Our Favourite Albums of 2011
22 December 2011
With 2011 almost done and dusted, we asked the Laneway team and friends to take a look back over what's been a rich year in music and offer up their favourite records of 2011.
Danny Rogers, Laneway Festival Co-Founder
1. Gotye – Making Mirrors
2. M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
3. Feist – Metals
4. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
5. SBTRKT – SBTRKT
6. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
7. tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
8. The Horrors – Skying
9. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don't Know
10. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Others that ruled the oceans: Husky, Geoffrey O'Connor, Wild Flag
Albums that will matter next year: Gang Colors, Chairlift, The XX, Temper trap, Alt J
Tom Windish, Windish Agency
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
Foster The People – Torches
Metronomy – The English Riviera
James Blake – James Blake
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Jerome Borazio, Laneway Festival Co-Founder
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Cults – Cults
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
Nirvana – Nevermind (20 Year Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
And If I could squeeze in WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
And begrudgingly Foster The People – Torches
Eat Your Own Ears team
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Casiokids – Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen
Cat's Eyes – Cat's Eyes
Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love
John Maus – We Must Become Pitiless Censors of O
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Metronomy – The English Riviera
Nicholas Jaar – Don't Break My Love
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Planningtorock – W
Radiohead – The King of Limbs
SBTRKT – SBTRKT
The Field – Looping State of mind
The Horrors – Skying
tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
When Saints Go Machine – Konkylie
Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
Caius Pawson, Young Turks
Albums I listened to most this year:
Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Kanye West – Watch The Throne
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
Drake – Take Care
Most listened to song of the year: Frank Ocean's 'Swim Good'
Claire Collins, Bossy Music
1. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
2. Twerps – Twerps
3. Horrors – Skying
4. M83 – Hurry Up We're Dreaming
5. Wilco – The Whole Love
Ash Miles, Mistletone
Lost Animal – Ex Tropical
Cass McCombs – Wit's End
Brous – Brous
Twerps – Twerps
John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Sophie Best, Mistletone
Maria Minerva – Cabaret Cixous
Sleep ∞ Over – Forever
James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual
Twerps – Twerps
Geoffrey O'Connor – Vanity Is Forever
Harry White, Chugg Entertainment
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Big Scary – Vacation
Oscar & Martin – For You
tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Dinesh La Fresh, Chugg Entertainment
Jonti – Twirligig
A$AP Rocky – LiveLoveA$AP
Gil Scott-Heron / Jamie XX – We're Here Now
Panda Bear – Tomboy
The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Karly Lake, Chugg Entertainment
Foster the People – Torches
Boy & Bear – Moonfire
Laura Hung, Chugg Entertainment
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
City and Colour – Little Hell
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Rahael Saadiq – Stone Rollin'
Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
Rachel Barry, Chugg Entertainment
Little Hell – City & Colour
Boy & Bear – Moonfire
The Panics – Rain on the Humming Wire
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
Emma Doilibi, Chugg Entertainment
The Black Keys – El Camino
TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
The Kills - Blood Pressure
Baby Woodrose – Mindblowing Seeds and Disconnected Flowers
Susan Heymann, Chugg Entertainment
Boy and Bear – Moonfire
City and Colour – Little Hell
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Travis Banko, Lunatic Entertainment
1 Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine
2 The Horrors – Skying
3 Gotye – Making Mirrors
4 SBTRKT – SBTRKT
5 M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Bonnie Dalton, Minnow/Laneway Festival
The Vasco Era, The Vasco Era
Husky, Forever So
Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Washed Out, Within And Without
Total Control, Henge Beat
Pete Nicholson, Laneway Festival
The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
Mountains – Air Museum
Geoffrey O'Connor – Vanity is Forever
Real Estate – Days
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine
