Happy New Year! Your Top Records of 2011

[Sam_b]

Happy New Year to all users of the Music forum. It's that time again - let's see your lists of the top records put out this year.

I will, of course, go first:

Football, etc "The Draft" LP - Proper old-school emo record this, for fans of Rainer Maria.

Saturday's Kids "Self Titled" 10" - First release by this sensational emo/post-hardcore/post-punk crossover group from Wales. Sensational live act. Discog available through Art For Blind, best UK label for a while now.

Your Neighbour the Liar "It Seems We're Made to Suffer; It is our Lot in Life" EP 7" - More emo, this time from Edinburgh's YNTL. Free to download off their Bandcamp page.

Radiohead - "The King of Limbs" LP - It wouldn't be a top list without Radiohead, would it?

Death Cab for Cutie "Codes and Keys" LP - I love Death Cab (I know), and in fairness I thought this a pretty expansive record. A return to form?

Bon Iver "Bon Iver" LP - This is just great, isn't it?

Human Hands "Human Hands" EP 7" - Midlands boys play crushing quiet/loud emo, in the same sort of style as The Saddest Landscape et al.

Sun Rise Above "Every Day I Wake up on the Wrong Side of Capitalism" LP + "MF Life" mixtape - Great year for one of our own, and these are two great outputs from this year hip-hop wise. You all should support his new campaign because I am currently broke.

What were your favourite records this year?

[Kitty_Paine]

The Bunny The Bear "If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say"

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Ready, Set, Fall! "Buried" EP

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Shoot The Girl First "They Have Clocks, We Have Time"

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Because I know how badly you all will want to sample these albums I threw up a couple of songs for yah, lol.

[Pirate Utopian]

Danny Brown - XXX
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia/Ultra
SpaceGhostPurrp - Blackland 6.66
Death Grips - Ex-Military
Juicy J - Blue Dream & Lean
The Internet - Purple Naked Ladies
ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP
James Blake - James Blake
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
Curren$y - Covert Coup
Clams Casino - Instrumental mixtape
Lil B - Illusions of Grandeur
Main Attrakionz - 808s and Dark Grapes II
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

In no real order.

[Ele'ill]

Grouper - A I A

[ed miliband]

Grouper - A I A

I saw that performed live. Was good but kinda... too quiet to have the desired effect.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

------------I honestly think 2011 wasn't that good for music. 2010 was much better...-----------

States - "Room to Run"
A little too overproduced, but it's still a quality record. It has grown on me. Their Line 'em Up EP is still fantastic. Sadly they probably won't go back to that quality sound. Still a worthwhile listen. Extremely nice people in this band when I met them. Mindy :wub:

Cold Body Radiation - "Deer Twilight"
Not as black-metal as his past release, but it's still a worthwhile record as well. Blackened shoegaze, good stuff.

Circle Takes the Square - "Decompositions, Volume I, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation"
A tad heavier, and more distortion. It's not as fast paced as As the Roots Undo, but this is some quality material. I can't wait until the full album is released.

I Had Plans - "The Perception Of Beauty Is A Moral Test"
I loved everything about this except the quality of the recording. I'm not picky about recordings usually, as I'll listen to some pretty terrible stuff. However, with their complex guitar arpeggio's, I think this full-length doesn't sound as top-notch as their 5-song demo. It's still a really good demo, but I'll take their demo version of Animal Man over the full-length anyday.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Belong"
Some songs are great, some are terrible. I've been listening to it anyway, so I'll toss it up. I think the drummer's last band (The Depreciation Guild) is one of my favorites of all time. Hipster shit up in here.

Starfucker - "Reptilians"
More hipster shit... Between the songs Julius and Bury Us Alive, I could listen to this for days. Catchy.

Wolvhammer - "The Obsidian Plains"
Working-class, anti-religious black metal with slight hints of sludge and crust and stuff. Really good stuff! kvlt \m/

Obscura - "Omnivium"
The best death metal around doing what they do best. Technical death metal without the obnoxiousness that most tech-metal has. Get it nao.

[Ostrinski]

Andrew Jackson Jihad- Knife Man
CityCop.- Seasons
CunninLynguists- Oneirology
The Devin Townsend Project- Ghost
Fair to Midland- Arrows and Anchors
Frank Turner- England Keep My Bones
The Horrible Crowes- Elsie
La Dispute- Wildlife
Laura Stevenson and the Cans- Sit Resist
Listener- Wooden Heart
M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Nujabes- Spiritual State
Pianos Become the Teeth- The Lack Long After
Russian Circles- Empros
Scale the Summit- The Collective
Steven Wilson- Grace for Drowning
Submotion Orchestra- Finest Hour
Swarms- Old Raves End
Thrice- Major/Minor
Thursday- No Devolucion
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross- The Social Network
Trophy Scars- Never Born, Never Dead
The Wonder Years- Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing

These are my picks for this year. I agree with NoOneIsIllegal, 2010 way better, but 2011 has been a shitty year anyway for me cause of all the bullshit happening with me and my family so I didn't really pay as much attention. Out of all these, I can safely say that the new Pianos Become the Teeth and La Dispute records are going to stick with me for a while, def my favorites for this year.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i didnt know new music still came out. when i found out Boris released a whole 3 new albums i took notice. that being said. besides a few singles from a few of those albums, i cannot make a fair judgement on 'best albums of 2011' im merely ruining my thank/post ratio.

[00000000000]

..I have been out of the musical loop for too long...I know NONE of these bands / artists...:crying:

[Sam_b]

You don't know Radiohead? My. Is 'too long' about 18 years?

[bcbm]

iceage 'new brigade'

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nuclear frost 'nuclear winter gloom'

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com truise 'galactic melt'

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the soft moon 'total decay'

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balam acab 'wander/wonder'

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bell witch 'bell witch demo'

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austra 'feel it break'

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