The music you most enjoyed this year.

[Anonymous]

Bought too much again but there have been some great albums. Off the top of my head.

New Releases:

King's Daughters and Sons - If Then Not When

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know

Emmy The Great - Virtue

Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing

The Head And The Heart - s/t

The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

Okkervil River - I Am Far

Sons & Daughters - Mirror Mirror

Reissues:

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy and Darklands

 

[Cypher]

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Agreed. My fave album of 2011 so far. Also...

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning.

Mastodon - The Hunter.

Disappointments must be the Opeth & Textures albums. Not bad per se, but not a patch on older stuff (although Textures made up for it by playing a blinder at The Garage last Friday :rockout: :rant: :dance: :clap: )

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The new Steven Wilson is a great dissapointment. Boring music and the production is nothing to write home about.Some songs are way too long with no sense of direction.

 

[Cinnabar]

I think 2011 has been a bit mixed actually, but there were some gems that stood out (for me anyway):

The Unthanks - Last

Mount Moriah - Mount Moriah

Joe Lally - Why should I get used to it?

Bob Brozman - Six Days in Down

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation

Hallock Hill - The Union

How to Dress Well - Just Once EP

And lots of others. Actually, scrap what I said. It's been a great year....

 

[Big Chris]

Agreed. My fave album of 2011 so far. Also...

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning.

Mastodon - The Hunter.

Disappointments must be the Opeth & Textures albums. Not bad per se, but not a patch on older stuff (although Textures made up for it by playing a blinder at The Garage last Friday :rockout: :rant: :dance: :clap: )

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The new Steven Wilson is a great dissapointment. Boring music and the production is nothing to write home about.Some songs are way too long with no sense of direction.

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It took me a while to get into it, but now I love it. I prefer the second disc to the first one though. 'Index' is prob my fave track on the whole album.

 

[6th.replicant]

Younger Brother - Vaccine

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

James Blake - James Blake

Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations

Will Young - Echoes

The Kills - Blood Pressures

Toddla T - Watch Me Dance

The Horrors - Skying

Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

Chase and Status - No More Idols

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (MoFi remaster, SACD)

Jos van Veldhoven / Netherlands Bach Society - Mozart: Requiem

Retrospect Ensemble - JS Bach: Easter and Ascension Oratorios

Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall - Jean-Philippe Rameau: L'Orchestre de Louis XV

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Disappointments for me this year were lukewarm albums by Ryan Adams and Fleet Foxes.

My friend, who often reads but never posts here, was mortified that I hadn't listed Little Dragon, Fever Ray and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats. I think others have championed Little Dragon but don't recall mentions of the other two.

For me, I quite like Fever Ray but I really love the Uncle Acid LP. It's a classic of poppy, garage rock.

 

[Gusboll]

Each year just gets better and better, in terms of new releases and finding out about older stuff. Best new find of 2011 for me is 'The Amazing' - will definitely be paying them a visit should they hit UK shores.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm currently really enjoying Mylo Xyloto and the rediscovered Fish back catalogue after a superb acoustic gig in Newcastle.

Oh, and my guilty pleasure, Taylor Swift!

Rock on..... :shhh:

 

[6th.replicant]

... I quite like Fever Ray ...

+ 1

Clever stuff - and has some thumping low-end bass. Yet, a scan with Audacity reveals minimal compression. :clap:

 

[bay24]

James Blake - James Blake
Wild beasts - smother
Pj Harvey - let England Shake
Scroobious pip - distraction pieces
Metronomy - the English Riviara
Little dragon - ritual union
Pete and the pirates - one thousand pictures
Emika - Emika
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Edwin Collins - losing sleep (this may have been 2010 but I heard it this year!)
Three trapped tigers - route one or die

To name just a few!!

 

[poldo]

Opeth - Heritage

by a million miles what a fantastic album

 

[Big Nads and Woofer]

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A ******* Liar

Funky DL - Blackcurrent Jazz 2

Mayer-Hawthorne - How Do You Do

SBTRKT - SBTRKT

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Wu Tang vs Jimi Hendrix - Black Gold

Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - We're Still Here

Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

V.A. - Andy Smith Jam Up Twist

Lanu - Her 12 Faces

V.A - Warp Records Chosen

Wildcookie - Cookie Dough

That'll Do for now....



 

[Anonymous]

For me it's been a GREAT year for original music.... both live & recorded.

Civil Wars - Barton Hollow

Plus plenty more.... best year for albums in a long time. :rockout:

Thanks for that! Listened to Civil Wars - i've got a friend.

What a tune!

no-one has mentioned Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds. I find that quite odd

 

[Cpt.Issues]

Cheers guys, few on here I've managed to somehow miss this year, good bit of listening inpiration gleaned from this thread so thanks for that!

 

[MCRetina]

At the moment very happy with Esperanza Spalding.

Last years, this year, next year and so on.....Pink Floyd!!

 

[DandyCobalt]

A freebie with a music magazine (hojo or something like that) of covers of George Harrison songs - it introduced me to musicians like Jonathan Wilson, Alessi's Ark and the Webb Sisters.

Otherwise, best records of the year that I've been playing have been my newly-acquired remastered Nat King Cole vinyls.

 

[moon]

John Coltrane / Giant Steps

 

[moon]

Not all new, but new to me.

The Black Dog - Music for real airports

Mumford & sons - Sigh no more

Biosphere - N-Plants

Final Days Society - Ours is not a caravan of despair

Mogwai - Earth Division

The Ascent of Everest - From this vantage

Red Sparowes - The fear is excrutiating, but therein lies the answer

*Shels - Plains of the purple buffalo

Also loving N plants, just cool.

 

[SteveR750]

Cover of "Trouble in Mind" by The Manolia Electric Co, plus the version by Bertha Chippie Hill. Heart wrenching blues from another era (my childhood as it happens)

Does getting hold of an all tube Marshall amp to go with my SG and playing ACDC covers to myself count?

 

[altruistic.lemon]

Puts you on top of the list, mate! Pure good taste.

 

[Deliriumbassist]

New this year:

Steven Wilson's Grace for Drowning on 180g vinyl

Mastodon- The Hunter

Ghost- Opus Eponymous

Opeth- Heritage on 180g vinyl

Pearl Jam- PJ20 (Black, Release and the instrumental Given to Fly are excellent on it)

Stuff I haven't been able to stop listening to:

A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms on 180g vinyl

Porcupine Tree- In Absentia, The Incident

Deftones- White Pony

Imogen Heap- Ellipse

Pearl Jam- Ten (found an unopened original pressing going for relative peanuts, plus bought the 180g remasters)

Pretty much everything David Ford

Listened to loads more, but those are the ones that have been my go to albums this year.