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albums & gigs of 2011
My Albums of 2011
A lot of people have written copious words on these albums and have done a far better job of explaining their qualities than I could manage. But these are the albums which I have had on heavy rotation this year, and enjoyed the most. The top 5 in particular are each incredible albums which will stay with me long beyond this year.
My album of the year:
1. Destroyer — ’Kaputt’
Top 10:
2. The Antlers — ‘Burst Apart’
3. Epic45 — ’Weathering’
4. Bon Iver — ’Bon Iver’
5. Peaking Lights — ‘936’
6. Radiohead — ‘The King of Limbs’
7. Real Estate — ’Days’
8. When Saints Go Machine — ‘Konkylie’
9. The War on Drugs — ‘Slave Ambient’
10. I Break Horses — ‘Hearts’
Honourable mentions:
11. Trouble Books & Mark McGuire — ’s/t’
12. Wild Beasts — ‘Smother’
13. Beirut — ‘The Rip Tide’
14. Lanterns on the Lake — ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’
15. Walls — ‘Coracle’
16. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX — ‘We’re New Here’
17. CANT — ‘Dreams Come True’
18. Grouper — ‘A.I.A: Alien Observer’
19. Bombay Bicycle Club — ‘A Different Kind of Fix’
20. Kurt Vile — ‘Smoke Ring For My Halo’
• Spotify mix: best of 2011
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Gigs of 2011
• Sufjan Stevens — Royal Festival Hall, London
• Bon Iver — HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London
• Olafur Arnalds — Notting Hill Tabernacle, London
• Wild Beasts — Y Theatre, Leicester
• Timber Timbre — Union Chapel, London
Sufjan was incredible — one of the most complete, joyous gigs I have ever had the pleasure to witness. Bon Iver was equally spellbinding, as 5,000 people sat and watched in quiet awe.
