Loved 2010. It has some of my favorite albums ever, like This is happening or The age of adz. 2011… not a big fan of. Maybe my favorite album was Strange mercy by St. Vincent, and also liked (in no order at all)
- Destroyer: Kaputt
- Nicolas Jaar: Space is only noise
- Florence and the machine: Ceremonials
- Kurt Vile: Smoke ring for my halo
- Arctic monkeys: Suck it and see
- The pains of being pure at heart: Belong
- Death cab for cutie: Codes and keys
- Eleanor Friedberger: Last summer
- James Blake: James Blake
- Björk: Biophilia
- Fleet foxes: Helplessness blues
- Portugal. The man: In the mountain in the cloud
- Los Campesinos!: Hello sadness
- M83: Hurry up, we´re dreaming
- Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- Gold-Bears: Are you falling in love?
- Kakkmaddafakka: Hest
- Radiohead: The king of limbs
- Sondre Lerche: Sondre Lerche
- The Demos: Lovely
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond mine
These are ALL the albums I´ve liked, and I´ve listened to a lot more. I have some that I haven´t yet heared (like Tomboy by Panda Bear). Maybe it seems like a lot of records, but actually I haven´t been as interested in new releases like 2010, where everything I seem to listen interested me. And I know that many of these records are going to tire me soon. I guess I ended up listening more to Sufjan Stevens or LCD Soundsystem than any of these records (excepting Strange Mercy and Kaputt, EXTRAORDINARY ALBUMS).
Doctor_blind
1 Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
2 Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
3 Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4 James Blake James Blake
5 M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
6 Shabazz Palaces Black Up
7 Fucked Up David Comes To Life
8 The Field Looping State Of Mind
9 Tune-Yards W H O K I L L
10 PJ Harvey Let England Shake
11 Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
12 Panda Bear Tomboy
13 Destroyer Kaputt
14 St. Vincent Strange Mercy
15 Radiohead The King Of Limbs
16 Cass McCombs WIT’S END
17 Atlas Sound Parallax
18 Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
19 Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces
20 Braids Native Speaker
21 Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
22 The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
23 EMA Past Life Martyred Saints
24 Peaking Lights 936
25 Bill Callahan Apocalypse
26 Ford & Lopatin Channel Pressure
27 Mikal Cronin Mikal Cronin
28 Dirty Beaches Badlands
29 Real Estate Days
30 Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde
31 The Weeknd House of Balloons
32 WU LYF Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
33 Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation
34 Grouper A I A
35 The Pains Of Being Pure… Belong
36 Ponytail Do Whatever You Want All The Time
37 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
38 Cass McCombs Humor Risk
39 John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
40 Thundercat The Golden Age of Apocalypse
41 The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing
42 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX We’re New Here
43 Battles Gloss Drop
44 Byetone Symeta
45 Jürgen Müller Science Of The Sea
46 Feist Metals
47 Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams
48 Drake Take Care
49 Kurt Vile Smoke Ring for My Halo
50 Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
I’d say it was a pretty good year…
Doctor_blind
I think 2011 is the best year since 2007, by the way.
Óskar Pétur Einarsson
I think 2011 had many good albums but 2010 had few albums that I think will tower over others for years to come. Nothing this year came close to touching Before Today, Have One On Me, Public Strain or Halcyon Digest, IMHO.
Was 2011 Better Than 2010?
Well, was it?