Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2011

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published: 26 / 11 / 2011

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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also gig of 2011

CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. Wilco - The Whole Love 2. Chris Bathgate - Salt Year 3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 4. My Morning Jacket - Circuital 5. Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean 6. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo 7. Radiohead - King of Limbs 8. Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong Live Gig - Paul McCartney, Comerica Park, Detroit, 24/7/2011 MALCOLM CARTER (In no particular order..) 1. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit 2. Amazing - Gentle Stream 3. Steve Robinson - The Rest of Our Lives EP 4. Danny and The Champions Of The World - Hearts and Arrows 5. Ryan Adams -Ashes and Fire 6. Broken Vinyl Club - Broken Vinyl Club 7. Anna O - Comin' Home / 8. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen 9. Amy Lashley - Travels of a Homebody 10.Anna Ternheim - Night Visitor ANDREW CARVER 1. One Hundred Dollars - Songs of Man 2. Austra - Feel It Break 3. Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath the Willow 4. Phaedra - The Sea 5. Sub Rosa - No Help For the Mighty Ones 6. Skull Defekts - Peer Amid 7. Psychic Paramount - II 8. Purling Hiss - Lounge Lizards 9. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen 10.Yob - Atma ANDY CASSIDY 1. Duncan Maitland - Lullabies for the 21st Century 2. Stevie Jackson - I Can't Get No 3. Kate Bush - Fifty Words for Snow 4. Ernst Reijseger - Cave of Forgotten Dreams Original Soundtrack 5: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Live Gig - Roger Waters The Wall, O2, Dublin, 23/5/2011 JOHN CLARKSON 1. Madam - Gone Before Morning 2, Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years 3. Morton Valence - Me and Home James 4. Poly Styrene - Generation Indigo 5. Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr Yeats 6. Claudia Brucken - Combined 7. King Mob - Force 9 8. Richmond Fontaine - The High Country 9. Astrid Williamson - Pulse 10.Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow Live Gig - Love and Money, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 19/1/2011 DAN CRESSEY (In no particular order...) 1. Jehst - Dragon of an Ordinary Family 2. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo 3. Scott Birham - Bad Ingredients 4. King Mob - Force 9 5. Buck 65 - 20 Odd Years 6. Richard Buckner - Our Blood 7. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 8. Southern Tenant Folk Union - Pencaitland Live Gig - Southern Tenant Folk Union, King and Queen, London, 20/6/2011 MARIE HAZELWOOD 1. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See 2. Miles Kane - Colour of the Trap 3. Ed Sheeran - + 4. Rialto Burns - Learning to Fight 5. Example - Playing in the Shadows Live Gig - Arctic Monkeys, Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, 10/6/2011 BEN HOWARTH 1. Darren Hayman – January Songs 2. Roddy Woomble – The Impossible Song and Other Songs 3. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and The Harvest 4. Jackie Leven and Michael Cosgrave – Wayside Shrines or the Code of the Travelling Man 5. The Wave Pictures – Beer In The Breakers 6. Drive By Truckers – Go Go Boots 7. American Aquarium – Small Town Hymns 8. Hannah Peel – The Broken Wave 9. Dan Michaelson – Sudden Fiction 10.Darren Hayman – The Ship’s Piano Live Gig -Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Hammersmith Apollo, 23/11/2011 ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Tek-One – Tek-One 2. Glassjaw – Colouring Book EP 3. Rival Schools – Pedals 4. New Town Kings – MOJO 5. Mastodon – The Hunter 6. Bjork – Biophilia 7. Justice – Audio, Video, Disco 8. Japanese Fighting Fish - Just Before We Go Mad 9. This Will Destroy You – ‘Tunnel Blanket 10.Turbowolf – Turbowolf Live Gig - The Bronx, Hevy Music Festival, Kent, 7/8/2011 CHRIS JONES 1. Destroyer - Kaputt 2, Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep 3. One AM Radio - Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread 4. Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides 5. Atlas Sound - Parallax 6. Boats - The Ballad Of The Eagle 7. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong 8. Craft Spells - Idle Labor 9. Hong Kong in the 60's - My Phantoms 10.Banjo or Freakout - Banjo or Freakout JAMIE ROWLAND 1. Slow Club - Paradise 2. Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmoc Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT 3. Low - C'mon 4. Of Arrowe Hill - Suddenly, At Home 5. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic- 6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs 7. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light 8. Alex Turner - Submarine (OST) 9. Calexico - Selections From Road Atlas (1998-2011) 10.Das Wanderlust - Bones, Hooves and Horses Live Gig: Ok Go - Koko, London 30/06/2011 MARK ROWLAND 1. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake 2. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic 3. Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT 4. Of Arrowe Hill – Suddenly, At Home 5. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo 6. Bjork – Biophilia 7. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts/J. Mascis – Several Shades of Why 8. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact 9. Radiohead – The King of Limbs/Frank Ocean -Nostalgia, Ultra 10.Slow Club – Paradise MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Origamibiro - Shakkei 2. Rubik - Solar 3. Like A Stuntman - YOY 4. Lovecraft - Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad( 5. Woe Betides - Never Sleep 6. Shaneolinski - Getting Closer 7. James Pants - James Pants 8. Austra - Feel It Break 9. Tattie Toes - Turnip Famine 10.Sidi Touré - Sahel Folk (Thrill Jockey) DOMINIC SIMPSON (In no particular order) 1. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1979 2. Peking Lights – 936 3. Washed Out – Within & Without 4. Meg Baird – Seasons on Earth 5. Rome Pays Off - There's No Simple Explanation 6. Fleet Foxes – Helplesness Blues 7. Marissa Nadler – Marissa Nadler 8. Doomed Bird of Providence - Will Ever Pray 9. Cass McCoombs – Wit’s End 10.Rivulets – We’re Fucked Live Gig - All Tomorrow's Parties, Alexandra Palace, London, 23/7/2011...24/7/2011 KELLY SMITH 1. You Me At Six – Sinners Never Sleep 2. Funeral For A Friend – Welcome Home Armageddon 3. Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures 4. Beyonce - 4 5. We Are The Ocean – Go Now and Live ANTHONY STRUTT 1. Icicle Works - Beggars Banquet Album Remasters 2. Smiths - Albums Remastered Box Set 3. Jesus And Mary Chain - Album remasters 4. R.E.M. - Collapse into Now. 5. Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave 6. Sarah Nixey - Brave Tin Soldiers 7. Loose Salute - Getting Over Being Under 8. Cure - Bestival Live. 9. White Lies - Ritual 10 Joy Division - + - box set. Live Gig - The Cure, Royal Albert Hall, London, 15/11/2011 LISA TOREM 1. Maria Taylor - Overlook 2. Lisa Hannigan - Passenger 3. Astrid Williamson - Pulse 4. Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort 5. Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul 6. Richard Thompson - Dream Attic 7. Mountain Heart - That Just Happened 8. Rachel Harrington - Celilo Falls 9. Robin Trower - The Playful Heart 10.Richard Anthony Jay - Imperfect Beauty Live Gig - Question Mark & The Mysterians, Reggie's, Chicago, 18/9/2011 PAUL WALLER 1. Rough Comforts - Rough Comforts 2. The Strokes - Angles 3. Peter Kernel – White Death Black Heart 4. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math 5. Trash Talk – Awake EP 6. Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies 7. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues 8. Trap Them – Darker Handcraft 9. Wugazi – 13 Chambers 10.Gay For Johnny Depp – What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You DENZIL WATSON 1. Young Knives - Ornaments from the Silver Arcade 2. Luke Haines - 9½ Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s & Early 80s 3. Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? 4. Magazine - No Thyself 5. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See 6. Pete and The Pirates - One Thousand Pictures 7. Horrors - Skying 8. Soft Hearted Scientists - Wandermoon 9. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 10. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup Live Gig - The Specials, Apollo, Manchester, 15/10/2011 MATTHEW WILLIAMS 1. Lisa Hannigan- Passenger 2. Love Among The Mannequins -Radial Images 3. PJ Harvey -Let England Shake 4. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know 5. Shield Your Eyes - Volume 4 6. Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth 7. Jezebels - Prisoner 8. Sam Duckworth - The Mannequin 9. Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? 10.Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow Live Gig - Lisa Hannigan, Komedia, Brighton, 28/11/2011

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