Best Albums of 2011
Creature I Dont Know
$21.95 – Audio
As the old cliché goesLaura Marling quietly burst onto the music scene with her hushed and beautiful Alas I Can-not Swim 2008 debut. It was Mercury Prize-nominated and Triple J feature album. Just last year, our dear Laura... Buy or find out more→
Bon Iver
$24.95 – Audio
Bon Iver, the musical project of Justin Vernon that emerged to international acclaim in 2008 with 'For Emma, Forever Ago,' release the new self titled album on Jagjaguwar. Featuring 10 new songs penned by Vernon, the album'... Buy or find out more→
Whole Love Standard Edition
$24.95 – Audio
For Wilco, The Whole Love represents more than just the eighth studio album from this innovative Chicago rock band. It signifies yet another new chapter in the bands constantly evolving, enduring and storied career. Just as... Buy or find out more→
Bad As Me Standard Edition
$22.95 – Audio
The Bad As Me CD comes in a Digipak packaging, complete with a 32 page booklet, and digital download. Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come... Buy or find out more→
Gentle Spirit
$26.95 – Audio
Wilson's music is steeped equally in the woodsy contours of his Blue Ridge experiences and the atmospheric guitar reveries of Neil Young and Quicksilver Messenger Service. In fact, "Gentle Spirit" is remarkably evocative of... Buy or find out more→
Riptide
$21.95 – Audio
The Rip Tide may finally answer the question, "Will the real Beirut please stand up?" Since 2006's Gulag Orkestar, each Beirut release has been somewhat culturally immersive, playing like an aural snapshot or period soundtrack... Buy or find out more→
To The Horses
$24.95 – Audio
Lanie Lane's debut album 'To The Horses', a collection of 11 songs that duck and weave through a heady mix of early rock 'n' roll, blues and rockabilly, serving up fantastic tales of love, lust, heartbreak and the importance of... Buy or find out more→
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down Local Release
$24.95 – Audio
Songwriter and guitarist Ry Cooder digs deep into the American psyche with ‘Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down’, his newest album which will be released on September 9th.Ry Cooder has done it all. From rock, to country, to blues... Buy or find out more→
Ex Tropical
$24.95 – Audio
Ex Tropical is the debut album by Jarrod Quarrell AKA Lost Animal. Ex Tropical (the title inspired by a period spent in the tropics as a child) was written during the life of Quarrell's last project, St Helens, and after the... Buy or find out more→
Demolished Thoughts
$21.95 – Audio
The front man of iconic 90s rock band SONIC YOUTH, Thurston Moore returns with his third solo album "Demolished Thoughts". On the album, Moore teamed up with legendary musician and producer BECK. "Demolished Thoughts" burnishes... Buy or find out more→
King Of Limbs Cd
$14.95 – Audio
The eighth record from one of the world's most famous bands. Bloom Morning Mr Magpie Little By Little Feral Lotus Flower Codex Give Up The... Buy or find out more→
Days
$21.95 – Audio
Days was recorded over the course of five patient months in a remote New Paltz, NY barn-cum-studio with the help of Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, The Walkmen).The album is a gorgeous suite of guitar-pop songs and a coming of... Buy or find out more→
High Atmosphere
$26.95 – Audio
High Atmosphere, the latest album in the remarkable career arc of singer-songwriter Diana Jones, hits with the force of a revelation, further deepening an unprecedented body of work that began in 2006. The Nashville... Buy or find out more→
Mockingbird Time Standard Edition
$19.95 – Audio
Mockingbird Time is the new album from acclaimed group The Jayhawks. The 12-track album is the first full-band studio release featuring both founding members Gary Louris and Mark Olson since 1995's Tomorrow the Green Grass. Of... Buy or find out more→
Let England Shake
$16.95 – Audio
Winner of the 2011 Mercury Prize. PJ Harvey's eighth studio album Let England Shake out through Island Records. Recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset with long time collaborator Flood who... Buy or find out more→
Helplessness Blues
$24.95 – Audio
Three years on from the release of their celebrated self-titled debut, Seattle band Fleet Foxes will release album #2 titled 'Helplessness Blues'on April 29. Recorded over the course of a year, the group chose to again work... Buy or find out more→
Vanity Is Forever
$19.95 – Audio
Vanity Is Forever is the first album under his own name from Crayon Fields frontman Geoffrey O’Connor. In his most ambitious, dynamic and sophisticated work yet, O’Connor’s fractured romantic reflections and lustful... Buy or find out more→
Last Night On Earth
$19.95 – Audio
The London band Noah and the Whale release their third album, Last Night On Earth. The band's first album since 2009 features ten brand new tracks, including the infectiously melodic first... Buy or find out more→
James Blake
$14.95 – Audio
The past couple of years have seen creative explosions and new generations coming through in both dancefloor electronics and heartfelt, introspective singer-songwriting, but self evidently they've remained mutually exclusive... Buy or find out more→
Our Blood
$24.95 – Audio
Since 2006’s Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it’s a long story! First, there... Buy or find out more→
So Beautiful Or So What
$21.95 – Audio
Paul Simon will release his eagerly anticipated new album, 'So Beautiful or So What', on April 8th through Hear Music/Concord Music Group. Produced by Phil Ramone and Paul Simon, the ten track album his 12th solo studio record... Buy or find out more→
Last Of The Country Gentlemen
$21.95 – Audio
'Last Of The Country Gentlemen', the much anticipated debut solo album from Josh T. Pearson, is a collection of personal, powerful and painful songs drawn from the lessons of what Pearson describes as "a rough year". An instant... Buy or find out more→
Early In The Morning
$20.95 – Audio
McMorrow is a Dublin singer-songrwiter, and his stunning debut album harks to such refrence points as Fleet Foxes, Monsters of Folk and M Ward. Packed with haunting imagery held up by his haunting, fragile... Buy or find out more→
Forever The Moon
$21.95 – Audio
This debut album features 10 songs written by Jerry Vessel, formerly of Red House Painters and recently a touring member of Sun Kil Moon. After residing in San Francisco for a number of years, Vessel returned to California's... Buy or find out more→
Seeker Lover Keeper New Version
$14.95 – Audio
Individually, they’re three of Australia’s most innovative songwriters. Sally Seltmann specialises in narcotic, dreamy, sweeping pop, aided by layers of cotton-soft vocals, pianos and synths. Holly Throsby is known for... Buy or find out more→
Bonfires In Silver City
$29.95 – Audio
Bonfires In Silver City is the stunning new album from acclaimed Australian songwriter Lucie Thorne. Steeped in that striking spaciousness and sensuality for which Thorne’s work has become so renowned, Bonfires In Silver City... Buy or find out more→
Long Player Late Bloomer
$19.95 – Audio
For Long Player Late Bloomer, the Canadian pop troubadour has teamed with an unlikely partner: Metallica producer Bob Rock. The result is a more polished affair, but without losing any of Ron's classic... Buy or find out more→
King Is Dead
$27.95 – Audio
The new album The King Is Dead is set of 10 concise, country-based songs and marks a deliberate turn towards simplicity after the band's wildly ambitious and widely acclaimed 2009 song-cycle The Hazards of Love. Produced once... Buy or find out more→
Harrow And The Harvest
$29.95 – Audio
Acony Records is proud to announce that on June 24, 2011 they will release The Harrow & The Harvest, the new album by Gillian Welch, featuring ten new songs recorded at her own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville,... Buy or find out more→
Mad Rush Music Of Philip Glass
$24.95 – Audio
Catalogue # 4764469 Philip Glass is that rarest of contemporary ‘classical’ composers – a musician who has revolutionized the way art music is composed and found a massive audience in doing so. As much a pop and cult... Buy or find out more→
Road To Damascus
$26.95 – Audio
The Road To Damascus Syriana Gharrib (Stranger) Black Zil Galation Bridge At Dawn Al Mazzeh Al Araby The Great Game Jannat Al Dunia The... Buy or find out more→
Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses
$24.95 – Audio
The forthcoming self-titled release shows yet another direction for the enigmatic singer/songwriter, while still filled with Perkins' gravel-tainted vocals and poetic reveries, this record is a mature, poignant follow up to... Buy or find out more→
Behold The Spirit
$24.95 – Audio
William Tyler is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and a guitarist who has spent the last several years recording and touring with Silver Jews and Lambchop among others. In addition he has contributed to albums by artists as... Buy or find out more→
Ashes & Fire
$19.95 – Audio
Ashes & Fire is Ryan Adams' thirteenth album. For the first time he is working with producer Glyn Johns, having previously worked with Johns' son, Ethan Johns, on Pneumonia, Heartbreaker, Gold and 29. Norah Jones will... Buy or find out more→
