The Edge’s Top Albums of 2011: Full Top 40
Following on from our Top Ten Albums of 2011 feature of the last few weeks, we can now reveal the full top 40 as voted for by our readers, writers and editors. Check them out below, and let us know what shocks you in the comments!
1. The Vaccines — What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?
2. Radiohead — The King of Limbs
3. Metronomy — The English Riviera
4. Bon Iver — Bon Iver, Bon Iver
6. Florence and the Machine — Ceremonials
7. PJ Harvey — Let England Shake

9. Frank Turner — England Keep My Bones
10. Bombay Bicycle Club — A Different Kind of Fix
11. M83 — Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
12. tUnE-yArDs — who kill
13. Jay-Z & Kanye West — Watch the Throne
14. The Roots — undun
15. Noah and the Whale — Last Night on Earth

16. Coldplay — Mylo Xyloto
17. SBTRKT — SBTRKT
18. Jamie Woon — Mirrorwriting
19. Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues
20. Elbow — Build a Rocket Boys!
21. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
22. The Weeknd — House of Balloons

23. Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
24. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx — We’re New Here
25. Cults — Cults
26. Björk — Biophilia
27. Friendly Fires — Pala
28. Wild Beasts — Smother
29. The Antlers — Burst Apart
30. The Lonely Island — Turtleneck & Chain
31. Foster the People — Torches
32. Miles Kane — Colour of the Trap

33. Adele — 21
34. Nero — Welcome Reality
35. Arctic Monkeys — Suck It and See
36. Benjamin Francis Leftwich — Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm
37. Kasabian — Velociraptor!
38. Lykke Li — Wounded Rhymes
39. Yuck — Yuck
40. Battles — Gloss Drop