All Things: Your music-related best of 2011 end-of-year lists

Another year filled with so much awesome music. A little behind but after further review, top 20 of 2011:

1. Bry Webb-Provider
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2. La Dispute-Wildlife
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3. The Horrible Crowes-Elsie
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4. Touche Amore-Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
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5. Joyce Manor-S/T
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6. Red City Radio-The Dangers of Standing Still
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7. The Holy Mess- S/T
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8. White Wives-Happeners
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9. Title Fight-Shed
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10. Chuck Ragan- Covering Ground
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11. Balance and Composure-Separation
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12. Nothington-Borrowed Time
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13. Banner Pilot- Heart Beats Pacific
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14. Elway-Delusions
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15. Tenement- Napalm Dream
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16. Atlas Losing Grip-State of Unrest
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17. Restorations-S/T
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18. Seahaven-Winter Forever
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19. Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room- Hurricane Season
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20. Banquets-Top Button, Bottom Shelf
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Wow, I think I've heard of maybe two of those bands.

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Originally Posted by adgy-san

Wow, I think I've heard of maybe two of those bands.

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coming from you that's kinda scary

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Originally Posted by adgy-san

Wow, I think I've heard of maybe two of those bands.

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his list is the closest to mine on here. i forgot to mention the horrible crows. gotta give it a listen since I like the singer's band, the gaslight anthem.

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Originally Posted by lunchbox

h2o - s/t (15th anniversary repress)
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My friends look out for me like family!

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Originally Posted by lunchbox

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my kid has a t-shirt that has the graphic and song lyric from this video on it. lol.

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which leads me to

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Originally Posted by adgy-san

Wow, I think I've heard of maybe two of those bands.

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Ha, Bry Webb is the lead singer of the Constantines(who you may have heard of).

narrowed down lists of stuff that stuck out this year-

metal:
Loss - Despond
Ash Borer - s/t
Lycus - Demo
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust

noise/drone
Grouper - A I A
Rene Hell - Terminal Symphony
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Matt Carlson - Particle Language
Hive Mind - Elemental Disgrace

other:
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Peaking Lights - 936
Shoppers - Silver Year
The Antlers - Burst Apart

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Originally Posted by sarf

narrowed down lists of stuff that stuck out this year-

metal:
Loss - Despond
Ash Borer - s/t
Lycus - Demo
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust

noise/drone
Grouper - A I A
Rene Hell - Terminal Symphony
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Matt Carlson - Particle Language
Hive Mind - Elemental Disgrace

other:
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Peaking Lights - 936
Shoppers - Silver Year
The Antlers - Burst Apart

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I'm gonna look for just about everything in this post I don't already have, but tell me about this. I've seen it mentioned before and passed it over thinking it was just Psychedelic rock stuff. I didn't realize they were metal.

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I'm gonna look for just about everything in this post I don't already have, but tell me about this. I've seen it mentioned before and passed it over thinking it was just Psychedelic rock stuff. I didn't realize they were metal.

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It is along the same lines of Electric Wizard but has more groove/variety, they are on the same label (Rise Above Records) the vinyl was sold out rather quickly. Get the Uncle Acid album Adgy! it ****ing rules! im glad Sarf got me into it. Why i overlooked it in my best of list? i have no clue but it should of been at the top had i ranked them.