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

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

lol at all these lists, tho my own would include a lot of "indie."

NO BON IVER THO that is gross.

The idea of anyone either praising or going out of their way to mock the Bon Iver is kind of funny to me, its such a bland, boring record that I can't see anyone inspired in either direction. And I actually liked the first one.

FACT list continues to be the most varied and interesting among year-end lists.

it's not an easy listen but i love that patten album! andy stott is great too but i probably ended up listening to his other 2011 record (we stay together) more

i think it's fair to combine both of stott's 2011 EPs into one album for year-end purposes.

yeah that FACT list is great. a lot of my year-end favorites are ending up there, and there's a lot to check out too...

That Villalobos ECM thing was a real snooze though

i think it's fair to combine both of stott's 2011 EPs into one album for year-end purposes.

December sees a 2*CD issue of them both together making this an ideologically pure thing to do as well.

i think it's fair to combine both of stott's 2011 EPs into one album for year-end purposes.

i was thinking the same thing as i was preparing my 2011 list draft

Last year's FACT list was a goldmine. Their site has been molasses slow for me for a few weeks now.

[CharlieNo4/Backround Zombie under a new name, btw!]

for a different perspective: http://www.virginmedia.com/music/awards/

Best album:

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Adele - 21
3. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
4. Jessie J - Who You Are
5. Beyonce - 4
6. Kasabian - Velociraptor!
7. Professor Green - At Your Inconvenience
8. Katy B - On A Mission
9=. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9=. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know

Last year's FACT list was a goldmine. Their site has been molasses slow for me for a few weeks now.

Not just you, its awful. It seems to be all those flash ads they have.

pretty fucking wacky here too

Not sure there's an easy way to c&p this but here's excellent Brighton shop Resident's 2011 chart: http://www.resident-music.com/collection&path=599

Oh wait no, here it is:

1 war on drugs : slave ambient (secretly canadian)
2 peaking lights : 936 (domino)
3 kurt vile : smoke ring for my halo (matador)
4 bon iver : bon iver (4ad)
5 lanterns on the lake : gracious tide, take me home (bella union)
6 zomby : dedication (4ad)
7 low : c'mon (sub pop)
8 oneohtrix point never : replica (software)
9 ema : past life martyred saints (souterrain transmissions)
10 cloud control : bliss release (infectious)
11 josh t pearson : the last of the country gentlemen (mute)
12 radiohead : king of limbs (xl)
13 metronomy : the english riviera (because)
14 clams casino : instrumentals (type)
15 john maus : we must become the pitiless censors of ourselves (upset the rhythm)
16 motion sickness of time travel : luminaries & synastry (digitalis)
17 tom waits : bad as me (anti)
18 john foxx & the maths : interplay (metamatic)
19 kuedo : severant (planet mu)
20 nils frahm : felt (erased tapes)
21 panda bear : tomboy (paw tracks)
22 mark mcguire : get lost (editions mego)
23 p j harvey : let england shake (island)
24 walls : coracle (kompakt)
25 gang gang dance : eye contact (4ad)
26 elbow : build a rocket boys (fiction)
27 the haxan cloak : the haxan cloak (aurora borealis)
28 thurston moore : demolished thoughts (matador)
29 real estate : days (domino)
30 arbouretum : the gathering (thrill jockey)

(70 more on the site)

> 16 motion sickness of time travel : luminaries & synastry (digitalis)

^ good call, y'all. nils frahm album is wonderful too.

npr best 'outer sounds' albums of 2011

1. Nicholas Szczepanik, 'Please Stop Loving Me'
2. The Psychic Paramount, 'II'
3. Bill Orcutt, 'How The Things Sing'
4. Julia Holter, 'Tragedy'
5. Glenn Jones, 'The Wanting'
6. Julianna Barwick, 'The Magic Place'
7. Trouble Books & Mark McGuire, 'Trouble Books & Mark McGuire'
8. Indignant Senility, 'Consecration of the Whipstain' / Diamond Catalog, 'Magnified Palette'
9. Ellen Fullman, 'Through Glass Panes'
10. Ernst Karel, 'Swiss Mountain Transport Systems'
11. V/A, Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them
12. Eli Keszler, Cold Pin
13. Pete Swanson, Man With Potential (stream)
14. Hubble, Hubble Drums (stream)
15. Charlatan, Triangles (stream)
16. Quiet Evenings, Intrepid Trips (stream)
17. Sean McCann, The Capital
18. Loren Connors, Red Mars
19. Jon Mueller, Alphabet of Movements (stream)
20. Jannick Schou, Act of Shimmering
21. Kyle Bobby Dunn, Ways of Meaning
22. Peaking Lights, 936
23. Rene Hell, The Terminal Symphony (stream)
24. Sun Araw, Ancient Romans
25. Jeremiah Cymerman, Fire Sign

oh that's nice! need to check up on some of that stuff...

sidenote i HATE the way music press write about bill orcutt:

No one is playing acoustic guitar like Bill Orcutt right now. No one.

make me sad cuz ive been developing my style of shattered folk blues and americana for a couple years now ):

is it really that hard to believe that NO ONE has EVER gotten totally baked and snapped the strings off their guitar while playing fragmented finger picking patterns? /end rant

talking of whacked-out blues, i was expecting to see charalimbides pop up on lists like that

i'm just parrotting deej here but the argument can easily be made that FACT's list and paste's list are the exact same thing except FACT covers hip dance music where as paste covers unhip starbucks rock -- there's just about the same amount of deviation from the expected norm

who is the frank turner of hip dance music?

cos that shit is just embarrassing

people are all up under FACT's nuts bcuz a lot of the shit they cover is obscure but if you don't care about white label techno just like you don't care about "middle brother", shit is equally as boring and insular