Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up

xp but it's not even good indie :(

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.

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)

^^^ decent list

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.

I want to check out the Suuns record from that list, it sounds pretty interesting.

SBTRKT album is coming up a lot - any good?

emil.y: http://www.myspace.com/suuns_

btw the Blanck Mass album over in FACT is really good

container album on the fact list is excellent too. check out the track 'dissolve' cos that is a banger

Also the Haxan Cloak album, though I do need to listen to it a bit more.

btw the Blanck Mass album over in FACT is really good

truth

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – It’s A Corporate World

this... this is a real album?

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...

i need to hear that Haxan Cloak album, actually

it's okay but not all that great - the roly porter record makes a better fist of the strings plus menacing ambience thing imo

Ooh, I haven't heard that.

ha, well even that one gets a bit boring too

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.

SBTRKT album is coming up a lot - any good?

Yes.

I want to check out the Suuns record from that list, it sounds pretty interesting.

The pre-album EP was really good, but the album doesn't hang together so well.

ha maybe my next poll will be Suuns vs. Death Grips

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.

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.

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.

what is moon duo like

Fucking awesome. Its a side project of a Wooden Shjips dude, but more emphasis on keyboards. Some fucking jams on that new album.

i'm fucking livid at that paste list

~shrugs~

Looks like a Paste list.

CKotm

Oh, I see that's been covered.

Yeah, I really like the Moon Duo record. Don't dig the Doors-isms of Wooden Shjips, but MD are groovy synthy shiz.

Meh, I liked the WS album this year more than the MD album

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.

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.

haha are there really 2 metal albums named path of totality this year?

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.

what are the consensus hip hop and rnb albums this year?

Childish Gambino

haha

LIVID

Camp

Childish Gambino

Uncut magazine:

50 Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
49 Arbouretum – The Gathering
48 Cornershop Featuring Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop And The Double-O Groove Of
47 The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
46 Iceage – New Brigade
45 Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin
44 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
43 St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
42 Jenny Hval – Viscera
41 Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’

40 Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
39 Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
38 His Golden Messenger – From Country Hai East Cotton
37 Little Dragon – Ritual Union
36 Jonny – Jonny
35 My Morning Jacket – Circuital
34 Fatoumata Diawara – Fatou
33 Low – C’Mon
32 Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX – We’re New Here
31 Destroyer – Kaputt

30 Tim Hecker – Ravendeath, 1972
29 Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What
28 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
27 Björk – Biophilia
26 The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
25 Bill Callahan – Apocolypse
24 Real Estate – Days
23 Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
22 Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
21 James Blake – James Blake

20 Ry Cooder – Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
19 Drive-By Truckers – Go-Go Boots
18 Tinariwen – Tassili
17 Feist – Metals
16 Jonathan Wilson – Gentle Spirit
15 Wilco – The Whole Love
14 Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
13 Tom Waits – Bad As Me
12 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
11 Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

10 The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
09 Bon Iver – Bon Iver
08 Wild Beasts – Smother
07 Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
06 The Horrors – Skying
05 Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen
04 White Denim – D
03 Metronomy – The English Riviera
02 Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
01 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

not totally horrible

Ha ha, that decibel list explains why I was only assigned one blurb this year…

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.

Ctrl-F Matana Roberts ...
:(

LJ swears up and down that the new Wilco is the best thing they've ever done

you mean the guy that made a chocolate & cheese sauce to serve with fish?

new wilco is actually really good if you're into wilco

that's a strangely lame list from piccadilly, considering all the hot shit they carry

glad that holy ghost isn't being forgotten

idolater

http://idolator.com/6092572/favorite-albums-2011-idolator

Foster The People, Torches
Lady Gaga, Born This Way
Beyonce, 4
Will Young, Echoes
Oh Land, Oh Land
Adele, 21
The Sound Of Arrows, Voyage
Patrick Stump, Soul Punk
Ben Folds, The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective
Britney Spears, Femme Fatale

If they had gone with the full TuneYards style lettering they could have made more lists

POX nico jaar:

wouh
a time for us
marks
the bees - winter rose (nicolas jaar remix)
ellen allien - flashy flashy (nicolas jaar remix)
space is only noise if you can see
love you gotta lose again
russian dolls
el bandido
no regular play - owe me (nicolas jaar remix)

If they had gone with the full TuneYards style lettering they could have made more lists

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.

It took two hours to compose that post didn't it

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