Best Of 2011

I know, its lame. Haven’t posted in awhile and now I'm posting my “best of”. I don’t want it to be like this from now on. A real post a year. But it is a new year, and hopefully a new era. As always, if you enjoy any these albums, PLEASE seek them out for purchase and enjoy further. Also, posts are not listed in any order of importance or greatness.

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Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

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Ampere – Like Shadows

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Radiohead – King Of Limbs

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Zombi – Escape Velocity

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Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies

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Sigur Rós – Inni

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Rival Schools – Pedals

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Foo Fighters – Wasting Light

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Kite Party – Baseball Season

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Primus – Green Naugahyde

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Obits – Moody, Standard and Poor

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Beirut – The Rip Tide

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Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

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Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

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Battles – Gloss Drop

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Snowing – I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted

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Bridge And Tunnel – Rebuilding Year

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Young Widows – In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

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EP’s
Braid – Closer To Closed

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Mouse On The Keys – Live Session 2011/3/28

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LOCAL/FRIEND’S BANDS
Oak & Bone – Self Titled

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Night Owls – Rapture

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Hidden Hospitals – EP 001

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Ed Gein – Bad Luck

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Zona Mexicana – Self Titled

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Like Wolves – Self Titled

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Reissues
Nirvana – Nevermind

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Rush – Moving Pictures

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Honorable Mentions of 2009

Well hello there! As I stated in my last "real" blog post, i would be doing a follow up to my best of 2009 post. This post will contain albums that i didn't listen to enough or just plain forgot to cover in the “Best of 2009” post. As I also mentioned, I’m not going to do full write ups of the the albums. Just album and link. Maybe ill put genre tags for good measure. Enjoy shit i should've written about already! haha.
Them Crooked Vultures – Self Titled
stoner rock/metal, neo-classic rock, alternative rock

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Bygones – By-
instrumental math rock, experimental, noise

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Narrows – New Distances
metalcore, math metal

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Saxon Shore – It Doesn't Matter
instrumental post rock

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Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

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Toe – For Long Tomorrow
post rock, instrumental rock, indie rock

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Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
post hardcore, emo, indie rock, alternative rock

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Victor Villarreal – Alive
Indie Rock, Acoustic, Singer/Songwriter

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Kalpana – Teeth On The Wheel
Post rock, Indie rock, Space rock

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Converge – Axe To Fall
math metal, metalcore

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Maserati – Passages
Post Rock, Instrumental Rock, Experimental Rock

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El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Cryptomnesia
Experimental Rock, Neo-Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock

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Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Post Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock

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Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
Indie Rock, Alternative Rock

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Young Widows – Split Series
Post Hardcore, Noise Rock, Alternative Rock

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As always, if you enjoy the music you've heard, please seek it out and buy it! I cant stress this enough!

Oh, Canada (Part 2): Jakartah - In The Nervous Lights Of Coincidence

Even though this band is a recent find for me, they are from Canada, so I will include them in my ongoing “Oh, Canada!” series. Also, they are fucking great, so why not show people another awesome Canadian band?

After much pondering, I think I have come up with a short description of this band, and more specifically this album, that is at least mostly accurate. Jakartah sound like a more riffy Jawbox, or a heavier Burning Airlines, with a singer that sort of sounds like the singer of Young Widows. Weird right? Haha. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. I recommend it to any fans of Jawbox and other good post hardcore bands in that vein. And though I’m not sure if fans of Young Widows would like it, I still say at least give it a listen. Cause you never know. This is the Vancouver band’s first and only full length. They broke up. Which is bummer fo shaw. But it’s also kind of amazing, considering they released stuff of this caliber right off the bat.

-matthew st.

Personal Album Highlights:

-A Young Boy Forgets About Heaven

-Rosa Unida drinks Anxiety

-A Thousand Miles Connects You To Me

-Liaisons At The Woodward Building

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If you like it, please purchase it from your local independent record store