Bang! So fans and friends are always asking me what kind of stuff I’m into. So I thought it would be cool to share some of my fav’s from this year. I think it’s been a pretty damn good year for music, despite what some might say. These days you just have to dig a little more.
Top 10 of 2011
10- Alexander of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros “Alexander”
09- Serengeti “Family And Friends”
08- Little Dragon “Ritual Union”
07- Flash Bang Grenada “10 Haters”
06- Aloe Blacc “Good Things”
05- Charles Bradley “No Time For Dreaming”
04- Jay-Z and Kanye West “Watch The Throne”
03- Black Keys “El Camino”
02- The Kills “Blood Pressures”
01- Kanye West “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (came out so late last year I’d still consider it 2011+it’s such a damn good hiphop album)
Very honorable mentions:
Son Lux “We Are Rising”
Natural Yogurt Band “Tuck In With…”
13 & God “Own Your Ghost”
Malachi “return to the ugly side”
Tune Yards “Whokill”
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx “We’re New Here”
Alias “Fever Dream”
Ras G “Down 2 Earth”
Albums my friends made that are really damn good:
Qwazaar and Batsauce “Bat Meets Blaine”
Awol One and Nathaniel Motte “The Child Star”
Void Pedal “Omni Colour”
Sadistik and Kristoff Krane+Graham O’Brien “Prey For Paralysis”
Biggest disappointment of the year:
Yelawolf “Radioactive”
Oh and some albums I liked but found myself sleeping on:
TV On the Radio “Nine Types Of Light”
Radiohead “King Of Limbs”
Bang!!!! Now share your fav’s of the year
