- Zbigniew Preisner – Requiem for My Friend (New Music Productions)
- James Blake – James Blake (Polydor)
- Brooklyn Rider – Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass (Orange Mountain Music)
- Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti-)
- Miguel Zenón – Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
- tUnE-yArDs – W H O K I L L (4AD)
- The Antlers – Burst Apart (Deluxe Version) (Frenchkiss)
- Blueprint – Adventures In Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers)
- The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow (Sensibility Music)
- Gem Club – Breakers (Hardly Art)
- Kuniko Kato – kuniko plays reich (Linn)
- Active Child – You Are All I See (Vagrant)
- (etre) – Inferno From My Occult Diary (Porter)
- June Tabor – Ashore (Topic)
- Hauschka – Salon Des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
- Jay- Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
- My Brightest Diamond – All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
- GusGus – Arabian Horse (Kompakt)
- Soley – We Sink (MORR Music)
- Original Cast Recording – The Book of Mormon (Ghostlight)
- Build – Place (New Amsterdam)
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges (Constellation)
- Graham Reynolds – The Difference Engine (Innova)
- Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats And Follies (Galaxia)
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)
- The Wailin’ Jennys – Bright Morning Stars (Red House)
- Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony)
- Todd Snider – Live: The Storyteller (Aimless)
- Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
- Theophilus London – Timez Are Weird These Days (Reprise)
- Rene Marie – Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motema)
- Lucinda Williams – Blessed (Lost Highway)
- Bombino – Agadez (Cumbancha)
- Chick Corea – Orvieto (ECM)
- Jonny Greenwood – Norwegian Wood OST (Nonesuch)
- Tinariwen – Tassili (Anti-)
- Liturgy – Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
- Feist – Metals (Cherry Tree)
- Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – Chamber Music (No Format)
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine (Domino)
Sex for Teens’ Top Films of 2011
- The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Le Quattro Volte - Michelangelo Frammartino (Invisibile Film)
- Margin Call - J.C. Chandor (Roadside Attractions)
- Insidious - James Wan (FilmDistrict)
- Carnage - Roman Polanski (Sony Pictures Classics)
- The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn (Bold Films)
- Source Code - Duncan Jones (Summit Entertainment)
- Weekend - Andrew Haigh (Sundance Selects)
- Hugo - Martin Scorsese (Paramount Pictures)
