Album of the Year 2011

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Forget that last post. This is the Album of 2011 thread! Too much mulled lager too early.

 

[New Carpet?]

That is a superb list and I'm ashamed to say I don't have a lot of these. I am especially pleased to see Explosions in the Sky rate so highly. Is it really that good? I'm a big fan of post-rock and just haven't got round to buying the album. Late Christmas present to myself, methinks.

I'd like to add a late entry - Icelandic singer Sóley's album 'We Sink' is a real grower. I keep going back to it again and again. It's been rated very highly across a lot of Scandinavian music blogs and websites too.

It is superb, especially Human Qualities and Trembling Hands, the second and third tracks on it.

The thing I really like about Explosions In The Sky is that even though a lot of their stuff can be deemed as pretty samey, they get away with it as with each album they raise the bar just a little bit in terms of epicness.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Forget that last post. This is the Album of 2011 thread! Too much mulled lager too early.

Yes, I was hoping for some recommendations from that list based on the stuff I like.

 

[big nuts]

To save me trawling through youtube can somebody make some recommendations for me - an early 40's indie kid. To give an idea of what I like: Bon Iver, Fleetfoxes, Band of horses, Grizzly Bear, Best coast, Beach house sort of stuff, also like the slightly twee stuff eg pains of being pure at heart. (and stuff with a bit more guts)

Do not like synthey minimal dance stuff (like polar bear).

You would like the metronomy album and Hotel Shampoo which is Gruff Rhys best solo album to date.

 

[New Carpet?]

To save me trawling through youtube can somebody make some recommendations for me - an early 40's indie kid. To give an idea of what I like: Bon Iver, Fleetfoxes, Band of horses, Grizzly Bear, Best coast, Beach house sort of stuff, also like the slightly twee stuff eg pains of being pure at heart. (and stuff with a bit more guts)

Do not like synthey minimal dance stuff (like polar bear).

Given that list of bands you've mentioned there, Active Child, Real Estate, Atlas Sound, The Radio Dept, The Antlers and Beirut could all be up your street.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

To save me trawling through youtube can somebody make some recommendations for me - an early 40's indie kid. To give an idea of what I like: Bon Iver, Fleetfoxes, Band of horses, Grizzly Bear, Best coast, Beach house sort of stuff, also like the slightly twee stuff eg pains of being pure at heart. (and stuff with a bit more guts)

Do not like synthey minimal dance stuff (like polar bear).

Check out Kurt Vile's Smoke Rings for A Halo and War On Drugs Slave Ambient. These two are proving very popular and fit your request.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

You would like the metronomy album and Hotel Shampoo which is Gruff Rhys best solo album to date.

Hotel Shampoo is glorious. A good call.

 

[spring hall convert]

Found it really hard to get this done for last year but here we go.

1. Chad Van Gaalen – Diaper Island (Flemish Eye/SubPop)
2. Peaking Lights – 936 (Not Not Fun)
3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)
4. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
5. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Upset The Rhythm)
6. Skull Defekts & Daniel Higgs – Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)
7. Ford & Loptain – Channel Pressure (Software)
8. Tuneyards – whokill (4AD)
9. Death Grips – Ex Military (Self Released)
10. The Antlers – Burst Apart (French Kiss/ Transgressive)
11. Eternal Tapestry – Beyond The Fourth Door (Thrill Jockey)
12. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica (Mexican Summer)
13. Boris & Merzbow – Klatter (Daymare)
14. Rangers – Pan Am Stories (Not Not Fun)
15. The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak (Aurora Borealis)
16. Radiohead – The King of Limbs (XL)
17. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
18. Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania & Carrion Caller/The Dream (In The Red)
19. Battles – Gloss Drop (Warp Records)
20. Wire – Red Barked Tree (Pink Flag)
21. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See (Circus Company)
22. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain (Vice Records)
23. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact (4AD)
24. Wild Flag – Wild Flag (Merge Records)
25. Walls – Coracle (Kompakt)
26. Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
27. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
28. SBTRKT – SBTRKT (Young Turks)
29. James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual (Hippos In Tanks)
30. British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade)
31. Wild Beasts – Smother (Domino)
32. Panda Bear – Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
33. Dirty Beaches – Badlands (Zoo Music)
34. Der Blutharsch & The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand with Aluk Todolo – A Collaboration (WKN records)
35. Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Bella Union)
36. The Psychic Paramount – II (No Quarter Records)
37. Mark McGuire – Get Lost (Editions Mego)
38. Sun Araw – Ancient Romans (Drag City/Sun Ark)
39. The Sandwitches – Mrs Jones’s Cookies (Empty Cellar)
40. Atlas Sound – Parallax (4AD)
41. Braids – Native Speaker (Flemish Eye/ Canine Records)
42. Sonic Youth – Simon Werner A Disparu (Sonic Youth Recordings)
43. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
44. High Wolf – Atlas Nation (Holy Mountain)
45. Cut Hands – Cut Hands (Very Friendly)
46. Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs Evil (Polyvinyl Records)
47. Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)
48. Washed Out – Within & Without (Sub Pop)
49. Zomby – Dedication (4AD)
50. The Fall – Ersatz G.B (Cherry Red)