Some good stuff on the Pitchfork list but I just do not care for that Bon Iver album at all. Total regression from his previous work in my opinion. I hope he doesn't continue with this sound.
Some good stuff on the Pitchfork list but I just do not care for that Bon Iver album at all. Total regression from his previous work in my opinion. I hope he doesn't continue with this sound.
Grouper's A I A warrants only an honorable mention? Haha Pitchfork, you so crazy.
I really wish I could get into the latest M83. Love the band, but didn't find anything overly amazing about the new album.
I have no fallen in love with any albums this year, despite a couple attempts to. That's just how it is.
maybe you should make more than a couple attempts? A lot of really incredibly albums came out this year.
Yeah, there's a couple tracks on it that I liked, but on a whole it just sounds like 80s nostalgia pandering. Not my thing. In fact, I'm getting seriously burned out on that sort of thing.
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2011 was a great year for all my faviourte artists, asside from the lack NIN... Next year is going to be hard to top.
SONOIO - Red
Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
Skinny Puppy - HandDover
ohGr - Undeveloped
KMFDM - WTF!?
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy (Reconfigured)
Project Pitchfork - Quantum Mechanics
Rammstein - Mein land (single)
As for 2012, i'm looking forward too:
Anything Maybe from The Smashing Pumpkins
SONOIO
and to a slight degree I'm interested in hearing the new Marilyn Manson album (so shoot me).
TOOL (but I doubt they'll have it done next year)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Ultimate Edition) - hopefully!
Can't think of anything else coming out next year, hence why 2011 is gonna be a hard one to beat!
Elite Gymnastics - RUIN 1/RUIN 2
Ford & Lopatin - CHANNEL PRESSURE
The Beach Boys - SMILE SESSIONS
Oneohtrix Point Never - REPLICA
John Maus - WE MUST BECOME PITILESS CENSORS OF OURSELVES
Grouper - AIA: DREAM LOSS / OBSERVER
Cut Hands - AFRO NOISE I
Kurt Vile - SMOKE RING FOR MY HALO
Thee Oh Sees - CASTLEMANIA
Burial - STREET HALO 12"
Apache Dropout - APACHE DROPOUT
Atlas Sound - PARALLAX
Cliff Martinez - DRIVE OST
Van Dyke Parks - ARRANGEMENTS, VOL. 1
The War On Drugs - SLAVE AMBIENT
James Ferraro - FAR SIDE VIRTUAL / CONDO PETS
Tim Hecker - RAVEDEATH 1972 / DROPPED PIANOS
Tyco - DIVE
Sleep∞Over - FOREVER
Mark McGuire - GET LOST
Aphex Twin/Autechre - QUEX-RD / SKIN UP, YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD split 12"
Toro Y Moi - UNDERNEATH THE PINE / FREAKING OUT EP
Tennis - CAPE DORY
Ducktails - DUCKTAILS III: ARCADE DYNAMICS
Tonetta - 777, VOL. 2
im tired of typing these so thats all i liked other than the constant new sublime freqs and numero comps
adding to my list...
Plaid - Scintilli
Snowman - ABSENCE
Pharoahe Monch - WAR
Wild Beasts - Smother
Peaking Lights - 936
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
Here are my favorites of 2011:
Radiohead- The King of Limbs
PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
Lykke Li- Unwounded Rhymes
Cut Copy- Zonoscope (Congrats for the Grammy Nomination)
Kasabian- Velociraptor! (Not better than West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum imo)
Little Dragon- Ritual Union
††† (Crosses)- Self Titled EP
Lights- Siberia
Raekwon- Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang
My favorite Album of 2011 is:
Dillon- This Silence Kills
Dominique Dillon de Byington aka Dillon is a Brasilian born Berlin based artist on Bpitch Control. I by no means know every artist on the Bpitch Control roster but her album is totally a complete 180 from everything I have heard coming out of the label though there are some hints in several songs that would make such great Bpitch Control artist as Modeselektor and Appart (Moderat) proud. Besides that there is little overtly "electronic" production on the album its just really mellow pop/ Chamber-pop/Muted Electronica. From the very few reviews I have found of this album I have seen they have made comparisons Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Lykke Li, Bjork and I would even maybe throw out there Emiliana Torrini. Though I wouldn't particularly say she sounds like any one of them but I can see how her voice might remind people of certain singers.
There are a few albums released this year especially in the last couple months that I haven't gotten around to yet but this is what I have liked/loved so far. Looking Forward to what 2012 has to offer in music!
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Overall I think this year has been quite crap for music, but my favourites are:
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Mastodon - The Hunter
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
A lot of the Pink Floyd albums have been remastered this year, which is pretty cool. Radioheads album was a disappointment.
Actually quite like the new Whitesnake album Forevermore - first decent thing they've done since the much derided Slip of the Tongue.
i took a listen to that new Caretaker album based on pitchfork's review on the best of 2011 list. fucking brilliant! It's like listening directly to the soul of the Overlook Hotel. Checking
out Leland Kirby's other stuff now.
A couple selections of songs from my two favorite albums of 2011:
Siriusmo - Mosaik,
Amon Tobin - ISAM
American Goldwing by Blitzen Trapper --------Life Fantastic by Man Man
Starting From Nowhere by Heidecker & Wood--- Gloss Drop by Battles
*Shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
65daysofstatic - Silent Running OST
3epkano - Hans The Reluctant Wolf Juggler
Aderlating - Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone Pt.1
Aes Dana Perimeters
Aidan Baker Plague of Fantasies
Aidan Baker - Still Life
Alexander Turnquist - Hallway of Mirrors
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
Anthony Paul Kerby and Tomas Weiss Distant Shadows
Blueneck Repetitionsa
BNJMN - Black Square
Blut Aus Nord - 777 The Desanctification
Boris - Attention Please
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Bvdub - I Remember (Translations Of Mřrketid)
Bvdub Resistance Is Beautiful
Bvdub - Then
Bvdub - Tribes At The Temple Of Silence
Celer Endes
Celer - Foolish Causes of Fail and Ruin
Celer Menggayakan
Chubby Wolf Los Que No Son Gentos
Cunninlynguists - Oneirology
Cut Hands Afro Noise I
Cyclo. - id
Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down
Daniel Menche - Feral
Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Beauty Of Doubting Yourself
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
Demdike Stare - Triptych
Dominik Eulberg - Diorama
Drake - Take Care
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Ellen Fullman Through Glass Panes
Enduser - Even Weight
Ensemble Economique - Crossing The Pass, By Torchlight
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
Evangelista In Animal Tongue
Fabio Orsi - Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul
FareWell Poetry - Hoping for the Impossible to Ignite
Fennesz & Sakamoto Flumina
Flint Glass & Polarlicht 4.1 - Zoran's Equation
Frank Bretschneider Komet
Freestyle Fellowship The Promise
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Gnaw Their Tongues - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
Hammock Longest Year
Hauschka & Hildur Guonadσttir - Pan Tone
Haxan Cloak, The - The Haxan Cloak
Iconaclass - For The Ones
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Federico Durand - El Extasis de Las Flores Pequenas
Guillaume Gargaud - Lost Chords
Higuma - Pacific Fog Dreams
Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions
Jσhann Jσhannsson - The Miners' Hymns
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Laura - Twelve Hundred Times
Maps & Diagrams Lights Will Call On You
Mark McGuire Get Lost
Merzbow - Kamadhenu
Moomin The Story About You
Neek The Exotic & Large Professor Still On The Hustle
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Nicholas Szczepanik - Please Stop Loving Me
Nils Frahm - Felt
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Anthropomorphic
Origin - Entity
Paul Kalkbrenner - Icke Wieder
Pete Swanson I Dont Rock At All
Pete Swanson Man With Potential
Peter Broderick And Machinefabriek With: Kleefstra*, Bakker*, Kleefstra* With Nils Frahm Mort Aux Vaches
Polinski - Labyrinths
Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
Richard Knox & Frιdιric D. Oberland - The Rustle of the Stars
Rhian Sheehan - Seven Tales of The North Wind
Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk
Roots, The - Undun
Semiomime - From Memory
Simon Scott Bunny
Saul Williams - Volcanic Sunlight
sleepmakeswaves - ...and so we destroyed everything
Stendeck - Scintilla
Steve Roach & Brian Parnham - The Desert Inbetween
Svarte Greiner - Twin
Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing
Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
Svarte Greiner - Twin
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Tin Man Vienna Blue
Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
Wolves In The Throne Room Celestial Lineage
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Xela - Exorcism
Years Of Rice And Salt - Nothing Of Cities
Yu Miyashita - Noble Niche
PJ Harvey + Feist
Kylie - Aphrodite
Britney - Femme Fatale
Gaga - Born This Way
The perfect year in music.
My favorite of the year is easily Esoteric's Paragon of Dissonance. Pretty well done mix of Doom Metal with Post Rock elements.
Here's the first track:
Finally checked out Yuck's self-titled and I'm liking what I hear.
Alright, now that the year is over here are my Top 25:
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Giles Corey - Giles Corey
Wye Oak - Civilian
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Atlas Sound - Parallax
The Dear Hunter - Color Spectrum
Russian Circles - Empros
The Horrors - Skying
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
Snowman - Absence
Bright Eyes - The People's Key
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Real Estate - Days
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Soft Moon - Total Decay
65daysofstatic - Silent Running
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
Grouper - AIA/Alien Observer
Implodes - Black Earth
Cults - Cults
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Other Lives - Tamer Animals
This album practically makes me weep. So amazing. Can't wait to see them.
My top albums of last year, along with a link to one of my top tracks on the album. The list includes a couple of aussie bands and The Killgirls, a local band who put on one hell of a live show.
Art Vs. Science - The Experiment
Foster The People - Torches
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
Architecture In Helsinki - Moment Bends
Killgirls - Animal
Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song
Sparkadia - The Great Impression
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
The Strokes - Angles
Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
Wooooaahhh... Why the fuck are all those videos showing up instead of just being hyperlinks? I can't figure out how to stop that.
Last edited by sa_nick; 01-17-2012 at 06:11 AM.
Haha I actually prefer just being able to play them on the spot. Especially when its great music.
The Earn by yU
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Foster The People - Torches
DJ Quik - The Book of David
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu (I'm serious. This album is so awesome. Modern day classic.)
The Roots - Undun
Just posted an updated list (with reviews) here.
These best of year threads have always been one of the great things about ETS. Most of these recommendations came from it, so thank you to everyone for posting. These were my favorite songs from 2011. (Youtube links)
13 & God Own Your Ghost
Alison Krauss Paper Airplane
Austra Feel it Break
Beirut The Rip Tide
Bon Iver Self Titled
Cold Cave Cherish The Light Years
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Com Truise Galactic Melt
Danger Mouse Rome
Drive Soundtrack
Elbow Build a Rocket Boys!
EMA Past Life Martyred Saints
Florence Ceremonials
Foster the People
Handsome Furs Sound Kapital
Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean
Jesu Ascension
Ladytron Gravity the Seducer
Low Cmon
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
Mastodon The Hunter
Mexicans with Guns Ceremony
Mogwai Harcore Will Never Die, But You Will
My Brightest Diamond All Things Will Unwind
Okkervil River I Am Very Far
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Deluxe
Stephen Malkmus Mirror Traffic -
Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear -
Tune Yards W H O K I L L
VNV Nation Automatic
Weeknd House of Balloons
Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers
VAST Live in NYC
Washed Out Within Without
White Stripes Live in Mississippi
Other albums that were good: AA bondy, Antlers, Atmosphere, Big Black Delta, Bright Eyes, Gang Gang Dance, Grails, Janes Addiction, Kasabian, M83, Puscifer, Radiohead, Sonoio, St. Vincent, War on Drugs