Make your lists, I need new music........
Make your lists, I need new music........
Top 3:
IAMX - Volatile Times
VNV Nation - Automatic
Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
This year was a bit shit for new music tbh.
The new ones by Evaline and Elbow are very good.
Fucked Up- David Comes to Life
PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
Lykke Li- Wounded Rhymes
The Decemberists- The King is Dead
My Morning Jacket- Circuital
Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Black Lips- Arabia Mountain
Okkervil River- I Am Very Far
Wilco- The Whole Love
Tom Waits- Bad As Me
Toro Y Moi- Underneath the Pine
Tune-Yards- Whokill
TV on the Radio- Nine Types of Light
Tyler, the Creator- Goblin
Jay-Z and Kanye West- Watch the Throne
Arctic Monkeys- Suck It and See
Bright Eyes- The People's Key
Drake- Take Care
Cake- Showroom of Compassion
Cee Lo Green- The Lady Killer
Danger Mouse- Rome
Das Racist- Relax
Drive By Truckers- Go Go Boots
Explosions in the Sky- Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Hayes Carll- KMAG YOYO
Iron and Wine- Kiss Each Other Clean
Lil B- I'm Gay
I thought this year was a fantastic year for music. Off the top of my head I have enjoyed
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
Feist - Metals
Sister Crayon - Bellow
St Vincent - Strange Mercy
Austra - Feel It Break
The Family Crest - The Village
Anna Calvi - Self Titled
The Horrors - Skying
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
Albums I am not 100% sold on but think I need to spend more time with...
Religious To Damn - Glass Prayer
Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
Zola Jesus - Conatus
The Jezabels - Prisoner
Kate Havnevik - You
Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
Son Lux - We Are Rising
Papercranes - Lets Make Babies In The Woods
Niki & The Dove - The Fox EP
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The new Puscifer record is really doing it for me. Especially Horizons and Monsoons.
My favorite this year was Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, by Explosions in the Sky.
It was nice
It is definitely Violeta Violeta by Kaizers Orchestra. It came out on 11/11/11 in Norway and the rest of Europe have to wait until January, but it's still an album from 2011, so it gets my vote
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
Puscifer - Conditions of my Parole
Foster The People - Torches
Company Of Thieves - Running from a Gamble
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
1. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
2. Mastodon - The Hunter
3. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
6. Mute Math - Odd Soul
7. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
8. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
9. The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
10. The Horrors - Skying
Honorable Mentions:
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
Sonoio - Red
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
White Lies - Rituals
Mind you, Dragon Tattoo will probably end up squeezing it's way into the top 5.
I haven't heard nearly enough new music, but there are definitely a few good ones.
Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces (Surprised no one mentioned this yet, it's great.)
SONOIO - Red
Family and Friends by Serengeti is absolutely amazing. Great, great stuff. Solid instrumentals and an incredible skill when it comes to narrative, especially on "Goddammit" and "The Whip".
My top 3 for 2011 would have to be:
1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
3. Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart
Personal favorites:
21-Adele
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two-Beastie Boys
Bon Iver, Bon Iver-Bon Iver
Attention Please-Boris
Camp-Childish Gambino
Drive-Cliff Martinez/Various Artists
Galactic Melt-Com Truise
Crazy Clown Time-David Lynch
The Less You Know, The Better-DJ Shadow
Off The Ground-Drivemouth
Helplessness Blues-Fleet Foxes
Ceremonials-Florence and The Machine
Giants-Giants
Making Mirrors-Gotye
Audio, Video, Disco-Justice
Free-Magic Machines
Conditions Of My Parole-Puscifer
Empros-Russian Circles
Volcanic Sunlight-Saul Williams
Red-Sonoio
Hanna-The Chemical Brothers
Speak Through The White Noise-The New Regime
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Nine Types Of Light-TV On The Radio
Alpocalypse-Weird Al Yankovic
Special mention for these re-releases:
Nevermind (Deluxe Edition)-Nirvana
The Dark Side Of The Moon (Immersion Edition)-Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here (Immersion Edition)-Pink Floyd
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Green Naugahide (I think that's how it's spelled) by Primus
Everything else has already been mentioned.
Mastodon's The Hunter is all you need!
Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
Curren$y - Covert Coup/Weekend At Burnies
Freddie Gibbs - Cold Day in Hell (Mixtape)
The Horrors - Skying
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Pictureplane - Thee Physical
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Pusha T - Fear of God II
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Tyler the Creator - Goblin
The Weeknd - House of Balloons/Thursday EP's
2011 was kinda a weird year for music.
Joy Formidable- Big Roar
BBD- BBDLP1
Numan- Dead Son Rising
PWEI- New Noise Designed By A Sadist
Trail Of Dead- Tao Of The Dead
Feersum Ennjin- S/T
Cave In- White Silence
Probably a scary sign of getting old, but I've actually been more into reissues this year. All the Nirvana, Pumpkins and PWEI that came out this year have been ace
Grouper - AIA Alien Observer
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Russian Circles - Empros
Wilco - The Whole Love
Skinny Puppy - HanDover
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
Africa HiTech - 93 Million Miles
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here
Gary Numan - Dead Son Rising
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Radiohead - King of Limbs
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin' : Graveyard Shift
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
Silent Horror - Seance
Rustie - Glass Swords
Venetian Snares - Cubist Reggae
Kuedo - Severant
Bjork - Biophilia
other stuff
In a rough-ish order:
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Luminaries and Synastry (number 1 by far)
Grouper - A I A
Seefeel - Seefeel
Giles Corey - Giles Corey
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Bjork - Biophilia
Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries
Death in Vegas - Trans-Love Energies
Ekin Fil - Language
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Belong - Common Era
Raspberry Bulbs - Nature Tries Again
Prurient - Bermuda Drain
Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
Death Grips - Exmilitary
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Aidan Baker - Lost in the Rat Maze
Sonic Youth - Simon Werner A Disparu
Some other stuff I've no doubt forgotten too.
Autechre's EP 91-02 compilation is also essential (since reissues have been mentioned above)
Peter Murphy's Ninth was brilliant
In mostly no discernible order
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
The Drive Soundtrack, mostly for Cliff Martinez's score, but the songs are growing on me as well
TR & AR - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Paatos - Breathing
Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins - A Scarcity Of Miracles
Steve Hackett - Beyond The Shrouded Horizon
Black Country Communion - 2
Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues
Opeth - Heritage
Memories Of Machines - Warm Winter
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Last edited by onthewall2983; 01-16-2012 at 08:58 AM. Reason: Stupidly forgetting Hackett and Allman's albums.
Ohgr - Undeveloped
Skinny Puppy - HanDover
Bibio - Mind Bokeh
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
SONOIO - RED
Neon Indian - Era Extraña
Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Looking forward to next year:
HTDA
The Knife
Tobacco/Black Moth Super Rainbow
Aphex Twin (wouldn't it be nice?)
Boards of Canada (again ... I'm dreaming here)
Trash Talk - Awake
Touche Amore - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sects / The Desanctification
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Jesu - Ascension
Crosses - Self Titled
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Opeth - Heritage
Mastodon - The Hunter
Rustie - Glass Swords
Still really need to listen to David Lynch's debut, I can't say I enjoyed 'Good Day Today' all that much, it grew on me a little with the video that came from that fan competition thing.
Want to give the new M83 and Bjork a go too.
Many great albums were released this year:
Skinny Puppy - hanDover
ohGr - unDeveloped
SONOIO - RED
Gary Numan - Dead Son Rising
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
Alva Noto - Univrs
Fennesz + Sakamoto - Flumina
Fennesz - Seven Stars
Byetone - SyMeta
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
Amon Tobin - Isam
David Sylvian - Died In The Wool
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
Oh man, I gotta start working on my list. Wil be back with it shortly!
I'm really digging the new Neverending White Lights album. Act III: Love Will Ruin.
Also, the new M83, from the first track, I knew it was going to be a gooder.
LPs
Children of Fire - Oh, Sleeper
Dead Throne - The Devil Wears Prada
The Death Of Greeley Estates - Greeley Estates
RED - Sonoio
Downtown Battle Mountain II - Dance Gavin Dance
The Speed of Forever - Polyfuse
Content - Polluted
Nostril - Igorrr
Burn This World - The Browning
Hocico - Tiempos de Furia
EPs
The March Ahead - The March Ahead EP
Glassjaw - Coloring Book EP
††† (Crosses) - EP †
The Circle Ends Here - Where Time Leaves the Rest
Captive Six - Hyperbolic Chamber
This year it was all about:
Battles- Gloss Drop
Julianna Barwick- The Magic Place
Radiohead- The King of Limbs
James Blake- James Blake
M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Atlas Sound- Parallex
Bon Iver- Bon Iver
The Antlers- Burst Apart
I was very disappointed by Puscifer's new record. meh.
And yeah, Dragon Tattoo and HTDA (if that's released in 2011, that is.) will probably make it in.