MAPSADAISICAL’S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2011

My picks for this year were fed into The Liminal’s hydra-headed beast of a list, along with my commentary about the year end process. You can read all that over there. The world would clearly be a far poorer place though without my own list getting an airing in its own right though, so I’m publishing that below. The nature of my involvement with The Liminal means that, for the first time, like, ever, I haven’t actually reviewed all of my top 20, so some of the links are to reviews that someone else has written. The estimable Matt Poacher, most likely.

1 Ellen Fullman, Through Glass Panes (Important) My review

2 Chris Watson, El Tren Fantasma (Touch) My review

3 Grouper, AIA Dream Loss/Alien Observer (Yellow Electric) My review

4 Peter Evans, Beyond Civilised And Primitive (Dancing Wayang) My review

5 Michael Chapman, The Resurrection And Revenge Of The Clayton Peacock (Ecstatic Peace) Matt’s review

6 Julia Holter, Tragedy (Leaving Records) Matt’s review

7 Stephan Mathieu, A Static Place (12k) My review

8 Okkyung Lee/Phil Minton, Anicca (Dancing Wayang) My review

9 Margaret Dygas, Margaret Dygas (Perlon)

10 Bill Orcutt, How The Thing Sings (Editions Mego) My live review of Bill Orcutt at Cafe Oto

11 Gillian Welch, Harrow And The Harvest (Acony)

12 Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres (Constellation) Matt’s review/interview

13 Joe McPhee/Chris Corsano, Under A Double Moon (Roaratorio) My review

14 John Chantler, The Luminous Ground (Room40) My live review of John at Cafe Oto

15 Daniel Menche, Feral (Sub Rosa)

16 Khyam Allami, Resonance/Dissonance (Nawa Recordings) My review

17 Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Low Fired Clay Escape (Carnival) My review

18 Cut Hands, Afro Noise (Some Friendly) My review of Cut Hands at Supersonic

19 Jenny Hval, Viscera (Rune Grammofon) Matt’s review

20 Jurgen Muller, Science Of The Sea (Digitalis)

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