WHATEVER I CAN THINK OF//: December 2011

MY BEST :2011

It's always so tricky to write my top 20 list. This year there have been quite a few albums that really made an impact...However, there were also a lot of disappointments (Antlers, Iron & Wine-here's looking at you). There are also quite a few albums that I'm sure would've made it onto my list if I wasn't so spoilt for choice. What often seems to happen, is that one band releases a really solid album, which just as it starts growing on you gets neglected because of one of your favourite bands releasing something you are expecting to be promising. What I am actually trying to say, is that I wish there was more time to listen to everything from back to front... Over and over again, without fearing to miss out on another release that seems essential to lend an ear to.

Then apart from all the 2011 releases there are always those lingereing 2010 records you somehow skipped as well as the rest of your i tunes library..There are many albums that aren't on the list but that should've actually been on there...I didn't add them because I haven't dedicated enough time to them, or because they didn't quite make the cut. It seems they will form part of my 2012 heavy rotation...

These include Russian Circles-Empros, Young Widows-In and out of Youth and LIghtness, Wolves in the Throne Room-Celestial Lineage, The Middle East- I want that you are always Happy, , Adebisi Shank- This is the second album of, Boris-New Album, Idaho-You were a dick and despite the slight let down Antlers-Burst Apart. Radiohead gets enough attention which is also why it was left out depite being an album I really enjoyed this year (don't call me a fangirl)...

COLIN STETSON- A history of warfare vol.2
FAVOURITE TRACK: JUDGES