Okay dan, nog een keer achterom kijken en dan is het echt afgelopen. Natuurlijk had ik mijn eigen lijstje opgesteld van beste albums van 2011, maar er zijn veel meer mensen die denken iets van goede muziek te weten, oftewel die andere betweters. En eerlijk is eerlijk, daar zitten ook albums tussen die ik blijkbaar heb gemist. Dat bewijst het nut ook wel van die lijstjes – zo kun je nog een aardige lijst opstellen van albums die ik nog kan gaan beluisteren zo aan het begin van het nieuwe jaar. Absolute winnaar (of – eh – winnares) dit jaar lijkt PJ Harvey te worden met Let England Shake. Andere platen die regelmatig worden genoemd zijn o.a. van Wilco, Spinvis, Gillian Welch, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Adele, Bon Iver, Fucked Up, Destroyer, Fleet Foxes, The War On Drugs, tUnE-yArDs, The Black Keys, Elbow, Girls, The Vaccines, Destroyer, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys… Nou ja, je kunt de lijstjes zelf bekijken hieronder.
Dit jaar lijken de rustige indie bandjes wel de boventoon te voeren, al dan niet met een folky inslag. Niet altijd het genre om zelf helemaal wild van te worden; ik hou doorgaans van een scherp randje, met dikke gitaren, monster riffs, vette funk, rare onverwachte patronen of dikke melancholie zonder dat het al te zoet wordt – maar pin me er niet op vast. Opvallend genoeg staat Radiohead trouwens niet heel veel genoemd. Blijkbaar levert dat toch gemengde gevoelens op. Maar goed, ik kon Kid A destijds ook niet erg waarderen in het begin, maar daar staan nu wel een aantal favorieten van me op. Ik betwijfel of dat met The King Of Limbs ook gaat gebeuren. Ook de tweede van De Staat bevalt blijkbaar minder dan die bejubelde eerste. Enfin.
Wat ik dan zelf nog maar eens (of: meer) moet gaan beluisteren zijn bands als M83, True Widow, The War On Drugs, tUnE-yArDs, Wilco, St. Vincent, Gillian Welch, Kurt Vile, Girls, Ulver, Leprous, My Brightest Diamond, Pete and the Pirates, Sóley, Lotte Kestner, Wild Beasts, St. Vincent, Wye Oak, Ben Howard, The Antlers en EMA. Plus nog een aantal left-overs waar ik nog (of: verder) in wil duiken zoals Animals As Leaders, Red Fang, Houses, The Black Box Revelation, Textures, Mandrake Project, Katzenjammer, Erland & The Carnival, Paatos, Atlantis en Wooden Shjips. En nog wat metal releases. Da’s aardig veel nog.
Maar goed, dit allemaal terzijde. Want het ging er om wat de rest van de wereld er van vond (met een extra focus op Nederland, een paar twitter bekenden en andere interessante lijstjes). Mis ik iets of mis ik jouw lijstje? Gooi het gerust in de comments. Vind ik leuk!
OOR (inclusief rectificatie)
(zie ook de analyse van Peter Bruyn)
01. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
02. Wilco – The Whole Love
03. Spinvis – tot ziens, Justine Keller
04. Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
05. James Blake – James Blake
06. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
07. Adele – 21
08. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
09. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
10. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
11. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
12. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
13. Pete and the Pirates – One Thousand Pictures
14. Destroyer – Kaputt
15. Other Lives – Tamer Animals
16. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
17. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
18. Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi – Rome
19. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
20. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
01. Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning
02. Transatlantic – More Never Is Enough
03. Blackfield – Welcome To My DNA
04. Anathema – Falling Deeper
05. Pain Of Salvation – Road Salt Two
06. Airbag – All Rights Removed
07. 41Point9 – Still Looking For The Anwers
08. Long Distance Calling – Long Distance Calling
09. Ulver – Wars Of The Roses
10. Gazpacho – Missa Atrapos
01. Wilco – The Whole Love
02. The Black Keys – El Camino
03. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
04. Spinvis – Tot Ziens, Justine Keller
05. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
06. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
07. My Brightest Diamond – All Things Will Unwind
08. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
09. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
10. Sóley – We Sink
11. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
12. Lotte Kestner – Stolen
13. Yuck – Yuck
14. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
xx. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
01. Birds Of Passage – Without The World
02. Ulver – Wars Of The Roses
03. My Brightest Diamond – All Things Will Unwind
04. Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning
05. Amplifier – The Octopus
06. Die! Die! Die! – Form
07. Kaat Hellings – Hit Of The Century
08. Leprous – Bilateral
09. World’s End Girlfriend – Seven Idiots
10. Vessels – Helioscope
01. Spinvis – Tot Ziens, Justine Keller
02. Wilco – The Whole Love
03. Radiohead – The King of Limbs Live From the Basement
04. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
05. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
06. Nils Frahm – Felt
07. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
08. tUnE-yArDs – W H O K I L L
09. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
10. The Antlers – Burst Apart
Kicking the Habit: Joris Rietbroek
01. Spinvis – Tot ziens, Justine Keller
02. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
03. Wilco – The Whole Love
04. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest
05. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
06. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake!
07. Battles – Gloss Drop
08. tUnE-yArDs – W H O K I L L
09. Alamo Race Track – Unicorn Loves Deer
10. Atlas Sound – Parallex
01. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
02. Adele – 21
03. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
04. Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
05. Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire
06. True Widow – As High As The Highest Havens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
07. Spinvis – Tot Ziens, Justine Keller
08. The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
09. Eefje de Visser – De Koek
10. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
01. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
02. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
03. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
04. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
05. Opeth – Heritage
06. James Vincent Mcmorrow – Early in the Morning
07. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
08. James Blake – James Blake
09. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
10. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
01. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
02. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
03. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
04. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
05. Wilco – The Whole Love
06. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
07. John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
08. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
09. True Widow – As High as the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
10. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
01. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
02. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
03. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
04. Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
05. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
06. Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming
07. James Blake – James Blake
08. Cloud Control – Bliss Release
09. Destroyer – Kaputt
10. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
LiveXS (lezers)
01. The Black Keys – El Camino
02. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
03. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys
04. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
05. Adele – 21
06. Wilco – The Whole Love
07. Foo Fighters – Back And Forth
08. De Staat – Machinery
09. Spinvis – Tot Ziens, Justine Keller
10. Fleet Floxes – Helplessness Blues
01. Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
02. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
03. The Black Keys – El Camino
04. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
05. Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
06. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
07. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
08. James Blake – James Blake
09. Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
10. Eefje de Visser – De Koek
01. Lia Ices – Grown Unknown
02. Over The Rhine – The Long Surrender
03. Rachael Yamagata – Chesapeake
04. The Cars – Move Like This
05. The Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida
01. The Black Keys – El Camino
02. Fair To Midland – Arrows and Anchors
03. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
04. Wilco – The Whole Love
05. Miles Kane – Colour Of The Trap
06. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
07. Arctic Monkeys – Suck it and See
08. Black Stone Cherry – Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
09. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
10. Machine Head – Unto the Locust
01. Primordial – Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand
02. Opeth – Heritage
03. Autopsy – Macabre Eternal
04. Journey – Eclipse
05. MaYan – Quarterpast
06. Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction
07. Mastodon – The Hunter
08. Black Country Communion – 2
09. Graveyard – Hisingen Blues
10. Chickenfoot – III
01. Machine Head – Unto The Locust
02. Mastodon – The Hunter
03. Megadeth – Th1rt3en
04. Iced Earth – Dystopia
05. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn Of Events
06. Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising
07. Anthrax – Worship Music
08. Symphony X – Iconoclast
09. Opeth – Heritage
10. Nightwish – Imaginaerum
11. Septicflesh – The Great Mass
Live is for Living blog (joepiej)
01. Wye Oak – Civilian
02. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
03. Alamo Race Track – Unicorn Loves Deer
04. Pete & The Pirates – One Thousand Pictures
05. I Am Oak – Oasem
06. Other Lives –Tamer Animals
07. Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
08. The Antlers – Burst Apart
09. Cloud Control – Bliss Release
10. The Black Keys – El Camino
Ronald Says blog
01. The Black Keys – El Camino
02. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
03. White Denim – D
04. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
05. dEUS – Keep You Close
06. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
07. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
08. TV On The Radio – Nine Types of Light
09. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
10. Happy Camper – Happy Camper
Digg* (lezers)
01. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
02. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
03. Destroyer: Kaputt
04. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
05. Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder
Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
07. Adele – 21
08. James Blake – James Blake
The Horrors – Skying
Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
01. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
02. Destroyer – Kaputt
03. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
04. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
05. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
06. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
07. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
08. Drake – Take Care
09. Real Estate – Days
10. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
01. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
02. Metronomy – The English Riviera
03. The Horrors – Skying
04. Wild Beasts – Smother
05. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
06. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See
07. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
08. Katy B – On a Mission
09. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
10. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
01. Adele – 21
02. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne
03. Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What
04. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
05. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
06. Lady Gaga – Born This Way
07. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
08. Wilco – The Whole Love
09. Wild Flag – Wild Flag
10. Robbie Robertson – How to Become Clairvoyant
01. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
02. Drake – Take Care
03. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
04. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
05. The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
06. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
07. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
08. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
09. ASAP Rocky – LIVELOVEA$AP
10. Kanye West & Jay-Z – Watch The Throne
01. Florence & The Machine – Ceremonials
02. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
03. Adele – 21
04. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
05. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
06. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne
07. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
08. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
09.WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
10. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys
01. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
02. Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
03. Metronomy – The English Riviera
04. White Denim – D
05. Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen
06. The Horrors – Skying
07. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
08. Wild Beasts – Smother
09. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
10. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
01. Fucked Up, David Comes to Life
02. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
03. EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
04. Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring for My Halo
05. Girls, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
06. Danny Brown, XXX
07. The Rapture, In the Grace of Your Love
08. G-Side, The One…Cohesive
09. Wild Flag, Wild Flag
10. Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
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(zie ook de 20 beste nieuwe bands van 2011)
01. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
02. Panda Bear – Tomboy
03. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
04. EMA ‘Past Life Martyred Saints
05. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
06. Tune-Yards – Whokill
07. Destroyer – Kaputt
08. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
09. James Blake – James Blake
10. Active Child – You Are All I See
01. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
02. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
03. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
04. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
05. James Blake – James Blake
06. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
07. Beyonce – 4
08. Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
09. Horrors – Skying
10. Wild Beasts – Smother
01. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
02. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
03. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
04. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
05. The Beach Boys – The SMiLE Sessions
06. James Blake – James Blake
07. Yuck – Yuck
08. Destroyer – Kaputt
09. The Strokes – Angels
10. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
PopMatters – Best of Progressive Rock
01. Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning
02. Opeth – Heritage
03. Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two
04. Blackfield – Welcome to my DNA
05. Becoming the Archetype – Celestial Completion
06. Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
07. Furyu – Cio Che L’Anima Non Dice
08. Neal Morse – Testimony
09. Riverside – Memories in my Head
10. Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events