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High Bias' Favorite Albums of 2011
Happy New Year!! 2011 was a great year for recorded music. Amazing new records from some of our all time favorite artists (Tom Waits, Wilco, Will Oldham, Bill Calahan, and 2/3 of Sleater-Kinney all dropped rad records). It was a stellar year for punk rock - Bass Drum of Death, Black Lips, Total Control, Trash Talk really brought it in '11 ... and the 90s are straight up back (looking at you Touché Amore, Yuck, Smith Westerns, Seapony, and Cloud Nothings). Below are lists of the records that caught our ear and made an impact in our record collections. Without further adieu, High Bias' picks for 2011...
11 Records Danny Dug In 2011:
Adele "21" (XL/Columbia)
Big K.R.I.T. "Return Of 4Eva" (Self Released)
Black Lips "Arabia Mountain" (Vice)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Danny Brown "XXX" (Fool's Gold)
Hanni El Khatib "Will The Guns Come Out" (Innovative Leisure)
Jay-Z & Kanye West "Watch The Throne" (Def Jam)
Portugal. The Man "In The Mountain, In The Cloud" (Atlantic)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
TV On The Radio "Nine Types Of Light" (Interscope)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
David's Top Ten Albums of 2011 (in no order!)
Aladdin "We Were Strong We Got Lost" (Versatile)
Beirut "The Rip Tide" (Pompeii)
Bibio "Mind Bokeh" (Warp)
The Black Keys "El Camino" (Nonesuch)
Blood Orange "Coastal Grooves" (Domino)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Destroyer "Kaputt" (Merge)
James Blake "James Blake" (Universal)
Jonathan Wilson"Gentle Spirit" (Bella Union)
Thundercat "The Golden Age of the Apocalypse" (Brainfeeder)
20 Albums Angel Liked in 2011
Alias "Fever Dream" (Anticon)
Andy Stott "Passed Me By / We Stay Together Eps" (Modern Love)
Balam Acab "Wander Wonder" (Tri Angle)
Clams Casino "Rainforest EP" (Tri Angle)
Exitmusic "From Silence EP" (Secretly Canadian)
Future Islands "On The Water" (Thrill Jockey)
Gauntlet Hair "Gauntlet Hair" (Dead Oceans)
Gazelle Twin "The Entire City" (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records)
Girls "Father Son and The Holy Spirit" (True Panther Sounds)
Iceage "New Brigade" (What's Your Rupture?)
Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)
Radiohead "King of Limbs" (Self Released)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
Tim Hecker "Ravedeath 1972" (Kranky)
Tombs "Path Of Totality" (Relapse)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
Tycho "Dive" (Ghostly)
Wild Flag "Wild Flag" (Merge)
Wu Lyf "Go Tell Fire To The Mountain" (L Y F Recordings)
Zomby "Dedication" (4ad)
30 Albums That Never Left Toddrick's iPod in 2011
Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" (Pax Am/Capitol)
Bass Drum of Death "GB City" (Fat Possum)
Black Lips "Arabia Mountain" (Vice)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Wolfroy Goes To Town" (Drag City)
Caveman "Coco Beware" (Magic Man)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Cloud Nothings "Cloud Nothings" (Carpark)
Crystal Antlers "Two Way Mirror" (Self Released)
Crystal Stilts "In Love With Oblivion" (Slumberland)
Death Grips "Exmilitary" (Self-Released)
The Decemberists "The King Is Dead" (Capitol)
Doomtree "No Kings" (Doomtree)
Fool's Gold "Leave No Trace" (IAMSOUND)
Charlotte Gainsbourg "Terrible Angels EP" (Because/Atlantic)
The Men "Leave Home" (Sacred Bones)
Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)
Pure X "Pleasure" (Acephale)
Seapony "Go With Me" (Hardly Art)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
Soft Moon "Total Decay EP" (Captured Tracks)
Colin Stetson "New History Warfare Volume 2: Judges" (Constellation)
Total Control "Henge Beat" (Iron Lung)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
Tom Waits "Bad As Me" (Anti-)
We Were Promised Jetpacks "In The Pit Of The Stomach" (FatCat)
Wilco "The Whole Love" (Anti-)
Wild Flag "Wild Flag" (Merge)
Wolves Like Us "Late Love" (Prosthetic)
Wu Lyf "Go Tell Fire To The Mountain" (L Y F Recordings)
Zola Jesus "Conatus" (Sacred Bones)
Toddrick was also asked by our friends at Sub Pop to compile a wrap up of the year - you can read it here if yr so inclined: http://www.subpop.com/channel/blog/top_10_of_2011_friends_of_sub_pop_edition
Happy 2012!!!
11 Records Danny Dug In 2011:
Adele "21" (XL/Columbia)
Big K.R.I.T. "Return Of 4Eva" (Self Released)
Black Lips "Arabia Mountain" (Vice)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Danny Brown "XXX" (Fool's Gold)
Hanni El Khatib "Will The Guns Come Out" (Innovative Leisure)
Jay-Z & Kanye West "Watch The Throne" (Def Jam)
Portugal. The Man "In The Mountain, In The Cloud" (Atlantic)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
TV On The Radio "Nine Types Of Light" (Interscope)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
David's Top Ten Albums of 2011 (in no order!)
Aladdin "We Were Strong We Got Lost" (Versatile)
Beirut "The Rip Tide" (Pompeii)
Bibio "Mind Bokeh" (Warp)
The Black Keys "El Camino" (Nonesuch)
Blood Orange "Coastal Grooves" (Domino)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Destroyer "Kaputt" (Merge)
James Blake "James Blake" (Universal)
Jonathan Wilson"Gentle Spirit" (Bella Union)
Thundercat "The Golden Age of the Apocalypse" (Brainfeeder)
20 Albums Angel Liked in 2011
Alias "Fever Dream" (Anticon)
Andy Stott "Passed Me By / We Stay Together Eps" (Modern Love)
Balam Acab "Wander Wonder" (Tri Angle)
Clams Casino "Rainforest EP" (Tri Angle)
Exitmusic "From Silence EP" (Secretly Canadian)
Future Islands "On The Water" (Thrill Jockey)
Gauntlet Hair "Gauntlet Hair" (Dead Oceans)
Gazelle Twin "The Entire City" (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records)
Girls "Father Son and The Holy Spirit" (True Panther Sounds)
Iceage "New Brigade" (What's Your Rupture?)
Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)
Radiohead "King of Limbs" (Self Released)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
Tim Hecker "Ravedeath 1972" (Kranky)
Tombs "Path Of Totality" (Relapse)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
Tycho "Dive" (Ghostly)
Wild Flag "Wild Flag" (Merge)
Wu Lyf "Go Tell Fire To The Mountain" (L Y F Recordings)
Zomby "Dedication" (4ad)
30 Albums That Never Left Toddrick's iPod in 2011
Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" (Pax Am/Capitol)
Bass Drum of Death "GB City" (Fat Possum)
Black Lips "Arabia Mountain" (Vice)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Wolfroy Goes To Town" (Drag City)
Caveman "Coco Beware" (Magic Man)
Charles Bradley "No Time For Dreaming" (Daptone)
Cloud Nothings "Cloud Nothings" (Carpark)
Crystal Antlers "Two Way Mirror" (Self Released)
Crystal Stilts "In Love With Oblivion" (Slumberland)
Death Grips "Exmilitary" (Self-Released)
The Decemberists "The King Is Dead" (Capitol)
Doomtree "No Kings" (Doomtree)
Fool's Gold "Leave No Trace" (IAMSOUND)
Charlotte Gainsbourg "Terrible Angels EP" (Because/Atlantic)
The Men "Leave Home" (Sacred Bones)
Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)
Pure X "Pleasure" (Acephale)
Seapony "Go With Me" (Hardly Art)
Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Sub Pop)
Soft Moon "Total Decay EP" (Captured Tracks)
Colin Stetson "New History Warfare Volume 2: Judges" (Constellation)
Total Control "Henge Beat" (Iron Lung)
tUnE-yArDs "whokill" (4ad)
Tom Waits "Bad As Me" (Anti-)
We Were Promised Jetpacks "In The Pit Of The Stomach" (FatCat)
Wilco "The Whole Love" (Anti-)
Wild Flag "Wild Flag" (Merge)
Wolves Like Us "Late Love" (Prosthetic)
Wu Lyf "Go Tell Fire To The Mountain" (L Y F Recordings)
Zola Jesus "Conatus" (Sacred Bones)
Toddrick was also asked by our friends at Sub Pop to compile a wrap up of the year - you can read it here if yr so inclined: http://www.subpop.com/channel/blog/top_10_of_2011_friends_of_sub_pop_edition
Happy 2012!!!
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