Metacritic 75 (best rated 2011 new albums)

Info:  «Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged» (from Wikipedia). Metacritic 75 is a series of playlists collecting all new albums (no reissues, anthologies, live albums) that get a 75+ aggregated score generated by at least 15 reviews. On running years, the playlist is periodically updated and closed on January of the following year. This playlist collects new albums published in 2011.

Source: Metacritic
Date of publication: 2011
Spotify playlist latest update: 17th August 2016
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Abigail Washburn - City Of Refuge (82)
Wire - Red Barked Tree (77)
Cage The Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday (76)
Tennis - Cape Dory (76)
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (80)
Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (76)
The Braids - Native Speaker (76)
Decemberists - The King Is Dead (77)
Minks - By The Hedge (75)
Destroyer - Kaputt (84)
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (77)
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil (77)
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (86)
Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (79)
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (86)
Arbouretum - The Gathering (75)
Hayes Carll - Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories) (78)
Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (78)
Yuck - Yuck (81)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (86)
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (77)
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (76)
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (82)
Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine (79)
Six Organs Of Admittance - Asleep On The Floodplain (76)
Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Here (83)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 1 (82)
Adele - 21 (76)
Lucinda Williams - Blessed (79)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing (75)
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (83)
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (80)
Wye Oak - Civilian (81)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (82)
Part & Labor - Constant Future (78)
The Dodos - No Color (79)
Rise Against - Endgame (76)
J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why (78)
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (77)
The Weeknd - House Of Balloons (87)
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) (77)
James Blake - James Blake (81)
Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep (79)
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (75)
Bibio - Mind Bokeh (75)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong (76)
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (77)
Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen (77)
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (80)
The Kills - Blood Pressures (76)
Metronomy - The English Riviera (78)
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light (82)
Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What (85)
Panda Bear - Tomboy (77)
Low - C'Mon (80)
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane (76)
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Here We Rest (76)
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion (78)
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (78)
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (82)
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (77)
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (85)
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 (83)
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (77)
EMA - Past Life Martyrend Saints (82)
Man Man - Life Fantastic (77)
Wild Beasts - Smother (85)
The Antlers - Burst Apart (81)
Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' (86)
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (83)
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far (79)
Danger Mouse - Rome (75)
Austra - Feel It Break (75)
Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes (79)
White Denim - D (79)
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts (78)
Kate Bush - Director's Cut (80)
tUnE-yArDs - Who Kill (86)
The Unthanks - Last (81)
Plan B - The Defamation Of Strickland Banks (75)
My Morning Jacket - Circuital (76)
Battles - Gloss Drop (79)
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (86)
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain (80)
Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler (80)
Woods - Sun And Shade (77)
Junior Boys - It's All True (78)
Iceage - New Brigade (85)
YACHT - Shangri-La (75)
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread (80)
Bon Iver - Bon Iver (86)
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (75)
SBTRKT - SBTRKT (76)
Gillian Welch - The Harrow And The Harvest (85)
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (83)
Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital (75)
Zomby - Dedication (79)
The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles (75)
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer (79)
Little Dragon - Ritual Union (78)
Azari & III - Azari & III (76)
The Horrors - Skying (83)
Kanye West - Watch The Trone (76)
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (82)
The Weeknd - Thursday (80)
Sun Araw - Ancient Romans (75)
Active Child - You Are All I See (77)
Stephen Malkmus - Mirror Traffic (80)
Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (80)
Tinariwen - Tassili (80)
Beirut - The Rip Tide (78)
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie (76)
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (77)
A.A. Bondy - Believers (80)
Slow Club - Paradise (81)
Nick Lowe - The Old Magic (75)
Neon Indian - Era Extrana (76)
Das Racist - Relax (78)
Girls - Father, Son, Holy, Ghost (79)
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (85)
Wild Flag - Wild Flag (83)
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (82)
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit (76)
Katy B - On A Mission (76)
Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself (EP) (75)
Megafaun - Megafaun (83)
Kasabian - Velociraptor! (79)
Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation (77)
Mastodon - The Hunter (83)
J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story (75)
Wilco - The Whole Love (83)
Apparat - The Devil's Walk (76)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town (76)
AA.VV. - The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams (79)
Zola Jesus - Conatus (79)
Feist - Metals (81)
Future Islands - On The Water (80)
Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do (78)
The Field - Looping State Of Mind (83)
Björk - Biophilia (79)
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire (76)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien (79)
Real Estate - Days (77)
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (76)
My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind (76)
Surfer Blood - Tarot Classics (EP) (77)
Tom Waits - Bad As Me (88)
Roots Manuva - 4everevolution (75)
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials (75)
Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Weather (82)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (80)
Cass McCombs - Humor Risk (78)
Atlas Sound - Parallax (82)
The Do - Both Ways Open Jaws (75)
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness (76)
Drake - Take Care (78)
Sepalcure - Sepalcure (82)
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (85)
The Roots - Undun (88)
The Black Keys - El Camino (84)
The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence (82)