Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour is currently my favourite album of this year. Each song is wonderfully creative and original, and easy to catch on despite the controversial and challenging lyrics. Masterpiece!
On the List: Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror Air - Le voyage dans la lune ††† - EP †† Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Grimes - Visions Jason Mraz - Love is a Four Letter Word John Mayer - Born and Raised Graffiti6 - Colours Currently Judging: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die Miike Snow - Happy to You The Shins - Port of Morrow Chiddy Bang - Breakfast Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim Yuna - Yuna --------------- I'm not going to bother with what I've actually listened to that didn't make the list.
This could (is) totally biased but The Rasmus' self titled is amazing to me. Not too fancy or chart topper but their music is great, I think they are very underrated. This along with LIVING THINGS will make my whole year complete. And idk but Lostprophets' Weapons failed to impress me. I've been listening to them since Start Something and this last album just won't click with me. Eisbrecher's "Die Hölle Muss Warten" is quite a treat, for fans of industrial rock.
Just listened to "Dear Believer" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' new album "Here." I enjoyed it, and I'd been meaning to check them out for a while, so I'll be doing that today.
Haven't heard anything that peaked my interest this year : ( I'm waiting for Living Things and the new album from The xx.
So far this year, Fun.'s album Some Nights is my favorite. Sleigh Bells, The Shins, and Marina & The Diamonds' albums are all great too.
Taproot - The Episodes Lostprophets - Weapons Fun. - Some Nights And coming soon... P.O.D. - Muderer Love The Killers - Battle Born Papa Roach [maybe]
Glad to see Taproot on some people's list. It was trashed in just about every review I've seen but I love it. So that means either I'm not crazy or we're all crazy
The Agonist - Prisoners Whitechapel - Whitechapel FACT - burundanga Lostprophets - Weapons Caliban - I Am Nemesis Janus - Nox Aeris Miss May I - At Heart
Marina and The Diamonds - Electra Heart Grimes - Visions John Mayer - Born and Raised Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Knife Party - Rage Valley EP (not an album, but still great)
On the List: Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror Air - Le voyage dans la lune ††† - EP †† Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Grimes - Visions Jason Mraz - Love is a Four Letter Word John Mayer - Born and Raised Graffiti6 - Colours Linkin Park - LIVING THINGS Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats Metric - Synthetica
1. Linkin Park - LIVING THINGS 2. Hilltop Hoods - Drinking From The Sun 3. ††† - EP †† 4. Metric - Synthetica 5. Watsky - Nothing Like The First Time 6. Watsky & Mody - Watsky & Mody EP 7. Hoodie Allen - All American EP 8. Chiddy Bang - Breakfast ANTICIPATING P.O.S. and Astronautalis - The Four Fists (TBD) Coheed and Cambria - TBA Killswitch Engage - TBA Skylar Grey - Invinsible (TBD) Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor II (TBD) Aesop Rock - Skelethon (07/10/2012)
Best albums of 2011: The Shins - Port of Morrow Soul Khan - Wellstone EP El-P - Cancer For Cure Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music Linkin Park - LIVING THINGS Illogic & Blockhead - Preparing for Capture Undecided: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die Crosses - EP †† Brother Ali - The Bite Marked Heart EP Copywrite - God Save the King Tenacious D - Rise of the Fenix Kristoff Krane - Fanfaronade Steven Wilson & Mikael Åkerfeldt - Storm Corrosion Kicked out: Emilio Rojas - Breaking Point Logic - Young Sinatra: Undeniable Illmaculate - Skrill Talk Anticipating for 2012: John Frusciante - Letur-Lefr [July] Slaughterhouse - Welcome to: Our House [July] Aesop Rock - Skelethon [July] La Coka Nostra - Masters Of the Dark Arts [July] Nas - Life Is Good [July] Brother Ali - Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color [Aug] Apathy - It's The Bootleg Motherfucker, Vol. 3: Fire Walk With Me [Sept] John Frusciante - PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor 2 [Sept] Megahertz - Megacy [Oct] Chino XL - RICANstruction Crooked I - Million Dollar Story Tonedeff - Chico And The Man Skylar Grey - Invinsible* Kenna - Songs for Flight Asher Roth - Is This Too Orange?* Get Busy Committee - Opening Ceremony Brown Bag All Star - Brown Bag Season Vol. 1 Diabolic - Fightin' Words Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid in a Mad City Immortal Technique - The Middle Passage Demigodz - KILLmatic Man Bites Dog Records - The Swashbucklers Vol. 1 Imogen Heap - Heapsongs Peter Anthony Red - The Projectionist EP Peter Anthony Red - Hyperrealism Illogic - Capture the Sun Kendrick Lamar & J.Cole - TBA How to Destroy Angels - TBA Ryu - TBA J. Cole - TBA Possessed - TBA
Loved so far: The All-American Rejects "Kids In The Street" Linkin Park "LIVING THINGS" Silversun Pickups "Neck of the Woods" Keane "Strangeland" Jack White "Blunderbuss" Anticipating: The Killers "Battle Born" Green Day "Uno!" "Dos!" Crash Kings TBD Lupe Fiasco "Food and Liquor 2"