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

Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2011
http://stereogum.com/891411/stereogums-top-50-albums-of-2011/franchises/listomania/

50 Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation
49 Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine
48 Oddisee – Rock Creek Park
47 Wilco – The Whole Love
46 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
45 Adele – 21
44 James Blake – James Blake
43 Twin Sister – In Heaven
42 Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
41 Das Racist – Relax
40 Kendrick Lamar – Section.80
39 Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
38 Burst Apart – Burst Apart
37 Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
36 Cut Copy – Zonoscope
35 Atlas Sound – Parallax
34 Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
33 SBTRKT – SBTRKT
32 St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
31 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
30 Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
29 Washed Out – Within And Without
28 Pictureplane – Thee Physical
27 Destroyer – Kaputt
26 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
25 Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
24 Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra
23 Wild Flag – Wild Flag
22 Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire
21 Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape
20 Real Estate – Days
19 Iceage – New Brigade
18 Beyoncé – 4
17 Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
16 Neon Indian – Era Extraña
15 Zola Jesus – Conatus
14 Austra – Feel It Break
13 Yuck – Yuck
12 M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
11 Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
10 Kanye West & Jay-Z – Watch The Throne
09 ASAP Rocky – LIVELOVEA$AP
08 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
07 EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
06 Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
05 The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
04 Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
03 Bon Iver – Bon Iver
02 Drake – Take Care
01 Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Here are mine. http://sickmouthy.com/2011/12/06/albums-of-2011/

i read this on the train this morning, nick. nice round-up. I especially liked your descriptions of nicolas jaar and st vincent.

kind of getting moved to write my own top ten.

FACT tracks #40-31
http://www.factmag.com/2011/12/05/50-best-tracks-of-2011-50-41/2/

40: OLD APPARATUS SIDE A PART 1 (DEEP MEDI)
39: TEETH ‘SHAWTY’ (502 RECORDINGS)
38: SOFT METALS ‘PSYCHIC DRIVING’ (CAPTURED TRACKS)
37: DARQ E FREAKER ‘CHERRYADE’ (OIL GANG)
36: THE-DREAM ‘BODY WORK & FUCK MY BRAINS OUT’ (RADIO KILLA / DEF JAM)
35: BOK BOK ‘HYPERPASS’ (from SOUTHSIDE, NIGHT SLUGS)
34: CHAMPION feat. RUBY LEE RYDER ‘SENSITIVITY’ (FORMULA)
33: JAMIE XX ‘FAR NEARER’ (NUMBERS)
32: VATICAN SHADOW ‘WHITEWASHED COMPOUND STEALTH HELICOPTER CRASH’ (from PAKISTAN MILITARY ACADEMY, HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS)
31: PERC ‘LONDON, WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED) (from WICKER & STEEL, PERC TRAX)

New York magazine
http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/top-ten-albums/

1. Austra Feel It Break
2. Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
3. Shabazz Palaces Black Up
4. Destroyer Kaputt
5. PJ Harvey Let England Shake
6. Iceage New Brigade
7. Tune-Yards W h o k i l l
8. Kendrick Lamar Section.80
9. Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
10. Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise

^ Nabisco's list rather than a staff poll

Rad

Okay that 3D effect on all the album covers for Dusted's running year-end list stuff is so annoying and headache-inducing that I had to stop reading it.

the comments on nabisco's list are a TREAT

"Sex life"? How very.

Back to the FACT tracks on Spotify, the Soft Metals track does the polite electro thing in a much more engaging, warmer manner than the stuff I was playing yesterday; I was wondering why this was on an EOY list until it switched up around the 2 minute mark. I like the little filter swoops that pop up intermittently.

"Cherryade" is one of the best tracks of the year? Really? It seems kind of like an inoffensive throwaway track that you'd play as filler while you looked for the track you ACTUALLY wanted to hear.

first time i've heard it and i concur. It's kind of a boring ten actually

I would be totally infatuated with this Bok Bok track if it had a massive beat. Everything else about it is fantastic but if it had pounding, punishing drums under it it would be exactly my type of shit. (I wonder if my headphones are letting me down on this one.)

"Sensitivity" is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

i kind of agree re: that bok bok track (and that whole ep) :/

total cosign on champion & ruby lee ryder "sensitivity"

that jamie xx track has got to be the most overrated in this general scene of 2011. just doesn't do enough of anything.

haha that's what I'm playing now, it's basically okay but I feel like it's missing something

also the echo on the vocal sample creates a really UGLY dissonance that doesn't seem to serve any purpose or push the song anywhere

oof the "breakdown" around the 4 minute mark is pathetic, this is not a track that is improved by stripping it down to highlight disparate parts

I think I might be the only person favourably inclined towards funky who doesn't love Sensitivity. Or more to the point, I like it more as a vehicle for riotous MCs to jump all over than I do as a song in its own right.

Terror Danjah's 'Full Attention' on the other hand, which also features Ruby Lee Ryder, is majestic and should be very high up the FACT list.

I think I agree with whoever it was upthread who was eyerolling at the praise the FACT list gets. A few years ago they felt like a refreshing alternative but now it feels like they're very content to plough their own furrow and it's one that by and large isn't that interesting to me. I fully expect the RA list to knock it into a cocked hat.

the bashiness of the breakdown in "full attention" kind of became a turn-off after a while

i've kind of gotten the feeling RA have been taking their cues from FACT for the past couple of years. There certainly wasn't a huge gulf between their lists last year

the bashiness of the breakdown in "full attention" kind of became a turn-off after a while

That's one of my favourite bits!

Also RA is a lot more interested in non-murky dance music than FACT by and large. They had Tensnake at #2 last year which would be unthinkable in FACT, but that's partly because RA feels a lot more European in its focus.

... Are they kidding with this Vatican Shadow track?

Still mulling over Nabisco's 2nd essay on how he likes pop but not most of this year's chart pop...none of which makes his top 10 list

He’d notice the long chart dominance of Katy Perry, whose cheeky retronaut pop bears odd resemblances to the cheeky solo work of David Lee Roth

hmmmm

I mean, I am not opposed to ambient but 10 minutes of unimaginative stasis as one of the best tracks of the year is just silly

Good to hear Psychic Paramount record getting praise round here. Anyone like The Men's record? A bit more derivative but good fun nevertheless.

Re. Resident Advisor list: they always have a really good set of mixes, a type of record often overlooked by other lists.

feeling nabs' list

oh shit, "Full Attention"

so my takeaway here is that I should be paying attention to funky?

Bought lots of great records this year - none has appeared in any of these lists though (yet)

maybe the RA list will change that

i'm kind of disappointed by nabsico's list! it looks like a consensus publication list, not an individual's list

I'nm no expert but i don't think "Full Attention" is funky

okay, it was just mentioned in the context (I did think it seemed like a totally different animal from "Sensitivity")

Yeah Full Attention is grime (or, ugh, R&G) really - Terror Danjah really needs to release a whole album of this stuff soon (early pointer towards this sound here).

I just have to accept that Nabisco is not interested in some 2011 things that I am--charting rap and r'n'b; African, Caribbean (soca & dancehall) and Latin music; country, southern soul and Americana. It's a good list of non-chart rap and rock

And I like Katy Perry and David Lee Roth "cheeky pop"

I feel like that sentence was supposed to say something else, mostly because I can't see nabisco intentionally using the same adjective on both sides of a comparison in the same type of construction

This year's prominent triumvirate of indie-rock bands wrestling earnestly with folky authenticity: BIFFA - Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Antlers

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/waste/images/prevs/0644155.jpg

very apt

lol kudos

Hottracks (S. Korea) 2011 EOY

1 Adele - 21
2 Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
3 James Blake - st
4 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
5 Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
6 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
7 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - st
8 Lady Gaga - Born This Way
9 Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
10 Kasabian - Velociraptor!
11 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
12 Feist - Metals
13 Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters
14 Bon Iver - st
15 Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
16 Bjork - Biophilia
17 Superheavy - st
18 Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
21 Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
22 Lucinda William - Blessed
23 Mamas Gun - The Life And The Soul
24 Wilco - The Whole Love
25 Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires
26 Megadeth - Th1rt3en
27 Foster The People - Torches
28 My Morning Jacket - Circuital
29 Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
30 Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

First appearances for Superheavy and Lulu, thank you South Korea

lulu's too far down the list

Shouldn't be below Superheavy, that's for sure

doesn't South Korea have some "local" bands that they can put on a list like this?

That list is hilarious, especially high placing of James Blake given what he's surrounded by.

17 Superheavy - st
19 Beadie Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
20 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Really don't know what to say about this except 'lolololololol'.

that's a great list

I know that it's the bottom of the list but most of these Fact tracks sound like half-finished tunes on someone's hard drive, both bloodless and amateurish. Wish I could be convinced it wasn't just writers repping their mates in one or two cases.

Really like that Mr Beatnik tune though, not heard that before. It's loads better than I Know All The Bitches.