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anthonyqkiernan
anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 10:02
Unentitled - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 10:06
Popel Vooje wrote:
But ... if I had to choose an overall favourite, I think the one that would just see off the competition would be "I a Moon" by North Sea Radio Orchestra...

You've convinced me to definitely check that out
anthonyqkiernan
anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 10:07
bubblehead2 wrote:
Low - C'mon

Bill Callahan - Apocalypse

SWecinbd person to have those paired. Perhaps I should check out the Low, then
mingtp
mingtp
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 17:53
FifePsy wrote:
Best re-releases:

Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of JB Stanislas


Is this worth stumping up the £22 it goes for on CD? Love the title track to bits, but....?
Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 18:13
Popel Vooje wrote:


But ... if I had to choose an overall favourite, I think the one that would just see off the competition would be "I a Moon" by North Sea Radio Orchestra. Not sure what musical category it fits into (which is always a good thing, IMO) - whether it's neo-chamber music or English folk that's been augmented with orchestral arrangments - although I can hear faint echoes of the early, pre-electronic High Llamas, Frank Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy", Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" and William D. Drake's various projects outside of the Cardiacs (which isn't so surprising as he frequently moonlights with them on keyboards). Nonetheless, despite its intricacies it's certainly not prog rock, as it has no rock elements whatsoever.


Yeah, it's a fine album and their best so far, I think; less twee than previous outings. Have you heard William D Drake's own album of this year, The Rising of the Lights? Flawed, but has some absolutely sublime moments.

Still working on putting my own list in some kind of order; there's been a lot to digest in 2011.
IanB
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 18:15
IanB wrote:
Secret Astronomies - Black Tempest
Live At The Fillmore (six shows) - Black Crowes
#1 If It Fights The Hammer It Will Fight The Knife - Red Bus No Face
Here is where we used to sing - Fovea Hex
This Unknown Science - Joy Kills Sorrow
Director's Cut - Kate Bush
A Scarcity of Miracles - A King Crimson ProjeKct
Heritage - Opeth

in the soundtrack department

Tinker Tailor - Alberto Iglesias
Hanna - Chemical Bros
Tron Legacy - Daft Punk

and with no small sense of surprise on my part ....

King Of Limbs - Radiohead

Back Catalogue purchase of the year?

John Barleycorn Must Die (Deluxe Edition) - Traffic


Got three to add ...

Black Tempest - Supernormal Recordings
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras
Moon Cat
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 18:37
Moon Cat wrote:
So far....(these may not be 2011 releases but it's stuff I've got and loved this year. In no order)

Opeth - Heritage
Mastodon - The Hunter
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch/Out There
Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light & Trees (and other SF stuff)
Aliases- Safer Than Reality
Solus 3 - Corner of the World
Skindred - Union Black
Lunar Dunes - Galaxsea
Get The Blessing - Bugs in Amber
Gum Takes Tooth - Silent Cenotaph
Wolf People - Steeple
Dr. Who mega-thon (StoneTones comp)
Black Tempest - Secret Astronomies
Whitesnake - Forevermore


I'm sure that will evolve near the end of the year..


Need to add,

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow and also Directors Cut.
Crumbling Ghost - Crumbling Ghost
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake.

8^)
FOMouse
FOMouse
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 18:49
This is top notch!
Fitter Stoke
Fitter Stoke
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 19:58
And my definitive choice is a late runner: Kate Bush's career-high '50 Words For Snow'. Sorry Gruff and Peter, but you'll just have to accept joint second place apiece.

Here's my Top Ten for 2011, for what it's worth, in no particular order aside from the first three:

Kate Bush '50 Words For Snow'
Van der Graaf Generator 'A Grounding In Numbers'
Gruff Rhys 'Hotel Shampoo'
Clive Gregson 'Bittersweet'
Nick Lowe 'The Old Magic'
Radiohead 'The King Of Limbs'
Trembling Bells 'The Constant Pageant'
Kaiser Chiefs 'The Future Is Medieval'
Buffalo Tom 'Skins'
Magazine 'No Thyself' (good concert too - shame about Howard's sudden lapse of poetic taste and subtlety...)

Reissues: Gainsbourg's expanded 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' and the first two discs of the Jim Capaldi box set. Oh, and John Lees' 'A Major Fancy'. And the three Isotope albums, which are now really growing on me after a shaky start.

Classically, I've enjoyed Joseph Moog's excellent Liszt recital disc and Bĕlohlávek's stimulating new Martinů symphony cycle with the BBC SO. Havergal Brian's 'Gothic' symphony at the Proms was another highlight, as was the Belcea's ongoing Beethoven Quartet series at the Sage.

Shit year life and career wise, alas, but a good year for music. That's what keeps me going...along with Draught Bass and Marston's Pedigree.

Yo fucking ho. Have a great holiday, all - and I mean that.

Dave
Squid Tempest
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Re: Albums Of The Year 2011 CE
Dec 24, 2011, 20:36
Wow! I'm really touched that someone would consider one of my albums a highlight, let alone two. Thanks my friend!
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