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

Fester's Thirteen Days of Xmas
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/lucky11.htm

On the first day of Xmas Dr. Fester gave to me...

1. TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light (Interscope)
2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Assault)
3. White Denim - D (Downtown)
4. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (MeteorCity)
5. Been Obscene - Night O' Mine (Elektrohasch)
6. At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos)
7. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Killer Candy/Svart)
8. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia)
9. Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise)
10. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti-)
11. Opeth - Heritage (Roadrunner)
12. Sungrazer - Mirador (Elektrohasch)
13. Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)
14. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Domino)
15. Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino)
16. Ufesas (Droehnhaus)
17. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (XL)
18. Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 1 & 2 (El Paraiso)
19. Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra (Nasoni)
20. Metronomy - English Riviera (Because)
21. Pete & the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures (Stolen)
22. Humo del Cairo - Vol. II (Estamos Felices)
23. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Hybris/Acephale)
24. Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street (Metal Blade)
25. Holy Ghost! (DFA)
26. Lord Vicar - Signs Of Osiris (The Church Within)
27. The Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
28. Peaking Lights - 936 (Not Not Fun)
29. Boris - New Album (Tearbridge/Sargent House)
30. Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars (GMR)
31. Obrero - Mortui Vivos Docent (Night Tripper)
32. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (Cyclone Empire/Metal Blade)
33. Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell - Psychic Life (Cherry Red)
34. Freedom Hawk - Holding On (Small Stone)
35. Amebix - Sonic Mass (Easy Action)
36. Årabrot - Solar Anus (Fysisk Format)
37. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
38. Sleestak - The Fall Of Altrusia (Sleestak)
39. Hills - Master Sleeps (Transubstans)
40. The Chapman Family - Burn Your Town (PIAS/Electric Toaster)
41. Elvis Deluxe - Favourite State Of Mind (Harmony)
42. Circle - Infektio (Conspiracy)
43. Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos)
44. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Matador)
45. Tinariwen - Tassili (Anti-)
46. Tamikrest - Toumastin (Glitterhouse)
47. The Horror The Horror - Wilderness (Tapete)
48. YOB - Atma (Profound Lore)
49. Obake (Rarenoise)
50. Monkey3 - Beyond The Black Sky (Stickman)
51. Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch (Thrill Jockey)
52. Moon Duo - Mazes (Sacred Bones)
53. Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
54. The Fall - Ersatz G.B (Cherry Red)
55. The Postelles (Plus One)
56. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (4AD)
57. Pentagram - Last Rites (Metal Blade)
58. Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus... (Elektrohasch)
59. Highway Child (Elektrohasch)
60. Radio Moscow - The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (Alive)
61. The Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)
62. Frankie And The Heartstrings - Hunger (Wichita)
63. Rival Sons - Pressure & Time (Earache)
64. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See (Domino)
65. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (Van/Profound Lore)
66. Washed Out - Within And Without (Sub Pop)
67. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons (The Weeknd)
68. The Gates Of Slumber - The Wretch (Rise Above)
69. Anna Calvi (Domino)
70. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia (Hideout)
71. The Feelies - Here Before (Bar/None)
72. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
73. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
74. Battles - Gloss Drop (Warp)
75. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)
76. Arenna - Beats of Olarizu (Nasoni)
77. Glitter Wizard - Solar Hits (Archers Guild)
78. Black Pyramid - II (MeteorCity)
79. Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace (Iamsound)
80. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (Ribbon)
81. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (History Always Favours the Winners)
82. The Horrors - Skying (XL)
83. Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years (Matador)
84. Parts & Labor - Constant Future (Jagjaguwar)
85. Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live (Ipecac)
86. Siena Root - Root Jam (Transubstans)
87. Cave - Neverendless (Drag City)
88. Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
89. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual (Hippos In Tanks)
90. The Heavy Eyes (Heavy Eyes)
91. Mars Red Sky (Emergence)
92. Wild Flag (Merge)
93. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain)
94. Iceage - New Brigade (What's Your Rupture?)
95. Austra - Feel It Break (Domino)
96. Lonely Kamel - Dust Devil (Napalm)
97. The Cosmic Dead - Cosmik Tape I (Who Can You Trust?)
98. DeWolff - Orchards/Lupine (REMusic)
99. Black Rainbows - Supermothafuzzalicious!! (Longfellow Deeds)
100. 1000mods - Super Van Vacation (Kozmik Artifactz)

god the tropic of cancer eps this year are kind of really fuckin great

I really like P4k's individual artists lists.

The Kurt Vile disk seemed to be on a lot of those individual lists BTW FWIW.

Lol at WU LYF/s p4k list

02. Lil B: I'm Gay (I'm Happy): Best hip-hop record of the last 50 years.

smh

more like WU DIS amirite

Just catching up to the Beyonce album. Middle third is best, IMO.

Like: I would take "Party," "Rather Die Young," and "Love on Top" over "1+1," "Best Thing I Ever Had," and "Countdown."

Cokemachineglow - Top 50 Albums 2011
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/6630/top50albums-2011

*snip*
30: Wild Flag - Wild Flag
29: Roommate - Guilty Rainbow
28: Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
27: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
26: Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
25: Chad Van Gaalen - Diaper Island
24: G-Side - The ONE... COHESIVE
23: Burial - Street Halo EP
22: Curren$y - Weekend at Burnie's
21: Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk
20: A$AP Rocky - LIVELOVEA$AP
19: Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
18: James Blake - James Blake
17: Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
16: Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch the Throne
15: Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
14: Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva
13: Destroyer - Kaputt
12: St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
11: Blackout Beach - Fuck Death
10: The Weeknd - House of Balloons
9: Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
8: L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan
7: tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
6: Danny Brown - XXX
5: Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
4: Jenny Hval - Viscera
3: Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes II
2: Braids - Native Speaker
1: Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Blogger Daddy B. Nice's finalists for best Southern soul album. He also lists top ballads, songwriters, and numerous other categories

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2011.cfm

1. Luther Lackey --- Married Lyin' Cheatin' Man

2. Jim Bennett --- Taking It To The Next Level

3. Omar Cunningham --- Growing Pains

4. Ms. Jody --- Ms. Jody's In The House

5. Bigg Robb --- Soul Prescription

6. Bobby Rush --- Show You A Good Time

7. Donnie Ray --- Who's Rockin' You

8. Bobby Jones --- You Ain't Got No Proof

9. Big G --- All About Me

SPIN top 20 Dance albums: http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-20-best-dance-albums-2011
SPIN top 20 R&B albums: http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-top-20-rb-albums-2011

did you handpick that top three on the R&B list specifically to troll ppl here, lol

(where by "people" I mostly mean "Lex")

That Gui Boratto album seems to appeal to metalheads - Freeman was repping for it in the Wire.

i had no idea there even was a new gui boratto album!! 'chromophobia' is fucking awesome too

new album is good. much darker vibe.

dealwith.gif are you putting together a drone/ambient/experimental list?

I was kind of bored by the new Gui Boratto, tbh.

it's okay. no real "songs" to hold onto.

dealwith.gif are you putting together a drone/ambient/experimental list?

― lord of snow and shadows (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, December 21, 2011 5:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

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did you handpick that top three on the R&B list specifically to troll ppl here, lol

lol thanks for the warning.

There was a Gui Boratto album between this and Chromophobia too, it wasn't great though.

People sleep on Gui cause he's consistent. No OMG NARRATIVE

oh my god i just can't handle things without narratives

I like Take My Breath Away!

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_music_club/features/2011/music_club_2011/best_music_2011_will_someone_please_explain_why_adele_isn_t_completely_boring_.html

Jody Rosen discussing the year with Nabisco, Ann Powers, Jonah Weiner, and Carl Wilson

I came round to "Let England Shake" yesterday - played it twice in a row and really got into it. I love it when she starts splicing in Blood & Fire - I thought it was a mistake or somehow I'd managed to get two songs playing at the same time. Had to pause it to make sure.

Great album list from The Liminal:
http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/12/the-liminal-albums-of-the-year-2011/

1. Pete Swanson, Man With Potential (Type)
2. Grouper, AIA Dream Loss/Alien Observer (Yellow Electric)
3. Andy Stott, Passed Me By/We Stay Together (Modern Love)
4. Hallock Hill, The Union (Hundred Acre Records)
5. Julia Holter, Tragedy (Leaving Records)
6. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres (Constellation)
7. Ellen Fullman, Through Glass Panes (Important)
8. Gang Gang Dance, Eye Contact (4AD)
9. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)
10. Corrupted, Garten der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain)
11. Bill Orcutt, How The Thing Sings (Editions Mego)
12. Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
13. Gillian Welch, The Harrow And The Harvest (Acony)
14. Leyland Kirby, Eager To Tear Apart The Stars (History Always Favours The Winners)
15. Michael Chapman, The Resurrection And Revenge Of The Clayton Peacock (Ecstatic Peace)
16. Roly Porter, Aftertime (Subtext)
17. Cut Hands, Afro Noise (Very Friendly)
18. Jenny Hval, Viscera (Rune Grammofon)
19. Rustie, Glass Swords (Warp)
20. Moritz von Oswald Trio, Horizontal Structures (Honest Jon’s)
21. Chris Watson, El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
22. Liturgy, Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
23. Fire! with Jim O’Rourke, Unreleased? (Rune Grammofon)
24. DJ Rashad, Just A Taste Vol. 1 (Ghettophiles)
25. Peter Evans, Beyond Civilized And Primitive (Dancing Wayang)

Pretty shocked to see that the Mountain Goats album hasn't appeared on one single list. (Except for Cibuloid's, but that doesn't count)

That Julia Holter album's pretty decent.

Good to see the Liminal picked the right Leyland Kirby album.

Have to say i don't really "get" his sampled from 78s stuff. What is he adding to it really? Eager To Tear Apart The Stars is great though

You talking about The Caretaker? I guess it's more collage work than original composition. Hauntology and all that jazz... I like how with many of the tracks you don't know whether it's a loop or not, and where the loop starts or stops. Really I just hear it as a pleasant, ghostly recontextualisation of pre-war dancehall.

The first two albums he released himself on CDr as The Caretaker are amazing. He's adding some amazing effects is what he's adding there. But since then it's been diminishing returns.

ghostly recontextualisation of pre-war dancehall.

― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Thursday, December 22, 2011

Don't understand this - pre-war pop music is already really ghostly sounding!

Just find it really detracts from some of the best music of the last century

Well, it's Disintegration Loops meets Ghostbox, so if those are for you then it's great. There's a psychological subtext to it as well, which I'm not sure I fully understand. But yeah, I dig it.

Do you like Jack Hylton?

Not knowingly heard him (although I'm sure I must have somewhere down the line). I guess that's the good thing about the Caretaker is that it brings this kind of music to audiences who might not have heard a lot of it.

Like that Frank Ocean fellow!

Somewhere out there there's a music-hall aficionado kissing his damn spats over the Caretaker.

Maybe they're even here right now

All of Boomkat's lists are now up.

Guardian Readers' Albums of 2011

Readers' albums of 2011
https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/music/musicblog/2011/dec/22/best-albums-songs-2011-readers
20 Destroyer - Kaputt
19 Adele - 21
18 Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
17 Björk - Biophilia
16 St Vincent - Strange Mercy
15 King Creosote & John Hopkins - Diamond Mine
14 The Arctic Monkeys – Suck it and See
13 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here
12 Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
11 Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
10 Metronomy - The English Riviera
9 Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
8 Katy B - On A Mission
7 The Horrors - Skying
6 Tom Waits - Bad as Me
5 James Blake - James Blake
4 Wild Beasts - Smother
3 Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1 Matt Cardle - Letters

Readers' songs of 2011
20 St Vincent - Cruel
19 Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum
18 Azealia Banks - 212
17 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
16 Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
15 Wild Beasts - Bed Of Nails
14 Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
13 Lady Gaga - Born This Way
12 Bon Iver - Holocene
11 Joe Goddard - Gabriel
10 SBTRKT - Hold On
9 Laura Marling - Sophia
8 Metronomy - The Look
7 Radiohead - Lotus Flower
6 PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
5 Adele - Someone Like You
4 M83 - Midnight City
3 The Horrors - Still Life
2 Lana Del Rey - Video Games
1 Matt Cardle - Starlight

Someone alert The Indie's Jonathan Owen

XXP: With the Caretaker at his best, you can't really tell what the source material is because he's made it into something new.

At his worst, it's just Glen Ponder with a load of echo.

Is Matt Cardle the fat guy from Gavin and Stacey?

think so

Julia Holter at number one on the Boomkat albums chart... :-)

http://boomkat.com/collections/charts-2011-boomkat-top-100-albums

http://boomkat.com/collections/charts-2011-boomkat-top-100-singleseps

they really should do the readers poll before the writers one