DiS Users' Albums of the Year 2011: results.
This year a massive 387 of you voted for an even more astonishing 446 albums. Unlike last year, the top spot of 2011 has been neck-and-neck for weeks, and despite there being a 112 point difference between the number 2 album and the number 3 one, there is a mere 6 points difference between numbers 1 and 2. And you say that your vote won't make a difference!
Anyway, as voted by you, here are the Drowned in Sound users' favourite albums of 2011:
=50 Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
=50. The Drums - Portamento
49. Tom Waits – Bad as Me
48. Austra – Feel it Break
47. Björk - Biophilia
=45. Zomby - Dedication
=45. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
44. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
=41. Youth Lagoon – Year of Hibernation
=41. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Winged Victory for the Sullen
=41. Death Grips – Ex-Military
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40. Atlas Sound - Parallax
39. Low – C’mon
=37. Beirut – The Rip Tide
=37. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
36. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
=34. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
=34. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
=32. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
=32. Johnny Foreigner – vs. Everything
31. Slow Club - Paradise
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30. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
29. Nicolas Jaar – Space is Only Noise
28. Yuck - Yuck
27. John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
26. Battles – Gloss Drop
25. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
=23. Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
=23. Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
22. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
21. James Blake – James Blake
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20. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
=18. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for my Halo
=18. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k I l l
17. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
16. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
15. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
14. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
13. Metronomy – The English Riviera
12. The Field – Looping State of Mind
11. Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness
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10. The Horrors - Skying
9. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
=7. Tim Hecker – Ravendeath, 1972
=7. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
6. St Vincent – Strange Mercy
5. Destroyer – Kaputt
4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
3. Wild Beasts – Smother
2. The Antlers – Burst Apart
1. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
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Thanks for your time and effort.
just wanted to reiterate THIS^
Thank you so much. Send me your address as a note, I've got something I wanna pop in the post to you as a thank you.
No worries, all.
It was fun last year and even more so this year, what with The Antlers and PJ Harvey being so close (they literally switched placed between 1 and 2 about twenty times!)
Anyway, I'm happy doing this year on year, so if you're pleased with how it's been done 2010 and 2011 i'll keep going in future.
Thanks for making voting especially painless and user-friendly for me this year.
Also: HAPPY 2012 EVERYONE!
what about a top 10 next year?
I'm really surprised by a few things:
Radiohead being in the top 10. (I thought people weren't impressed?
Mogwai being so high up. Not heard the album yet - what's it like? I thought 'The Hawk is Howling' was snooze-worthy, so didn't bother with this, but a number 15 placing sounds promising.
New mogwai is a real return to form
Their best in years.
I wasn't into The Hawk is Howling either
But loved Hardcore Will Never Die... Mind you, Mr Beast is my second favourite album of theirs.
I love Mr Beast too. Perhaps i'll give the new one a bash.
i like all their albums
and the new one is widely considered one of their best
You forgot to say:
Post whinging, moaning and accusations of nocturnal incontinence below!
WAIT 'TIL ME FATHER HEARS ABOUT THIS!
A few surprises for me..
That Gang Gang dance and SBTRKT came out as highly as they did. I'll give them another listen but I'm quite sure that they're not very good albums.
Pleased that Wild Beasts and John Mauss albums came as high in the pole as they did.
I really, really like both GGD and SBTRKT.
I only own St Vincent from the top 10, but that sure is a cracker.
I listened to the GGD album so many times, to see what the fuss
was, but it just didn't click for me.
With the SBTRKT album, I need to listen to it again - checked out the track on the Dis radio thing and I remember it from the first list of the album. I didn't really give the album a chance.
hahaha even we can't help but vote for PJ Harvey
Was listening to Let England Shake this very morning, and still failing to click with it.
But I think it's definitely time to see what the fuss with Burst Apart is all about. Christmas Amazon vouchers, here I come...
Listened to Burst Apart for the first time yesterday
Bloody hell it's good.
glad slow club make an appearance
but yeah, still dont get burst apart or let england shake.
alistair, you rock
Probably their highest list placing this year
Well done DiS <3
They were
eurgh...
they were number 1 with the Fly, and I think I saw another website/mag had them as aoty as well...
This IS the first list I've seen with David Comes to Life in the top 10, though. YAY DISERS!
Probably should have said
I was on about the Slow Club one, Fly gave em 4.5/5, but gave them 40-something anyway. YES SLOW CLUB ARE ACE
oh my god how white and boring and obvious and predictable and etc etc.
I think that is a really strong, varied, list with loads of really good stuff
It supports my view that 2011 was a good year for music. There are maybe not many 'classic' albums (only PJH comes close in my view, but only time tells with those sort of assessments) but there were so many good, interesting records in so many genres this year - just from the top 20 you have Tim Hecker, Destroyer, Fucked Up, EMA, The Field, SBTRKT, tUnEyArDs, Kurt Vile etc - all completely different and all excellent.
yeah I'm starting to see that more and more
it won't be reflected on well in 10, 20 years time when people compile lists and whatnot, but it was an innovative year where there was loads of variation in sounds that were well received by even the most mainstream of publications
As I said above, I think time will tell
The albums that last are not necessarily the ones that get noticed at the time, but what we do know is that there has been loads of interesting and varied new stuff to listen to almost every month this year.
Anyone who says that this has been a dull year (as many do) has just not been paying attention to anything outside the very dead centre of the mainstream.
only 1 album outta my top 15 that's on that list
I'm feeling very indie right now.
Then again, I've only listened to 3 albums from that list, so ...
Very happy Smother got to 3
Shame Ghostpoet didn't make it, and still have my gripes with Let England Shake, but not much to whinge about
Very surprised about The Horrors being so high up!
glad LES pipped Bursr Apart
the latter had its moments, but on the whole I can think of an actual ton of superior records realeased this year.
must say that I'm surprised Colin Stetson didn't make the cut.
I'm glad too.
I like 'Burst Apart' but in the end it is just a (very good) mainstream American 'alt rock' album, albeit with great songs.
LES is a record only PJH could have made, and is really ambitious and original.
i remember looking for stetson on the voting thread
there were only 3 or 4 votes but i think all of them had him at number one.
yeah
well loved but only by a handful, perhaps. it'd be interesting to see a tally of no.1s.
I think we can drop The Drums' album from the list
since forzaborza AKA hulkyhogan put it at the top of both his lists.
I forgot to vote
I assume it is now too late?
how did you forget?
the thread was stickied!
and yeah, voting is now closed :)
Manana syndrome
why vote today, when you can tomorrow.
Don't worry
I meant to do it. Never got round to it.
los camp - surprisingly high
tune yards - surprisingly low
Looping State Of Mind - surprisingly high
Bjork - surprisingly low
Low - surprisingly (and ridiculously) low
Yuck - surprisingly (and ridiculously) high
Bjork probably would have been 20 places higher if she'd released it in July
*if the second half of the album had been as good as the first half
Oh dear.
You've mis-titled one of the top 10 LPs in your chart. Have you actually listened to it, or did you just like the sleeve?
n.b. Mogwai at #15? Do people still really like 'em THAT much? They've not made a decent album in a decade+ FFS!
In the last decade
They've made three great albums, including what I think is their best
I just liked the sleeve of all my top 5 albums of the year.
This is a fashion site, right?
I prefer the name "Ravendeath, 1972"
Ravendeath sound like an ace black metal band
Genuinely thought it was called this until now
Might I also add, no, I've not listened to it: it wasn't in my top 5 choices.
This is the DiS users' vote top albums, not my own. Dickhead.
So Medulla spends god knows how many hours labouring over a spreadsheet
And you have a go at him over a typo.
Good work
Rooksby seems to be a giant weiner.
Thanks for compiling this; I'm sad that Liturgy didn't sneak into the chart though.
A typo is a typo you cnut
OK?
What the fuck does that even mean?
I can't answer your "OK?" because the previous statement was nonsense. Is English your first language?
The War on Drugs
pipped Kurt Vile by one place, which is kind of interesting. I mean, he made the break from TWoD and has seemingly eclipsed his former band. but DiSers beg to differ?
I really liked both
and sort of saw them as companion pieces
but war on drugs probably just edged it
No Angles, Suck It And See or Wasting Light
Can you explain this injustice to me?
DiS users didn't like them very much
not really DiS fare
perhaps if you gave the albums on the list a go, you'd see this isn't an injustice at all.
All shit albums?
Dido released that album years ago for one.
Okkervil just sneaking in there
Well done everyone
Curious to see how far from the top fifty Apocalypse is
as I thought it was doing pretty well last time I checked. Cheers for all your hard work!
Surprised Walls' Coracle isn't in there...
Clearly the 9 didn't tally with the dis readers' view. It's still better than The Field for me. Lovely warmness to it...
reviews are the opinions of individuals, obviously
although i agree with you. and i'd imagine not many people have investigated it as yet (and hopefully posts like this will get a few people checking it out)
listen to it here: http://soundcloud.com/walls_band/sets/walls-coracle-kompakt