plaid Top Albums of 2011 - Nominations

[BobDobalina]

! Nominations close at midnight GMT !

 

Figure it's time to get the ball rolling on this, seeing as the unofficial side-discussion thread has started to peter out and the calendar year is almost at an end. Let the nominations begin!

 

Listed at the bottom of this post are the albums that already got the nod from multiple (i.e., more than 1) watmmers in the aforementioned thread, so unless anyone objects let's consider these shortlisted. I can update this list with additional nominations as they arrive.

 

I propose that all nominations need to be 'seconded' by another wattmer to be added to this list of nominees. Cool? FWIW there were over 100 albums that were only mentioned by 1 person in the other thread.

 

Other matters of procedure to discuss (please do!):

 

- Whether we want to include EPs or keep it strictly a best albums poll

- Whether releases like Radiohead's (TKOL/Basement Sessions), Andy Stott's, etc. should be separate or considered single albums

- When to close the nominations window (two weeks from now would put us on or around 11 Jan, one week 4 Jan)

- Anything to do with the final poll, like how many votes each person should have, etc.

 

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NOMINEES (as compiled from this thread)

 

2562 - Fever

A Winged Victory For the Sullen - A Winged Victory For the Sullen

Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles

Alva Noto - Univrs

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together

Austin Peralta - Endless Planets

Battles - Gloss Drop

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Biosphere - N-Plants

Björk - Biophilia

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Boxcutter - The Dissolve

Bullion - You Drive Me To Plastic

Byetone - Symeta

Cex - Tiny Creature

Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma

Clams Casino - Instrumentals

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2 : Judges

Com Truise - Galactic Melt

Coppice Halifax - Pawleys Island

Dalglish - Benacah Drann Deachd

Dave Monolith - Welcome

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time

Destroyer - Kaputt

Dimlite - Grimm Reality

Dominik Eulberg - Diorama

FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure

Forma - Forma

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

Gil-Scott Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here

Grouper - A I A

Hype Williams - One Nation

Instra:Mental - Resolution 653

Jacaszek - Glimmer

James Blake - James Blake

John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place

Jürgen Müller - Science of the Sea

Justice - Audio Video Disco

Kangding Ray - OR

Kuedo - Severant

Lego Feet - Lego Feet

Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

Little Dragon - Ritual Union

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

Machinedrum - Room(s)

Mark Fell - Manitutshu

Mark Fell - Periodic Orbits Of A Dynamic System Related To A Knot

Martyn - Ghost People

Mastodon - The Hunter

Matthewdavid - Outmind

Metronomy - English Riviera

Mitch Murder - Current Events

Modeselektor - Monkeytown

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will

NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO

Peaking Lights - 936

Phoenecia - Demissions

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton

Plaid - Scintilli

Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (Basement Sessions)

Roly Porter - Aftertime

Rustie - Glass Swords

Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album

Sandwell District - Sandwell District

SBTRKT - SBTRKT

SebastiAn - Total

Seefeel - Seefeel

Sepalcure - Sepalcure

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Shlohmo - Bad Vibes

Sint - Monitor Select

Siriusmo - Mosaik

Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6

Surgeon - Breaking the Frame

The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies

The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond this World

The Fear Ratio - Lightbox

The Weeknd - House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silences

Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

Vladislav Delay - Vantaa

wAgAwAgA - Hyper Typewriter

Wagon Christ - Toomorrow

Washed Out - Within and Without

Zomby - Dedication

[Guest MortstoX]

PJ Harvey-Let England shake

Richard Buckner-Our Blood

Bon Iver-Bon Iver

Fleet Foxes-Helplessness blues

Kangding Ray-OR

Mastodon-The Hunter

Deaf Center-Owl Splinters

Bibio-Mind Bokeh

Ryan Adams-Ashes n Fire

Biosphere-N-Plants

Alva Noto-Univrs

Wilco-The whole love

Kuedo-Servant

Sepalcure-s/t

[Npoess]

Edit: Nevermind

[Cryptowen]

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time (was mentioned by me & Max in the other thread)

Coppice Halifax - Pawleys Island

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

[Npoess]

1. Machinedrum - Room(s)

2. Deepchord - Hash-Bar Loops

3. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond this World

4. Zomby - Dedicated

5. Dave Monolith - Welcome

6. Kangding Ray - OR

7. Instra:Mental - Resolution653

8. Leyland Kirby Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

9. The Field - Looping State of Mind

10. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

11. 2562 - Fever

12. Hype Williams - One Nation

13. Rustie - Glass Swords

14. Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles

15. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

16. Bibio - Mind Bokeh

17. Clams Casino - Instrumentals

[Guest Adam]

Amon Tobin - ISAM

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Boxcutter - The Dissolve

James Blake - James Blake

Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place

Rustie - Glass Swords

Siriusmo - Pearls & Embarrassments

Siriusmo - Mosaik

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972

[BobDobalina]

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time (was mentioned by me & Max in the other thread)

Coppice Halifax - Pawleys Island

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

 

Added Lynch & Tom Waits (someone else had it the other thread)

 

Added Bibio and Kangding Ray per mortstox and Dropp

 

Let me know if I've missed anything else

[Soloman Tump]

^ Definitely needs Kangding Ray in there (*edit* done)

 

Little Dragon - Ritual Union is very good as well.

 

Think all my other top albums of the year have been covered.

[Guest AcrossCanyons]

my final top 10 is looking something like this

 

 

1. Bibio - Mind Bokeh

2. Mastodon - The Hunter

3. Death Grips - Ex-Military

4. Shlohmo - Bad Vibes

5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

6. Com Truise - Galactic Melt

7. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

8. Moving Mountains - Waves

9. John Maus - We Are Pitiless Sensors Of Ourselves

10. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

[Guest placidburp]

Sint - Monitor Select

Mitch Murder - Current Events

Diabrotikos - Sensitive Invaders

Mark Swift - Summer Stories

Monolith - Welcome

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

[Guest Adam]

ahhhhh, Shlohmo. What a wonderfull album that is.

[sup]

Anne Laplantine - Frutyloop

Evil Madness - Super Great Love

Viaje Sónico - Música para MAXIMUM MISCHIEF

[brian trageskin]

david lynch's crazy clown time wins hand down to me. i've listened to very few new albums this year though

[BobDobalina]

Added Bon Iver, Schlomo. Monolith should have been there already too so I added that as well.

[oscillik]

2011 isn't over.

BoC could still release the album.

[Stock]

What about Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album ? The Madlib Medicine Show delivered again some really nice music too ! (especially #11 Low Budget Hi-Fi Music)

 

Mind Bokeh and ISAM should be in here as well.

[Cryptowen]

2011 isn't over.

BoC could still release the album.

They already did, it was called Bangarang

[BobDobalina]

What about Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album ? The Madlib Medicine Show delivered again some really nice music too ! (especially #11 Low Budget Hi-Fi Music)

 

Mind Bokeh and ISAM should be in here as well.

 

Samiyam and/or Madlib need to be seconded. Mind Bokeh is there. ISAM added.

 

2011 isn't over.

BoC could still release the album.

 

Black square added

[rst]

what about matthewdavid - outmind?

i'm not sure it will really hold, but i like it a lot & a lot of people in here did seem to as well...

 

and lego feet?

it's not a pure reissue, since half of it are unreleased tracks, even if they were written two decades ago.

[kinski]

vhs head - midnight section

bullion - you drive me to plastic

peaking lights - 936

[spratters]

Couldn't see these:

 

Dimlite - Grimm Reality

The Fear Ratio - Light Box

Tropics - Parodia Flare

Apparat - The Devil's Walk

 

EDIT:

 

I'll second Samiyam too.

[futureimage]

Metronomy - The English Riviera

[Ego]

Surgeon - Breaking the Frame

Roly Porter - Aftertime

Mark Fell - Gurl Stop Usin All Dem Colourz (Periodic Orbits Of A Dynamic System Related To A Knot)

Vladislav Delay - Vantaa

[rstark]

If you decide to include EP's please add Hudson Mohawke's Satin Panthers

[BobDobalina]

Samiyam added

 

Matthewdavid added (someone had it listed in the old thread)

 

Lego Feet and VHS Head added

(They've both been quite popular around watmm, although I don't want to be the sole arbiter as to whether we include EPs and reissues, feel free to discuss)

 

Please second (or get seconded) your nominations so I can add them - one fan does not a top album make! :yoda: