Year in Music 2011

[C Dubya 09]

New Okkervil River out. Like it on a quick first listen at work.

 

[Cheech]

New Okkervil River out. Like it on a quick first listen at work.

It's alright.

 

[Mik]

Yep. I'm with that statement. It's good but not spectacular.

I like "Hanging from a Hit"... the entire part sung from the woman's perspective is pretty stellar. A lot of the songs are simply good without being memorable, the sort of album I won't listen to for years.

 

[Lord of The Curry]

The National- Exile Vilify

Original song recorded for the Portal 2 soundtrack. Hoping it makes it onto the next album.

 

[Czech]

Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Official)

Chris Martin's wearing all his favorite brands, brands, brands, brands!

 

[Mik]

Do not like.

Hope the album has anything equivalent to "Lovers in Japan"... if I'm going to listen to Coldplay I prefer it to be of that variety. Do people like "Yellow"? I don't know what the consensus is on that... ten years later and I find that I kind of like it.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I've found that my tolerance for Coldplay has grown as I have gotten older jesus I'm turning lame so fast what the hell is happening.

 

[C Dubya 09]

I Am Disappeared

This is my new favorite song of the year.

 

[Incandenza]

New Stephen Malkmus song posted over at the Matador Records blog is p. good. If the new album is just as good, Malkmus will have released *more* good albums post-Pavement than *with* Pavement.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Can someone maybe post a link for the new Bon Iver?

 

[Mik]

Possibly the first overhyped "blog" band is back:

http://stereogum.com/730691/clap-your-hands-say-yeah-same-mistake/mp3s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+stereogum%2FcBYa+%28stereogum%29

I really like this song.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

The new Girls record is prolly the best thing I've heard all year.

http://youtu.be/IxuDoYhQI2o

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Yeah, it's really good.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

If we're already discussing our AOTY choices then I really, really, really, really love Smother.

Wild Beasts - Bed Of Nails

Downloading Father, Son, Holy Ghost as we type.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

I didn't bother with that Wild Beasts album because I hated their last one, but I've heard enough good things about it from reliable sources that I'm tempted to check it out. If only there were more than 24 hours in a day.

Some of my favorites so far from this year, in alphabetical order:

Alvarius B - Baroque Primativa
Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion
Cut Hands – Afro Noise I
Destroyer – Kaputt
The Field – Looping State Of Mind
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Human Eye – They Came From The Sky
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck
Prurient – Bermuda Drain
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
Zomby - Dedication

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Also rereading the chatter about the Akron/Family album on the first page, I want to chime in that I agree it is quite good. One of the best deployments of the big anthemic Arcade Fire style choruses that have been so prevalent in indie rock this past half decade.

 

[Brocklock]

I need to listen to the Girls album. The video was really lame, and made me want to punch the lead singer. I'll check out the album since it's been so hyped up. I'm glad this thread is being updated, because I need new music to listen too.

My favorite albums this year are Knife Man by Andrew Jackson Jihad, Goblin, Frank Ocean, Death Grips, the new Mastodon, the new Battles (maybe that was 2010) and that's about all I remember enjoying. I haven't heard much this year and I've been listening to so much great older music that I stopped caring about new music around May. Still, I'm always game for something new to listen to.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

I hated Goblin and the Battles album, but Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra is one I should have mentioned as well.

 

[Brocklock]

I hated Goblin and the Battles album, but Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra is one I should have mentioned as well.

I only heard the new Battles once but I really dug it the first time ("My Machines" is a great song and is so good that it might've influenced the mention I gave the album.) I really like Goblin, but I realize that it's flawed, around twenty five minutes too long, and hugely self indulgent. Nearly every song should've been at least a minute shorter. The beats, lyrics, Tyler's flow, and the ambition behind the album are what made me really like it.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Truth be told, I can't get past the whole rape obsession. It really turned me against him almost immediately. I'm well aware that this makes me a middle aged woman, but there you have it.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

If you take the rape obssession as an 'over the top parody of the modern hipster desire to have their rappers be aural minstrel shows' then it's a lot more palatable. I've had Goblin on constant rotation these past few days.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

The new Girls record is prolly the best thing I've heard all year.

http://youtu.be/IxuDoYhQI2o

This was pretty awesome.

 

[FLAM]

I'm really loving the first Big Black Delta LP. That's been on heavy rotation for the past week.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

If you take the rape obssession as an 'over the top parody of the modern hipster desire to have their rappers be aural minstrel shows' then it's a lot more palatable.

I take it as a non parodic example of the modern hipster's desire to wholeheartedly embrace violent misogyny while disingenuously handwaving it away as ironic to avoid having to come to terms with their own attitudes.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Odd Future has nothing to do with hipsters. The rape obsession is teenagers being teenagers and trying to shock people. Are you telling me that you didn't make rape jokes when you were 19?

 

[Brocklock]

Odd Future has nothing to do with hipsters. The rape obsession is teenagers being teenagers and trying to shock people. Are you telling me that you didn't make rape jokes when you were 19?

I don't think any of the rape stuff is supposed to be taken seriously. It reminds me of the beginning of this

M.E.T.H.O.D Man- Wu Tang Clan(With Torture Intro. AND LYRICS!)

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Odd Future has nothing to do with hipsters.

Bullshit.

The rape obsession is teenagers being teenagers and trying to shock people. Are you telling me that you didn't make rape jokes when you were 19?

Sure I did. If somebody had heard those rape jokes on a song I released and been disgusted by them, they wouldn't be wrong.

Besides, they might be able to hide behind the "WE'RE JUST KIDS, WE DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER" cop-out, but large sections of their audience has no such excuse.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

I've been involved with enough anti sexual violence work that I've seen firsthand how the legal system is biased against victims of sexual assault. It's a very serious problem with our justice system, so it's hard for me to laugh at rape humor.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

ANYWAYS,

The new Dum Dum Girls album is the bee's knees. The genre of "J&MC/Black Tambourine sounding jangly noisy pop-garage rock" has been seriously overdone for the past several years, so I can't blame anyone if they can't get past the not particularly unique sound of this album, but the songwriting is top notch.

Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes (not the video)

Dum Dum Girls-In My Head

Dum Dum Girls- Wasted Away

 

[Joe Goatee]

but large sections of their audience has no such excuse.

Have you seen this funny internet picture?