2011 in music.

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy won 2010. Let's see who wins 2011. Feels like the first great year after a few mediocre ones.

Billboard chart-topping albums of 2011:
Taylor Swift - Speak Now (cont. from 2010)
Cake - Showroom of Compassion
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Amos Lee - Mission Bell
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday (cont. from 2010)
Various Artists - Now! That's What I Call Music Vol. 37
Justin Bieber - Never Say Never
Adele - 21
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Chris Brown - FAME
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Bad Meets Evil - Hell
Jill Scott - The Light of the Sun
Beyonce - 4
Blake Shelton - Red River Blue
Eric Church - Chief
Jay Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Game - RED Album
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
Lady Antebellum - Own the Night
Tony Bennett - Duets II
J. Cole - Cole World
Scotty McCreery - Clear as Day
Evanescence - Evanescence
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Justin Bieber - Under the Mistletoe
Mac Miller - Blue Side Park
Drake - Take Care
Michael Buble - Christmas

Billboard chart-topping singles of 2011:
Katy Perry - Firework (cont. from 2010)
Bruno Mars - Grenade (cont. from 2010)
Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me
Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow (cont. from 2010)
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Katy Perry - ET
Rihanna - S&M
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Pitbull - Give Me Everything
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
Adele - Someone Like You
Rihanna - We Found Love

What are your top three albums for 2011? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be:
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (my favorite of the decade)
2. Wye Oak - Civilian
3. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light


What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later?

YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm

 

Easily the best Foo Fighters album since the turn of the century? I think so.

 

1. Maybeshewill – I was Here for a Moment, Then I Was Gone
2. Kimbra – Vows
3. Tycho - Dive


Yelle – Safari Disco Club
Drake – Take Care
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
AraabMUZIK – Electronic Dream
Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
Theophilus London – Timez are Weird These Days
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Doomtree – No Kings
The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low
Capsule – No Ghost
Astronautalis – The is our Science
And So I Watch you From Afar – Gangs
Feist - Metals
Boris – Attention Please
Lady Gaga – Born This Way
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead – s/t
Yuck – s/t
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Foster the People – Torches
Big Sean – Finally Famous

 

remainder of the top 20:
4. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
6. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
8. Wilco - The Whole Love
9. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
10. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
11. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
12. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
13. Dawes - Nothing is Wrong
14. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
15. Thursday - No Devolucion
16. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous
17. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
18. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
19. O'Brother - Garden Window
20. Russian Circles - Empros

honorable mentions:
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
Beyonce - 4
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation
Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
Cave In - White Silence
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
David Bazan - Strange Negotiations
Drake - Take Care
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
Eric Church - Chief
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
Iceage - New Brigade
Kevin Devine - Between the Concrete and Clouds
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Mastodon - The Hunter
Moving Mountains - Waves
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Pusha T - Fear of God II
R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
Thrice - Major/Minor
Touche Amore - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Yuck - Yuck

stuff to check out:
Animals as Leaders - Weightless
Battles - Gloss Drop
Bjork - Biophilia
Boris - Attention Please
City and Colour - Little Hell
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
Feist - Metals
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
Killer Mike - Pledge
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Miranda Lambert - Four the Record
Mutemath - Odd Soul
Opeth - Heritage
Panda Bear - Tomboy
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Raekwon - Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
Schoolboy Q - Setbacks
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
The Wombats - This Modern Glitch

 

1. Drake - Take Care
2. The Wonder Years - Suburbia, I've Given You All, And Now I'm Nothing
3. Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes

ALSO
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Glassjaw - Coloring Book
Danny Brown - XXX
Tycho - Dive
Thursday - No Devolucion
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
Lil Wayne - Sorry 4 The Wait
The Roots - undun
Death Cab For Cutie - Codes & Keys
Bayside - Killing Time
Jack's Mannequin - People & Things
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
Mac Miller - Best Day Ever
The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
Wiz Khalifa - Cabin Fever
Thrice - Major/Minor
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
blink-182 - Neighborhoods
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Joyce Manor - S/T
Big Sean - Finally Famous
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt
Into It. Over It - Proper
Transit - Listen & Forgive
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
Fireworks - Gospel
A$AP Rocky - LIVE.LOVE.A$AP
Wale - Ambition
Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
The Black Keys - El Camino

 

1) The Weeknd - House of Balloons
2) Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions (prob shouldn’t count but I don’t care)
3) Radiohead - The King of Limbs

HM:

Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

This has the two songs that most defined my 20s. Far too short a career, did get to see their last show though.

Kendrick Lamar - section.80
Wilco - The Whole Love

Sneaky great Wilco album, far and away their best post AGIB release

Real Estate - Days
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien

has my favorite two Cymbals songs in Definite Darkness and Another Tunguska

Mediocre year in comparison to 2010 imo though I think HoB is really strong.

 

I remember the week that Cake was #1 on the charts, because Billboard hadn't implemented streaming into album sales yet and the band had the lowest-selling #1 album of all time: https://www.billboard.com/music/mus...lling-no-1-album-in-soundscan-history-473580/

 

1. The Wonder Years - Suburbia
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Moving Mountains - Waves

 

asides: I absolutely loathe Helplessness Blues outside of 2-3 songs

Never got into BI, BI. I recognize it is good but I’m no fan of JV’s gradual descent into soundscape focus

I got to see the last Buffalo Springfield show ever in 2011, one of the musical highlights of my life and definitely my favorite time I’ve seen Neil

 

Cole World was a weird debut, it was old the record industry trying to launch a new record industry guy

 

Don't have time to think about it deeply...

1. Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room

As a huge Dan fan with his Alk3 work, and seeing him solo acoustic a few times, I was super pumped for this album and it didn't disappoint. Dan is great as a singer songwriter and I wish his more recent albums would go back to that style tbh. But I know he has said multiple times he hates playing on a stage alone and prefers to have a band so. But this album is great and there's only a couple on here I couldn't really get into. What was cool was hearing a song I ahd heard him play years before solo acoustic, Say Say Say, and having a completed album version of it. There's a few others out there that he's played solo that I hope make it to recordings some day, a couple of htem have now with Alkaline Trio (Little Help and Smokestack)

2. Taking Back Sunday-S/T

As an album, this was actually kind of a disappointment. It just seems a little all over the place as these guys tried to get reacquainted with each other and their song writing styles. That led to a final product that was disjointed and uneven. However, some of the songs themselves individually on here are great or at least have great moments. This Is All Now is a top tier TBS song. Definitely wish some of the tracks on the final track listing were replaced by some of the b-sides we go. Macky Sasser and You Should Have Waited definitely should have been finished and on the album IMO.

 

the wye oak album won't get a ton of votes but it's one of the most interesting guitar rock albums of the decade and would have won pretty much any other year for me

 

Gonna check out that and finally all of David comes to life this week

 

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
3. Thrice - Major/Minor
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4. Foster The People - Torches
5. Yuck - Yuck
6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
7. 311 - Universal Pulse
8. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
9. Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud
10. Rival Schools - Pedals
11. The Black Keys - El Camino
12. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
13. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
14. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
15. Friendly Fires - Pala
16. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
17. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
18. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
19. Wilco - The Whole Love
20. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
21. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
22. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee (Pt. 2)
23. Real Estate - Days
24. Mastodon - The Hunter
25. The Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low
26. Mutemath - Odd Soul
27. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
28. Switchfoot - Vice Verses
29. Blink 182 - Neighborhoods
30. Childish Gambino - Camp

Honorable Mention:
Alkaline Trio - Damnesia
Angels & Airwaves - Love, Pt. 2
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
AWOLNATION - Megalithic Symphony
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix
Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
Cake - Showroom Of Compassion
Chevelle - Hats Off To The Bull
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Deer Tick - Divine Providence
Destroyer - Kaputt
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
Eric Church - Chief
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Fountains Of Wayne - Sky Full Of Holes
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Glassjaw - Coloring Book / Our Color Green EPs
Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Ending
The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart
The Horrors - Skying
Incubus - If Not Now, When?
James Blake - James Blake
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Korn - The Path Of Totality
Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra
The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Neon Indian - Era Extrana
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
O'Brother - Garden Window
Old 97's - The Grand Theatre
Panic! At The Disco - Vices & Virtues
Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some
The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
Rise Against - Endgame
The Roots - Undun
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires
The Strokes - Angles
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Sublime With Rome - Yours Truly
Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
Thursday - No Devolucion
Toro y Moi - Underneath The Pine
Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
Tycho - Dive
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Washed Out - Within And Without
The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence / House Of Balloons / Thursday
Wye Oak - Civilian
Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes

Checking Out In Full First Time (Artists' 2011 album):
All Time Low
Animals As Leaders
Architects
Asking Alexandria
Balance And Composure
Battles
Bayside
Bomb The Music Industry!
Bright Eyes
Bush
Cave In
City And Colour
The Dangerous Summer
Deafheaven
Drake
Elbow
Ed Sheeran
Fireworks
Flogging Molly
Frank Turner
The Front Bottoms
The Horrible Crowes
Into It. Over It.
Jane's Addiction
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Kaiser Chiefs
Kendrick Lamar
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
La Dispute
Mayday Parade
Mogwai
Moving Mountains
New Found Glory
Okkervil River
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Pianos Become The Teeth
Protest The Hero
Puscifer
The Story So Far
Sum 41
Touche Amore
We Came As Romans
Wild Beasts
Wiz Khalifa
The Wombats
The Wonder Years
You Me At Six

 

Holy shit this year was so stacked, gonna put together my list later. Hilarious that both Cake and The Decemberists had #1 albums (which I both liked/loved but was more emblematic of having not as many superstar releases in those weeks).

 

I wanted to put Take Care as my #1, but I remembered how bloated the back half is. The first half is untouchable.

 

1. James Blake - James Blake
2. The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
3. O'Brother - Garden Window

 

How many of these do you tend to check out each week? Or do they just go onto a long list for future listening?

 

Little of both - I am cataloguing by year with Spotify playlists. So each week I add these and more based on the recommedations throughout the thread and treat each playlist as a catch-all of sorts. I'll scroll through the playlists based on my mood and listen accordingly.

Lately each week I probably get to 5-7 of those. Kinda glad that this will be over in 10 weeks because holy shit I have a lonnnnnnng long list still to get to.

 

1. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3. The Wonder Years - Suburbia

4. Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
5. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
6. Transit - Listen & Forgive
7. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
8. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
10. Laura Stevenson - Sit/ Resit

Simple Math was the big break up album of a long-term relationship I was in when I was a doe eyed idiot 19 year old. I love how huge songs like the title track, Leave It Alone, and Pale Black Eye sound, the highly confessional but oddly relatable lyrics, and the Built To Spill twangy influence, (especially on Leaky Breaks). It's a *chefs kiss* of an album.

BI, BI is probably amongst the prettiest albums of the decade. A lush, scenic album, which has some of my favourite Bon Iver songs, (Michicant, Perth, Beth/Rest).

The first two Wonder Years records were the soundtrack to my years at uni, with Suburbia remaining as one of my favourite pop-punk albums of all time. Not all of the music coming out of that wave of pop-punk was incredible, but Suburbia fucking rules. I love the Ginsberg structural and lyrical influence, I love the urgency, I don't think Dans ever sounded better than on this record. It's just a great time from to start to finish.

2011 also had Trophy Scars' Never Born, Never Dead, which is my favourite EP of all time.

 

1. Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim
2. La Dispute - Wildlife
3. Moving Mountains - Waves

Kinda weak year for me in comparison to the 2000's. I still really love my top three but the rest don't do quite as much for me.

Honourable Mentions:

4. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
6. Panic! at the Disco - Vices & Virtues
7. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
8. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra.
9. The Hotel Year - It Never Goes Out
10. Gotye - Making Mirrors
11. Farewell Continental - ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!
12. Drake - Take Care
13. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
14. Mansions - Dig Up the Dead
15. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
16. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
17. The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
18. Blink-182 - Neighbourhoods
19. Adele - 21
20. The Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low
21. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
22. Deas Vail - Deas Vail
23. Thursday - No Devolución
24. Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain II
25. Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys

Songs
1. La Dispute - You & I in Unison
2. Charlie Simpson - Riverbanks
3. Frank Turner - Redemption
4. Panic! at the Disco - Trade Mistakes
5. Frank Ocean - Strawberry Swing
6. The Hotel Year - Title-Track (There is a Light)
7. Dance Gavin Dance - Purple Reign
8. Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
9. Adele - Set Fire to the Rain
10. Moving Mountains - The Cascade
11. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
12. Mansions - Call Me When It's Over
13. Drake - Take Care
14. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
15. Bon Iver - Beth/Rest
16. The Weeknd - High for This
17. M83 - Midnight City
18. The Rosebuds - Cover Ears
19. Blink-182 - Ghost on the Dance Floor
20. Deas Vail - Summer Forgets Me
21. Farewell Continental - The Greatest of All Time (How You Feelin' Now?)
22. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
23. The Dangerous Summer - Siren
24. Thursday - Sparks Against the Sun
25. Death Cab for Cutie - Stay Young, Go Dancing

 

Oh shit, this was their first album right? I feel like I've maybe only heard a song or two from this. I didn't come on board with this band until Goodness, and remember casually revisiting their older stuff and being shocked out how different it was.

 

1. Butch Walker & the Black Widows - The Spade

• My favorite Butch Walker album! Every song on here is a party and this was an album my entire family could find something to enjoy on. I covered "Summer of 89" at a hometown show once for a bunch of folks Butch's age and it went over very well, so thanks Butch!

2. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

• If not the best Foo FIghters album, this one is my favorite. I got to see the band live for the first time when they toured this, my high school rock band covered "Bridge Burning," and I even bought the laser cut-out crash cymbal Taylor used on the livestream where they played the album live from Dave's garage. This is also one of the few Foo albums where I can look at the track listing and remember what each song sounds like.

3. Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Season

• I like this album more than 2-3 Alk3 albums, tbh. Dan knocks it out of the park, delivering some of his catchiest choruses and moodiest ballads.

VERY Honorable Mentions
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

• My favorite Frank Turner album and arguably one of his most consistent. The magic isn't quite gone after this, but I don't think any of the albums after have quite lived up.

The Swellers - Good For Me

• This was my favorite Swellers album for a time, I think just because I was excited that they got to record with Bill Stevenson. The back half is definitely weaker than the front, but a lot of their best songs are on here.

Primus - Green Naugahyde

• One of the most consistent Primus albums, imo. Also one of the most accessible, which isn't saying much. I really love this album for some reason.

Mars Argo - Linden Place

• First off, I do want to say fuck Titanic Sinclair. Second, I think Mars herself is what really makes this power pop EP work. If anyone, (@irthesteve) has a download of this, it has been removed from streaming services and I'd love to hear it again.

Bayside - Killing Time

• My first and favorite Bayside album! Or at least tied with TWW. I think this is probably their most consistent and I'm glad they went all-out with the Gil Norton production.

Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes

• The final FoW album, unfortunately. Drags a bit in the second half, but there are songs on here just as good as their heyday.

The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain

• The first Lonely Island album to feel like an actual album. The hype for this was real and my friends and I wore this album the fuck out.

The Rest (in no particular order)
Cake - Showroom of Compassion

• Cake gonna Cake. Their slowest and quietest album, which is saying something.

The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low

• Everyone on AP.net hyped this band and album up and I largely think this is still a solid album.

Thrice - Major/Minor

• My first Thrice album and I was very confused by it. I still like it, but would it have killed them to include a little sonic variation?

Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes

• Underwhelming to me, but I was not anxiously awaiting their return. I didn't truly click with the band until Southern Air.

Jack's Mannequin - People & Things

• Also underwhelming and I'm not judging with hindsight, because I didn't get into this band until 2018. It's pretty obvious that this one is several notches weaker than the albums preceding. I'm reading Three Pianos right now and I'm on this section and he doesn't have a lot to say about it.

blink-182 - Neighborhoods

• LOVED most of this album when it came out. I definitely was waiting with baited breath for this reunion. It hasn't aged very well and songs that didn't used to be have definitely become filler.

Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday

• Meh. Listened a lot when I was younger, but probably my least favorite TBS album if I had to pick.

The Black Keys - El Camino

• Victory lap album! I let the gal I took to junior prom borrow my CD of this and I still have never gotten it back.

Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday

• Some god-awful songs on here, but some excellent all-timers and the energy is unmatched.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Alpocalypse

• A lower Al album for me, mostly because half of it had been released years prior as part of the Internet Leaks EP. I really love "Skipper Dan" though.

K Sera - The Cantos II

• Too bad no one remembers this band. Good proggy Forgive Durden-like music.

MUTEMATH - Odd Soul

• Jam city. Probably my favorite until Play Dead came out. "Prytania" rules.

New Found Glory - Radiosurgery

• I do not get the ambivalence towards this album. Simple, catchy songs with exactly the same lyrics they've been writing the whole time.

Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder

• I do kinda get the less-than-rapturous celebration this album gets. There are some good songs, but it is extremely bloated.

Patrick Stump - Soul Punk

• Always been a good album and set the stage for the reunion.

Panic! At the Disco - Vices & Virtues

• Always been torn on this album. I either really love it or think it's the worst, depending on the day. The lyrics certainly take a nosedive after Ryan Ross leaves, but the melodies are still there.

Tune-Yards - WHOKILL

• Too bad this band doesn't have the same energy anymore, this album has some killers.

The Dangerous Summer - War Paint

• Great album that I wish I had been there for the release of.

 

1. City & Colour - Little Hell
2. Moving Mountains - Waves
3. Evaline - Woven Material

 

1. la dispute - wildlife
2. pianos become the teeth - the lack long after
3. glassjaw - coloring book

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joyce manor - s/t
title fight - shed
william bonney - good vibes
bright eyes - the peoples key
glassjaw - our color green
half hearted hero - running water
the cinema - my blood is full of airplanes
now, now - neighbors
the strokes - angles
and so i watch you from afar - gangs
manchester orchestra - simple math
you me & us - paperweights
the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world
the story so far - under soil & dirt
all get out - the season
youth lagoon - the year of hibernation
lvl up - space brothers
lydia - paint it golden
frameworks - every day is the same
o'brother - garden window
happy trendy - die young