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Rough Trade's albums of the year 2011
Posted by Barry Vaughan on 24 November 2011 - 2:06pm.
Josh T. Pearson, Last of the Country Gentlemen
and then
Nicolas Jaar, Space Is Only Noise
Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
Gillian Welch, The Harrow & The Harvest
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
Veronica Falls, Bad Feeling
Zomby, Dedication
John Maus, We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
The Head And The Heart, Self-Titled
White Hills, H-p1
I am in no way affiliated to RT, its subsidiaries etc etc. However, I do like Josh Pearson and Gillian Welch.
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Nicolas Jaar
should be top of the list. Best album of the decade (so far), imho.
It's...
...terribly good, isn't it?
Top 100 at Piccadilly Records, Manchester
1 Peaking Lights: 936
2 Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo
3 The Phoenix Foundation: Buffalo
4 Maria Minerva: Caberet Cixous
5 Metronomy: The English Riviera
6 Wooden Shjips: West
7 Other Lives: Tamer Animals
8 The Kills: Blood Pressures
9 Black Lips: Arabia Mountain
10 Widowspeak: Widowspeak
Others here:
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/feature.php?feature=678
Peaking Lights - 936
Fantastic listen. Saint Etienne meets Bo Diddley round at King Tubbys.
Must have been
a cheery old year chez Rough Trade judging by that list. Nice to see The Head And The Heart in the top ten though, it really is a great record.