Top Albums of 2011 unofficial side-discussion thread

  On 12/10/2011 at 7:23 PM, SPD² said:

I don't know about album of the year but single of the year had got to go to Freescha - Babies In Your Body.

Yeah, if this were a single or EP topic I'd have posted that one as well!

No order:

The Gasman - 003

Mr. Oizo - Stade 2

Dave Monolith - Welcome

wAgAwAgA - Hyper Typewriter

Phoenecia - Demissions

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Digitalism - I Love You Dude

NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo

Plaid - scintilli

SebastiAn - Total

Could only manage a top 12, after long deliberation.....

1. NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo [skam] - May

2. Seefeel - Seefeel [Warp] - January

3. Martyn - Ghost People [brainfeeder] - October

4. Rustie - Glass Swords [Warp] - October

5. Kangding Ray - OR [Raster-Noton] - June

6. wAgAwAgA - Hyper Typewriter [Acroplane] - February

7. N-Plants - Biosphere [Touch] - June

8. Mark Fell - UL8 [Editions Mego] - July

9. Instra:Mental - Resolution653 [Nonplus] - April

10. Walls - Coracle [Kompakt] - September

11. Little Dragon - Ritual Union [Peacefrog] - July

12. 2562 - Fever [When in Doubt] - February

Battles - Gloss Drop is up there too

AMM - uncovered correspondence

greg kelley/olivia block - resolution

ambient news - zweite sendung

dalglish - benacah drann deachd

dave monolith - welcome

pole - waldgeschichten

juv s/t

FRKWYS volume VII:

-(borden, ferraro, godin halo & lopatin)

oren ambarchi & jim o'rourke - indeed

palace of buddies - summertimes

Not in any order other than number 1

Destroyer - Kaputt

The Field - Looping State of Mind

Radiohead - King of Limbs ( From the basement sessions)

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

The Horrors - Skying

Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine

Andy Stott - We Stay Together

The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies

africa hitech - 93 million miles

anstam - dispel dances

instra:mental - resolution 653

machinedrum - room(s)

mark fell - periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a knot

plaid - scintilli

roly porter - aftertime

silkie - city limits volume 2

tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972

virgo four - resurrection

There should probably be a category for album reissue of the year too, and in that case I'd have to throw in Lego Feet of course and Demdike Stare - Tryptych because both of them had massive amounts of bonus material added.

Some great picks in this thread as always. Looks like I was into some different stuff though.

Here are my top 10 albums and EPs of the year. Not as strong as 2010 was for new music to my ears, but some great stuff nonetheless.

Albums

Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure

Machinedrum - Room(s)

Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse

Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO

Hype Williams - One Nation

Sully - Carrier

Rainbow Arabia - Boys And Diamonds

Kuedo - Severant

Crypt Thing - Rotational Slumping

Com Truise - Galactic Melt

EPs

Laurel Halo - Hour Logic

LA Vampires Goes Ital - Streetwise

Toro Y Moi - Freaking Out

D'eon/Grimes - Darkbloom

Burial - Street Halo

Cuticle - Merciful Swound

ADR - Solitary Pursuits

Clams Casino - Rainforest

Konx-Om-Pax - Light In Extension

Sand Circles - Midnite Crimes

plenty of shouts for the machinedrum album, maybe i need to check it out

  On 12/10/2011 at 9:50 AM, NI64 said:

Gotta get ph-3.5.6. That's where the funk's at.

Will do

Checked out El Tren Fantasma because of this thread, and it's really awesome!

  On 12/11/2011 at 10:59 PM, feltcher said:

plenty of shouts for the machinedrum album, maybe i need to check it out

You definitely need to do this, fantastic album. Don't sleep on the sepalcure album either

  On 12/1/2011 at 7:56 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

The new Chris Watson record, El Tren Fantasma, is the best thing this released this year. It's the perfect culmination of everything he's ever done. It really is incredible. I am in awe of it, literally. It's like everything I love about drone and field recording and ambient but it somehow seems to tie in with bass culture and the whole night bus scene through the way he uses reverb and the percussive sounds of the train and the low-frequency rumble. It takes you to another world using what are ostensibly very prosaic, everyday sounds. It's a work of alchemy.

 

Everything else this year is just a footnote.

what's the quality of the recording / mastering like on this? samples sound interesting, but i think it would rely upon a sense of 'actually being there', and i get so frustrated with stuff that doesn't regard good quality sound as an elevation to the experience / impact.

My top four most listened to lps this year are- wagon christ, tiger & woods, thundercat, and Siriusmo lps.

favorite track surgeon - those who do not...favorite label - brainfeeder

i think i might have listened to this ep more than any other in 2011

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  On 12/2/2011 at 12:47 AM, Joseph said:

3. Dalglish, Benacah Drann Deachd

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This one caught me off guard a bit. I wasn't expecting something so subtle and gripping. What I find most striking about it is how it uses "pointy" sounds, rhythmic elements, to non-rhythmic ends. The atmospheres and sounds are just plain weird and alien. He makes no concessions. And unlike 99% of "IDM" productions on the market this album actually has a soul - it's just hard to find at first. The last track, in the video, is sublime.

great to see Dalglish getting more love on watmm, not sure if you picked up the CD or digital but if you're interested in the CD, it's here - http://recordlabelrecords.org/150.html

the label that was supposed to put it out had to close it's doors recently

(im just really excited for the first time ever on watmm, a recordlabelrecords release has made the top 10 list twice!)

I guess King of Limbs even if i'm not crazy about it

would like to add

Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

kate bush's new album was great and i can't think of anyone on here talking about it.

biophillia was also good but no one liked it...

lol

that was 2 gordo but i guess i was too late

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I believe he was mocking yr declaration of King of Limbs even though u not so crazy about it

Glimmer - been listening too much

this is my release 2011. Better than last Radiohead and better than Björk

Not really albums that have tickled my fancy this year, apart from maybe Mike Dehnert's - Framework, but artists that have blown my tits off have been

Lucy

Marcus Suckut

Truncate

Paul Woolford

Perc

Wax

That Andy Stott album was pretty monstrous aswell.