2011 Top Album Lists
 

The annual ritual of comparing copious amounts of music to each other in a ridiculously short period of time.


Here's mine:
2011 - Rate Your Music

Bitch about it or share yours or something.

A little bit too early for this perhaps ;)

Here a rough list of mine (so far and subject to change)
2011 - Rate Your Music

Still over two months to go, I'm sure there will be a few good releases between now and the new year.

Seems a bit early as there's nearly 1/4 of the year left, but:

2011 Year In - Rate Your Music

I can't really resist.

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Loaths...2011__so_far_/

I've grabbed quite a lot of albums this year, but these are the ones that have really stood out for me.

I'm just gonna post my actual list, don't have RYM

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. Team Me - To the Treetops!
5. Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
7. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
8. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
9. Phaedra - The Sea
10. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
11. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
12. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
13. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
14. Emmy the Great - Virtue
15. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
16. Greg Brown - Freak Flag
17. Kaizers Orchestra - Violeta Violeta Vol. 1
18. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
19. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
20. Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi - Rome
21. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
22. Parts & Labour - Constant Future
23. Deer Tick - Divine Providence
24. Tôg - Drøm
25. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

Lots of good EPs as well...

I guess it is early but I start talking about year lists in January.

Generally speaking, I don't think this year's been that great. I've only got 3 or 4 releases on my list that I think are genuinely great, then a bunch of pretty good and alright stuff.

This year's been decent enough I guess, it's been kind of on par with last year and not quite as good as 2009. My top 6 albums I think are great but I might grow to really like some of the others over time. I think some of the big releases this year like the Radiohead and Fleet Foxes albums have been disappointing.

I think it's a been a good year. I think my top 50 is solid and the bottom half should get filled out during the next two months.

I also really liked the new Fleet Foxes more than there older stuff.

I enjoyed Fleet Foxes' debut at the time and their Sun Giant EP but there's something about Helplessness Blues that just doesn't click with me. It just doesn't seem as interesting as their debut and perhaps, dare I say it, doesn't seem as authentic. It's almost like they're trying too hard to be folky and bucolic and I don't really buy it this time around.