My Top 11 in 2011 in 11 words or less
also posted on CHIRP Radio Best of 2011
In no particular order
Let England Shake, PJ Harvey
Grim, haunting songs sweetly sung. Next time, PJ, more guitar please.
Fractured Days, Brief Candles
Shoegazers from Milwaukee = bowling shoe gazers. Stellar from start to finish
Yuck, Yuck
These kids do the 90s better than most 90s bands.
The Whole Love, Wilco
Best since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
WHOKILL, Tune-Yards
Wha? Ukelele-driven African beats? One of the year's best surprises.
Weird Freedom, Little Gold
Former Woods guitarist gets his pubrock/psychedelic/alt country freak on.
Cults, Cults
Bouncy but creepy take on sixties girl group sound and themes.
Last Summer, Eleanor Friedberger
Stream of consciousness tour of Manhattan and other islands.
Bad as Me, Tom Waits
Waits and Nick Cave give aging rockers hope.
The King is Dead, The Decemberists
Decemberists get rootsy, release one of their strongest efforts to date.
Icky Mettle, Archers of Loaf
Favorite reissue. 18 years later and still crunchy.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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