“WHAT RECESSION?” AWARD FOR MOST OPULENT POST-LEHMAN-CRASH RAP ALBUM OF 2011
Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne
BEST ALBUM TO APPEAR ON EVERY BEST ALBUM OF 2011 LIST
Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life
SINISTER ELECTRONIC DIRGE-POP A-LBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD SPONSORED BY ROLAND AND MC-808
Austra’s Feel It Break
BEST ALBUM FOR FEELING LIKE YOU’RE LIVING IN THE VICTORIA’S SECRET CATALOGUE
M83’s Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
BEST ALBUM PAYING TRIBUTE TO A LATE LEGEND BY ONE OF THE -CENTURY’S BEST NEW PRODUCERS
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx’s We’re New Here
NUMBER-ONE POP ALBUM ON WHICH SOMEONE FROM LONG ISLAND SINGS “SATURDAY, SUNDAY” IN A HEAVY AUSTRALIAN ACCENT
Twin Sister’s In Heaven
THE SOUTHERN RAPPER WITH AN ACRONYM GROWN MAN TALK ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Big K.R.I.T.’s Return Of 4Eva
BEST 90S EURODANCE-INFLUENCED INSTRUMENTAL RAP ALBUM SPONSORED BY THE REAL McCOY
AraabMuzic’s Electronic Dream
INDIE ROCK ABOUT-FACE SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SAXOPHONE MAKERS’ UNION AND THE YEAR 1983
Destroyer’s Kaputt
BEST ALBUM TO LISTEN TO NEAR A STREAM IN THE WOODS IN THE EARLY EVENING ON THE SEPTEMBER -EQUINOX
Bon Iver’s Bon Iver
BEST ALBUM TO LISTEN TO WHILE POUNDING ON SCRAP METAL WHILE A JUNKYARD DOG BARKS AT YOU, THEN DRIVING HOME, GETTING DRUNK ON STRAIGHT WHISKEY AND CRYING
Tom Waits’s Bad As Me
