Year end lists for best albums of 2011.

[Hayden]

[19loveless91]

Youtube-ing Replica right now and yes, it is a good album. Though I don't exactly see it as a "top album" of the year. But definitely worth a listen, and even if I'm only listening to it on youtube, I'll probably include it in my personal chart for the BEA end of year list

[Necharsian]

It makes me sad that every list just excludes metal completely

[Jackwc]

Fucked Up still has their door in the door. If hardcore punk can garner acclaim, metals time in the sun will be soon at hand. I mean, the new Opeth and Mastodon albums have been widely praised, soooo...
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[Mr.Music]

Another year has past and i might say a good one for me personally. Even though my dear Europe suffered much and there were some bloody riots all over the globe, it still seems like most of us did just ok!(we still breathe?)
Was the year generally good or bad i let you to decide but one thing is certan, music still is one thing that brings joy to our lives. So how was the year 2011 in music? First of all i had the chance to listen more than 100 albums this year, all of them released in 2011 so im pretty confident in writing this post.
I tried to put all of these albums up on MY Chart page but then i got tired and i just wrote them up in my notebook. SO here they are!

I. By genre!

1. Electronic - Still seems to have the best releases and fresh ideas over the years now.

a) Kangding Ray - OR

b) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

c) The Field - Looping State of Mind

d) Siriusmo - Mosaik

e) Nicolas Jaar - Space in only Noise

f) James Blake - James Blake

g) Machinedrum - Room(s)

h) Amon Tobin - Isam

i) Area C - Map of Circular Thought

j) Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk ( Robag was the MAN this year, released also an awesome mixtape)

Honorable mention - 2562, Gang Gang dance, Faltydl, Desolate.


2. Indie pop|rock - Oh damn these Canadians!

a) Flaming Lips - Strobo Trip EP

b) Wild Beasts - Smother

c) Tune Yards - Whokill

d) Tv on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

e) White Denim - D

f) Braids - Native Speaker

g) P.J Harvey - Let England Shake

h) Tom Waits - Bad as Me

i) Grouper - A I A

j) Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine

Honorable mention - Wu Lyf, Young Galaxy, Real Estate, Cut Copy, Radiohead.


3. Rock/ Punk/ Metal/ - and all these subgenres pfffff!- hard music!

a) Fucked Up - David Comes to Life ( The first and the only after Zen Arcade)

b) Elder - Dead Roots Stirring

c) Mastodon - The Hunter

d) Glassjaw - Coloring Book EP

e) And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

f) Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture

g) Causa Sui - Pewtrs Sessions 1

h) Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

i) At Devil Dirt - At Devil Dirt

j) Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die but You Will


Honorable mention - Our Color Green EP(Glassjaw), Sungrazer, Opeth, Boris.


4. Jazz - Didnt find much but two albums are really impressive!

a) Steve Coleman and Five Elements - The Mancy of Sound

b) Coin Coin Chapter One - Gens de Couleur Libres

c).....ffffff help me?

d).... Mmmmmm help me?


II. Overrated! Or i just dont get them!

1) Bon Iver- Bon Iver, Bon Iver ( I know most of peaople will hate me for it but i thought it was quit painfull and boring)

2) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (...or waste of my time? Unchallenging and adressed to everyone what basically means for NOONE)



III. Most underrated or didnt get much attention.

1) Glassjaw - Coloring Book EP ( Ok, RYM gaves it a credit but generally not very famous band outside the post hardcore listeners)

2) Seefeel - Seefeel ( One of my favorite releases from Warp recordings this year!)

3) Parts and Labor - Constant Future ( A reallt heavy folk punk album and Skin and Bones one of my favorite tunes this year)


IV. Top tunes

1) Flaming Lips - I Found a Star on the Ground

2) Elder - III

3) Glassjaw - Daytona White

4) Kangding Ray - OR

5) James Blake - Wilhelms Scream

6) Fucked Up - The Other Shoe

7) Fucked Up - Serve me Right

Braids - Plath Heart

9) PJ Harvey - All and Everyone

10) Cut Copy - Blink and Youll Miss a Revolution

11) Parts and Labor - Skin and Bones

12) Causa Sui - Pewtr Wozniaki

13) Young Galaxy - For Dear Life

14) Toro Y Moi - Light Black

15) Graveyard - No Good, Mr Holden

16) Area C - In Toward the Wires

17) And So I Watch You From Afar - Ghost Parlor KA-6 to...

1 Machinedrum - Door(s)

19) Sungrazer - Mirador

20) Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers - Heaven in Stereo



Happy New Year Besteveralbums and and all you users!

[Norman Bates]

Oh, I think I poste "Les Inrockuptibles" 's list on the wrong topic.

[jhuik]

Pitchfork constantly lists music that no one remembers a year later.