Having celebrated our 1st birthday, seen the launch of the Norwich Velvet Owl and sang, danced and stroked our beards at some fine gigs, it's now that time of year when I ask the Collective to list the five albums that have been regular bedfellows with their record player. From shoegaze revivalists to the return of Americana's prodigal son, 2011 has thrown out some cracking new records to help comfort us during these dark and foreboding economic times.
- Yuck – Yuck
- Metronomy – The English
Riviera - Bon Iver – Bon Iver
- My Morning Jacket – Circuital
- The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
- Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire
- PJ Harvey – Let
England - Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
- Wild Beasts – Smother
- Other Lives – Tamer Animals
- The Antlers – Burst Apart
- Okkervil River – I am Very Far
- The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
- Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
- Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
- Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
- King Creosote & John Hopkins – Diamond Mine
- Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
- Young the Giant – Young the Giant
- White Denim - D
Writing as I am from the Norwich Owl headquarters, I felt I had to comment on the above list. Impossible to publish a Norwich equivalent (don't think our members have bought twenty albums between them this year), but if I could, I would hope it would be a little less "Green Man" than this one. Any of you aware Arctic Monkeys had an album out this year? Ever heard of The Horrors? Putting this list together must have caused a mass outbreak of beard stroking, even among you ladies present. Let's try a little more pop in 2012, eh guys?
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Chris (and I'm up for a fight, if any of you fancy it).
Similar tastes to my own blog. Thought you might like to take a look. Found your blog via a #ff from Heart on Sleeve music. Yuck played Cork (where I live) at a festival last Summer and I couldn't go because of a stag weekend. Great weekend but boy was I annoyed...
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