JR

10 albums from 2011

Meg Baird Season On Earth
Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming
Kate Bush 50 Words For Snow
Destroyer Kaputt
Jenny Hval Viscera
Himalayan Bear Hard Times
Noah & The Whale Last Night On Earth
Peter Bjorn & John Gimme Some
Phaedra Sea
Sloan Double Cross
Anna Ternhiem The Night Visitor

old and played…

Hall & Oates Abandoned Luncheonette
Roy Harper Flat, Baroque & Berserk
Bettye LaVette Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
Sinéad O’Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Planxty The Well Below The Valley
The Replacements Warner albums
Strauss Four Last Songs, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

GEOFF

1. Middle Brother Middle Brother
2. Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds
3. Arctic Monkeys Suck It & See

4. Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver

5. Girls Father, Son & Holy Ghost

6. Wilco The Whole Love

7. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues

8. Vetiver The Errand Charm

9. Blitzen Trapper American Goldwing
10. Yes Fly From Here

JORDY

10 albums

Jim Ford Harlan County

No Gold No Gold

TuNe yArDs ??w h o k i l l ??
Tom Waits Bad As Me

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming

Big K.R.I.T Return Of 4eva

Group Doueh Zayna Jumma

One Hundred Dollars Songs Of Man

PJ Harvey Let England Shake

Tinariwen ??Tassili ??


6 things with no distribution

Mt Royal Mount Royal
Brazilian Money This Is Not A Dream

Open Relationship Open Relationship

Iceberg Ferg Icing On Da Cake

The Group Sound Secret Goilfriend

Sean Nicholas Savage Trippple Midnight Karma


5 nice songs

Kurt Vile “Babys Arms
”
Women “Bullfight 
”
Cass McCombs “County Line
”
Big K.R.I.T “Country Shit [Remix]
”
Babysitter “Paralyzer Paunch 

4”

fun shows

Fake Country 50/50 
 Sharon Jones W/ Black Joe Lewis Alex Gooldin Hall

Barrington Levy 9ONE9 
Himalayan Bear W/Freak Heat Waves, Iceberg Ferg Logans

LONGSHANKS

10 albums I listened to the most in 2011

The Weeknd House Of Balloons
Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo
Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse
Oneohtrix Point Never Replica
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
Little Dragon Ritual Union
Washed Out Within & Without
Radiohead King Of Limbs
Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming
Ango Another City Now EP

10 really great urban musics of 2011

FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain
Kuedo Severant
Drake Take Care
Sepalcure Sepalcure
Bruno Pronsato Lovers Do
Machinedrum Room(s)
Africa Hitech 93 Million Miles
Salva Complex Housing
Rustie Glass Swords
Jay-Z & Kanye West Watch The Throne

outstanding compositions

Hudson Mohawke “Thunder Bay”
The Weeknd “Wicked Game”
The Bad Plus “Never Stop”
A$AP Rocky “Peso”
Jacques Greene “Another Girl”

resilient oldies

Bert Jansch (R.I.P.) Jack Orion, It Don’t Bother Me, Black Swan still on repeat
Robert Wyatt vinyl reissues of Cuckooland, Shleep
D’Angelo both albums on repeat
 

WOZZLE

1) Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming (and live at 9ONE9!)
2) P.J. Harvey Let England Shake
3) Destroyer Kaputt
4) Wu Lyf Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
5) Slam Dunk Shivers
6) Himalayan Bear Hard Times
7) The Weeknd House Of Balloons
8) Blackout Beach Fuck Death
9) Moonface Organ Music, Not Vibraphone
10) Mount Royal Mount Royal

NOEL

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming CD (Daptone)
Autopsy Macabre Eternal CD (Peaceville)
Chris Watson El Tren Fantasma CD (Touch)
Antediluvian Through The Cervix Of Hawaah CD (Profound Lore)
Omar Souleyman ?? The Western Concerts?? CD (Sublime Frequencies)
Fucked Up David Comes To Life CD (Matador)
The Rita The Rack CD (Handmade Birds)
Column Of Heaven demo 2011 (self released)
Fuck On The Beach Eat ‘Em All LP
Dimsa Towards The Megalith CD
Double Negative Confusion Vol 1 & Vol 2 7” (Solid State)
Cellgraft/Drainland split 7”
Bizarre Uproar Viha & Kiima CD (freak Animal)
Mania/Custodian split 12”
Grunt/Taint split Schoolyard Bruises CD (Freak Animal)
Slogun Visit Revisit 2CD (autarkeia)
Sonny Bamba Vol 1: 1970-1979 CD (Thrill Jockey)
Sunn O))) & Nurse With Wound The Iron Soul of Nothing 2LP (Ideological Organ)
 

KARA

top 10 albums

1. Cave Singers No Witch
2. Feist Metals
3. Sunparlour Players Us Little Devils
4. Vetiver Errant Charms
5. Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
6. Decemberists King is Dead
7. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
8. Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin’ On
9. Little Dragon Ritual Union
10. Elliott Brood Days Into Years

top 5 live shows

Michael Jackson: Immortal Tour-Cirque Du Soleil Vancouver Janet Jackson Queen Elizabeth Theater
Cave Singers Rifflandia (Alix Goolden Hall) Sharon Jones Alix Goolden Hall
Charles Bradley @ Club 9ONE9

TALIA

3 pretty cool times

Chad VanGaalen Diaper Island
Jay-Z & Kanye West Watch The Throne
Metronomy English Riviera