Posted December 15th 2011
Melting Vinyl’s Best of 2011!
While we have to wait until tomorrow to unleash a whole shopping centre of festive treats for you all, all at Melting Vinyl HQ have fallen into that Christmas trap inspired by our love of High Fidelity. So here goes, everyone’s top 5s from 2011!
Paul
Top 5 Gigs
M83 @ Le SAT, Montreal Fleet Foxes @ Dome Concert Hall, Brighton Real Estate @ Brighton Ballroom, BrightonTimber Timbre @ Stick Mikes Frog Bar, Brighton Mark Ronson & the Business International with The Zutons, Noisettes @ Greenwich Summer Sessions 2011, London
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes @ The Old Vic Tunnels, London
Top 5 Albums
Miracle Fortress – Was I The Wave Hard Mix – Defaults The Weeknd – House of Balloons Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On Real Estate – DaysTop 5 Tracks
M83 – Midnight City Real Estate – Out of Tune Way Yes – Walkability The Rapture – Never Die Again Wu Lyf – We BrosAnna
Top 5 Gigs
Early Ghost @ The Melting Vinyl & Willkommen Foxtrot, Stanmer HouseThe Kills @ Concorde 2, Brighton
Bunty @ The Green Door Store, Brighton
Ross and the Wrongens @ What is Ashford is?, Kent
Scroobius Pip @ Coalition, Brighton
Top 5 Albums/Tracks
The Kills – Baby SaySecret Cities – Love Crime
Lykee Li – Follow Rivers
The Vaccines – If you wanna
Anna Calvi – Blackout
Diana
Top 5 Gigs
Fleet Foxes @ The Dome, BrightonTimber Timbre @ Union Chapel, London
The Pogues @ The Greenwich Summer Sessions
Charles Bradley @ XOYO, London
Tune Yards @ The Haunt, Brighton
Top 5 Albums
Little Scream- The Golden RecordThe Stepkids- The Stepkids
Little Dragon- Ritual Union
Timber Timbre- Creep on Creepin’ On
Feist – Metals
Top 5 Tracks
Cold Specks – HollandLittle Dragon – Ritual Union
Nathaniel Rateliff – We Never Win
Joe Goddard Feat. Valentina – Gabriel
Sing Sing My Darling – Disco Love
Phil
Top 5 Gigs
Esben And The Witch @ The Pavilion TheatreAcid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso U.F.O @ The Blind Tiger Club
Tyvek @ Jam
Circle / Diagonal / Brain Jelly @ Green Door Store
Syd Arthur / Kate / Monte Saldo @ The Hope
Top 5 Albums
Cranium Pie – “Mechanisms Pt.1” (Fruits De Mer)Van Der Graaf Generator – “A Grounding In Numbers” (Esoteric)
Hannah Peel – “The Broken Wave” (Static Caravan)
Muscles Of Joy (Watts Of Goodwill)
The Lowland Hundred – “Adit” (Hundred Acre Recordings)
Top 5 Tracks
Time Brings Age – Wake Up (Own Label)The Fresh And Onlys – Keep Telling Everbody Lies (Sacred Bones)
Zombi – Slow Oscillations (Static Caravan)
Buffalo Tom – Down (Q Division)
I Am Voyager 1 – Boy Forgets Girl (Own Label)
Tom Cummins
Algernon Cadwallader @ The Green Door Store, Brighton
Why? @ The Duke Of Yorks, Brighton
Black Lips @ The Masque, Liverpool
Noah & The Whale @ The Dome, Brighton
Top 5 Albums
Bon Iver – Bon IverMazes – A Thousand Heys
Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies
Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On
The Horrors – Skying
Top 5 Tracks
Atlas Sound – Mona LisaExplosions In The Sky – Trembling Hands
Mazes – Wait Anyway
Timber Timbre – Black Water
Rhianna – We Found Love
Richard
Top 5 Gigs
Cloud Control @ AudioThe Besnard Lakes @ Brighton Ballroom
Handsome Furs @ The Hope
Fleet Foxes @ Brighton Dome
The Kills @ Concorde 2
Top 5 Albums
Handsome Furs – Sound KapitalCloud Control – Bliss Release
Peggy Sue – Acrobats
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Herman Dune – Strange Moosic
Top 5 Tracks
Concrete Knives – Brand New StartHandsome Furs – Repatriated
Peggy Sue – Cut My Teeth
Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie
Yuksek – Always On The Run
Tom Sloan
Top 5 Gigs
Sufjan Stevens @ Brighton Dome Concert Hall, BrightonThee Oh Sees @ The Hydrant, Brighton
Tuneyards @ The Haunt, Brighton
Archers of Loaf @ Cargo, London
James Blake @ Green Man Festival
Top 5 Albums
Peaking Lights – 936Matana Roberts – Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
Deaf Center – Owl Splinters
Real Estate – Days
White Fence – Is Growing Faith
Top 5 Tracks
Real Estate – Out of TuneThee Oh Sees – The Dream
Still Corners – Cuckoo
No Joy – Hawaii
John Maus – Believer
Enjoy! and stay tuned for a very special announcement tomorrow!