Cokemachineglow's Top 50 Albums of 2011

Cokemachineglow's Top 50 Albums of 2011

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50.

Francois Couturier - Tarkovsky Quartet
July 26, 2011
Critic Score
77
2 reviews

48.

The Cyrillic Typewriter - The Cyrillic Typewriter
September 1, 2011
Critic Score
81
1 review

46.

May 9, 2011
Critic Score
81
33 reviews

Poised as hyper-indulgent fellas, Smother is a startlingly controlled album, one that's exactly as smooth and smoldering as its moniker posits.

45.

Andy Stott - We Stay Together
October 24, 2011
Critic Score
81
8 reviews

45.

May 23, 2011
Critic Score
83
7 reviews

43.

Miracle Fortress - Was I the Wave?
May 17, 2011
Critic Score
66
8 reviews

42.

13 & God - Own Your Ghost
June 14, 2011
Critic Score
71
7 reviews

41.

May 24, 2011
Critic Score
75
9 reviews

35.

November 15, 2011
Critic Score
76
32 reviews

I like opening tracks like “Over My Dead Body” and “Take Care” a lot, but some six or seven songs in, when Take Care starts to sound like a dismal echo of the preceding thirty minutes, my interest wanes.

32.

Nurses - Dracula
September 20, 2011
Critic Score
67
11 reviews

31.

October 18, 2011
Critic Score
75
32 reviews
It feels both classic and surprisingly new; this is Real Estate, and this is all Real Estate will ever be.

30.

September 13, 2011
Critic Score
81
29 reviews

29.

Roommate - Guilty Rainbow
April 12, 2011
Critic Score
77
5 reviews

27.

February 14, 2011
Critic Score
89
44 reviews

Where the album really excels ... is in how it marries slightly absurd melodies to its lyrics to create a portrait of surreality and madness, as was so often rendered by those same Modernist poets Harvey cites as an influence.

24.

January 3, 2011
Critic Score
81
3 reviews

23.

March 29, 2011
Critic Score
79
6 reviews

Street Halo shows his commitment to his music both by tweaking it and sticking to the formula.

22.

June 28, 2011
Critic Score
73
12 reviews

21.

Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk
April 29, 2011
Critic Score
81
7 reviews

20.

October 31, 2011
Critic Score
79
14 reviews

LIVELOVEA$AP absolutely scorches from front-to-back; its author’s ability to command a variety of sounds allows it to sound unified without drifting into monochrome territory.

18.

February 4, 2011
Critic Score
82
37 reviews
If, at most, this album is a testament to encyclopedic impulse, to mathematical soul, then, well, Blake is so good at so much that it, at its best, can start to resemble the product of intuition anyway.

17.

January 25, 2011
Critic Score
79
30 reviews

Deerhood vs. Evil is just simultaneously astounding and utterly familiar, correct, and right.

16.

August 8, 2011
Critic Score
75
35 reviews
Its tone is largely exuberant, even when its content seems dour; its ancillary themes seem surprisingly relatable and humanizing, even though its thesis stresses how uniquely untouchable and alone they are at the top.

15.

March 8, 2011
Critic Score
78
27 reviews
Vile has slyly written pop that enters one's head without leaving much of a permanent mark; instead of a distraction from one's deeper woes, it's chameleonic accompaniment.

13.

January 25, 2011
Critic Score
85
30 reviews

Kaputt is the sound of an artist released from his back catalogue and his own notions of how a song should be sung, or written. It is a mighty, mighty piece of work and really worth celebrating. In my mind, this is Destroyer's best album yet.

12.

September 12, 2011
Critic Score
86
37 reviews
It’s a great album—one of the best of the year—but perhaps more importantly also in the sense that it’s an album that holds at arms’ length, and makes the subject of its various neuroses, the very praise it’s positioned to receive.

11.

Blackout Beach - Fuck Death
November 15, 2011
Critic Score
78
8 reviews

10.

March 21, 2011
Critic Score
79
18 reviews

House of Balloons is an album suspended in contradiction—a collection of sex jams tired of sex, or a paean to coke addled irretrievably by the same. It lacks dynamism because it has to; the Weeknd know nothing else, just that in every solid groove lurks the metronomic pulse of something waiting to die.

9.

February 14, 2011
Critic Score
84
19 reviews

Perhaps the appeal of this music lies in nothing more or less than how painstakingly moulded it is, and in that respect Hecker will probably always release really impressive records.

8.

.L.W.H. - The Tape Hiss Hooligan
September 7, 2011
Critic Score
87
1 review

7.

April 19, 2011
Critic Score
85
33 reviews

w h o k i l l is probably the most inviting album you'll hear this year.

6.

August 15, 2011
Critic Score
84
8 reviews

XXX is something much more complex, challenging, and rewarding than a dirty joke.

5.

February 22, 2011
Critic Score
74
7 reviews

New History Warfare has enough range that it seems to have opened up a whole new fanbase that might otherwise have no interest in avant-garde music.

4.

April 26, 2011
Critic Score
80
4 reviews

The main thrust of Viscera is the cycle of flesh continually transcending into something deeper and universal then being reduced back to pure body. Threatening to dissolve into an undifferentiated mass than gathered, coiled up and collected into something private and mysterious again.

2.

January 18, 2011
Critic Score
75
19 reviews

1.

June 28, 2011
Critic Score
84
30 reviews

The production on Black Up is meticulous but furtive, always pushing forward, often unwilling simply to loop. And Butler’s rapping sounds perfectly at home in this sometimes chaotic environment, kicking it amidst the kinetic verve of his beats.

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