Here it is. Take your positions. Put your credibility on the line. It is time to reveal your cards and play your hand.
Winner takes all.
My list for 2011
Ulver - The Wars Of The Roses
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
David Lynch - Crazy Clown time
Cut Hands - Afro Noise 1
John Zorn - Interzone
Prurient - Bermuda Drain
The Fall - Ersatz G.B
Burzum - Fallen
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
I think the only new release I bought in 2011 was Blue October’s “Any Man in America”.
I am a friend of the singer, but even I have to admit that Beach Fossils’ “What a Pleasure” was a great cd for them this year.
I’ll probably pick up some more new releases when I’m in Toronto just after Christmas, so I really don’t know what my year-end list is. I do like that Prurient album.
the new wolves in the throne room album is killer, also the guys are wicked nice and fun to work with. side note.
i loved the new agnostic front album, the h2o covers disk, the new tom waits album (i picked up a leak, it still counts), the leak of bowie’s Toy is fucking amazing (minor sound quality issues non-withstanding) even though i already had most of the songs, i also loved the new blitzkid and darrow chemical company albums.
A number of notable albums but very few real standouts.
In no particular order: (those with an asterix were the best)
Bon Iver – Bon Iver *
Mamiffer – Mare Decendri *
Lustmord – Songs of God and Demons (comp)
Final – The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree *
jesu – Ascension
Eddie Entropy – The Royal Order
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
Fennesz – Seven Stars (EP)
Tom Waits – Bad as Me
Steve Roach & Brian Parnham – The Desert Inbetween
Thristing Quench – Memphis Transitions & Variations
Chris Connelly – Artificial Madness
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Almeeva – EP#1 (EP)
Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason – Solaris
Still Blue Still Turning – American Artist
Wiht – The Harrowing of the North (EP)
The Drift – Blue Hour
Julia Holter – Tragedy *
Chrysta Bell – The Train
thisquietarmy – Resurgence
The Psychic Paramount – II *
Glenn Jones – The Wanting
Nicholas Szczepanik – Please Stop Loving Me
John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Secret Pyramid – The Silent March
Wire - Red Barked Tree
I need to print this out and get a t shirt made.
As usual, it’s gonna be a stretch to even try, seeing as how most of the stuff I’ve picked up this year is like ten or twenty years old.
Mona Mur & En Esch Do With Me What You Want
Eddie Entropy - The Royal Order
Xaenyn - Burn Fix
Uhhh…
FUCK.
the new wolves in the throne room album is killer, also the guys are wicked nice and fun to work with. side note.
I was in a photography class with Nathan in college a long, long time ago. He seemed like a cool guy, not full of himself like many of the Olympia, WA hipsters that populated that town. I’m continually amazed by his progression as a musician. Glad to know success hasn’t turned him into a dick 
KMFDM - WTF?!
Skinny Puppy - HanDover
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Mona Mur & En Esch - Do With Me What You Want
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Big Black Delta - BBDLP1
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
All I can really think of.
Little Axe/Adrian Sherwood “If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog”
Nicolas Jaar “Space Is Only Noise”
Peaking Lights “936”
Woods “Sun & Shade”
Laura Veirs “Tumble Bee”
Virgo Four “Resurrection”
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “Diamond Mine”
Wire “Red Barked Tree”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Self Titled”
6th Borough Project “One Night In The Borough”
The Fall “Ersatz” (Taking Off features the coolest bassline of 2011)
Amon Tobin “Isam”
Freestyle Fellowship “The Promise”
It has been a great year for albums actually and an even better year as usual for limited 12" edits and compilations.
Was thinking there that Wire’s one was last year but it was digital 2010 and CD 2011 so I guess it’s 2011 more than 2010.
I’m gonna have to sleep on that - I don’t remember most of what came out this year.
[reply]the new wolves in the throne room album is killer, also the guys are wicked nice and fun to work with. side note.
I was in a photography class with Nathan in college a long, long time ago. He seemed like a cool guy, not full of himself like many of the Olympia, WA hipsters that populated that town. I’m continually amazed by his progression as a musician. Glad to know success hasn’t turned him into a dick :)[/reply]
you went to evergreen? you are the 2nd other person i know on this board who has spent time in this area. haha. the NW loves its MINISTRY…
Ulver - The Wars Of The Roses
I was disappointed by this album. It started off great with Feburary MMX but then it just showed that they were stuck in Shadows Of The Sun mode. Shadows even had to grow on me a little. Ulver is the most progressive band out there but this album didn’t show much progression.
AWOLNATION - Megalithic Symphony
Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
Mastodon - The Hunter
O’Death - Outside
Skinny Puppy - Handover
The Dad Horse Experience - Dead Dog On A Highway
The Builders And The Butchers - Dead Reckoning
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
VA - We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold
William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs
Stuff I bought that wasn’t good enough to include on this list: Buck Satan & The 666 Shooters, Kate Bush, Chris Connelly (sorry Chris, it’s not that it sucked it just didn’t hook me like some of the others), Covenant, Current 93, Florence + The Machine, Ohgr, Puscifer, Rasputina, Thou, VNV Nation
I think that’s all the 2011 albums I actually bought in 2011.