Album of The Year - Endgame

2011 was a great year for indie rock!

1. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
6. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
7. The Antlers - Burst Apart
8. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
9. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
10. James Blake - James Blake
11. tUnE-yArDs - WhoKill

Honorable mentions:

Decemberists - The King Is Dead
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
Hooray for Earth - True Loves
 
bettim84 said:
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (x10)
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Badams said:
3) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4) Real Estate - Days
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Oh jeez I actually forgot that Days came out in 2011. Let England Shake was my favorite album of that year, but over the course of the decade Days became the more meaningful album for me. So my ranking goes:

(1) Real Estate - Days
(2) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
(3) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

2011 is also the Katy B - On a Mission year! Talk about an album that needs to be pressed on vinyl...
 
bettim84 said:
Oh jeez I actually forgot that Days came out in 2011. Let England Shake was my favorite album of that year, but over the course of the decade Days became the more meaningful album for me. So my ranking goes:

(1) Real Estate - Days
(2) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
(3) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

2011 is also the Katy B - On a Mission year! Talk about an album that needs to be pressed on vinyl...
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Days was an album my friends and I listened to a lot when it came out but I hadn't really listened to it a lot over the last 4-5 years until I started organizing my Best of the Decade thoughts. I had forgotten how much I enjoy it.

Let England Shake is one I've bounced off of a couple of times but I should probably give another try given the praise in here.
 
My top 2011 picks, in no particular order:

Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Real Estate - Days
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
The Stepkids - The Stepkids
Tune-Yards - WHOKILL
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy
Mars Classroom - The New Theory Of Everything
 
I feel like I haven't posted here in forever. Work's been super busy, so I haven't had time to do a proper list.

I finished college in 2011 and entered the scary world of trying to find a career. I was really starting to get into indie rock about this time, and looking at the releases, there was a lot of good stuff out there!

1. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
2. TV On the Radio - Nine Types of Light
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math. I actually really disliked this album at first. It wasn't as energetic as their first two albums, which is what drew me to them in the first place. Over time though, I've come to really like it.
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
6. Childish Gambino - Camp
7. Mutemath - Odd Soul
8. We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
9. Noel Gallaghers's High Flying Birds - S/T
10. Foster the People - Torches

Runner's up, no particular order:
Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
Adele - 21
Yuck - S/T
Rise Against - Endgame
The Wombats - This Modern Glitch
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
Portugal the Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud
 
  1. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  2. Jason Isbell - Here We Rest
  3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  4. My Morning Jacket - Circuitual
  5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
  6. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
  7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  8. Adele - 21
  9. Eddie Vedder - Ukelele Songs
  10. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
Honorable Mentions
Drive By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
Soundgarden - Live on I-5
Chris Cornell - Songbook
Neil Young & The International Harvesters - A Treasure
 
Incredible year. Really hard for me to nail down the top 10 and not exclude very worthy albums, but alas. A lot of these will end up very high on my end-of-decade list, too. The top three, especially, are probably my three most played records in the last ten years.

1. Feist - Metals
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. Wilco - The Whole Love
4. Destroyer - Kaputt
5. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
6. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
7. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
8. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
9. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
10. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Honourable mentions:
  • Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
  • Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
  • The Decemberists - The King is Dead
  • Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  • J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
  • Nils Frahm - Felt
  • Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath the Willow
  • Mastodon - The Hunter
  • Opeth - Heritage
  • Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
  • Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
  • Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  • PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
 
1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
3. Death Grips - Exmilitary
4. Open Mike Eagle - Rappers Will Die Of Natural Causes
5. Danny Brown - XXX
6. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
7. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
8. Giles Corey - Giles Corey
9. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
10. The Roots - Undun


Looking at everyone's lists, it's interesting how musically diverse 2011 is - it's a year filled with great albums, but it's also not like everyone's top 5 is exactly the same. There aren't nearly as many "obvious" picks as there are for, say, 2010 or 2012, so the lists are really all over the place, which makes it a lot more fun IMO
 
Forgot about this! Sneaking in there at the last! So 2011 was the absolute shittest year imaginable for me personally so music wasn’t a huge focus but 2, in particular, came out at a terrible time for me and cheered me up a little and so is probably a lot higher for me personally that it should be on merit. 3 previously would’ve been ashes and fire but fuck that guy!

1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
3. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
4. Bon Iver
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
6. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
7. Feist - Metals
8. Horrors - Skying
9. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
10. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know
 
Woob_woob said:
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stealing in under the gun

1. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
2. Crooked Fingers - Breaks in the Armor
3. Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks
4. The Head and the Heart - S/T
5. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
7. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
8. Iron&Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
9. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
10. Seryn - This is Where We Are
 
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