Miscellaneous
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Albums of the Year 2011
published: 26 /
11 /
2011
Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also gig of 2011
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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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