Nine Types of Light - TV on the Radio
From release day until October 3rd, this was in my car's CD player. Actually, I think it's still in there.
Recommended track: "Second Song"
No Color - The Dodos
I smile from ear to ear every single time I listen to this. Every time.
Recommended tracks: "Black Night" and "Don't Stop"
The Rip Tide - Beirut
Unique without being different for different's sake. A better use of accordion I have not heard.
Recommended track: "Vagabond"
Circuital - My Morning Jacket
Got back to what made me fall in love with them in the first place.
Recommended track: "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)"
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
For the smelly, hacky-sack playing hippy in all of us.
Recommended track: "Someone You'd Admire"
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
They're just great, aren't they?
Recommended track: "Holocene"
The Year of Hibernation - Youth Lagoon
Far away, earnest and melancholy, reaching out to you from inside a winter dream.
Days - Real EstateDreamy floating tune after dreamy floaty tune.
Recommended track: "Wonder Years"
Kaput - Destroyer
Some people may not enjoy Daniel Bejar outside of New Pornographers but I've became an even bigger fan when I heard the album Destroyer's Rubies for the first time.
Recommended track: "Chinatown"
Tomboy - Panda Bear
Loops and reverb and happiness and sadness and echo and loops and it just puts me in the zone.
Recommended track: "You Can Count On Me"
It's not perfect but I have a lot of fun with it when I'm in the right mood.
Recommended track: "Houdini"
Collapse Into Now - R.E.M.
I'll miss you Michael, Mike, Bill, and Peter.
What were your favorites?
3 comments:
1. Sarah Jarosz -- Follow Me Down (Favorite artist I discovered this year)
2. Wilco -- The Whole Love
3. Gillian Welch -- The Harrow & The Harvest
4. The Decemberists -- The King is Dead
5. Punch Brothers -- Antifogmatic
6. The Wailin' Jennys -- Bright Morning Stars
7. Chris Thile & Michael Daves -- Sleep With One Eye Open
8. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile -- The Goat Rodeo Sessions
(9&10 didn't come out in 2011 but were purchased this year, but they're so good they are worth mentioning)
9. Jackson Browne -- Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1&2 (Live)
10. Crooked Still -- Some Strange Country
Oh! And here are some recommended tracks:
1. Sarah Jarosz -- "Annabelle Lee", "My Muse", "The Tourist"
2. Wilco -- "Sunloathe", "One Sunday Morning"
3. Gillian Welch -- "Tennessee", "Hard Times"
4. The Decemberists -- "Down By the Water", "Don't Carry it All"
5. Punch Brothers -- "Rye Whiskey", "Packt Like Sardines in a Crush'd tin Box"
6. The Wailin' Jennys -- "Storm Comin' "Cherry Blossom Love"
7. Chris Thile & Michael Daves -- "20/20 Vision", "Rain and Snow"
8. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile -- "Here and Heaven", "Attaboy"
9. Jackson Browne -- "These Days", "The Barricades of Heaven"
10. Crooked Still -- "Half of What We Know", "You Got the Silver"
Thanks, Collin. I think Wilco and Decemberists would have made my list if I did a top 20 for sure.
I'll have to check the other stuff out!
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