People keep saying new music is crap but I don't believe it. Out of the 50 albums or so that I reviewed this year, I can honestly say I'd recommend atleast 80% of them which is pretty good. Granted I did do some digging to find some of this stuff...but it's worth it when you find it.
It wasn't that tough a decision to narrow down my top 10 seeing as I awarded only 10 albums with 5 "stars".
(click on the names for the mini-reviews)
10. BLUE SKY BLACK DEATH / Noir
9. THE CURE / Bestival Live 2011
8. PJ HARVEY / Let England Shake
7. THE WAR ON DRUGS / Slave Ambient
6. VESPERTINA / The Waiting Wolf
5. TOM WAITS / Bad As Me
4. ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD / Knife Man
3. LYDIA LOVELESS / Indestructible Machine
2. LYKKE LI / Wounded Rhymes
1. FRANK TURNER / England Keep My Bones
Some honorable mentions go to:
BANG DATA / Maldito Carnaval
BLINK-182 / Neighborhoods
DIRTY BEACHES / Badlands
DOOMTREE / No Kings
DUM DUM GIRLS / Only In Dreams
DAVID LYNCH / Crazy Clown Time
JEFF MARTIN 777 / The Ground Cries Out
PUSCIFER / Conditions Of My Parole
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS / Songs Of Man
VARIOUS ARTISTS / Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Showing posts with label Lykke Li. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
LYKKE LI / Wounded Rhymes [2011]
Swedish singer Lykke Li drops the bubblegum poppy insecurities of her debut, Youth Novel and comes out bloody nosed and fists a flailing on her sophomore effort Wounded Rhymes.
Li still maintains a certain type of sweetness and keen sense of 60's-esque melodic hooks, only now she's grown more self-certain and certainly more forceful which makes for a wonderful record. With thundering percussion heavy anthems to vulnerable, stripped down campfire ballads Wounded Rhymes is an impressive turn into the right direction for Li and confirms that she'll be around for awhile yet.
5 knives into the sand out of 5
Songs Of Note: Youth Knows No Pain; Jerome
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