Top Albums of 2011 unofficial side-discussion thread

alphabetically, not #

asap rocky - livelovea$ap

balam acab - wander/wonder

bibio - mind bokeh

clams casino - instrumentals

com truise - galactic melt

danny brown - xxx

death grips - ex military

gazelle twin - the entire city

grouper - a i a : alien observer / a i a : dream loss

john maus - we must become pitiless censors of ourselves

krallice - diotima

machine drum - room(s)

mastodon - the hunter (not on anybody elses list? what...)

mogwai - hardcore will never die but you will

moving mountains - waves

neon indian - era extrana

oneohtrix point never - replica

shabazz palaces - black up

shlohmo - bad vibes

smoke dza - rolling stoned

tim hecker - ravedeath 1972

...good year. gonna be tough to narrow it down to 10.

  On 12/20/2011 at 9:18 PM, beerwolf said:

Worst thing?

Flying Lotus at the Roundhouse. It was so bad I don't think I will be playing his stuff for a long time, I can't face it.

what happened?

one of the best tracks I've heard this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOUVUWbiovU

I haven't been able to follow music this year in the way that I have in previous years (just time commitments), but that's a resolution for the next year; keep up with music. Anyways, this is my list from what comes to mind and it includes a couple of EP's I really enjoyed. In no particular order:

• Toro Y Moi - Freaking Out EP
  
• Neon Indian - Era Extrana
  
• Tycho - Dive
  
• Lone - Echolocations EP
  
• M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  
• Bibio - Mind Bokeh
  
• Mint Julep - Save Your Season
  
• Glider - The Sight Below
  

My favourite album out of that list is definitely Neon Indian's effort - nothing else I've heard all year came close to it, and there's not a single song on the album that I dislike.

mine would be Jon Hopkins & King Creosote "Diamond Mine" and Rustie's "Glass Swords"

Shit, forgot:

Jürgen Müller - Science of the Sea

Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02

Quiet Evenings - Intrepid Trips (...if that counts as an album)

best new music releases of 2011

NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka solo

Dalglish - Benacah Drann Deachd

Mike Dunkley - Corpus Clock

VHS Head - midnight section

Katabatik Solstice compilation series 1-4 (4 hour free compilation series)

Benefit for Japan by Icasea Records (5 hour donation based compilation)

Voletk - Power Tools

Pench - Dead Sound and Videohead

Sunken Foal - Mother of God

Machinedrum - Rooms

Contagious Orgasm - Escape

Tomoroh Hidari - Black Star #1 Variations (free)

Phonecia - Demissions

Subjex - Echo System

Techdiff - The Black Dog

Cex - Tiny Creature

Scuzi - AM EP (free)

Candle Labra - Live @ Zool+++ (free)

best reissues of 2011

Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue - Datacide II

Beach Boys - Smile Sessions

Throbbing Gristle - 2nd annual report vinyl

Lego Feet - self titled (with 30 minutes of unreleased bonus material)

Geeta Dayal recaps some of her favorite music from 2011.

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/music10/

Rave Death and Midnight Section are the best for me this year.

And Lego Feet/

Dave Monolith - Welcome

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

Destroyer - Kaputt

Nujabes - Spiritual Soul

Tycho - Dive

My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Atlas Sound - Parallax

In no order

can some1 please give me some recomendations of what to listen to from my favorite music of 2011 list?? cuz tehres so many dif albums in this thread i really wana find some new music that ppl think is the BEST of the year but i tried it like 3 times and 1 of them was good the others were really bad so if some1 could help me that would be so awesome thanks :)

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:49 AM, Murveman said:

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:29 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Never really saw what was so great about Glass Swords. Too high-pitched and annoying

+1

+2

  On 12/20/2011 at 10:24 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

alphabetically, not #

 

asap rocky - livelovea$ap

balam acab - wander/wonder

bibio - mind bokeh

clams casino - instrumentals

com truise - galactic melt

danny brown - xxx

death grips - ex military

gazelle twin - the entire city

grouper - a i a : alien observer / a i a : dream loss

john maus - we must become pitiless censors of ourselves

krallice - diotima

machine drum - room(s)

mastodon - the hunter (not on anybody elses list? what...)

mogwai - hardcore will never die but you will

moving mountains - waves

neon indian - era extrana

oneohtrix point never - replica

shabazz palaces - black up

shlohmo - bad vibes

smoke dza - rolling stoned

tim hecker - ravedeath 1972

 

...good year. gonna be tough to narrow it down to 10.

oh I forgot about mogwai. one of their best releases so far

Electric Wizard - Black Mass

Got it at the end of last year, but its American release was this year. Can it be let in?

I nominate Sick Lincoln - Simulator Ride as 2011's best album you haven't heard of

sorry cant edit, this is from simulator ride

http://soundcloud.com/chordpunch/col-pugno-shucks

I know this is gauche but id like to personally invite everybody which was kinda semi-repulsed by Glass Swords to filestube Cex's TINY CREATURE I feel like it sorta represents an alternate dimension continuation of the Warp aesthetic that recoils from the corny upbeat ultraritenow teenybopper vibe & tries to do a more post-imperialist take on idm

the ALL TIME BEST album of 2011 is DEFINATELY Música para MAXIMUM MISCHIEF by Viaje Sónico cuz its just so good psych out tunes PLUS expecially important now MAXIMUM MISCHIEF was BANNED (WTF) and this is like the #1 protest album suddenly of 2011 to making it the DOUBLE WAMMY of BEST MUSIC and SOCIALLY IMPORTANT MUSIC\

wow he got banned? why? i mean he was annoying to some people and all, but what was the last drop?

please not this thread

ya i know this threads not about MAX but i do think its the best album for my reasons i said

i dont think thers such a album that speaks to my syche so much right now

Did anyone even mention Colin Stetson -- New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges ?

Perhaps my favorite album of the year just by the sheer balls to the walls of ONE SAXOPHONE MOTHERFUCKERS ONE SAX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcilfL2aFc

  On 12/25/2011 at 4:47 AM, goodwillsidis said:

I know this is gauche but id like to personally invite everybody which was kinda semi-repulsed by Glass Swords who is stuck in the past to filestube Cex's TINY CREATURE I feel like it sorta represents an alternate dimension continuation of the Warp aesthetic that recoils from the corny upbeat ultraritenow teenybopper vibe & tries to do a more post-imperialist take on idm sticks to my nice safe 1995 comfort zone

Austin Peralta - Endless Planets

Joe Lentini - Status in the Ballroom

Kuedo - Severant

Cex - Tiny Creature

Phoenecia - Demissions

Endless House - The Folk/ Schnaffs EP

Seesaw - Poetry

ICASEA - Benefit Compilation for Japan

Ceephax Acid Crew - Live

and...Wagon Christ - Toomorrow

  On 12/20/2011 at 6:25 PM, Z_B_Z said:

gang gang dances 'eye contact' was pretty amazing.

 

particularly great track-

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJ8IPDQk6Q

 

the live stuff im hearing is even better than the album tho.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_A6A4hrKIc

I absolutely love GGD and Eye Contact was great, but I was so disappointed in the fact that the majority of the album was old. Pretty much all of it has been floating around and performed since at least 2008. I was hoping for totally new music, but instead got a refined version of something that I already had in an old podcast from years ago. Mindkilla was the best track, which was disappointing because it was the single and I'd banged that track so many times that it was old by the time the record was actually released.

So, here's my list:

Best Albums of 2011

1. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

2. SBTRKT - SBTRKT

3. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

4. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years

5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

6. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l

7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs

8. Modeselektor - Monkeytown

9. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

10. Raekwon - Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang

11. James Blake - James Blake

12. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

13. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Volume 2: Judges

14. The Roots - Undun

15. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2

16. Wild Flag - Wild Flag

17. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

18. Little Dragon - Ritual Union

19. Girl in a Coma - Exits & All The Rest

20. Buraka Som Sistema - Komba

21. Bjork - Biophilia

22. Jay-Z + Kanye West - Watch the Throne

23. Favourite Sons - The Great Deal of Love

24. Daedelus - Bespoke

25. Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album

26. Talkdemonic - Ruins

27. The Kills - Blood Pressures

28. Battles - Gloss Drop

29. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

30. Cut Copy - Zonoscope