2011 Mid Year Wrap Up: Best Local Albums

Josh

1. Food Pyramid- III/New Omni-Directional Healing Techniques
2. Velvet Davenport- Summer Island
3. Lighted- Queendom
4. Brute Heart- Lonely Island
5. Deep Earth- House of Mighty

(Hon. Men: No Bird Sing “Theft of the Commons,” Albert James St Murder Laden Mitten Wonder, Daughters of the Sun “Ghost of Chains”)

Top 5 Albums (Local)

Full disclosure: I have not yet listened to new albums by Lighted, Food Pyramid, or Daughters of the Sun and there is a very good chance that when I do some or all of them will end up on this list.

1. Brute Heart        Lonely Hunter

2.Sims       Bad Time Zoo

3. Gay Beast        To Smithereens

4.Albert       James St Murder Laden Mitten Wonder

5.Battle Napkin        S/T

Kyle (Solace)

1. No Bird Sing – Theft of the Commons
2. Peter Wolf Crier – Garden of Arms
3. Haley Bonar – Golder
4. Sims – Bad Time Zoo
5. Howler – This One’s Different EP

Ali Elabbady (Background Noise Crew, Egypto Knuckles)

1.  Sims “Bad Time Zoo”

2.  No Bird Sing “Theft of the Commons”

3.  Atmosphere “The Family Sign”

4.  Face Candy “Waste Age Teen-Land”

5.  Junkyard Empire “Acts of Humanity”

josh keller

Writer / co-founder