Perşembe 19 Oca 2012, 20:01
Hopefully I'll find some time to write some little blurbs about some of the albums. 2011 was a really good year in music which made it tough to rate these. Incubus and Dredg really let me down this year with really poor albums. I was big fans of both bands a couple years ago.
Top 50 Albums of 2011
1. Stateless - Matilda
2. Royal Bangs – Flux Outside
3. The Dodos – No Color
4. Mr. Dream – Mr. Dream
5. Gypsyblood – Cold in the Guestway
6. Russian Circles – Empros
7. And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs
8. The Black Keys – El Camino
9. Mastodon – The Hunter
10. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
11. Mute Math – Odd Soul
12. Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magick
13. Battles – Gloss Drop
14. Bunny’s A Swine – All Day, Alright
15. Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain In the Cloud
16. Love Among the Mannequins – Radial Images
17. The Strokes – Angles
18. Dead Station – Dead Station
19. Primus – Green Naugahyde
20. Death Grips – Ex Military
21. We Were Promised Jetpacks – In the Pit of the Stomach
22. Le Butcheretes – Sin Sin Sin
23. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
24. Eksi Ekso – Brown Shark Red Lion
25. Wallpaper. - #STUPiDFACEDD
26. Hella – Tripper
27. Grass is Green – Chibimoon
28. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead – Tao of the Dead
29. Junius – Reports From The Threshold of Death
30. The Parlor Mob – Dogs
31. Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
32. Cave In – White Silence
33. Boris – Attention Please
34. Deerhoof – Vs. Evil
35. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
36. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
37. The Black Belles – The Black Belles
38. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
39. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
40. Amplifier – The Octopus
41. Boris – Heavy Rocks
42. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
43. Buffalo Killers - 3
44. Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea – What’s There to Write About?
45. Cage the Elephant – Than You Happy Birthday
46. Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
47. This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
48. Dredg – Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
49. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
50. Incubus – If Not Now, When?
Top EPs from 2011
1. Red Bellows – Epone EP
2. I Am This Big Black Cloud – Double Phantasm EP + Covers EP
3. Wives – Wives EP
4. Ovlov – What’s So Great About the City? EP
5. Pile – Big Web Seven Inch EP
6. The Bronzed Chorus – Gleaning EP
7. The Appleseed Cast – Middle States EP
8. This Town Needs Guns – Adventure, Stamina, & Anger EP
9. The Black Belles ft. Stephen Colbert - What Can I Do?
10. Joseph Andreoli - HLY MTN
What I’m Looking forward to in 2012
Queens of the Stone Age
Tool
Pile
Adebisi Shank
Tera Melos
Bear in Heaven
Fang Island
(Damn) This Desert Air
Wives
Mr. Dream
Kyuss
Wallpaper – EPIC Records Debut
Eksi Ekso
Bats
Grass is Green
Karnivool
Baroness
The Mars Volta
This Town Needs Guns
Ovlov (under a new name)