CLOSED- Best New Millenial Album Tournament- NOMINATIONS

[Saoirse]

We haven't had a tournament going on in awhile, so I thought it would be a good idea to get one going. Thought this one would be both a great way to see BEA's taste for more recent fare as well as perhaps a way to discover some under-exposed recent gems, and doing it as a relatively fast knock-out tourney could make it easy to co-exist alongside another seperate contest, if anybody has any ideas.

So here the nominating proccess will commence. Ill start with four each, and once that starts to die down people can nominate more until we get to the destination, which will be 64 or perhaps a giant 128 if enough interest is shown (and I find time to run a tourney that big). Only word of advice is be a bit creative with some of your selections; while there will surely be favorite albums that are expected to do well, try to find a special one among them that has been criminally overlooked, as often the great thing about these tournaments is discovering something entirely new.

Ill probably have a rules thread but the biggest qualifications for a nomination is that it's listed as a 2000-onward release, and no re-issues, compilations or modern classical. EPs are fine if it's long enough to be eligible for the BEA database (20 minutes plus I believe), if it's not eligible to be added to the site than it's not valid as a nomination here. I almost considered making a 2000-2012 cutoff, as the 2013 releases have a bit of an unfair advantage as they are being intensely discussed right now, but that wouldn't really be fair so Ill let it be open to any album that has been released (no exceptions for albums that have been leaked but not yet released).


Anyways, to get started:

Nominations

Saoirse
Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway (this one is for the sadly departed purps)
EMA- Past-Life Martyred Saints
Harkan
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Muse - Absolution
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
The National - High Violet
Mr Frogger
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
Joanna Newsom-Ys
Grizzly Bear-Shields
Radiohead-Kid A
Joyofdivision
The National - Boxer
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Scissor Sisters- Scissor Sisters
Happymeal
Primitive Radio Gods - White Hot Peach
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Vektor - Black Future
Necharsian
Agalloch - The Mantle
Thomas Koner - Nuuk
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
Immolation - Unholy Cult
Eggman/Walrus/Taxman
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Robert Rich - Somnium
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Tekin
Swans - The Seer
Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
Supersilent - 6
Pearljammer13
The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow
The Wrens- The Meadowlands
Iron And Wine- The Creek Drank The Cradle
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Patman360
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
Defago
Microphones- The Glow Pt 2
Natural Snow Buildings- The Dance of the Sun and the Moon
Feiry Furnaces- Blueberry Boat
Lethalnezzle
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Burial - Untrue
Thursdayeno
sigur ros - ()
air - talkie walkie
air - virgin suicides
biosphere - autour de la lune
Mercurydylan89
The Wild Hunt by The Tallest Man on Earth
The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley
Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams
Good Kid, mAAd City by Kendrick Lamar
The Poe
Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun
Sachiko M / Otomo Yoshihide / Toshimaru Nakamura - Good Morning Good Night
DLGGLD
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
A$AP Rocky- LiveLoveA$AP
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Gtroda
Tremolo - Love is the Greatest Revenge
Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Colorblind
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Revolver94
Beach House - Bloom
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
420bongritsu69
World's End Girlfriend- Hurtbreak Wonderland
Ben Frost - By the throat
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
JMan
Funeral - Arcade Fire
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
American Idiot - Green Day
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West.
Mod
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
My Morning Jacket – Z
Puncture Repair
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Blu and Exile- Below the Heavens
CDQ
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Antlers - Hospice
The Knife - Silent Shout
Bjork - Vespertine
Robert Anton Wilson
Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious - Diablo Swing Orchestra
We Only Sing Of Blood Or Love - Dax Riggs
Riot Act - Pearl Jam
The Black Tomato - Øresund Space Collective
Itsit
Grimes - Visions
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Yuck - Yuck
Neil Weaver - A vessel For My Ineptitude
JasonConfused
Elephant - The White Stripes
Midian - Cradle of Filth
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic – Foxygen
Ptaylor1989
Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
Caribou- Swim
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
The Strokes- Is This It
Yourself
Boxhead Ensemble- Nocturnes
Autechre- Confield
Angels of Light- Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home
Peste Noire- Les Sanie des Siècles– Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
BrandonMeow
He Poos Clouds by Final Fantasy
The Golden Morning Breaks by Colleen
Lookaftering by Vashti Bunyan
Angherr Shispa by Koenjihyakkei
Madadude
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
HigherthantheSun
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Santogold - Santogold
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
SilverWalrus
Burst Apart - The Antlers
Wondrous Bughouse - Youth Lagoon
The Moon And Antarctica - Modest Mouse
You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
Jhereko
jay-z - the blueprint
bon iver - bon iver, bon iver
cut copy - in ghost colours
Norman Bates
Cat Power, You Are Free
Leila, Courtesy of Choice
J Dilla, Donuts
L Lawliet
Gallowbird's Bark - Fiery Furnaces
Geogaddi - Boards Of Canada
Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life
Drakonium
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
They Call Me Stacey
Beirut- The Flying Cub Cup





Get on nominating ^_^

[MrFrogger]

MrFrogger
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
Joanna Newsom-Ys
Grizzly Bear-Shields
Radiohead-Kid A

[videoheadcleaner]

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Muse - Absolution
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
The National - High Violet

[videoheadcleaner]

[Saoirse]

[joyofdivision]

The National - Boxer
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Beach House - Teen Dream

[Necharsian]

Agalloch - The Mantle
Thomas Koner - Nuuk
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
Immolation - Unholy Cult

[Happymeal]

Primitive Radio Gods - White Hot Peach
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Vektor - Black Future

[Facetious]

The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Robert Rich - Somnium
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

[Guest]

Sigur Rós - Ágætis ByrjunSwans - The Seer
Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
Supersilent - 6
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn