The Tuneage gang and I picked our five favorite albums of the year.
With another year out of the way it’s time to find out what the Tuneage gang’s favourite albums of the year were.
Dave
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
- Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Sit Resist
- Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings
- Wilco – The Whole Love
- Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
Tristan
- Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
- M83 - Hurry Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
- tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
- Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
- Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs (reissue)
Greg
- Elzhi - Elmatic
- Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
- Thundercat - Golden Age of Apocalypse
- Quelle Chris - Shotgun and Sleek Rifle
- Real Estate - Days
Sophie
- The Drive Soundtrack
- Beirut - The Rip Tide
- Girltalk - All Day
- Jay-Z & Kayne West - Watch the Throne
- Black Keys - El Camino
Bill
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver
- The Weeknd - House of Balloons
- The Field - Looping State of Mind
- Cults - Cults
- tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
Richard
- Jay-Z & Kayne West - Watch the Throne
- Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
- tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
- Real Estate - Days
- Black Keys - El Camino
What were your favourites?
Quelle Chris - “MTFO” (Fat Beats, 2011)
I highly (HIGHLY) recommend Quelle Chris’ new LP, Shotgun & Sleek Rifle. The production is top rank (“MTFO” was produced by none other than House Shoes), as Quelle handles most of the Madlibian-tracks himself along with contributions from Roc Marciano and Mosel. But it’s definitely the homespun, smoked-out rhyming that wins the day. It’s an understated technical/freeflow hybrid that draws you into Quelle’s world for 45-minutes, a world you don’t want to leave.
