Album of The Year - Endgame

My Favourite Albums from 2011 (Oddly a year of lots of really good, but no truly great albums):
  1. Cowboy Junkies – Demons: The Nomad Series, Vol. 2 (Margo Timmins singing the songs of Vic Chesnutt, unbelievably great.)
  2. Fleet Foxes – Helpless Blues
  3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening
  5. The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
  6. Yo Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Myer & Chris Thile – The Goat Rodeo Sessions
  7. Jason Isbell – Here We Rest
  8. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
  9. Adele – 21
  10. Miles Davis Quintet – Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1
  11. Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming
  12. City and Colour – Little Hell
  13. One Direction – Up All Night
  14. Destroyer – Kaputt
  15. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  16. The Decemberists – The King is Dead
  17. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
  18. Eric Church – Chief (Springsteen is such a great song.)
  19. Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style
  20. The Roots – Undun
 
1. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Feist - Metals
4. Jenn Grant - Honeymoon Punch
5. Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath The Willow
6. Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
7. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
8. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
9. Sloan - The Double Cross
10. Hey Rosetta! - Seeds
 
  1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
  2. Destroyer - Kaputt
  3. Beyoncé - 4
  4. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
  5. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
  6. James Blake - James Blake
  7. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
  8. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra.
  9. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  10. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Honorable mention:
Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk

EDIT: Just noticed Impossible Spaces by Sandro Perri came out 2011 as well. Impossibly good album.
 
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There's a dead zone in the late 2000s / early 2010s where I connected hard with a handful of records but found most everything else pretty underwhelming. 2011 was one of those years. It's also the year my mom died and I got married within six months of each other, so while #1 would have been #1 regardless, it was also the soundtrack to those huge events. #2-4 would likewise make it onto my list of favorite records from the decade. #5-15 might as well be listed alphabetically. They're my favorites of the year, but unlike other years that isn't necessarily saying much. They're perfectly fine – and I still listen to all of them – but they hardly set my world on fire.

1. Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
2. Frank Turner – England Keep Your Bones
3. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
4. The Horrors – Skying
5. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
6. Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness
7. Girls Names – Dead to Me
8. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
9. M83 – Hurry up We're Dreaming
10. Parts & Labor – Constant Future
11. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
12. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
13. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
14. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
15. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong
 
wokeupnew said:
This is a year where I can see exactly what I ranked in that year - neckermanncj's journal - Best of 2011 | Last.fm

A good amount has changed since then

List created in 2011 (why I ranked 33? I have no clue.)

1) Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
2) The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
3) Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
4) A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
5) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
6) Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs
7) Mates of State - Mountaintops
8) Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
9) Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
10) Wild Beasts - Smother
11) William Fitzsimmons - Gold in the Shadow
12) Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
13) Childish Gambino - Camp/EP
14) Nils Frahm - Felt
15) Teruyuki Nobuchika - Sonorite
16) House Boat - The Thorns of Life
17) The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
18) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
19) Peter Broderick - Music For Confluence
20) Tenement - Napalm Dream
21) The Black Keys - El Camino
22) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club
23) Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself EP
24) Washed Out - Within and Without
25) Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
26) Bomb The Music Industry! - Vacation
27) Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miners' Hymns
28) Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
29) La Dispute - Wildlife
30) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysteric
31) Raein - Sulla linea dell'orizzonte fra questa mia vita e quella di tutti
32) Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
33) The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain

Current year 2011 list (@Woob_woob use this one)

  1. A Winged Victory For the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  3. AJJ - Knife Man
  4. Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
  5. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
  6. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
  7. Real Estate - Days
  8. Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs
  9. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
  10. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

HMs:

  • Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
  • Washed Out - Within and Without
  • Nils Frahm - Felt
  • Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
  • Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  • Bon Iver - Bon Iver
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spreddy updated! The N+G Album of the Year...

literally just been re-doing my yoy for the last decade ahead of aotd 2010-19 so this is super easy, barely an inconvenience...

OrderArtistAlbum
1​
PJ HarveyLet England Shake
2​
Frank OceanNostalgia, Ultra
3​
Gillian WelchThe Harrow and the Harvest
4​
Kanye West with Jay ZWatch the Throne
5​
Laura MarlingA Creature I Don't Know
6​
Fleet FoxesHelplessness Blues
7​
GirlsFather, Son, Holy Ghost
8​
Okkervil RiverI Am Very Far
9​
Gruff RhysHotel Shampoo
10​
SnowmanAbsence
11​
Royal HeadacheRoyal Headache
12​
The HorrorsSkying
13​
Big ScaryVacation
14​
St. VincentStrange Mercy
15​
The RootsUndun
16​
Bon IverBon Iver, Bon Iver
17​
The Black KeysEl Camino
18​
MastodonThe Hunter
19​
Iron & WineKiss Each Other Clean
20​
Lykke LiWounded Rhymes
 
2011:
1. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
2. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
3. Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
4. Ball Park Music – Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs
5. Gringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars
6. Pete and the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
7. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
8. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
9. Treefight for Sunlight – Treefight for Sunlight
10. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light

HM:
Army Navy – The Last Place
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Mother Mother – Eureka
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Sloan – The Double Cross
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
Wooden Shjips – West
 
Lots of quiet music for me from '11 ;)

Top 10 Albums of 2011:
  1. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
  2. Danny Brown - XXX
  3. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
  4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  7. Julia Holter - Tragedy
  8. James Blake - James Blake
  9. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  10. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
 
1) Destroyer - Kaputt: When I go on a trip, I download a lot of albums that either fit the theme/location of the trip or I'm just particularly feeling at the moment. A couple of albums from the list usually rise to the top as the soundtrack of the trip. Anyways this was one of the albums I ended up listening to constantly on a trip to Vancouver. In addition to being a great album, it also now brings me back to one of my favorite trips. Vancouver rules.

2) EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
3) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4) Real Estate - Days
5) War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
6) Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
7) Panda Bear - Tomboy
8 )Danny Brown - XXX
9) Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
10) Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

This was a good year. Some really great albums didn't make this cut. It was hard to get a 4-15ish ordering I was satisfied with but this'll have to do. I already feel bad about leaving Kate Bush out of the top 10 but I just don't go back to that album very often.

A lot of my favorite 2010s artists released albums this year (St Vincent, War on Drugs, Jaar, Danny Brown, OPN) but not my favorite 2010s album of theirs with maybe the exception of Slave Ambient.
 
Not a big year for me music-wise - I was still buying mostly used records and had a toddler in the house.


2011

  1. Cliff Martinez ‎– Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  2. The Black Keys ‎– El Camino
  3. Radiohead ‎– The King Of Limbs
  4. Beastie Boys ‎– Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
  5. Childish Gambino ‎– Camp
  6. Red Hot Chili Peppers ‎– I'm With You
  7. Kadavar ‎– Kadavar
  8. Mastodon ‎– The Hunter
  9. Elder ‎– Dead Roots Stirring
  10. David Lynch ‎– Crazy Clown Time

HM -

Lou Reed & Metallica ‎– Lulu


(just kidding)
 
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