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2011: Favorites and Let Downs


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Awesome:

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Death Grips - Exmilitary

The Feelies - Here Before

Noisear - Subvert the Dominant Paradigm

Rival Tribes - s/t EP

Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Pariso - Sooner Insignificant Better

Need to spend more time with:

Goes Cube - In Tides and Drifts

Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

Cave In - White Silence

Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted if I Wanted

Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Battles - Gloss Drop

Disappointed:

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

James Blake - s/t

Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

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Faves:

Agitator - Walls Closing In

Ampere - Like Shadows

Balance and Composure - Separation

Fires of Waco - Old Ghosts Never Sleep

Foundation - When the Smoke Clears

I Exist - II: The Broken Passage

Pulling Teeth - Funerary

Title Fight - Shed (how could anyone be disappointed by this?)

Touche Amore - PTSBBAM

The Wonder Years - Suburbia

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FAVORITE LPS:

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Raein - Sulla Linea d'Orizzonte Tra Questa Mia Vita e Quella di Tutti

Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted

Ampere - Like Shadows

Beau Navire - Hours

Baton Rouge - Fragments D'eux Mêmes

FAVORITE 7"/Splits :

Adorno/Black Heart Rebellion

Snowing/Algernon/1994!/Boys & Sex

Suffix/Beau Navire

Clippers/Coping

LET DOWNS:

Anything Bridge9 put out this year

Of Montreal - thecontrollersphere

Joan Of Arc - Oh Brother

Maritime - Human Hearts

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Favorites:

The One AM Radio- Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread

Big Kids- Phone Home

By Surprise- Mountain Smashers

Craft Spells- Idle Labor

Cut Copy- Zonoscope

Deafheaven- Roads To Judah

Liturgy- Aesthethica

Memory Map- Holiday Band

Starfucker- Reptilians

The Appleseed Cast- Middle States

The Weeknd- House of Balloons

Wormrot- Dirge

Let Downs:

Tyler, The Creator- Goblin

Burzum- Fallen

Radiohead- The King of Limbs

Earth- Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I

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Tons of good releases so far this year!

Favorites:

Iceage - New Brigade LP

Mammoth Grinder / Hatred Surge - split LP

Night Birds - Midnight Movies 7"

Bloodclot Faggots - s/t 7"

Raspberry Bulbs - Nature Tries Again LP

Raein - new LP

Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony LP

Hoax - s/t 7"

Backslider / Nimbus Terrifix - split 7"

Pulse Emitter - Spiritual Vistas LP

Barghest - s/t LP

Ampere - Like Shadows LP

Low Threat Profile - Product #2 LP

Ride At Dawn - Chrome Pillars 7"

New Lows - Harvest Of The Carcass LP

D-Clone / Nerveskade - split 7"

Generacion Suicida - demo tape

Bad Banana - Cry About It 7"

Bongripper - Sex Tape/Snuff Film 7"

Dreamdecay - demo tape

V/A - Iron Lung Mixtape

Let Downs:

Converge/Dropdead - split 7"

Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Despise You - split 12"

Fucked Up - David Comes To Life 2xLP

Scotch Tapes Singles Club (only 2 shipped so far)

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Favorites:

Baton Rouge - Fragments Deux Memes

New Lows - Harvest Of The Carcass

To The North - Lustre

Born Of Osiris - The Discovery

Rotten Sound - Cursed

Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

Liturgy - Aesthethica

Raein - Ah As If

Altar Of Plagues - Mammal

Thursday - No Devolucion

And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

Maybeshewill - I Was Here For A Moment...

Moonlit Sailor - Colors In Stereo

Meek The Murder - Algorithms

Let Downs:

Jeniferever - Silesia

Dredg - Chuckles

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes

Cave In - White Silence

Obscura - Omnivium

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favorites:

City and Colour- Little Hell

Balance and Composure- Separation

Moving Mountains- Waves

Touche Amore- Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me

Title Fight- Shed

The Decemberists- The King Is Dead

Cold War Kids- Mine Is Yours

Bon Iver- Bon Iver

Adele- 21

Thursday- No Devolucion

Letdowns:

Radiohead- The King of Limbs

It is pretty good but not as good as In Rainbows

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Favorites:

Black God - Black God

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Most Precious Blood - DNR

Sharks - The Joys of Living

Red Fang - Murder The Mountains

Cave In - White Silence

Bobonblonde - The Banana Battle E.P.

Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years

Let Downs:

nothing really comes to mind

Also, right now, I'm really digging The Nuclears self titled album, but time will tell if it will just be a passing fancy or if it sustains and ends up one of my favs of the year

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favorites:

Touche Amore - PTSBBAM

Title Fight - Shed

Red City Radio - The Dangers Of Standing Still

Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor

Half Hearted Hero - Running Water

Converge/Dropdead

Ghost Thrower - Get Miserable

CSTVT - CSTVT

Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

Thursday - No Devolucion

let downs:

Fucked Up - David's Town

Balance and Composure - Separation

really like the other B&C stuff this just didn't do it for me for some reason.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Let Downs:

Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst The Ashes

Obscura - Omnivium

Whaaat??!! ;)

These and Origin's 'Entity' are my top three metal albums for 2011 so far.

My overall favorite release so far is Explosions... 'Take Care...'

I haven't purchased many albums this year so I don't have any let downs yet.

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:(

btbam - paralaraex blah blah (used to love btbam, they've lost direction)

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. Still love BTBAM thou.

Fav's

Boris - Heavy Rocks

Liturgy - Aesthethica

Low - C'mon

Rivals Schools - Pedals

Bon Iver - S/T

Thursday - No Devolucion

Mountains - Air Museum

Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I

Adele - 21

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

Fucked Up - Davids Town and David Comes To Life

(this is what I can think of at the moment)

Let Downs

Panda Bear - tomboy

Fleet Foxes - helplessness blues

BTBAM - The Parallax

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

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Favorites:

Ampere- Like Shadows

Mountain Man- Grief

Coke Bust- Degradation

Death Cab For Cutie- Codes and Keys

Xerxes & Midnight Souls- Split

Title Fight- Shed

Coping & The Clippers- split

Beartrap- Nailed Shut

Code Orange Kids- Embrace Me/Erase Me

Let downs:

Touche Amore- PTSBBAM

Underoath- Disambiguation

Balance & Composure- Separation

I'm glad I'm not the only one let down by the new Touche record. It's just boring and dull.

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Favs:

Title Fight- Shed

Basement- IWICSH

Daytrader- Last days of rome

Touche amore -blalbla

Let downs (not bad just my taste)

city and colour -little hell- good ablum just not up to C&c standards

balance and composure - seperation- his voice just sounds so bland i cant get into it

Get up kids- there are rules

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Favorites:

Foo Fighters- Wasting Light

Yellowcard- When You're Through Thinking

Bon Iver- Bon Iver, Bon Iver

Bayonet- Bayonet

Living With Lions- Holy Shit

The Lonely Island- Turtleneck & Chain

Mansions- Dig Up the Dead

Panic! At The Disco- Vices & Virtues

Sum 41- Screaming Bloody Murder

Could Get Into With A Few More Spins

Death Cab for Cutie- Codes and Keys

Explosions in The Sky- Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues

Incubus- If Not Now, When?

Tyler the Creator- Goblin

Mehhhh Albums

Alkaline Trio- Damnesia

Strung Out- Top Contenders

Rise Against- End Game

Set Your Goals- Burning At Both Ends

Unwritten Law- Swan

Let Downs

The Dangerous Summer- War Paint

My Chemical Romance- Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys

Major FUCKING LET DOWN

Taking Back Sunday- Taking Back Sunday

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Limp Bizkit-Gold Cobra

Sublime W/ Rome- Yours Truly

Looking Forward to

Maylene & The Sons of Disaster IV (September)

Blink-182- Neighborhoods (September)

Jack's Mannequin- People & Things (October)

Jay-Z & Kanye West- Watch the Throne (August)

New Found Glory- Radio Surgery (September)

Thrice- Major/Minor (September)

Motion City Soundtrack- Untitled as of Now (Fall/Winter 11)

Horrible Crowes- Elsie (September)

I'm sure there are more I'm not remembering

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Favorites:

Balance and Composure - Separation

Bayside - Killing Time

Bon Iver - S/T

Glassjaw - The Coloring Book EP

Hawkboy - S/T EP (Probably my top favorite release so far.)

Mansions - Dig Up The Dead

Moving Mountains - Waves

Rival Schools - Pedals

This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

Good, Not Great:

City & Colour - Little Hell

Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (Acoustic tracks are the best songs off of this.)

Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak

Title Fight - Shed

Transit - Something Left Behind

On The Fence:

The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (Need to hear the complete collection to form opinion.)

Letdowns:

Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math

Taking Back Sunday - S/T

The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing (First song is the only good one, rest is boring.)

Absolute Horse Shit:

Emery - We Do What We Want

Rise Against - Endgame (Given up on this band.)

Looking Forward To:

All Get Out (If it is every released.)

Brand New

Caravels/Gifts From Enola split

mewithoutYou

O'Brother - Garden Window

Sainthood Reps - Monoculture

The Lulls In Traffic

Thrice - Major/Minor

Weatherbox

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