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The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #1
#1 The Antlers ‘Burst Apart’ (Transgressive) It’s a grey day in Williamsburg, the burgeoning artistic centre of New York. Though the rain intermittently drives down onto the low-rise … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #10-#2
#10 Battles ‘Gloss Drop’ (Warp) Its gestation may have been troubled, but ‘Gloss Drop’ ended up being a difficult second album in the best possible sense. Battles always promised … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #20-#11
#20 Florence & The Machine ‘Ceremonials’ (Island) So spiritual is the vibe of ‘Ceremonials’ that we can almost imagine Flo and producer Paul Epworth spending the duration of the … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #30-#21
#30 Gardens & Villa ‘Gardens & Villa’ (Secretly Canadian) That California’s Gardens & Villa have spent much of 2011 firmly under the radar is something of a travesty. This suave … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #40-#31
#40 SBTRKT ‘SBTRKT’ (Young Turks) Radio 1’s endorsement of dubstep and the genre’s subsequent ubiquity has left its founders feeling compromised, however, SBTRKT smartly bridges the … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #50-#41
#50 The Joy Formidable ‘The Big Roar’ (Atlantic/Canvasback) While January’s inevitably dreary talent polls frothed about female-fronted pop and/or clever-clever stuff, The Joy … Read More »
