Vol. 1: Beautifully Falling Apart (Just Music)
- Master Margherita - The Marginal Rules (Blue Hour Sounds)
- Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem Three (Important)
- MIC - Timenvu (Altar)
- Michael Chapman - Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010 (Tompkins Square)
- Mick Chillage - Night Works [Special Edition] (Txt Recordings)
- Miktek - Ambient Network (Miktek / Bandcamp)
- Milanga - Danse de Lianes
- Mint Julep - Save Your Season (Village Green)
- MMOSS - I (Burger / Wild Honey)
- Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Rock Action)
- Moonbooter - Cosmologica (MellowJet)
- MorPheuSz - Garden Gnomes & Goblins (Groove Unlimited)
- Naming Trees - Alex (Bandcamp)
- Natural Snow Buildings - Chants Of Niflheim (Blackest Rainbow)
- Nils Frahm - Felt (Erased Tapes)
- North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon (The Household Mark)
- Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs (Erased Tapes)
- Omnia Opera - Nothing Is Ordinary (Umbilical)
- Osi and the Jupiter - Stave (Eisenwald)
- Osiris The Rebirth - Lost (Dragon's Toothpaste)
- Other Lives - Tamer Animals (TBD Records)
- Ott - Mir (Ottsonic Music)
- Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys (Madfish)
- Panabrite - Omni Center (Sturmundrugs)
- Papercranes - Let’s Make Babies In The Woods (Manimal)
- Papir - Stundum (El Paraiso)
- Penguin Cafe - A Matter Of Life... (Editions)
- Perfect Blind - Three Spires (Omnitropic)
- Pete Namlook - Namlook XXVI: Pearl IV (Fax)
- Pete Namlook & Lorenzo Montanà - Namlook • Montanà: Labyrinth 4 (Fax)
- Phaeleh - The Cold In You (Afterglo)
- Pharaoh Overlord - Horn (Svart)
- Phobium - Basic Time Bending (Ektoplazm)
- Picture Palace music - Midsummer (Groove Unlimited)
- Pitch Black - Rarities & Remixes (Dubmission)
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
- Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud (Atlantic)
- Prince Rama - Trust Now (Paw Tracks)
- Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream (Sacred Bones)
- Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole (Puscifer Entertainment)
- Pyramid Peak - 5 VOR 12
- Pyramidal - Dawn In Space (Krauted Mind)
- Qualia - On Wings Of Sleep (Arête)
- Quarkspace - Spacefolds 11 (Eternity's Jest)
- Quinn - So That I May Live (Orison)
- Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots (Bear Machine)
- Radikal Guru - The Rootstepa (Moonshine)
- Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (Radiohead / Ticker Tape Ltd / XL)
- Reanimation (Michael Shanahan) - Giants Hide Among Us (Reanimation)
- Rihanna - Talk That Talk (Def Jam)
- Rildrim - Dreamed Rules // Poetry of the Unnamed (Magnatune)
- Rioux - Everything You Need is Right Here
- Robert Fox - Short Stories (AD Music)
- Robert Rich - Medicine Box (Soundscape)
- Robert Schroeder - Esthétique (Spheric Music)
- Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Bordeaux (Darla)
- Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
- Samsara Blues Experiment - Revelation & Mystery (World in Sound)
- Scientist Meets The Crazy Mad Professor - At Channel One (Jamaican Recordings)
- Sea Oleena - Sleeplessness (Bandcamp)
- Sensitive Chaos - Seeker After Patterns (Subsequent)
- Seven That Spells - Acid Taking And Sweet Love Making (Hau Ruck!)
- Side Liner - Dream Stealers (Cosmicleaf)
- Sinepearl - The Dance Of Affinity (Virtual)
- Skrillex - More Monsters and Sprites EP // Bangarang EP (Big Beat)
- Sóley - We Sink (Morr Music)
- SoulSonic - Every Day Is Good (Cold Tear)
- Squazoid - Drop Out (Bandcamp)
- Stellardrone - A Moment Of Stillness (Bandcamp)
- Steve Roach - Journey Of One (Projekt)
- Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf - The Shaman's Heart II (Projekt)
- Steve Roach & Erik Wøllo - The Road Eternal (Projekt)
- Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning (Kscope)
- Stevin McNamara - Prana Groove (White Swan)
- Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour (Sub Pop)
- SuperHeavy (Joss Stone, Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, AR Rahman & Damian Marley) - SuperHeavy (A&M)
- Syndromeda - The Rise Of The Darkness (SynGate)
- Syntaks - Nachtblende (Parallax Sounds)
- Syriana - Al Samah (Real World)
- Tangerine Dream - Booster IV (Eastgate)
- Tangerine Dream - The Angel From The West Window (Eastgate / Purple Pyramid)
- Tangram - Waning Gibbous (Tangram Music)
- Tarwater - Inside The Ships (Bureau B)
- The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still (Absentee Recordings)
- The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow (Sensibility Music)
- The Cosmic Dead - Psychonaut (Bandcamp)
- The Cosmic Dead - The Cosmic Dead (Paradigms / Cardinal Fuzz)
- The Echelon Effect - Seasons Part 1-3
- The :Egocentrics - Center Of The Cyclone (Nasoni)
- The Future Kings of England - Who Is This Who Is Coming? (Backwater)
- The Human Experience - Harmonic Transformation (Bandcamp)
- The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (Canvasback / Atlantic)
- The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell (Parallel Corners / Denovali)
- The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay (Parallel Corners)
- The Nocturnes - Aokigahara (The Errant Child)
- The Omega Syndicate - X (Omega Syndicate / Bandcamp)
- The Oscillation - Veils (All Time Low)
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong (P.I.A.S.)
- The Raveonettes - Rarities/B-Sides (Columbia / Vice Records)
- The Space Spectrum - Cosmic Sounds (Bandcamp)
- The Spacelords - Dimension 7 (Bandcamp)
- The Story So Far - Under Soil And Dirt (Pure Noise)
- The Weather Station - All Of It Was Mine (You've Changed / Fat Possum)
- Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear (Eighteenth Street Lounge Music)
- Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
- TransGlobal Underground - The Stone Turntable (Mule Satellite)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (The Null Corporation)
- Triple S - Poles (SynGate)
- Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Epic / Emotion Meets Expression (Pedigree Cuts)
- Ulver - Wars of the Roses (Kscope)
- Umber - Morning's Pass (Bandcamp)
- UNKLE - Another Night Out (Surrender All)
- Vanderson - Visions (Generator.pl)
- Various - 6th Element: Compiled by DJ Zen (aka: The Missing Elements) (Altar)
- Various - Absence Of Gravity (Sentimony)
- Various - Cafe Bombay: Chillout From The Heart Of India (Avatar)
- Various - Dub Mates Meeting (Gliese 581C)
- Various - Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute To John Martyn (Hole in the Rain Music Ltd)
- Various - Psyderchill (Psyderweb)
- Various - Space Forming Vol. 3 (Gliese 581C)
- Various - The Next Mission: Part One (Dubmission)
- Verma - Verma II (Verma / Bandcamp)
- Vibravoid - Minddrugs (Sulatron)
- Vum - Night Sun (Secret Lodge)
- Weltraum - Les Golax (Nasoni / Area Db)
- Weltraum - Sounds Of The Underground (Nasoni)
- White Hills - H-p1 (Thrill Jockey)
- Winterlight - Hope Dies Last (n5MD)
- WMRI - Currents Across The Time (USC)
- WMRI - Zircon Volcano (USC)
- Wobbler - Rites At Dawn (Pancromatic / Termo)
- Woob - Return To The City (Bigamoebasounds)
- Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey)
- Woods - Sun And Shade (Woodsist)
- Woodsman - Mystic Places (Fire Talk)
- Wye Oak - Civilian (Merge / City Slang)
- Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – YT//ST (Paper Bag, Canada / Suicide Squeeze, USA)
- Young Prisms - Friends For Now (Kanine)
- Younger Brother - Vaccine (Twisted)
- Yuka & Chronoship - Water Reincarnation (Musea)
- Zero Cult - Vacuum (Cosmicleaf)
- Zombi - Escape Velocity (Relapse)
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