BEST MUSIC FROM 2011

Hokay, let's skip the film stuff for a moment. As I'm also intensely addicted to music, I felt like jotting down some of my fave sounds of 2011. This is in rough order of preference, and the emphasis here is rough - this is no definitive Top 50, by any stretch of the imagination, simply 50 albums that floated my boat last year. It's late in coming, I've faffed around for ages getting this sorted, but who cares. Hit the title, they should all have a link to a little morsel from each album. If you're disgruntled at the lack of film content, then just imagine some of the tracks, if you can, in a cinematic framework - some of this stuff could work as part of a film soundtrack. Maybe.

1.      JON MAUS - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

2.      THE FIELD – Looping State of Mind

3.      SUN ARAW – Ancient Romans

4.      BYETONE – Symeta

5.      THE ADVISORY CIRCLE – As The Crow Flies

6.      RUSTIE – Glass Swords

7.      CLAMS CASINO – Instrumentals

8.      TIM HECKER – Ravedeath, 1972

9.      KWJAZ – KWJAZ

10.   GROUPER – A I A: Alien Observer/ A I A: Dream Loss

11.   CUT HANDS – Afro Noise 1

12.   METRONOMY – The English Riviera

13.   JAMES FERRARO – Far Side Virtual

14.   HIGH WOLF – Atlas Nation

15.   KUEDO – Severant

16.   CLAMS CASINO – Rainforest EP

17.   SANDWELL DISTRICT – Feed Forward

18.   THE NECKS – Mindset

19.   KANGDING RAY – OR

20.   BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL – Came a Great Stallion Whose First Leap Sparked The Celestial Star

21.   LE REVELATEUR – Fictions

22.   WALLS - Coracle

23.   MIST – House

24.   WASHED OUT – Within and Without

25.   ANNE-JAMES CHATON – Evenements 09

26.   THE CARETAKER – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

 

27.  WHITE HILLS – H-p1

28.   ZOMBY – Dedication

29.  EXPO ’70 – Radiance

30.   BALAM ACAB – Wander/Wonder

31.   FOREST SWORDS – Fjree Feather

32.   WOODEN SHJIPS – West

33.   VLADISLAV DELAY – Vantaa

34.  RADIOHEAD – The King Of Limbs

35.  SHABAZZ PALACES – Black Up

36.   MARTYN – Ghost People

37.  ROLL THE DICE – In Dust

38.  ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE – Crossing the Path, By Torchlight

39.   SVEN KACIREK – The Kenya Sessions

40.   PEAKING LIGHTS – 936

41.   ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – Replica

42.   GANG GANG DANCE – Eye Contact

43.   HYPE WILLIAMS – One Nation

44.   LAUREL HALO – Hour Logic EP

45.   TUNE-YARDS – W H O K I L L

46.   FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER – Komet

47.   BEE MASK – Elegy For Beach Friday

48.   KREIDLER – Tank

49.   VHS HEAD – Midnight Section

50.   DALGLISH –Benacah Drann Deachd