DiS' Favourite Albums of 2011: 75-50
Drowned in Sound’s top 75 albums of the year countdown starts here. But first, DiS founder and current editor, has his annual ponder about the year that was..
- Animal Collective - Monkey Been to Burntown
- Club 8 - Above the City
- The Focus Group - The Elektrik Karousel
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- In Photos: Hadouken! @ Electric Ballroom, London
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- armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
- Wild Nothing - Empty Estate
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Did you guys write 'dust collection' for kate wax's album? nice one ;) well, sound good too.
same issue as last year
could you put the albums in reverse order, like 75 to 50? Makes for a more exciting read
congratulations
you win a rabbit.
[typo fixed now.]
does it really make that much difference?
i guess i just presume most people scan to the bottom of the page to look for a mark out of 10, and then read back up the page...
I'm just gonna say it and be done with it
THE PIERCES?
When did DiS go all Radio 2?
Kinda surprised it took two hours for someone to say that
Not gonna defend everything but really is proper good - was really taken aback by the songwriting when I gave it a listen. Made a fair few staff top 10 lists, including that of our features editor.
DiS has always had things like Gemma Hayes and Cat Power in its year-end lists and amongst the editorial. Plus Stevie Nicks was my gig of the year.
Plus, what's wrong with a little bit of Radio 2? Better than DiS going too Resonance or TotalRock, no? I like that Iceage, Mark McGuire and The Pierces can co-exist in these pick'n'mix times we're living in.
I like lots of things.
I don't like The Pierces ;o)
what we like in music is subjective shock!
in other news it's cold...
Update: not as cold as it was yesterday.
Other news: music still fun.
eh, i always get the urge to do that
but just about manage to make myself read the review first. So yeah, it's a bit weird to me. I will say it's probably more to do with the fact that you're the only place that lists it like this, so it's not an inherently bad thing just ... an unusual one.
Also the list is good so far - quite a few things I like but nothing I love, which means they're either higher up the list or have been ignored. I know you'll have chosen the right option ;)
Seconding the reverse order request
you know the list already, we don't, it definitely makes for a better read
I still can't decided if I like Zonoscope
If I didn't own In Ghost Colours, it'd probably be in my top 3 albums of the year and I'd rave about every song on there as - taken as individual songs - they're all great.
But as a whole album, I dunno... sort of great, sort of not?
ok
i will bow, for once, to the demands of the people and spend 10 cross-eyed minutes twisting around the next part of the list before publishing it this afternoon
Pedantic
But does that Mark Mcguire album count, since it's a compilation of reissued stuff? Admittedly half of it was previously issued on a ltd Cdr of 3 copies, but it's not a new album. It'd like like including that Disco Inferno shit people spaffed over.
If Young Persons... does count, it's clearly the best release of 2011. Who gets to decide these things?
I didn't include the Young Person's Guide To release in my own 2011 list
because it's a compilation of stuff already released. forgot entirely about it. and it's amazing too.
that better then?
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144233-dis-favourite-albums-of-2011--49-21
James Blake and Los Campesinos! are going to be pissed.
Surprisingly low for these two.
But then again, James Blake isn't getting much love in any of these lists.
Did he piss people off? I can't remember.
How can you not find room
for British Sea Power but you can for the wispy, forgettable Marissa Nadler album. A lot of the albums this year that everyone loved I just don't get. This hasn't been the situation in the past I usually can make a case for every album on these lists. I must be getting old or listening to Tuneyards on spotify so see if it's any good isn't the way to go anymore. Few of the acclaimed albums seems to grab me like before though there were a ton of albums I loved this year.
I think James Blake only pissed people off
by not making an album that was as good as the preceding EPs
I immediately thought this re: Mark McGuire
and that 'Get Lost' would be the more eligible choice being a new album and all. And very good it was too.
No Bill Callahan?!