Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2011 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Ryan‘s list:
RAVEONETTES
Raven In The Grave
EMA
Past-Life Martyred Saints
ZOLA JESUS
Conatus
DRAKE
Take Care
UME
Phantoms
40 WATT SUN
Inside Room
ACTIVE CHILD
You Are All I See
TRUE WIDOW
As High As The Highest Heavens …
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
Belong
SKELETONWITCH
Forever Abomination
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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2011 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Joe P.‘s list:
TOTAL CONTROL
Henge Beat
MOGWAI
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
HANDSOME FURS
Sound Kapital
WOODEN BIRDS
Two Matchsticks
FUCKED UP
David Comes to Life
KANYE WEST AND JAY-Z
Watch the Throne
BON IVER
Bon Iver
MARK KOZELEK
Live at Union Chapel & Sodra Teatern
JESU
Ascension
THEE OH SEES
Carrion Crawler/The Dream
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Three years on from Universal Mind Control, Common reverts back from that album’s Neptunes-produced techno grooves to a more old-school hip-hop style, courtesy of his long-time friend (and Kanye West’s mentor) No ID, with whom he last worked on 1997’s One Day It’ll All Make Sense.
It’s an appropriate shift of style for an extended dose of positive hip-hop that Common believes “can really generate good spirit”. — The Independent
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2011 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Ellie‘s list:
TRUE WIDOW
As High as the Highest Heavens …
MR. GNOME
Madness in Miniature
SCARF!
Go to a Boise house show!
PORTISHEAD
Third
WIDOWSPEAK
Widowspeak
CURTIS PLUM
Call My Cellphone
MIKE WATT
Hyphenated-Man
DIRTY BEACHES
Badlands
TOM WAITS
Bad As Me
THE RAVEONETTES
Raven in the Grave
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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2011 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Brion‘s list:
PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT
II
CLAMS CASINO
Rainforest
JULIANNA BARWICK
Magic Place
KATE BUSH
50 Words For Snow
BEE MASK
Elegy For Beach Friday
AELTER
Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved
ZEBULON PIKE
Space Is The Corpse Of Time
CARETAKER
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
TRUE WIDOW
As High As The Highest Heavens…
DAVID SYLVIAN
Died In The Wool (Manafon Variations)
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