1. M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 2: Kanye West & Jay Z - Watch The Throne Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 3: Atlas Sound - Parallax Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 4. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts For those who don't know Thurston Moore he's the genius behind Sonic [...]
![[Best of 2011] Dave's 111 Favorite Songs of 2011](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3994629_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link This is far more delayed than I might have hoped, but I enjoy making this list of my favorite songs annually, so I can return to it and see where my thoughts were within the moment. Ultimately, this list serves mainly as a compelling iPod playlist. I concluded my first list in 2009 with 111 songs, and for posterity's sake, have continued along with that tradition. The actual rankings are generally quite fluid, as I could say [...]
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Al Hansen * Viking Dada * 3rd Rail (New York City) Oct. 5, 1967!!! Non-Verbal Action Lecture Manifesto Tribute To Viennese Cocks THIRD RAIL PROVO PROGRAM Memo: Provo Cation; Hommage to the Vienna Institute for Direct Art and a Manifesto… 'Ono Super Zock'-Otto Muehl, Hermann 'Blood Bath' Nitsch, Guenther-'Meckie Messer' Brus, Kurt 'Flicker' Kren, and [...]
Top 30 Songs 30. Planningtorock – The Breaks 29. Destroyer – Suicide Demo for Kara Walker 28. Cold Cave – The Great Pan Is Dead 27. Lower Dens – Batman 26. Grouper – Water People 25. Prurient – Palm Tree Corpse 24. Kurt Vile – Runner Ups 23. Parenthetical Girls – Sympathy for Spastics 22. Ford & Lopatin – Joey Rogers 21. Burial – Stolen Dog 20. [...]

Here are my favorite releases of 2011, in no particular order. I've made a Spotify playlist if you'd like to check them out. Light Asylum - In Tension John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Trust - Candy Walls 73 Austra - Feel It Break Com [...]
Upon publishing our last post, I noticed our post count was at 999. I couldn't just sit here and not complete my 1000th post (well, I had a few guest writers, but I "wrote" most of these "really good posts" mostly all myself) before we began a brand new year, could I? So, on the actual last day of the year, what better way to celebrate 1000 horrible pieces of written prose and musical delight than with my last minute, totally unplanned list of Top Albums I Listened To The Most In 2011? These are not the "best albums of [...]
![[Ones To Watch] – Introducing – Kool Thing](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3957383_lg.jpg)
Tweet The duo known as Kool Thing , made up of Julie Chance and Jon Dark, met at at one of Dark's DJ events in Paris in 2010. Quickly noticing a kindred musical taste, the pair began to share records and discuss musical ideas. Julie, (from Dublin, Ireland) and Jon (from Sydney, Australia) soon started organizing a move to Berlin, where they sat down to put their vision to reality. Kool Thing brings to life the jewel-toned hours of night that [...]
1. John Maus – We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves In juni probeerde ik al iedereen te overtuigen van John Maus ' kwaliteiten. Hij staat ook in mijn jaarlijst bij de beste hits en liveoptredens, dus een hoge notering kon gewoon niet uitblijven. Maar nummer één is erg hoog voor een plaat die de meesten onder het kopje "eighties cheesy new wave synth music" zullen opbergen. Eigenlijk is het zo verrassend niet; Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti eindigde vorig jaar op de hoogste positie en nu de voormalige toetsenist van diezelfde [...]

If you've been even remotely regular in following this blog, our number one shouldn't come as a surprise - I believe I've already bothered you enough with my love of Gang Gang Dance's latest effort (and GGD in general ). I'll leave the list unnumbered because, except for the first 7-8 entries, the rest come in kind of (but not entirely) particular order. And it's not a strictly albums -of-the-year list, as I've included some mixtapes/remix albums/ compilations. Also, I just realised we haven't covered half of this on the blog… Don't [...]
![[Best of 2011] Dave's List](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3949253_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link The year in music that was/is 2011 marked a departure from the prior two in which this blog has been in existence. This in the sense that, as opposed to waiting for albums from bigger bands one could classify as a favorite, there were far more unanticipated discoveries. I often talk of expectations, but this year I had few. For this year end list, I whittled down the list of the year's albums slowly to include those [...]
![[Best of 2011] Brendan's List](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3946409_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link Boiling down a year's worth of music into a manageable 10-entry list is a bit daunting, but when the powers that be at Tympanogram gave the order, I obliged. The problem, of course, is that I am riddled with insecurities. I haven't been able to listen to everything I've wanted to the extent that I would have liked. Maybe the records I gravitated to just don't cut the mustard. Maybe my preferences for marginal styles diminishes my [...]

1. Clams Casino - All I Need / I'm God from Instrumental Mixtape ( Type ) Even if both these beats technically came out last year beneath Soulja Boy and Lil' B raps respectively, it wasn't until about half way through this year that the full mountainous weight of these instrumentals really hit me. And just out of Imogen Heap samples, I mean shit! 2. James [...]

1. How to Dress Well - Suicide Dream 1 (Orchestral Version) from Just Once EP ( Love Letters Ink ) I've kept coming back to this song again and again over the past few months and each time I'm still awestruck at how disarmingly beautiful and sincere it is. Stripping back the murky noises from the original, Tom Krell ramps up his angelic falsetto with soul-baring harmonies and an elegantly restrained string quartet - a perfect marriage of R n' B-informed tenderness and classical formalism. Feel like this [...]

We can all agree the devastated area of Japan has affected the world in one way or another. Blonde Redhead has taken it upon themselves to help in their own way by putting together the benefit album,"We Are the Works in Progress," to be the first release on their new record label, Asa Wa Kuru (Japanese for "Morning Will Come"). The album has some generous contributions from Deerhunter, Four Tet, John Maus and Blonde Redhead to name a few. The album will be available for sale January 10 over here . [...]

Welcome, welcome, to 20JFG's fantabulous end of year round up. Once again we'll be raiding the year's archives for the tracks that made permanent homes on our digital/analogue devices. We'll also be posting a few things that we loved but didn't cover at the time: music that had already been blogged to death or music that its owner wasn't happy to give away...until now! So, over the next couple of weeks we'll tease out a stream of songs that made us happy to be writing this blog, year in, year out. At 20JFg we create [...]
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1. How To Dress Well - Suicide Dream 2 (Elite Gymnastics Baptism) How To Dress Well 's 'Orchestral Versions' EP Just Once produced at least a few gorgeous remixes, but none of them stuck with me as much as Elite Gymnastics ' – themselves responsible for two of my favourite records of the year, Neu '92 & RUIN . The genius of EG's rework lies in the link it draws between HTDW's sparse, emotive take on r&b, and the similarly night bus atmospherics of UK dance [...]
1. M83 - "Midnight City" Ever since I heard "Run Into Flowers" eight years ago, I've been fully subcribed to M832s stargazing, towering synth landscapes. And they are landscapes - fast moving hills and cities and clouds glimpsed from the passenger side of a car moving to an unknown destination, awaiting wordless promises and terrors. "Midnight City" is an appropriate title, then. It's a song that feels like a progression of everything that's gone before - "Run Into Flowers," "Don't Save Us From the Flames," "Kim and Jessie", and now "Midnight City" are all [...]