2011 was a very good year for new music. It was difficult for me to narrow it down so I didn’t narrow it down. This list is the new stuff I listened to the most this year which excludes reissues and anything not released in 2011. The list is alphabetical but there are a few that stood out which I listened to substantially more often (most likely because they came out earlier in the year) and those albums have asterisks beside them. There was a handful of things I never got around to listening to that I had heard were great but alas, only so many hours in the year. As well, like most years, this list is Texas-heavy, psychedelic-heavy and garage-heavy. A few electronic and a couple experimental and one “classical” (TW Bond’s- compositions). Thanks to all the rock blogs that allowed us to sample so much good stuff. Most of these albums were released on vinyl and I recommend purchasing any and/or all of them.
1. Acid Baby Jesus- LP
2. Allah La’s- Demo
3. Apache Dropout- S/T LP + Radiation 7”+ Shot Down 7”*
4. Bad Indians- Sounds From The Big Room
5. Bad Sports- Kings Of The Weekend
6. Bass Drum Of Death- GB City
7. Blasted Canyons- S/T
8. Christian Bland and The Revelators- The Lost Album
9. Cowabunga Babes- Going Nowhere
10. Crystal Stilts- In Love With Oblivion LP + Radiant Door EP*
11. Crystal Swells- Goethe Head Soup
12. the dictaphone- past.future.void
13. Dirty Beaches- Badlands
14. Ducktails- III: Arcade Dynamics
15. The Feeling Of Love- Dissolve Me
16. Fishboy- Classic Creeps
17. High Wolf- A Guide To Healing
18. Jacuzzi Boys- Glazin’
19. John Maus- We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves*
20. Ketamines- Line By Line EP
21. Liquid Skulls- Dead In Your Eyes
22. Mountain Cult- first demo 3/12 + EP
23. Natural Child- 1971
24. Night Beats- S/T
25. OBN III’s- S/T 7” + S/T EP
26. Peaking Lights- 936
27. The People’s Temple- Sons Of Stone*
28. Pure X- Pleasure*
29. Purling Hiss- Lounge Lizards
30. Real Estate- Days
31. Shapes Have Fangs- Dinner In The Dark (vinyl)*
32. Sic Alps- Napa Asylum *
33. Sleep oo Over- Forever
34. The Strange Boys- Live Music*
35. Thee Cormans- Halloween Record W/Sound Effects
36. The UFO Club/Night Beats- Split 10”*
37. TW Bond- Compositions
38. White Denim- D