| 2011 |
| Andross Stay In The Suit | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs | 4.5 |
| Marianas Trench Ever After | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 4.5 |
| Foxygen Take The Kids Off Broadway | 4.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.5 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 3.5 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 3.5 |
| Wilco The Whole Love | 4.5 |
| Needtobreathe The Reckoning | 3.5 |
| Gavin DeGraw Sweeter | 3.0 |
| Bridge and Tunnel Rebuilding Year | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.5 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 4.5 |
| O.A.R. King | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Time of My Life | 1.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 4.0 |
| OK, I've decided, they're both classics. This might be coming from a fanboy point of view, but with songs like Work In Progress, No One's Gonna Need You More, Everyone Left, Parachute, and In My Room all being amazing and the rest of the songs being great, it's hard to give it anything less. Plus, the lyrics seems to come with a story that I'm not sure was intended. It begins with everything being perfect and feeling as if you're on top of the world, but slowly everything detioriarates in life and you figure out you're all by yourself. But, then you realize you're not alone, and even if you were, you only need yourself to get by. And AJ Perdomo, the lead singer and lyricist, is able to make everyone relate to his story. And that, is what makes this album a classic. |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 5.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 4.0 |
| Alex Clare The Lateness Of The Hour | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm | 4.5 |
| There For Tomorrow The Verge | 3.5 |
| David Cook This Loud Morning | 3.5 |
| This isn't your run of the mill American Idol winner album. David Cook's sophomore release also isn't your run of the mill Pop/Rock album. The songs have meaning and are filled with huge choruses that give the album a very anthemic sound. That is where the problem lies. This is an album filled with anthems. Granted, they're very well written anthems, especially for this genre, but listening to songs with huge choruses gets tiring and monotonous after a while.r3.3/5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 2.0 |
| Beyonce 4 | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Liam Finn FOMO | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Theatre) Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.5 |
| All Time Low Dirty Work | 1.0 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| Foster the People Torches | 3.0 |
| Motopony Motopony | 4.0 |
| A great indie album that thrives on experimenation while never alienating the listener. It's somehow gone by unnoticed throughout 2011. Recommended Tracks: 27, King of Diamonds, God Damn Girl |
| Parachute The Way It Was | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 3.5 |
| Skillet Awake and Remixed EP | 1.5 |
| Wait, wait wait . . . I had a review up for this! Where'd it go? |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.5 |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 4.0 |
| Go Radio Lucky Street | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 3.5 |
| Amos Lee Mission Bell | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 4.5 |
| Adele 21 | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday | 3.0 |
| Lecrae Rehab The Overdose | 3.5 |
