Favorite Non Prog Albums of 2011 |
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cannon
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 03 2010 Location: Coho Country Status: Offline Points: 1302 |
Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:19 | ||
I just noticed that they are in the archives. It seems almost every band is now in the archives.
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Nightfly
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 01 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3659 |
Posted: November 30 2011 at 13:31 | ||
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
Black Country Communion - 2
Black N' Blue - Hell Yeah!
Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: November 30 2011 at 13:58 | ||
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
A brilliant folk album with sweet sweet melodies. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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The Quiet One
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
Posted: November 30 2011 at 18:50 | ||
I still need to listen that entirely and get into it, I loved the debut, but this one is having a bit of a trouble with me.
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catfood03
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 24 2009 Status: Offline Points: 785 |
Posted: November 30 2011 at 20:17 | ||
The Radio Dept - Passive Aggressive Matthew Herbert - One Pig Wye Oak - Civilian Junior Boys - It's All True Hooray For Earth - True Loves (shown above) Destroyer - Kaputt Skinny Puppy - HanDover |
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progkidjoel
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: December 01 2011 at 01:17 | ||
Number 1: The Whoopass Girls - The Whoopass Girls (Highschool emo/punk/skram/pop) -Just a couple of high school kids making honest as hell music, using some really wonderful song structures/style and creating pretty damn unique music. Super depressing/nostalgic/melancholic. Number 2: Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me (hardcore punk) -20 minutes of amazing non-stop intense hardcore; killer lyrics, climaxes and further demonstration of the band's uncanny ability to develop solid themes within tiny musical moments. Number 3: Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Nights (Hardcore, concept album) -Heartbreaking concept, stunning vocal delivery, probably one of the best drummers in modern hardcore. Killer lyrics too. Number 4: Old Gray - Do I Dare Disturb The Universe (midwest emo/spoken word/proggy post-hardcore) -Insane emotional input from the band (sounds like they're right in the moment for every second of the EP) and amazing song writing.
Number 5: (progressive post-hardcore/hardcore) -Some of their best tracks ever. Once again demonstrates their uncanny ability to introduce a story, and 5 minutes later crush you at the conclusion.
Honorable mentions: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong(shoegaze/pop) -Sounds like the lovechild of The Smiths and The Cure. Fun and somewhat intense at the same time too.Our Sunday Affairs - Smiles From Next Year (punk/twinkly emo) -Amazing lyricism, brilliant guitar work and a band who can create dense song, fulfilling strong structures in tiny lengths. (djent/hardcore/metalcore) -Amazing Australian band who makes the most solid mix of djent and hardcore I've probably ever heard. |
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mindysimmons
Forum Newbie Joined: November 20 2011 Location: ON, Canada Status: Offline Points: 25 |
Posted: December 01 2011 at 02:59 | ||
Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
(This one could very easily become a favourite from Dan Mangan. Still haven't given it many listens but so far I'm REALLY into it, maybe even more than his previous albums, which I also think are spectacular.) Matthew Good - Lights of Endangered Species (Not my favourite Matt Good album, but still great, I'll definitely be listening to it for awhile.) City and Colour - Little Hell And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Tao of The Dead (Probably my favourite Trail of Dead album.) Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Adele - 21 Still Haven't gotten around to listening to Night of Hunters, but everyone I know that has listened to it says it's great and I'm definitely a fan of Tori Amos, so that will probably make my list when I get to it. < ="text/" ="" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0"> |
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Catalani
Forum Newbie Joined: December 09 2011 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 17 |
Posted: December 09 2011 at 13:50 | ||
As a Velvet Underground and Metallica fan,
Lulu - Metallica feat. Lou Reed
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FunkyM
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 12 2010 Location: Funkytown Status: Offline Points: 134 |
Posted: December 10 2011 at 10:21 | ||
I actually discovered them through a reference on the PA forums when I was in the mood for some heavy prog bands with female vocalists. I liked their first album well enough that I picked the new one up as soon as it came out. They have a great sound, IMO. |
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: December 10 2011 at 10:44 | ||
I guess this might be considered non prog:
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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HolyMoly
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26138 |
Posted: December 10 2011 at 20:34 | ||
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs Evil Jesu - Ascension
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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 12:04 | ||
My Best Albums of 2011 shortlist:
Electro / experimental / etc. @c - Homem Fantasma Akita, Gustafsson, O'Rourke - One Bird Two Bird Altenburger, Blondy, Gauguet - Vers l'ile paresseuse Anne Guthrie - Perhaps A More Favorable Organic Moment Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - Cross-Pollination Christina Kubisch - Mono Fluido Esther Venrroy - Vessel Jennifer Allum & Eddie Prevost - Penumbrae Julianna Barwick and Ikue Mori - FRKWYS Vol. 6 Jurg Frey - Metal, Stone, Skin, Foliage, Air MIMEO - Wigry Radu Malfatti & Keith Rowe - [phi] Stephan Mathieu - Static Thomas Ankersmith & Valeri Tricoli - Forma II Thymolphthalein - Ni maitre, Ni marteau Zeitkratzer - Old School: Karlheinz Stockhausen Jazz Anthony Braxton - Quartet Aram Shelton's Arrive - "There Was... Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 2 Francois Carrier - Entrance 3 & Inner SPire Bill Dixon - Envoi Lazro, Duboc, Lasserre - Pourtant les Cimes des Arbres London Improvisers Orchestra - Lio Leo Leon Marilyn Mazur - Celestial Circle Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One Mostly Other People Do The Killing - The Coimbra Concert Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts Scott Fields & Matthias Schubert - Minaret Minuets Thomas Heberer's Clarino - Klippe Vincent Courtois - L'imprevu Prog uhm ... Causa Sui? None of the above Bjork - Biophilia Dirty Beaches - Badlands Chelsea Wolfe - ... Death Grips - Exmilitary Destroyer - Kaputt Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Giles Corey - Giles Corey John Vanderslice - White Wilderness Julia Holter - Tragedy Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake Shabazz Palaces - Black Up The Decemberists - The King Is Dead The Roots - Undun tUnE-YaRdS - W H O K I L L and probably a few more I can't remember right now |
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tamijo
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
Posted: December 12 2011 at 12:18 | ||
Svin - Heimat - a Danish fussion between Jazz, Metal and more - very interesting to any Fussion lover
Check it out here : http://www.myspace.com/svinband
Might even be a cool addition to our fussion section, opening the genre a bit !
Pusifer - Conditions Of My Parole
Edited by tamijo - December 12 2011 at 12:19 |
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Negoba
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 24 2008 Location: Big Muddy Status: Offline Points: 5208 |
Posted: December 12 2011 at 13:19 | ||
Gillian Welch - Harrow and the Harvest
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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frippism
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160 |
Posted: December 13 2011 at 10:36 | ||
I'm ambivalent about this album- too jazzy at times, but it does have its shiny moments of brilliance. Their newer tracks (which I heard from their YouTube channel) are really REALLY good. I literally had to see which albums I've purchased this year are from 2011 (Probably my most productive year yet). I can't say I pay attention to the album's year much... Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut: My favorite is probably Death Grips' "Exmilitary"- experimental, genius hip-hop (with Zach Hill). Another vote for La Disputes' "Wildlife"- stirring and disturbing. Three Trapped Tigers "Route One Or Die"- Math/Noise Rock. The album took a while to grow on me- but trust me it's a good one. William D. Drake "The Rising Of The Lights"- Cardiacs' ex-keyboard player with a psychedelic pop treat. Some memorable compositions and clever instrumentation. Deerhoof "Deerhoof Vs. Evil"- These guys are on Progarchives but whether they're strictly-speaking "prog" is debatable. A really really good album. And of course North Sea Radio Orchestra "I A Moon"- Also on PA. But no. They're not prog. They're a quality psychedelic chamber pop group. Their album is quite almost perfect. Ummmm.... There's probably more... These are the ones that came to mind that I thought were from 2011. |
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There be dragons
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Kotro
Prog Reviewer Joined: August 16 2004 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 2815 |
Posted: December 13 2011 at 15:40 | ||
Wow, think I'll have to add this to my non-prog list of 2011: Last, by The Unthanks. Beautiful stuff.
Plus, it includes this little ditty (yes, it's that "Starless" - and it's wonderful):
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Bigger on the inside.
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lucas
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 06 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 8138 |
Posted: December 13 2011 at 16:04 | ||
pardon my ignorance, but could you describe these genres.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: December 13 2011 at 20:21 | ||
Sort of in between Smarr and Cumming.
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 13 2011 at 20:22 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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laplace
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 06 2005 Location: popupControl(); Status: Offline Points: 7606 |
Posted: December 14 2011 at 09:03 | ||
Zan-zan-zawa-veia - Moke Moke EP !!!!!! =F
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Apsalar
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2006 Location: gansu Status: Offline Points: 2888 |
Posted: December 15 2011 at 04:30 | ||
Those two will be on mine too, maybe the Anne Guthrie after a couple of more listens. Still got a whole bunch of stuff to listening to (and a big package in the mail) before thinking about assorting lists. Picked up The Roots latest last week, really not digging it yet. Outside EAI, Modern Composition, spinning Random Axe's self titled a whole deal. |
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