Happy holidays from the CHUO music department! Here are our last charts of 2011:
TOP 30
1 – Various Artists — Have Not Been The Same Volume One — (self-released) — CC
2 – Ornaments — Blood Vessels — (self-released) — CC
3 – Blackout Beach — Fuck Death — (Dead Oceans) — CC
4 – Orienteers — Orienteers — (Antique Room Records) — CC
5 – The Black Keys — El Camino — (Nonesuch Records )
6 – Slow Club — Paradise — (Moshi Moshi Records)
7 – Wilco — The Whole Love — (Anti)
8 – The Beets — Let The Poison Out — (Hardly Art)
9 – Steve Adamyk Band — Forever Won’t Wait — (Dirtnap) — CC
10 – Frank Alpine — Frank Alpine — (Wierd)
11 – Ty Segall — Singles 2007-2010 — (Goner)
12 – Forest Fire — Staring at the X — (Fat Cat)
13 – Jon McKiel — Tonka War Cloud — (Youth Club) — CC
14 – Himalayan Bear — Hard Times — (Absolutely Kosher) — CC
15 – Grown-Ups — Stopped Caring — (self-released) — CC
16 – Rocket From The Tombs — Barfly — (Fire Records)
17 – Twin Sister — In Heaven — (Domino)
18 – Robert Pollard — The Kids Eat It Up: The Best of Robert Pollard — (Guided By Voice INC. )
19 – Sunny Pompeii — Breakfast of Champignons — (self-released) — CC
20 – The Riffing Cowboys — Hank ‘n’ Roll: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Tribute to Hank Williams — (self-released)
21 – David Lynch — Crazy Clown Time — (Pias America / Sunday’s Best)
22 – Will Currie & The Country French — Awake, You Sleepers! — (FU:M ) — CC
23 – Hunters — Hands on Fire — (Aagoo)
24 – Sultans of String — Move — (self-released) — CC
25 – Psychic Ills — Hazed Dream — (Sacred Bones)
26 – Chris Watson — El Tren Fantasma — (Touch)
27 – Crystal Stilts — Radiant Door EP — (Sacred Bones)
28 – Various Artists — Folk Songs of Canada Now — (Label Fantastic!) — CC
29 – Basketball — Maw — (Broadway to Boundary) — CC
30 – Dixie’s Death Pool — The Man With Flowering Hands — (Drip Audio) — CC
JAZZ
1 – L’Orkestre des pas perdus — L’âge du cuivre — (Cross Current Music) — CC
2 – Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli — Modern Music — (Nonesuch)
3 – The Keith Price Trio/Quintet — Gaia/Goya — (self-released) — CC
4 – The Vipers — The Vipers — (self-released) — CC
5 – Tyshawn Sorey — Oblique-I — (Pi Recording)
6 – Amir ElSaffar — Two Rivers Ensemble — (Pi Recording)
7 – The Franco Proietti Morph-Tet — Like The Shore is To The Ocean — (Bogo Beats Records) — CC
8 – Akira Sakata & Jim O’Rourke with Chikamorachi — …And that’s the story of jazz — (Family Vineyard)
9 – Cory Weeds with the Tilden Webb Trio — Just Like That — (Cellar Live) — CC
10 – Jim Heineman’s Dream Band — Rh Positive: Live @ Lorraine’s — (Tima Town Productions) — CC
INTERNATIONAL
1 – Sultans of String — Move — (self-released) — CC
2 – Corina Bartra — Cielo Sandunguero — (Blue Spiral)
3 – Various Artists — The Original Sound of Cumbia — (Soundway)
4 – El Rego — El Rego — (Daptone)
5 – Dub Trinity — Alexandria (And Other Cautionary Tales) — (self-released) — CC
6 – Eccodek — Remixtasy — (self-released) — CC
7 – Jorge Martinez — Cadencias — (Cuntrera Productions) — CC
8 – Joni Haastrup — Wake Up Your Mind — (Soundway)
9 – Various Artists — Bollywood Bloodbath — (B-Music)
10 – Staff Benda Bilili — TRÈS très fort — (Crammed)
ELECTRONIC
1 – Tycho — Dive — (Ghostly International)
2 – The Field — Looping State of Mind — (Kompakt)
3 – Myths — Myths — (self-released) — CC
4 – Steve Hauschildt — Tragedy & Geometry — (Kranky)
5 – Mocean Worker — Candygram For Mowo — (Mowo)
6 – Alias — Fever Dream — (Anticon)
7 – Justice — Justice — (Ed Banger)
8 – Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen — One Nation — (Balanced) — CC
9 – Apparat — The Devil’s Walk — (Mute)
10 – Bassnectar — Divergent Spectrum — (Amorphous Music)
HIP HOP
1 – Phonte — Charity Starts at Home — (The Foreign Exchange Music)
2 – D-Sisive — Run With The Creeps — (Urbnet) — CC
3 – 9th Wonder — The Wonder Years — (Jamla Records)
4 – Various Artists — Underground Hip Hop Vol. 7 — (Urbnet) — CC
5 – M.E.D. Classic — M.E.D. Classic — (Stones Throw)
6 – Roots Manuva — 4everevolution — (Big Dada)
7 – Zoo Legacy — Zoo Legacy — (self-released) — CC
8 – Ghettosocks & Timbuktu & Jorun — Teenburger — (Droppin Science) — CC
9 – JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound — Want More — (Bloodshot)
10 – Evidence — Cats & Dogs — (Rhymesayers)
LOUD
1 – Wake — Leeches — (Hearing Aids Records ) — CC
2 – Phantom Limb — Mors Ontologica — (self-released) — CC
3 – Doll — The Ragdoll Diaries — (Grunge Never Died, You Did!) — CC
4 – Threat Signal — Threat Signal — (Sonic Unyon Metal)
5 – Anthrax — Worship Music — (Megaforce)
6 – Black Tide — Post Mortem — (DGC/Interscope)
7 – Mastodon — The Hunter — (Reprise)
8 – The Brains — Drunk Not Dead — (Stomp) — CC
9 – Heavy Chains — A Very Real Hell — (Broadway to Boundary) — CC
10 – The Filthy Radicals — Please Stand By… — (Synicalist Records) — CC