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DiS' Favourite Albums of 2011: 20-6

sean 17 replies 14:51 December 14th, 2011

Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues...

  • hurrah

    for squeezing The Field into the top 20! I'd have had it at 1 but yer already know that dontcha. Glad to see it high up.

    jarock87 | 14 Dec '11, 15:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • Love the design on this page

    the huge cover images really bring out how gorgeous some of the artwork is

    guntrip | 14 Dec '11, 15:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • good list

    bar the obvious inclusion of metronmy, which is utter dhite.

    justanothersheeldz | 14 Dec '11, 15:53 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • Love the layout

    So I guess the top five is:

    SBTRKT (ugh) / PJ / The Antlers / The Horrors / Tim Hecker

    In some order. Hope its Hecker!

    Old_Man_Burner | 14 Dec '11, 16:03 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • Great list.

    The_Admiral | 15 Dec '11, 14:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • A few DiS reviews/lack of reviews really surprised me...

    ...this year, being waaaaay out of line with my own opinion and general critical opinion.

    Apparat! I loved The Devil's Walk, it's so listenable, DiS 6/10 I think? Appearing in a lot of other critic top tens, and mine.

    Thursday, did DiS even review No Revolucion? It's really fracking great.

    M83, everyone else loves it. I think DiS's house view was being a little contrarian here.

    FrancescoNoir | 16 Dec '11, 21:19 | X | ^ This | Reply

    • No Devolucion*

      :-)

      FrancescoNoir | 16 Dec '11, 21:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

    • thanks for your comment but to be fair (and to explain a little more about how DiS works)

      we review 3-5 records a day, 5 days a week. that's about 50 records a month. that's approximately 600 albums reviewed this year. yes, we missed a few. and yes, some of the individuals who reviewed the records (the opinions are very much their own) won't always tally with yours but I just wanna clarify that there is now "DiS house view" at all. We wouldn't want to force our writers to have an opinion that they don't have and we don't have the resource to find a reviewer to write a review which aligns with some 'party line' - and to be honest, I don't get most records far enough ahead of release to form an opinion on them, especially when you consider how many records come out each month (and that our reviews editor's full-time job is doing theatre stuff for Time Out).
      Our team of reviewers merely put their hand up to review something from a list of records due out in a few weeks time. Reviews then come in, get subbed and go live.
      If I'm honest, I didn't like the m83 album as much as previous ones (it's overlong but there's a great album there if you chop out some of it), and I didn't really agree with the review but I also wouldn't agree that everyone loves it - especially if the reaction to it on our boards was anything to go by!
      As for Thursday, I don't know why it didn't get reviewed but several of our writers did really like it, and it would have been in a top 100 list.
      Hope that explains why this has happened.

      sean @FrancescoNoir | 18 Dec '11, 12:12 | X | ^ This | Reply

  • ever decreasing circles

    PJ's new one sounded just like ol' Kate Bush! Perfect for Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Jenny Murray ecstatic... Yawnorama, though neither quite as godawful as the late Amy W..

    Bartlebooth | 3 Jan '12, 21:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
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