Metacritic Best New Albums of 2011 (update 29/3/2011)

This playlist is based on albums scores found on the aggregator Metacritic, a website that "distills the opinions of the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single number". The playlist features all albums that, in the latest 90 days, got a minimum critics score of 70. After three months, as they disappear from Metacritic main page, the albums will disappear from the main playlist, too; anyway, they will be saved in the archive playlist (see below). 

This is the last week with identical Main and Archive playlists. Starting next week, albums older than three months will disappear from the Main one. Many interesting new entries, like new works by Yelle, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Peter, Bjorn and John. Enjoy!

METACRITIC BEST NEW ALBUMS
Source: Metacritic
Albums available on Spotify: 143 out of 178 (80,33%)

New entries are in bold.

Broken Records - Let Me Come Home (metacritic score: 71)
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond (71)
Kudos - Surf City (75)
Joe Lovano Us Five - Bird Songs (86)
Abigail Washburn - City of Refuge
Showroom of Compassion - Cake (73)
Wire - Red Barked Tree (77)
Cage The Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday (76)
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall (70)
Aurelio - Laru Beya (81)
Aethenor - En Form For Bla (76)
Fergus & Geronimo - Unlearn (71)
Disappears - Guider (79)
White Fence - Is Growing Faith (78)
Pearl Jam - Live On Ten Legs (72)
Tennis - Cape Dory (79)
Social Distortion - Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes (71)
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (83)
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture (79)
The Greg Allman Band - Low Country Blues (80)
Braids - Native Speaker (76)
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (77)
William Tyler - Behold the Spirit (79)
LCD Soundsystem - The London Sessions (81)
Thank You - Golden Worry (71)
Willie Wright - Telling the Truth (79)
Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh (75)
John Renbourn - Palermo Snow (74)
The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 (84)
Tony Cook - Back To Reality (74)
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (78)
Lori McKenna - Lorraine (70)
My Disco - Little Joy (72)
Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking (77)
Lia Ices - Grown Unknown (75)
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum(74)
Sid Tourè & Friends - Sahel Folk (78)
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Love EP (77)
Delicate Steve - Wondervisions (84)
John Vanderslice - White Wilderness (74)
Minks - By the Hedge (75)
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows (72)
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (72)
Gang of Four - Content (72)
Destroyer - Kaputt (84)
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings (73)
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (79)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing (71)
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil (77)
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (88)
Hannah Peel - The Broken Wave (78)
Demdike Stare - Tryptych (87)
Jonny - Jonny (74)
Seefeel - Seefeel (71)
The Hot Club of Cowtown - What Makes Bob Holler (81)
Mind Spiders - The Mind Spiders (70)
Faust - Something Dirty (70)
Amanda Palmer - Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under (77)
David Lowery - The Palace Guards (73)
Spokes - Everyone I Ever Met (76)
Todd Snider - Live: The Storyteller (85)
Ricky Martin - Musica + Alma + Sexo (72)
The Dirtbombs - Party Store (77)
George Michael - Faith (Special Edition) (90)
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts (74)
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam (78)
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand (78)
Kurt Elling - The Gate (74)
Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (80)
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo (74)
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me (74)
Cut Copy - Zonoscope (74)
Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore (70)
... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead (74)
The Babies - The Babies (70)
Sims - Bad Time Zoo (79)
Tristen - Charlatans at the Garden Gate (81)
The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid (73)
Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy (72)
East River Pipes - We Live In Rented Rooms (76)
Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (77)
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (88)
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines (71)
Hayes Carll - Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories) (79)
Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told (88)
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (72)
Sonic Youth - Simon Werner a Disparu (75)
Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (78)
Beans - End It All (70)
Bright Eyes - The People's Key (70)
Yuck - Yuck (80)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (88)
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (78)
June Tabor - Ashore (75)
Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor (92)
The Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume (71)
The Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work (70)
Johnny Cash - Bootleg vol.2, From Memphis To Hollywood (76)
Brad Mehldau - Live in Marciac (81)
DevilDriver - Beast (81)
Darkest Hour - The Human Romance (74)
King Creosote - Thrawn (78)
The Psychic Paramount - II (83)
The Builders and the Butchers - Dead Reckoning (79)
Danielson - The Best of Gloucenter County (71)
Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (80)
The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (77)
Bayside - Killing Time (85)
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (81)
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine (80)
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain (77)
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here (82)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, vol.1 (82)
Adele - 21 (76)
Stateless - Matilda (74)
Middle Brother - Middle Brother (78)
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High (82)
Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings (70)
The Baseball Project - Baseball Project vol.2: High and Inside (78)
Papercuts - Fading Parade (71)
Lucinda Williams - Blessed (79)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing (75)
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (83)
Eisley - The Valley (76)
Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style (82)
Devotchka - 100 Lovers (75)
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (79)
Starfucker - Reptilians (78)
Vijay Iyer - Tirtha (81)
Buffalo Tom - Skins (74)
Wires Under Tension - Light Science (71)
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip (70)
Rival Schools - Pedals (77)
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! (82)
Wye Oak - Civilian (81)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (82)
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now (73)
Raekwon - Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang (73)
Parts & Labor - Constant Future (79)
Sara Evans - Stronger (74)
The Unthanks - Last (81)
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft (75)
The Naked and Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You (71)
Black Joe Lewis - Scandalous (83)
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now (70)
Funeral for a Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon (78)
Screeching Weasel - First World Manifesto (81)
The Dodos - No Color (81)
Rise Against - Endgame (77)
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (78)
The Death Set - Michel Poiccard (72)
Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double-O Groove Of (79)
Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now (75)
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (77)
Solomon Burke - Hold On Tight (71)
Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down (74)
Protest the Hero - Scurrilous (77)
Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes (76)
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) (78)
Keren Ann - 101 (73)
Jennifer Hudson - I Remember Me (75)
Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes (81)
Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You (81)
The Strokes - Angles (71)
James Blake - James Blake (81)
Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now (74)
Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep (81)
Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (74)
Hunx & His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love (73)
Bibio - Mind Bokeh (78)
Yelle - Safari Disco Club (71)
Peter, Bjorn and John - Gimme Some (72)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong (77)
Obits - Moody, Standard & Poor (75)
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (80)
Erland and the Carnival - Nightingale (72)
Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (74)
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (80)

Listen to it on Spotify (latest 90 days albums):
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0539)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0540)

The Archive (all 2011 albums)
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0541)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0542)