Everyone on the Internet gets to have an opinion, and right now I want to know yours about this year’s best albums! What have been your favorites overall? Favorite KSPC plays? Favorite shows/DJs on the station? Let us know in the comments!
(As a refresher, some of the most-played albums of the semester have included Slow Club’s Paradise, Atlas Sound’s Parallax, the self-titled releases by Gardens & Villa and Mikal Cronin, Real Estate’s Days, The Beets’ Let the Poison Out, Twin Sister’s In Heaven, Yellow Ostrich’s The Mistress, The Horrors’ Skying, and so many more!)
THE HEAD AND THE HEART!
Gringo Star – Count Your Lucky Stars
jonti and shabazz palaces!
Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Yuck. Both albums eponymous.
ummm helplessness blues all the way. but i’ve also listened to that album so much that i feel like it came out longer ago. and its timeless and i will continue listening to it forever. sooo next would be the dodos album “no color” especially the song “black night”
the beets!!!
shannon und clams! mikal! ram hoss- PrixQuills! braids! la sera! wilco!
YACHT- Shangri-La
Mister Heavenly- Out of Love
Gardens and Villa- s/t
Dum Dum Girls- Bedroom eyes
Can’t stop listening to all these guys:
1. The Dodos “Black Night”
2. Beirut “The Rip Tide”
3. Grouplove “Never Trust a Happy Song”
4. The Head and the Heart “The Head and the Heart”
5. Noah and the Whale “Last Night on Earth”
6. Yellow Ostrich “The Mistress”
So much good music from 2011 it’s cray.
Mikal Cronin’s s/t …duhhhh
youth lagoon – year of hibernation
twin sister – in heaven
dirty projectors & bjork – mount wittenberg orca
real estate – days
deerhoof – deerhoof vs evil
weekend – red ep
YEAHHHHKSPC
2011 was a fantastic year for music!
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Bibio – Mind Bokeh
Destroyer – Kaputt
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Gardens & Villa – s/t
Little Dragon – Ritual Union
Toro y Moi – Underneath the Pine/Freaking Out EP
And the ones unfortunately not in our lovely KSPC library (although that never stopped me from obsessing over them, lol!):
James Blake – s/t
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Mother Mother – Eureka
My two favorite shows are ‘Video Game Music Show” with Dj Sysop(because I grew up with a
Sega/Nes), and “Underground Hip Hop” with Dj Jurrasic(because hes best connoisseur of
hip hop culture that 88.7kspc has ever worked at the station).