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

MY TRACKS http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/14617464612/my-top-120-tracks-of-2011

MY ALBUMS http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/14614655894/my-top-50-albums-of-2011

dog latin you are posting...a lot right now

lol

it's downtime in the office today...

amazing lex

> 17. PHAEDRA - The Sea

^ this beautiful thing really came into its own in the autumn - good shout Lex! Also great to see Frivolous getting more love.

so my day off tmrw will be spent copy/pasting lex's trax list into youtube. Cool! Thx Lex :) Sure beats xmas shopping.

yeah i didn't think the phaedra album was a contender and then bam, autumn happened

i actually started a youtube playlist including both album standout tracks and standalone tracks but it was taking aaaaages and i got bored http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65FDD501BC4A3CA8

great lists lex - surprised there's no Jhene though!

Tom Waits??

uh oh...

thx BW - i like jhené but as i was putting the lists together i kinda realised i don't love her yet? i did not feel compelled to return to her music as much as i expected to. if i wanted to be a bit mean i'd say i preferred cassie the first time round and w/o the slight drake taint.

great lists lex - surprised there's no Jhene though!

^^^ + no kandi either?

jaymx use ur xls! i am not explaining my love of tom waits for the 93085034th time in my years in ilx.

re: this album specifically - i'd actually given up on him, he seemed to finally lurch into self-parody about a decade ago, but i like the casualness of the affair - it's tom happily doing what tom does w/o trying too hard about it but enjoying himself and getting some good shots at the outside world in, and several moments of resonant emotional truth

kandi = 2010 even if i didn't hear it til 2011 and thus never got to rep for it in any EOY list ;_;

I've had the same disinterest in Waits for years, and this album broke through for the same reasons.

dreadful year-end list from popjustice as to be expected:

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Will Young - Echoes
3. The Sound of Arrows - Voyage
4. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Make A Scene
5. Susan Boyle - Someone To Watch Over
6. Pnau - Soft Universe
7. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella’s Eyes
8. Rihanna - Talk That Talk
9. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
10. Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
11. Jennifer Lopez - Love?
12. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
13. Adele - 21
14. Monarchy - Around The Sun
15. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
16. Christophe Willem - Prismophonic
17. Cher Lloyd - Sticks + Stones
18. Nerina Pallot - Year Of The Wolf
19. Example - Playing In The Shadows
20. The Saturdays - On Your Radar
21. Beyonce - 4
22. Frankmusik - Do It In The AM
23. Vanbot - Vanbot
24. Patrick Stump - Soul Punk
25. Jessie J - Who You Are
26. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
27. Natalia Kills - The Perfectionist
28. Katy B - On A Mission
29. Lights - Siberia
30. One Direction - Up All Night
31. Same Difference - The Rest Is History
32. CocknBullKid - Adulthood
33. David Guetta - Nothing But the Beat

lack of Jhene in Lex's track list is redeemed by his #79 track...

Susan Boyle????

Didn't really want to start a new thread for this, but last night I picked up some 2011 albums based on praise from various ilxors in their personal year-end wrap-ups.

So, Ned and Adrien, I am holding each of you personally responsible if the Active Child and Cold Cave albums, respectively, suck. ;)

In all seriousness, the write ups you guys did for those two inspired me to pick up on some stuff I skipped over this past year.

boomkat charts are making my head spin

i want all of peter rehberg's list and him too

Fuck yeah, I was hoping they were going to do their guest list thing again this year...
http://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-charts-2011

nice to see the rene hell record getting some mentions itl

lots and lots of good stuff in the dude from digitalis' list

For you, Lamp:

SPIN's top 20 Avant albums!
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-20-best-avant-albums-2011

Libération - 2011, sélection super hotte
http://next.liberation.fr/culture/01012378598-2011-selection-super-hotte

Rock
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Sallie Ford (& The Sound Outside) - Dirty Radio
Jeff Bridges - s/t

Hi-fi
Hanni El Khatib - Will The Guns Come Out
Danger Mouse et Daniele Luppi - Rome
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On

Pop folk
Josh T. Pearson. - Last of the Country Gentlemen
James Blake - s/t
Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains - O Volo Love

Larsen
Crystal Fighters - Star of Love
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
Real Estate - Days

Platines
DJ Rashad - Just a Taste
Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Back From the Brink

Slowcore
Low - C’mon
Wye Oak - Civilian
Ema Past Life - Martyred Saints

Jazz
Anthony Joseph and The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras
Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Tigran Hamasyan - A Fable

Chamanique
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
Mirel Wagner - s/t
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

World
Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia
Magnifico - Magnification
Debademba - s/t

I don't know whether I'm lolling more about Jeff Bridges being their third best rock record of the year or them having a Slowcore chart in 2011

Whiney, you have some nice picks in there. Out of the ones I don't know, Shinji Masuko sounds pretty interesting.

thanx for the list dealwithit.gif. have heard just over half of the stuff you listed with 'summvs' and 'owl splinters' being partic standouts to me

i tried listening to the 'garden of the forking paths' record but it was too much for me tbh

yeah, owl splinters is a huge standout for the year. what a cool record

Trying to be a big boy and not resent lex for rendering my own list redundant.

Excellent lists obv!

ha, I doubt it will be redundant. I'm still waiting for someone to tell me which Denyque track is best

I loved Garden Of Forking Ways when I first heard it but I've developed tinnitus since and can't go near it now. Good list though.

whiney as much shit as ive given you on ilx honest thanx for recommending the hauschka record this is like tailor made for me

haha here is a weird thing http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/12/nba_preview_miami_heat_bon_iver.php

haha awesome

I have that Shinji Masuko album; I keep forgetting to listen to it...

I just found it on eMusic for £0.84 (!) so yeah, will definitely give it a go.

masuko record is ~lovely~

any music tailor made for me this year?

just kidding. I don't want people to recommend indie shit

juno's singles list is interesting and good.

really special tracks dot this list, like those from cosmin-TRG; factory-floor; ital; and auntie flo.

Phew! Just now finished listening to all the tracks in Lex's Top 120 that I hadn't previously heard (shamefully enough this was about 80 of 'em)

Lots and lots of good stuff as to be expected, but I especially loved Vibe Kartel 'Colouring Book', Aisha Davis 'My Loving', Tiffany Evans 'Won't Find Me' and Lloyd 'Private Dancer' which reminded me very much of Scritti Politti for some reason.

The track that absolutely blew me away however, and ensured that I had a smile on my face for all of yesterday afternoon, was the fantastic Cherry V 'I'm In Love'

Thx for the tunes Lex!

So, Ned and Adrien, I am holding each of you personally responsible if the Active Child and Cold Cave albums, respectively, suck. ;)

In all seriousness, the write ups you guys did for those two inspired me to pick up on some stuff I skipped over this past year.

Too kind! And that album of course does not suck but I would say that. (Those interested can check my list via the blog as desired .)

Massive list of ambient and experimental from Fluid Radio

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/12/50-for-2011/

1: Paul Jebanasam – Music For The Church Of St. John The Baptist
2: Lawrence English – The Peregrine
3: Willamette – Echo Park
4: Humble Bee / The, E And I – The Indescribable Brightness Shone / Projected Images
5: Daniel Thomas Freeman – The Beauty of Doubting Yourself
6: Petrels – Haeligewielle
7: Grouper – AIA Dream Loss/Alien Observer
8: Daniel W J Mackenzie – Teeth Sleep Under Winking Black Eyelid
9: Talvihorros – Descent into Delta
10: Jasper TX – The Black Sun Transmissions
11: Hallock Hill – The Union
12: Danny Paul Grody – In Search Of Light
13: Tape Loop Orchestra – Maybe I Told A Small Lie
14: Bitchin Bajas – Water Wrackets
15: Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Luminaries & Synastry
16: AR – Wolf Notes
17: Steven Hess & Christopher McFall – The Inescapable Fox
18: bvdub & Ian Hawgood – The Truth Hurts
19: The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak
20: Félicia Atkinson – The Driver
21: Jon Porras – Undercurrent
22: The Boats – The Ballad of the Eagle
23: Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
24: Mountains – Air Museum
25: Fabio Orsi – Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul
26: The Humble Bee – The Royal Game
27: Richard Moult – Celestial King For A Year
28: A Winged Victory For The Sullen – S/T
29: Kyle Bobby Dunn – Ways Of Meaning
30: Illuha – Shizuku
31: Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere
32: Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
33: Efrim Manuel Menuck – Plays High Gospel
34: Deaf Center – Owl Splinters
35: Nils Frahm – Felt
36: Isnaj Dui – Circle Of Sleep
37: Antonymes – The Licence to Interpret Dreams
38: Nicholas Szczepanik – Please Stop Loving Me
39: Jacaszek – Glimmer
40: Machinefabriek & Gareth Davis – Grower
41: Offthesky – The Beautiful Nowhere
42: Isidore Ducasse: S/T
43: Farewell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
44: Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
45: The A. Lords – S/T
46: Simon Scott – Bunny
47: Christina Vantzou – No 1
48: Damian Valles – Skeleton Taxa
49: Natural Snow Buildings – Waves of the Random Sea
50: Hakobune – I Discover I’m Missing

Still need to hear that Lawrence English album, just release the thing online already

Similar lists also up on these two sites:

http://mapsadaisical.wordpress.com/#!/page/1

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2011/12/the-2011-review/

The track that absolutely blew me away however, and ensured that I had a smile on my face for all of yesterday afternoon, was the fantastic Cherry V 'I'm In Love'

check her mixtape out! it's really very good - http://www.facebook.com/CherriV (plus elsewhere on the internet probably)

(v glad you liked the tunes!)

i've never heard wu lyf, but i do know that yuck and girls are among the worst music i've heard, like, ever

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Permalink

Lex, you're a critic whom I love reading more than most - due mainly because you open my ears to pop-r&b (pathetic as it may be to rely on criticism to listen to pop-music) - but if you think Girls and Yuck is some of the worst music you've ever heard, then please remove the shit from your ears. Give me a break with the hyperbole; these are at least competent ripoffs of their antecedents!