Piccadilly Records Albums of the Year
Not going to type out all 100, these are the top 20:
1. Peaking Lights - 936 (yay!)2. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo3. The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo4. Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous5. Metronomy - The English Riviera6. Wooden Shjips - West7. Other Lives - Tamer Animals8. The Kills - Blood Pressures9. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain10. Widowspeak - Widowspeak11. Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts12. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams13. Pure X - Pleasure14. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake16. Harvey Presents Locussolus - Locussolus17. Vetiver - The Errant Charm18. J Mascis - Several Shades of Why19. Real Estate - Days20. Washed Out - Within and Without
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Only one list so far has featured Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Funny how everyone scans over the metal list as "oh, well, they just cover metal so of course they're gonna have a list full of metal albums" yet every time something that just covers shitty indie has a list made up of shitty indie people are LIVID.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha are there really 2 metal albums named path of totality this year?
lolyes
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
xp but it's not even good indie :(
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say Q at least pretends to cover more than shitty indie? I guess they do include Jay-Z and Kanye to demonstrate they know about the rapping too.
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Rounder Records (Brighton) top 50:
1.THE HORRORS - "Skying" (XL)2.SUUNS - "Zeroes QC" (Secretly Canadian)3.THE WAR ON DRUGS - "Slave Ambient" (Secretly Canadian)4.PJ HARVEY - "Let England Shake" (Island)5.HYETAL - "Broadcast" (Special Branch)6.FORD & LOPATIN - "Channel Pressure" (Software)7.NEON INDIAN - "Era Extrana" (Transgressive)8.JOHN MAUS - "We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves" (Upset The Rhythm)9.MOON DUO - "Mazes" (Souterrain Transmissions)10.PEAKING LIGHTS - "936" (Weird World)11.THURSTON MOORE - "Demolished Thoughts" (Matador)12.SBTRKT - "SBTRKT" (Young Turks)13.METRONOMY - "The English Riviera" (Because)14.YUCK - "Yuck" (Mercury)15.MAYER HAWTHORNE - "How Do You Do" (Universal Republic)16.CAT'S EYES - "Cat's Eyes" (Polydor)17.BOOKER T JONES - "The Road From Memphis" (Epitaph)18.THE FIELD - "Looping State Of Mind" (Kompakt)19.STEPHEN MALKMUS - "Mirror Traffic" (Domino)20.VERONICA FALLS - "Veronica Falls" (Bella Union)21.WILD FLAG - “Wild Flag” (Wichita)22.JOHN TEJADA - "Parabolas" (Kompakt)23.JUSTICE - "Audio, Video, Disco" (Edbanger)24.BEASTIE BOYS - "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" (Capitol)25.JAMIE WOON - "Mirrorwriting" (Interscope)26.MEMORY TAPES - "Player Piano" (Something In Construction)27.LOCUSSOLUS - "Locussolus" (International Feel)28.NO JOY - "Ghost Blonde" (Mexican Summer)29.GUI BORATTO - "III" (Kompakt)30.WIDOWSPEAK - "Widowspeak" (Captured Tracks)31.MOGWAI - "Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will" (Rock Action)32.MARTYN - "Ghost People" (Brainfeeder)33.ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER - "Last Summer" (City Slang)34.J.MASCIS - "Several Shades Of Why" (Sub Pop)35.TORO Y MOI - "Underneath The Pine" (Carpark)36.THE KILLS - "Blood Pressures" (Domino)37.WASHED OUT - "Within & Without" (Weird World)38.RINGO DEATHSTARR - "Colour Trip" (Club AC30)39.DENNIS COFFEY - "Dennis Coffey" (Strut)40.EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - "Take Care Take Care Take Care" (Bella Union)41.GRUFF RHYS - "Hotel Shampoo" (Ovni)42.TOM WAITS - "Bad As Me" (Anti)43.MODESELEKTOR - "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)44.HOLY GHOST - "Holy Ghost" (DFA)45.RUSTIE - “Glass Swords” (Warp)46.KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS - "Smoking In Heaven" (Sunday Best)47.WOODEN SHJIPS - "West" (Thrill Jockey)48.BALAM ACAB - "Wander/Wonder" (Triangle)49.ST. VINCENT - "Strange Mercy" (4AD)50.BLOOD ORANGE - “Coastal Grooves” (Domino)
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ decent list
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say Q at least pretends to cover more than shitty indie?
Q doesn't even cover very much shitty indie. They cover old man rock music.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I want to check out the Suuns record from that list, it sounds pretty interesting.
SBTRKT album is coming up a lot - any good?
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
emil.y: http://www.myspace.com/suuns_
btw the Blanck Mass album over in FACT is really good
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
container album on the fact list is excellent too. check out the track 'dissolve' cos that is a banger
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Also the Haxan Cloak album, though I do need to listen to it a bit more.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
truth
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – It’s A Corporate World
this... this is a real album?
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
FACT list looks cool, though I've only heard two albums so far. But to be fair, I've only heard 5-10% on most of these lists...
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
i need to hear that Haxan Cloak album, actually
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's okay but not all that great - the roly porter record makes a better fist of the strings plus menacing ambience thing imo
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh, I haven't heard that.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
ha, well even that one gets a bit boring too
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Holy cow JEHST made a record? In 2011? That made a list? I was just assuming he was working at an twenty four hour petrol station being annoyed at the kids these days.
Or to sum it up, lol.
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yes.
The pre-album EP was really good, but the album doesn't hang together so well.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
ha maybe my next poll will be Suuns vs. Death Grips
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
35: JON BROOKS - MUSIC FOR THOMAS CARNACKI VOL. 1
This sounds like total emil.y bait:
This remarkable, digital-only album by Jon Brooks – best known for his work as The Advisory Circle on Ghost Box – might just be the last word in hauntology. Under a title that nods to the supernaturally-attuned detective of William Hope Hodgson’s pre-war fantasy fiction, Brooks presents 27 perfectly-formed miniatures of occult ambience, queer-pitched radiophonics and pseudo-classical whimsy. An absolute delight.
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! I was surprised that I hadn't actually heard that this year. Unless the mister has surreptitiously played it - he's at least as big a Ghost Box fan as me, if not even more.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
That Suun album actually came out back in 2010 in the States, its hit or miss tbh. Some really great tracks, but a lot of filler iirc.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
what is moon duo like
― smh, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking awesome. Its a side project of a Wooden Shjips dude, but more emphasis on keyboards. Some fucking jams on that new album.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i'm fucking livid at that paste list
~shrugs~
Looks like a Paste list.
― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
CKotm
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I see that's been covered.
― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I really like the Moon Duo record. Don't dig the Doors-isms of Wooden Shjips, but MD are groovy synthy shiz.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Meh, I liked the WS album this year more than the MD album
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I liked them both, but I felt like the Shjips record was them on cruise control - fine, but nothing they hadn't done already. The Moon Duo record was a leap from the previous stuff though, but he best thing they did this year was "Sickener" on the Horror Tour thing.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Jon Brooks – best known for his work as The Advisory Circle on Ghost Box
The guy's been busy this year. As the Crow Flies is also quite nice.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
If you wanna call Korn & Skrillex "metal" that is. But to be a pedant, Tombs is Path of Totality while Korn added The to the front of it.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
what are the consensus hip hop and rnb albums this year?
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Childish Gambino
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
LIVID
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Camp
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Uncut magazine:
50 Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra49 Arbouretum – The Gathering48 Cornershop Featuring Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop And The Double-O Groove Of47 The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World46 Iceage – New Brigade45 Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin44 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l43 St. Vincent – Strange Mercy42 Jenny Hval – Viscera41 Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’
40 Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow39 Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong38 His Golden Messenger – From Country Hai East Cotton37 Little Dragon – Ritual Union36 Jonny – Jonny35 My Morning Jacket – Circuital34 Fatoumata Diawara – Fatou33 Low – C’Mon32 Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX – We’re New Here31 Destroyer – Kaputt
30 Tim Hecker – Ravendeath, 197229 Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What28 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine27 Björk – Biophilia26 The Decemberists – The King Is Dead25 Bill Callahan – Apocolypse24 Real Estate – Days23 Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts22 Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact21 James Blake – James Blake
20 Ry Cooder – Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down19 Drive-By Truckers – Go-Go Boots18 Tinariwen – Tassili17 Feist – Metals16 Jonathan Wilson – Gentle Spirit15 Wilco – The Whole Love14 Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo13 Tom Waits – Bad As Me12 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues11 Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
10 The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient09 Bon Iver – Bon Iver08 Wild Beasts – Smother07 Radiohead – The King Of Limbs06 The Horrors – Skying05 Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen04 White Denim – D03 Metronomy – The English Riviera02 Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest01 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
not totally horrible
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ha, that decibel list explains why I was only assigned one blurb this year…
― J3ff T., Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
my problem with paste has always been not that their taste is incredibly boring and lame (which it is of course) but that the writing generally never got past "college freshman kicking it around in the arts section of the school paper" level. i mean, interesting things can be said about tons of artists that paste loves (well maybe not she & him and m. ward and shit) but i don't think paste has ever really employed those ppl.
tho i think putting iron & wine, the decemberists and wilco in your top 15 in 2011 means it's time for you to go to doggie heaven.
― v-shasty, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ctrl-F Matana Roberts ... :(
― zappi, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
LJ swears up and down that the new Wilco is the best thing they've ever done
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
you mean the guy that made a chocolate & cheese sauce to serve with fish?
― v-shasty, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Lex OTM wrt the Jaar album.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 January 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney, Bob Boilen from NPR radio/website All songs Considered site, and the afropop.org site all chose the nice understated kora and cello duet album Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Chamber Music (Mali and France) - (on Six Degrees)
It's growing on me but I went elsewhere with my African music choices
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Orchestre Poly- Rythmo-Cotonou Club (Strut)
Jon Pareles at the NY Times also went with this one
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
That should be Orchestre PolyRythmo
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
If they had gone with the full TuneYards style lettering they could have made more lists
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
POX nico jaar:
wouha time for usmarksthe bees - winter rose (nicolas jaar remix)ellen allien - flashy flashy (nicolas jaar remix)space is only noise if you can seelove you gotta lose againrussian dollsel bandidono regular play - owe me (nicolas jaar remix)
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
maybe every artist should do this for lols?
pIsToL aNnIeS - h e l l o n h e e l s
tIm HeCkEr - r a v e d e a t h , 1 9 7 2
etc.
― ilxor, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
It took two hours to compose that post didn't it
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Brainwashed.com's reader's poll results
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 2 January 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link