2011 has been a great year for music, and it has seen the bigger artists breaking sales records and the smaller artists generating buzz on online mediums alone.

As you can expect we have music blasting through the speakers at TaleTela HQ constantly, and seeing as the year is coming to a close we thought that now would be a great time to bundle our favourites over the last year together into a compact gallery for your viewing pleasure.

These are the albums that we confidently recommend to you and even though one may have dropped just at the tip of last year and another was originally released as a mixtape we included them anyway – can you guess what they are? We may have a few surprises in there for you...

Who else's album would you recommend? 

TaleTela's Top Albums Of 2011: Frank Ocean, Wale, Pusha T, Tyrese and more...