Best Albums of 2011 |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 1. '21' - Adele You have to listen to the notes she's NOT playing....Pssh, I can do that at home. (You have to know the Simpsons and the Cure version of this song to understand that) |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 2. 'Torches' - Foster The People "If you are searching for a sunshine-fuelled pop album for the summer, then your search is at an end." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 3. 'The English Riviera' - Metronomy "The English Riviera is a deep sea of ideas and imagination: a far-flung, limitless dreamworld full of romance, nostalgia, lovers' tiffs and good old-fashioned shagging." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 4. 'Go Tell Fire to the Mountain' - Wu Lyf If you like the vocals, their album is worth listening to. "This album, delivered from on high by a mysterious band of misfits and revolutionaries, is gospel." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 5. 'Velociraptor!' - Kasabian "Kasabian are much more adventurous than their typecast image of just being creators of swaggering rock anthems, as Velociraptor! proves." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 6. 'Suck it and See' - Arctic Monkeys "Suck it and See is a thorough success imbued with the very same spirit, reflecting the boys' widely expanded palette while successfully working in everything they did so well in their yester-album." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 7. 'Ceremonials' - Florence + The Machine "Elevating their idiosyncratic style to an even grander scale, Ceremonials makes Florence and the Machine's captivating debut Lungs seem quaint and charming in comparison." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 8. 'Smother' - Wild Beasts "Smother is touching and majestic, a surprise of juxtaposition that is at once both plaintive and emotional, strident and libidinous." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 9. 'Build a Rocket Boys!' - Elbow |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 10. 'Undun' - The Roots Undun is a concept piece about the fictional Redford Stephens, a gangster who apparently commits suicide after a violent life (though that's not immediately clear) and recalls his misdeeds from the sleep of the dead. It's a pretext for a hip-hop-as-tragedy motif that The Roots have refined ever since their 1996 album Illadelph Halflife. The music is melancholic, and Black Thought and a few guest MCs (including longtime collaborators Dice Raw and Greg Porn) drive the action with expository verses. It's as familiar as Biggie's Ready to Die, and haunting all the same. |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 11. 'Smoke Ring For My Halo' - Kurt Vile |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 12. 'Skying' - The Horrors "Skying has a new swagger and panache, but it also possesses that lightness of touch which was first audible in Primary Colours." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 13. 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "What Gallagher has done with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is dust off a little unrealized Oasis material and combine it with new songs that are bounded by the artist's natural mid-tempo territory." |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 14. 'Colour of the Trap' - Miles Kane |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 15. 'Angles' - The Strokes |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 16. 'England Keep My Bones' - Frank Turner |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 17. 'Let England Shake' - PJ Harvey |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 18. 'What Did You Expect From The Vaccines' - The Vaccines |
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404. That’s an error. The requested URL | 19. ' Computers and Blues' - The Streets |