Your album of the year?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

We are coming to the end of the year and it is doubtful that any album of substance is going to be released until after the New Year, unless you think the new Chevelle record coming out in a couple of weeks is going to be a classic.

So it is now time to choose your album of the year. You may want to elaborate on why it is your album of the year if you wish and maybe bestow upon us an example of why it has kicked your arse.

Out of the 80+ albums that I have bought this year, only 9 were actually released this year, and then only 2 really stood out to me. They were: Kuniko Kato's Plays Reich and the Yo-Yo Ma/Stuart Duncan/Edgar Meyer/Chris Thile collaborative album, The Goat Rodeo Sessions.

For me the latter won out; it grabbed me from the opening refrain and didn't let go until the end. Top notch musicians at their best.

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Try and keep the "honourable mentions" to a minimum; I know that some of you are incapable of making a decision.

Shoot!:wave:

[Mooияakeя™]

Era Extrana by Neon Indian was amazing, Reptilians by Starfucker blew my mind... but for me, so far it's been: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming by M83.

To break down, my top 5 would be:

1) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2) Starfucker - Reptilians
3) Neon Indian - Era Extrana
4) Friendly Fires - Pala
5) Sophie Ellis Bexter - Make a Scene

Going to see M83 in January too, my first gig in ages.

[Rammsteinmad]

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

Nobody cares, though.

[CSL]

Childish Gambino - Camp

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[What Would Kevin Do?]

I approve of CSL's choice.

[Pintint]

First one to come to mind is Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising, so I'll have to go with it.
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[jcmoorehead]

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events.

Would have to say Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning is a very very close second though.

Occupying 3,4,5 would probably be

Neal Morse - Testimony 2
The Anabasis - Back From Being Gone
Stratovarius - Elysium

[FakeLaser]

I'm doing a top 50 soon lads

[Buzzkill]

1) Destoyer - Kaputt
2) Panda Bear - Tomboy
3) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5) tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
6) JAY-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
7) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
8) Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
9) Washed Out - Within and Without
10) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

[Gertner]

My fav is the Pretentious Douchebags. There are so indie that they don't even exist!!!!

[The Destroyer]

I'm doing a top 50 soon lads
I don't think I've even listened to 50 new albums this year, let alone 50 good ones. I'm getting too off the ball. :(

I need some time to think about mine.

[Rammsteinmad]

Okay, since others have done more than one:

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Andromeda - Manifest Tyranny
Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Neal Morse - Testimony 2
Transatlantic - More Never is Enough: Live in London and Tilburg 2010
Megadeth - Th1rt3en
Glass Hammer - Cor Cordium
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Stratovarius - Elysium

That's roughly my top ten from this year, but probably not exactly in this order.

[FakeLaser]

1) Zomby - Dedication
2) Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
3) Yuck - Yuck
4) Panda Bear - Tomboy
5) Cults - Cults
6) Sleep∞Over - Forever
7) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
8) Com Truise - Galactic Melt
9) Bibio - Mind Bokeh
10) Elk - Let's Get Married
11) Ducktails - Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
12) Cities Aviv - Digital Lows
13) La Sera - La Sera
14) Atlas Sound - Parallax
15) Diamond Rings - Special Affections
16) Twin Sister - In Heaven
17) Wild Flag - Wild Flag
18) Destroyer - Kaputt
19) Grouper - AIA: Dream Loss
20) Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
21) Zola Jesus - Conatus
22) Memoryhouse - The Years EP
23) Atlas Sound - Bedroom Databank 1-4
24) Radiohead - The King of Limbs
25) Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
26) John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
27) Dirty Beaches - Badlands
28) Molly Nilsson - These Things Take Time
29) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
30) Puro Instinct - Headbangers in Ecstacy
31) Neon Indian - Era Extrana
32) Gold Panda - Companion
33) Computer Magic - Electronic Fences
34) Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
35) Small Black - Moon Killer
36) Sun Glitters - Everything Could Be Fine
37) tUnE yArDs - WHOKILL
38) Clams Casino - Rainforest
39) Nicolas Jaar - Space Is The Only Noise
40) Juliana Barwick - The Magic Place
41) Real Estate - Days
42) Nisennmondai - Neji
43) Monster Rally - EP
44) Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
45) Flaming Lips/Lightning Bolt - EP
46) The Weeknd - House of Balloons
47) The Men - Leave Home
48) Washed Out - Within or Without
49) Das Racist - Relax
50) Four Tet - Fabriclive 59

ALSO NOTEWORTHY
TOKiMINOSTA - Creature Dreams
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
Times New Viking - Dancer Equitted
Colleen Green - Green One EP
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
TV Girl - TV Girl EP
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Battles - Gloss Drop
Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Small Black - New Chain
The Strokes - Angles
Pandit - Eternity Spin
Flaming Lips/Neon Indian - EP
Flaming Lips/Prefuse 73 - EP
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
No Joy - Ghost Blonde
The Sea and Cake - Moonlight Butterfly
We Are Trees - Girlfriend EP
The Weeknd - Thursday
Tyler The Creator - Goblin
The Horrors - Skying
High Places - Original Colors
Modeselektor - Monkeytown
Casiokids - Top Stemning Pa Lokal Bar
Spectrals - Bad Penny

[FakeLaser]

I think I have a problem

[Kapoutman]

Yes you do.

[The Destroyer]

I have heard zero of those. Out of the 75-ish on the list I've heard of maybe 12 of the artists.

Damn I'm out of touch.

[Rammsteinmad]

No, you just don't listen to crappy music. :p

[St. Jimmy]

Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Season

[Buzzkill]

Forgot about Elk. Would go somewhere in my top ten I reckon.

[Triple A]

1) Destroyer - Kaputt
2) The Pretentious Douchebags

[Chuck Jones]

Wilco - The Whole Love
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
The Strokes - Angles
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Tom Waits - Bad as Me
Cut Copy- Zonoscope
Foo fighters - Wasted Light
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Real Estate - Days
The Sheepdogs - Learn and Burn
This Hisses - Surf Noir
REM - collapse into now
Fruit Bats -Tripper
Destroyer - Kaputt
Adele - 21 (sue me, it's a good one)
Les Jupes- Modern Myth
Decemberists - The king is Dead
Greg Macpherson - Disintegration Blues
Pack A.D.-Unperson
Bon Iver- Bon Iver
The War on Drugs- Slave Ambient

[FakeLaser]

how the fuck did I forget M83?

That's my #1

Slide everything down

FUCK

[FakeLaser]

I thought Zomby looked weird at #1

[DrA]

Thanks for your stab

[Kane Knight]

I have heard zero of those. Out of the 75-ish on the list I've heard of maybe 12 of the artists.

Damn I'm out of touch.

No, you just don't listen to crappy music. :p

I was gonna agree, but fuck you, Zola Jesus is awesome.

Also, M83 sounds like it's gonna be pretty good. Don't own it yet, though.

[Kapoutman]

I can definitely chose my favorite of the year, but I'm doing a top 10 anyway. At least it's not 50.

1) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2) Gorillaz - The Fall
3) Radiohead - TKOL Rmx 1234567
4) Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
5) Radiohead - The King of Limbs
6) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Self-titled
7) Atlas Sound - Parralax
8) Bjork - Biophilia
9) Primus - Green Naugahyde
10) Panda Bear - Tomboy

Still haven't listened to M83 yet, but looking forward to it.

[weather vane]

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[Danny Electric]

City And Colour - Little Hell

[Champion of Europa]

I've been in kind of a rap isolation chamber, and my list will confirm this:

1) Jay Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
2) Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
3) Danny Brown - XXX
4) Tom Waits - Bad as Me
5) Tyler the Creator - Goblin

[Shisen Kopf]

God damn music sucks ass now

[DaveBrawl]

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Probably this.

Haven't really been keeping up with what has been released lately though.

[Vastardikai]

Sever the Wicked Hand by Crowbar

[Buzzkill]

God damn music sucks ass now

I would argue that music is better than it has ever been at any point in history, but that is for another thread.

[FakeLaser]

I think I would support that argument

[Kane Knight]

To be fair, neither of you care if your music is made by faggot spics.

[FakeLaser]

Juan?

[DLVH84]

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[Kane Knight]

Juan?

Or any mod, really.

[mitch_h]

1. Destroyer - Kaputt

Other albums I liked

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Junior Boys - It's all true
Wild Beasts - Smother
Araabmuzik - Electronic dream
The Field - Looping State of Mind
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Wilco - The Whole Love
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Real Estate - Days
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Diamond Rings - Special Affections

[Indifferent Clox]

Okkervil river- I am very far

[Buzzkill]

M83 is creeping its way up my list after listening to it 293 times driving through epic mountain passes and snowy forests / snowboarding down said mountain at 50 mph

Noticing a lot more themes that run current throughout the album (musical, not lyrical..no idea what he is saying really)...the interludes actually do what interludes are supposed to do, which is rare in most albums "nowadays". It actually works as a double album, with each taking on its own personality. Damn, yeah. Like it a lot.

[Buzzkill]

Outro is so good

[Triple A]

These are my top 11 fav albums of 2011

Destroyer - Kaputt
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Raw Thrills - and his Chain Gang
Real Estate - Days
Tennis - Cape Dory
The Drums - Portamento
Earth Girl Helen Brown - Story of an Earth Girl

[Buzzkill]

Like John Maus a lot

[Buzzkill]

Still don't get all the hype with Girls tbh. Maybe I should give them a closer listen

[Juan]

The Sounds - Something to Die For
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx II
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Late Night Alumni - Haunted
Kaskade - Fire & Ice
Girl in a Coma - Exits & All The Rest
Bayside - Killing Time
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Adele - 21

[Gertner]

Kaskade Fire & Ice is incredible. Saw him dj a couple years ago and it was an amazing show.

[Gertner]

K, just heard something by John Maus....WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE LISTENING TO!!!! Christ, that was atrocious, even worse than that Animal Collective shit.

I have been digging M83 and this group Fitz and the Tantrums

[Kane Knight]

K, just heard something by John Maus....WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE LISTENING TO!!!! Christ, that was atrocious, even worse than that Animal Collective shit.

I have been digging M83 and this group Fitz and the Tantrums

MUCH rather listen to John Maus than Kaskade.

[Gertner]

I would too, but then John Maus became too popular and trendy.

[CSL]

czeching out this m83 stuff because of this thread and seeing the name knocking around a bit recently, I do already feel like 8% happier after listening to this Midnight City song/first one after the intro

[Buzzkill]

I would too, but then John Maus became too popular and trendy.

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[Kane Knight]

I would too, but then John Maus became too popular and trendy.

Not to mention he's not shitty dance music.

[Gertner]

that too

[The Destroyer]

Finally gave the new M83 a listen, and yeah, it's pretty bloody good. Overall TPWW album of the year?

Since I've still hardly bothered to listen to a lot of new releases this year, mine is Thrice - Major/Minor.

[Mooияakeя™]

Go back and listen to Before 'The Dawn Heals Us' and 'Saturdays = Youth'. Been into M83 for ages, going to see him next month, should still have the same lineup, so I'll use "them" actually.

Amazing work. I'm the resident M83 nut and also Laser likes M83 too.

[CSL]

yeah, this is "pretty great"

[Kane Knight]

yeah, this is "pretty great"

yay douchequotes!

[Buzzkill]

Finally checking out that Kurt Vile record. I like it a lot so far.

[Buzzkill]

Really liking this

[FakeLaser]

Yeah Kurt Vile is good

Really good live too

Saw him open for Sonic Youth

Also Wild Flag played

Really fucking sick show

[SEXUAL VANILLA]

fakelaser how can you listen to so much music. are you a hipster who does that to look cool or do you actually enjoy and appreciate all that music? but then thats too much you will damage your hearing. you gotta slow down

i think you need to dude you listed your top 50 and forgot #1 lol

just a healthy tip from SEXUAL VANILLA

[FakeLaser]

Thanks Sexual Vanilla Mike Hanry

[dronepool]

I don't think I can think of an album that came out this year that I 'loved'. I probably didn't pay enough attention to a lot of stuff that came out and there was barely any bands that I really like who put out stuff that caught my ear.

Maybe the new Puscifer album but I haven't really heard it all yet.

[Indifferent Clox]

Me and flazer listen to a mad amount of music

[Kris P Lettus]

Tyler the Creator-Goblin