Memorable Releases for 2011

The year is coming to a close and I was wondering what you guys got out of it. I didn't get into a lot of electronic from this year due to WAVES of suggestions from my metal-head friends in real life.

So, anyways, what will you be remembering years from now, doesn't necessarily have to be an electronic release

For me:

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2

The Field - Looping State of Mind

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die but You Will

Weedeater - Jason... The Dragon

Shlohmo - Bad Vibes

Red Fang - Murder The Mountains

Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Honestly I haven't really been following much electronic this year. And there haven't been any releases from the featured artists here. I follow a lot of metal and psychedelic rock bands and feel overwhelmed trying to add in following electronic artists too (beyond the aforementioned ones in featured artists). It's been a fun year for metal though...

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Immolation - Providence (an ep, free download here, or if you made it to their gigs they were giving away the ep there too http://scionav.com/collection/808/Scion-A/V-Presents:-Immolation---Providence)

Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult

Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (this album is probably going to get forgotten though, aside from the last song)

Disma - To The Megalith

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:00 AM, couch said:

Honestly I haven't really been following much electronic this year. And there haven't been any releases from the featured artists here. I follow a lot of metal and psychedelic rock bands and feel overwhelmed trying to add in following electronic artists too (beyond the aforementioned ones in featured artists). It's been a fun year for metal though...

 

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Immolation - Providence (an ep, free download here, or if you made it to their gigs they were giving away the ep there too http://scionav.com/c...on---Providence)

Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult

Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (this album is probably going to get forgotten though, aside from the last song)

Disma - To The Megalith

Those are some pretty great albums. Didn't expect any metal bros on this forum, thought I'd be shunned. Are you the only one?

This year I've mostly been going through already released things in areas of music I hadn't yet explored, but ones I know I will remember for a long time and permanently associate with this year are:

Rustie - Glass Swords

Global Goon - Threezadoozy

Automatic Tasty - Life After Debt

2010 and 2009 had a LOT more new releases that I played to death than this year, really.

Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods (got a free copy of this through a contest i wasn't supposed to win)

Vader, of course.

Global Goon - Quones and Everything Is Connected

Haven't bothered with much electronic this year. But anything vibert releases i immediately buy cause it is universally awesome.

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:07 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:00 AM, couch said:

Honestly I haven't really been following much electronic this year. And there haven't been any releases from the featured artists here. I follow a lot of metal and psychedelic rock bands and feel overwhelmed trying to add in following electronic artists too (beyond the aforementioned ones in featured artists). It's been a fun year for metal though...

 

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Immolation - Providence (an ep, free download here, or if you made it to their gigs they were giving away the ep there too http://scionav.com/c...on---Providence)

Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult

Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (this album is probably going to get forgotten though, aside from the last song)

Disma - To The Megalith

 

Those are some pretty great albums. Didn't expect any metal bros on this forum, thought I'd be shunned. Are you the only one?

I dare you to be more metal than I.

A few releases that I find interesting from 2011.

Steve Roach – Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection

Harold Budd - In The Mist

Ishq – Skyspaces

Ishq – Lotus

ceephax live.

and I haven't even heard it yet!

the field

panda bear

puscifer

radiohead

these stick out the most right now

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:00 AM, couch said:

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Reported for trolling.

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:57 AM, Enter a new display name said:

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:00 AM, couch said:

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Reported for trolling.

I like it.

If I were trolling I would have listed Heritage and Illud Divinum Insanus.

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:51 AM, usagi said:

on the (not really) metal tip

 

Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1

 

this record is amazing, Earth keep getting better.

seconded. dont think it tops hex (which i think is one of the very best albums of the last decade) but like it more than bees. saw them live a month ago too, it was fantastic.

phoenecia- demissions

shabazz -palaces black up

wagawaga -hyper typewriter

surgeon - breaking the frame

are probably my favorites from this year. and I would really only call the first two mind blowing. subjex echo space is sure to catch up but i've only listened to it once.

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:57 AM, Enter a new display name said:

Reported for trolling.

Reported for trolling.

I'm probably the only person on the whole board who likes the new Coldplay album.

Other than that, I can't think of anything else that I've listened to that has been released this year, except for Mogwai's latest. Probably should get to it.

Some standouts for me so far this year:

Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Honey for Petzi - General Thoughts and Tastes

Mother Mother - Eureka

Battles - Gloss Drops

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole

Plaid - Scintilli

Dimlite - Grimm Reality

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome

Helms Alee - Weatherhead

JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions

Paul White - Rapping with Paul White

this is what ive liked, the really good ones are bolded

• Wugazi - 13 Chambers
  
• Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
  
• Björk - Biophilia
  
• Madeline - Black Velvet
  
• Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy Cigarettes Capguns Issue Problems & Such
  
• Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years
  
• Zola Jesus - Conatus
  
• Neon Indian - Era Extraña
  
• Austra - Feel It Break
  
• Picastro + Nadja - Fool Redeemer
  
• FORMA - FORMA
  
• Com Truise - Galactic Melt
  
• Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream
  
• Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstasy
  
• Lee Noble - Horrorism
  
• Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
  
• M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  
• Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
  
• The Men - Leave Home
  
• PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  
• Silk Flowers - Ltd. Form
  
• VHS Head - Midnight Section
  
• Bibio - Mind Bokeh
  
• Braids - Native Speaker
  
• Lee Noble - No Becoming
  
• Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies
  
• EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
  
• Xeno & Oaklander - Sets & Lights
  
• The Shortwave Mystery - Signals From Afar
  
• Moon Wiring Club - Somewhere A Fox Is Getting Married
  
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  
• Parenthetical Girls - Privilege, Pt. IV: Sympathy For Spastics
  
• Parenthetical Girls - Privilege, Pt. III: Mend & Make Do
  
• Byetone - Symeta
  
• Thao & Mirah - Thao & Mirah
  
• Human Eye - They Came from the Sky
  
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
  
• Warm Ghost - Uncut Diamond
  
• Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
  
• Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L
  
• John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
  
• Chelsea Wolfe - Ἀποκάλυψις
  

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:57 AM, Enter a new display name said:

  On 11/18/2011 at 4:00 AM, couch said:

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Reported for trolling.

waits for the obvious Mind Bokeh...

STUFF I REMEMBER FROM THIS YEAR THAT WASN'T STUFF I WAS INVOLVED IN

Arbee EP (can't remember the name offhand)

Bjork - Biophilia (it grew on me somewhat)

Coppice Halifax - Pawleys Island (so good fokes)

Jandek - Where Do You Go From Here? (different from his norm. Whole band, actually good at playing ambient jazzy stuff)

Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer (I guess I still like new Ladytron)

Tom Waits - Bad as Me (cleanest record he's done in at least a decade)

Tonetta - 777 Vol 3 (actually I still have to get this but I've heard most of the tracks on his YT)

There's probably more I liked but those ones spring to mind

Battles - Gloss Drop

Cyclo - id

Alva Noto - Univrs

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

The Horrors - Skying

tim hecker - ravedeath

panda bear - tomboy

thats all i can think of right now

My list so far.

• Martyn - Ghost People
  
• Instra:Mental - Resolution653
  
• Rustie - Glass Swords
  
• N-Plants - Biosphere
  
• wAgAwAgA - Hyper Typewriter
  
• Little Dragon - Ritual Union
  
• Death in Vegas - Trans-love Energies
  
• NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo
  
• Walls - Coracle
  
• Kangding Ray - OR
  
• Mark Fell - UL8
  
• 2562 - Fever
  
• Seefeel - Seefeel
  
• Young Montana? - Limerence
  
• Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse
  

The Nicholas Javr album was 2010 I think, although I only discovered it this year too.

My list in no particular order:

• The Field - Looping State Of Mind
  

• Machinedrum - Room(s)
  

• Battles - Gloss Drop
  

• Alva Noto - Univrs
  

• Tyler The Creator - Goblin
  

• The Smile Sessions - The Beach Boys
  

• Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
  

• Radiohead - The King Of Limbs: From The Basement
  

• Andy Stott - We Stay Together
  

• Burial - Street Halo
  

• Clams Casino - Instrumentals
  

SubtractiveLAD - Kindred

Magical, Beautiful - Here Come The Wild Waves

The Field - Looping State Of Mind

Randomform - Enfeld

DJ Future Sphere - Teenage Ignoreland

Datashock - Pyramiden Von Gieben

Dadavistik Orchestra - Document .02

Micronaut - Particulate EP

Bvdub - Tribes At The Temple Of Silence

Tay0 - There Is A Shining Point Where Lines Intersect

Cloudland Ballroom - Infinite Mind

Deadbeat - Drawn and Quartered

Dementio13 - The Hobbyist

I can't believe I forgot CRAZY CLOWN TIME

edit: and that EP by that Transmuteo guy (Google him)

i did an awful job keeping up with music this year. the only three albums i listened to were Wagon Christ, Bibio, and J. Rocc. Of the three I'd say J. Rocc was my favorite.

2011 was a jazz/funk year for me.

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake