My Top 10 Albums of 2011 - Part I
I wrote this for Metior, the university magazine I write for.
You know 2011 was a good year for music when Nick Cave spat on you; it is the equivalent of Jesus or Morgan Freeman letting their saliva spray out of their mouth and onto your bare skin. But instead of turning into wine, being spat all over my face was pure bliss and it felt fantastic. Yet another year disappears soon along with a whole stack of albums and singles too, some for the better (Rebecca Black anyone?) and others that will never leave your head (Kreayshawns Gucci Gucci is on repeat).
I wrote this for Metior, the university magazine I write for.
You know 2011 was a good year for music when Nick Cave spat on you; it is the equivalent of Jesus or Morgan Freeman letting their saliva spray out of their mouth and onto your bare skin. But instead of turning into wine, being spat all over my face was pure bliss and it felt fantastic. Yet another year disappears soon along with a whole stack of albums and singles too, some for the better (Rebecca Black anyone?) and others that will never leave your head (Kreayshawns Gucci Gucci is on repeat).
10. Jay-Z and Kanye West
Watch The Throne
Erotic dreams often never come true unless you are Ryan Gosling but one of my own wet dreams have come true, Kanye West and Jay-Z the worlds two biggest and influential rappers released an album together. From the first track No Church in the Wild you can picture both of them driving through mansion covered streets with diamond studded segways. Otis uses Otis Redding vocal samples and combines it with bragging of the finer lifestyle and N*ggas in Paris forced me to escape my pasty skin to perform the song in front of my stereotypical white family.
9. Cut Copy
Zonoscope
Gotye can have his measly 400000 viewers Aria award for all I care, one of Australias most critically acclaimed acts is Cut Copy who manages to surge electricity through their listeners with their crazy electronic post-dance-punk songs. Did someone say 15 minute song with an eight minute synth solo? The final song Sun God will leave you playing air synths which for once, wont be frowned upon.
8. Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues
If you listen to the awful corporate produced Mumford & Sons or the every song must sound the same Boy & Bear, stop please before the ghost of young Bob Dylan kills you. Following on from their flawless self-titled debut in 2008, the bearded Robin Pecknold and his fellow friends with perfectly crafted facial hair bring forth an album infused with folk, paranoid tales and their famous harmonies. With rollicking plucking of banjos and acoustic guitars in Bedouin Dress to the more electric Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes never shy away from creating perfectly harmonised folk, that manages to bring forth a vintage atmosphere full of beards.