Elephant Talk founder Jerry Ryan’s top 30 albums of 2011:
- Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
- PJ Harvey – “Let England Shake”
- Radiohead – “King of Limbs”
- Wild Beasts – “Smother”
- The War on Drugs – “Slave Ambient”
- Tom Waits – “Bad As Me”
- Kurt Vile – “Smoke Ring for My Halo”
- Yuck – Self-titled
- Girls – “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”
- The Civil Wars – “Barton Hallow”
- Bon Iver – “Bon Iver”
- The Antlers – “Burst Apart”
- St. Vincent – “Strange Mercy”
- Arctic Monkeys – “Suck It And See”
- Lykke Li – “Wounded Rhymes”
- Wild Flag – Self-titled
- The Strokes – “Angles”
- The Kills – “Blood Pressures”
- The Horrors – “Skying”
- Cults – Self-titled
- White Denim – “D”
- Atlas Sound – “Parallax”
- Destroyer – “Kaputt”
- The Decemberists – “The King Is Dead”
- Dylan Leblanc – “Pauper Fields”
- Fucked Up – “David Comes To Life”
- Mogwai – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will”
- Girl in a Coma – “Exits And All The Rest”
- M83 – “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”
- Adele – “21”
Let me keep going….I forgot some
31.Florence and the machine-ceremonials
32.battles-gloss drop
33.Laura marling-a creature I don’t know
34.the joy formidable-the big roar
35.black lips-arabia mountain
36.metronomy-the English riviera
37.tuneyards-who kill
38.smith westerns-dye it blonde
39.my morning jacket-circuital
40.James Blake-self titled
41.bjork-biophilia
42.tv on the radio-nine types of light
43.surfer blood-tarot classics
44.panda bear-Tom boy
45.the vaccines-what did you expect….
46.coldplay-mylo xyloto
47.the dear hunter-the color spectrum
48.the black keys-el camino
49.the pains of being pure at heart-belong
50.death cab for cutie-codes and keys
51.Ryan Adams-ashes and fire
52.telekinesis-12 desperate straight lines
53.the head and the heart-self titled
54.foo fighters-wasting light
55.wilco-the whole love
56.kasabian-velociraptor
57.deer tick-divine providence
58.Beirut-the rip tide
59.Dawes-nothing is wrong
60.Dale Earnhardt jr jr-it’s a corporate world
61.mastodon-the hunter
62.elbow-build a rocket boys!
63.iron and wine-kiss each other clean
64.wye oak-civilian
65.middle brother-self titled
66.wu lyf-go tell fire to the mountain
67.Manchester orchestra-simple math
68.the weeknd-house of balloons
69.Noah and the whale-last night on earth
70.ice age-new brigade
The best list of 2011!
Thanks Roberta
71.cass mc combs-wits end
72.starfucker-reptilians
73.Julianna barwick-the magic place
74.braids-native speaker
75.Zola jesus-lonatus
76.can’t-dreams come true
77. Cheers elephant-man is nature
78.sandro perri-impossible spaces
79.gang gang dance-eye contact
80.neon Indian-era extrana
I need to re-do this list!!! I see a ton of errors in where they are ranked due to me doing this off the tip of my head. I feel like I’m leaving out a ton of great indie albums too.
I like it! Good choices
Thanks
81.Eleanor friedberger-last summer
82.cold cave-cherish the light years
83.dum dum girls-only in dreams
84.austra-feel it break
85.the glorious veins-self titled
86.feist-metals
87.ema-past life martyred saints
88.Josh t Pearson-last of the country gentlemen
89.Chelsea Wolfe-apokalypsis
90.Matt cardle-letters
91.little dragon-ritual union
92.tycho-dive
93.slow club-paradise
94.danger mouse-Rome
95.memory tapes-player piano
96.the step kids-self titled
97.hooray for earth-true loves
98.okkervil river-I am very far
99.still corners-creatures of an hour
100.sbtrkt-self titled
Should I keep going? Haha.
I forgot a few important ones. I’m gonna revise this list. Right now I’m just getting these out on paper so it’ll be easier to do so later
I forgot- zun zun equi-katang, Paul glasser introduced me to this band and since then I’ve been in touch with them about a possible trip to Atlantic city in the near future
Also I know we’re not doing e.p.’s, but there are a few that stand out right away
1)Gary Clark jr- and 2a Dauphine/faith
I’ll get into those more later
Also these,
Cloud control- bliss release
Jim jones revue-burning your house down
The pack a.d.-unpersons
1,2,3- new heaven
All top 100 albums that I seemed to forget. You have to remember ,I’m obsessed with music and they’re thousands of albums running through my head at all times. Haha