The Horrors - Skying

Black Keys, El Camino

4everevolution by Roots Manuva

This Town Needs Guns - This Town Needs Guns

or

Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

Probably listened to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake the most.

Times of Grace - Hymn of a Broken Man

Hate these questions, but snap decision.

Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces.

slainte 😀 rob

Top 3 (I find it hard to narrow down to just one):
Pedals - Rival Schools
Yuck - Yuck
David comes to life - F*cked Up.

Plains of the Purple Buffalo

*shels

God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise by Ray LaMontagne.

Tonight's the Night by Neil Young. It came out nearly 40 years ago, but it's better than all the above, and below. 😆

On The Beach by Neil Young. It came out nearly 40 years ago, but it's better than all the above*, and below.

(although GG's come close)

DJ Shadow - if you skip track 3 🙂

Has to be the Naked & Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You. I've listened to 1000s of tracks, but that's the only album I've listened to regularly.
My best of tracks are on Mixcloud if you fancy a listen
http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAeF & http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAfD

[edit]Can't see any point whatsoever in mentioning old classic albums 😐

Dez - you're a legend!

The Harrow and the Harvest - Gillian Welch.

Wasn't mad about it to start with but found it was a real grower.

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

I'm a bit behind the times

[i]Dez - you're a legend![/i]

Definitely not enough rap stuff in there though!

Not 1 but 5 and in no particular order...

tUnE yArDs - w h o k i l l
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
M83 - Hurry Up We're Sleeping
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older

Definitely not enough rap stuff in there though!

I've been out of the rap loop recently...

Can't see any point whatsoever in mentioning old classic albums

I speak the truth though. 😉

Except maybe for higgo's post. 😆

2009, but:

Glitter and Doom Live - Tom Waits

best live album I've heard, he's got a tight band

Jonathon Wilson - Gentle Spirit

http://www.bellaunion.com/index.php/site/news/introducing_jonathan_wilson

Perfect for any Neil Young fans

The stuff that came out on Bella Union this year has been fantastic with I Break Horses coming a close 2nd to Jonathon Wilson.

Neil Young is rubbish

Actually I have to include Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

Byetone -syMeta
Rustie - glass swords
Warpaint - the fool ( deluxe)
Bon iver- bon iver

Neil Young is rubbish

😆

It has actually been a fantastic year for music. Some really good stuff.

yeah, sorry I mean "old" 😀

DezB - Member

Neil Young is rubbish

You mean to say you didn't enjoy the three-quarters of an hour rendition of his 5-gazillion year old hit that he played at Glastonbury ❓ ❗

Me either...

True. He's still good though. 😉

This performance is pretty good. He was quite old then too:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5lwon_neil-young-keep-on-rockin-in-the-fr_music

DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, The Better. Although I think Track 3 is OK.

Nah, seriously, the man is a legend in every way, but the lyrics on his last album are complete [u]rubbish[/u] and render some incredible guitar playing unlistenable. So "old" is correct. And "rubbish" in 2011.

Not heard that Shadow record, it's got to be better than the last album though, hasn't it?

As for new music, I thought the new Beastie Boys album was decent. But then everything they do is.

Edit: Ah, but Dez, it's the Neil Young cycle. He's got to bring out a rubbish album at least once every couple of years. Just because he can. It's the law! 😆

Fink - Perfect Darkness

Within Temptation - The Unforgiven

90 Bisodol (Crimond) by Half Man Half Biscuit. Sheer genius.

PJ Harvey - Let England shake

[i]As for new music, I thought the new Beastie Boys album was decent.[/i]

Well done. I knew you could do it... twas a good album of 2011 🙂

Shadow album has it's moments - the Little Dragon track is good.

Sans Souci by Brontide

Stephen Wilson - Grace for drowning
Opeth - Heritage
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

The A-Team:
Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
Apocalypse - Bill Callahan
The Harrow & The Harvest - Gillian Welch

Subs bench:
Wolfroy Goes to Town - Bonnie Prince Billy
El Camino - The Black Keys

Alison Krauss and paper airplane for me.

pinch and shackleton, self titled & nicolas jaar "space is only noice". the two with the most play this year probably.
although maceo plex was good for summer.

nicolas jaar is kind of like nick cave for the house generation.

Mastodon - The Hunter

Black Dub - Black Dub

Would also recommend Beastie Boys and PJ Harvey.
Though Wire Red Barked Tree grows on you on each listen, and were excellent live.
And for next year i nominate Paul Weller's Sonik Kicks.

Baxter Dury - Happy Soup

Fever Ray."Fever Ray"

Metronomy - The English Riviera
The Drums - Portamento
The Horrors - Skying

........in that order!

Opeth - Heritage

Has to be the Naked & Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You. I've listened to 1000s of tracks, but that's the only album I've listened to regularly.
My best of tracks are on Mixcloud if you fancy a listen
http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAeF & http://i.mixcloud.com/CyAfD

Dez, that 2nd link is excellent. Got any others of similar ilk?

Bon over and Joy Formidable for me

Cheers fenred. And er, no! Not as yet 🙂

Shadow was pretty good, still growing on me. Good thread lots of new music to look into.

For me it was: Unquote - Reverberation Box
[url= http://soundcloud.com/move-in-silence/unquote-reverberation-box ]Sample track[/url]

I have struggled to get into much new stuff this year.

Yuck is a great album, but isn't in 2010?

I thought the Horrors album was OK, but it bores now,

I thought the Beastie Boys was very poor indeed, almost an album by numbers for them, same old stuff.

I liked the John Grant album, but I think thats 2010

So yeah, I think one of my resolutions is to get back into music, I worked in an indie record store for 5 years in my 20s and loved all sorts of music, have slowly lost interest since then...

EDIT: I've enjoyed listening to the history of Hip Hop mixes on the rub website, bought back many happy memories of growing up in the late 80s...

Like shadow a lot as per many others but others on my list that I keep returning to are, cant really pick out a favorite though.

Death in Vegas - Trans Love Energies
Danielle Luppi/Dangermouse - Rome
Metronomy - English Riviera
****ed Up - David Comes to Life
The Duke Spirit - Bruiser
Statik Seleckta and Frank the Butcher - Concepts Mixtape
Bjork - Biophillia
Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces

Also enjoyed The Weeknd too, currently listening to the latest, Echoes of Silence at the moment.

I'm really struggling to think of a stand out album from this year.

Enjoyed some stuff but nothing really wowed.

Oh, these are this year!

Young Knives, Crystal Fighters and The Vaccines

emsz - Member
Bon over and Joy Formidable for me

Glad to hear someone else is loving the Joy Formidable album!

Probably listened to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake the most.

Warton - Yuck may have been 2010 - I just trusted my local media player so I could have been wrong - I do love that album though.

It's hard to nail it down to one, so I'll say....

Washed Out - Within and Without
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Alex Cortex - Kihon
Chill Carrier - Orbital Nights

I can't narrow it down, lots of good stuff, Intsra Mental , Joakim, College.....

Puscifer-conditions of my parole
foetus-hide
John foxx-interplay[b]

Another vote for PJ Harvey here
And another for Metronomy
In interest of adding something new to the mix, Pete and the Pirates
That'll do for now, back to listening to The Rub old hip hop stuff that I found about on here...

Wilco The Whole Love
But listened to loads from links on here. Thanks for that.

3 way tie in order of most likely to win:
WHY? - Alopecia
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Half man half biscuit were in good form this year - their best album for ages.
Last track had the best title of the year, maybe ever:

Rock n roll is full of bad wools

Mastodon - The Hunter

What he said.

+ 2 for Fuc*ed Up 'David Comes To Life'

A hardcore punk band from Canada writing a rock opera set in a fictional Northern English town...and it's AMAZING!

Mastodon - the Hunter
The Atlas Moth - An Ache for a Distance
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritans's Hand
Opeth - Heritage

So far ...

Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest

Wire - Red Barked Tree very good and their gig at Fleece & Firkin Bristol was stunning

Another vote for mastodon here.
Great album

Elbow's Build A Rocket Boys - absolutely superb album

Ghostpoet - Peanut butter blues and melancholy jam

Metronomy - English Riviera
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

flyingmonkeycorps - Member
emsz - Member
Bon over and Joy Formidable for me
Glad to hear someone else is loving the Joy Formidable album!

Revising my choice to have a joint top album.

Scroobius Pip & The Joy Formidable FTW. Would be a pretty cool collaboration (coolaboration?) actually.

slainte ➡ rob