2011 Album of the Year

[ShatteredFlame]

For me I keep finding strong releases left and right from many genres that I should invest some more time into. That Graveyard LP is also great.

[kentoshogun]

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(Take care take care take care)

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(Nujabes - Spiritual State)
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[Hiro The Dragon King]

Well, this post and it's replies serve as a 2012 Musical Bucket List of sorts for myself. I'm so far behind in music. The only albums I've heard on these pages are "21" by Adele, "Conditions of My Parole" by Puscifer, and "Thank You, Happy Birthday" by Cage the Elephant. I didn't know that Nightwish was even close to finished with their new album. I was also hoping that Deltron Event II would be on this list, but sadly the release has yet to come.

P.S. Lady Gaga? Really? Auto-Tune is a disqualifier for any decent album of the year contest. Especially when the artist can actually sing...

[kentoshogun]

Let me do more then, I'll post my favourite song of each album so anyone interested can have an idea of the style of each one.


http://youtu.be/o2fTAQ_bKuU The Airborne Toxic Event - Numb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euj9f3gdyM Arcade Fire - The suburbs

http://www.goear.com/listen/e783c64/int ... -jesus-m83 M83 - Intro

http://youtu.be/Ai1e25txoEo The boxer Rebellion - Both Sides Are Even

http://youtu.be/7J8d18ZkXE8 Portugal. The Man - Got it all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGg_07VrX0 The Joy Formidable - Heavy Abacus

http://youtu.be/2QzGvoUMBoA The Black Keys - Everlasting light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVcKwEJ2w4 Radiohead - Morning Mr Magpie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UNj5Oqs29g Explosions in the sky - Last known surroundings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mR8Z-gmK1g Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N-Y0Ztn8A4 Nujabes - Down on the side

[mirkosp]

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This is really good. Taking a few months (or almost a year, as it's been) for the hype and arguing about it to die down has been good to it.

I really like "Whirring" and should probably hear more of The Joy Formidable, too.

[Chez]

Most of the albums I would say are already on here so I will just add

[Brad]

I really let myself slack off majorly last year when it comes to listening to new music. Most of my listening time has been devoted to podcasts. But if I was to pick just one album that consistently brought me back (and it's been mentioned a few times already)...

[RippedArea]

According to my prediction “Within Temptation - The Unforgiving” was meant to be the album of 2011, because it has some unique music and most of all the lyrics are pretty outstanding.

[Flint the Dwarf]

What the hell is Opeth - Heritage doing in this thread? That album finally totally ruined the band for me

I'm kind of an Opeth fanboy, so I feel both inclined to disagree and agree with dislike of Heritage. Strangely the album hooked me right away; it felt livelier than Damnation, considerably proggier than anything they'd done, and exceptionally creative. After being hooked on it for a week or so I started to feel like Akerfeldt's singing was a little lackluster and actually the weakest point of the album. That's strange to me because I've always felt the music melded so well with Opeth. Heavy, aggressive passages with death growls, balanced by melodic sections with clean vocals, and occasionally heavy sections with clean vocals. Just a good mixture of sounds. Then Damnation came out, with no distorted guitars or death growls, but just mellow and clean all around. Still a pretty solid album if not really in line with their discography. But Heritage feels a little out of place, like Akerfeldt couldn't use clean singing to power through the more aggressive portions of the album.

I still really like it, though, and would put it in my top 10, but I also haven't fully enjoyed 10 new albums this year, and thus my lack of a list.