Best Albums of 2011
A Creature I Don't Know
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Emi
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 Lau... Buy or find out more →
Bon Iver
$24.95 – Compact disc / Jagjaguwar
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 alb... Buy or find out more →
The Whole Love
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Anti
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... Buy or find out more →
Bad As Me
$22.95 – Compact disc / Anti
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 before... Buy or find out more →
Wounded Rhymes
$26.95$14.95 – Compact disc /
Stockholm, Sweden's Lykke Li is set to release her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Wounded Rhymes, on her label LL Recordings in association with Atlantic on 28 February, 2011. Produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjo... Buy or find out more →
Gentle Spirit
$26.95$19.95 – Compact disc / Bella Union
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... Buy or find out more →
The Rip Tide
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc /
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 soun... Buy or find out more →
Submarine Soundtrack EP
$14.95 – Compact disc /
A 6 track EP of original songs by Alex Turner from the film Submarine released by Domino. Submarine, the debut film from Richard Ayoade, is based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne. Buy or find out more →
- Stuck On The Puzzle (Intro)
- Hiding Tonight...
To The Horses
$24.95 – Compact disc /
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 import... Buy or find out more →
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
$24.95 – Compact disc / Nonesuch Music
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 b... Buy or find out more →
Ex Tropical
$24.95 – Compact disc / Sensory Projects
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... Buy or find out more →
Demolished Thoughts
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc /
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" bu... Buy or find out more →
Small Source Of Comfort
$24.95 – Compact disc /
As a songwriter, Bruce Cockburn is revered by fans and musicians alike. He returns to the forefront with his first studio album in six years, Small Source of Comfort - a rhythmic and highly evocative collection of 14 tra... Buy or find out more →
The King Of Limbs
$24.95$19.95 – Compact disc / Xl Recordings
The eighth record from one of the world's most famous bands. Buy or find out more →
- Bloom
- Morning Mr Magpie
- Little By Little
- Feral
- Lotus Flower
- Codex
- Give Up The Ghost
- Separator
Barn Doors And Concrete Floors
$31.95 – Compact disc / Continental Records
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Days
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Domino Records
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 co... Buy or find out more →
High Atmosphere
$26.95 – Compact disc / Proper Records
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 sing... Buy or find out more →
Mockingbird Time
$22.95 – Compact disc /
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 Gra... Buy or find out more →
Let England Shake
$26.95$19.95 – Compact disc / Island Records
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 co-produced the album with... Buy or find out more →
Helplessness Blues
$24.95$19.95 – Compact disc / Sub Pop Records
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 w... Buy or find out more →
Vanity Is Forever
$24.95 – Compact disc / Chapter Music
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 trib... Buy or find out more →
Last Night On Earth
$26.95$17.95 – Compact disc / Island Records
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 single "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N." Buy or find out more →
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James Blake
$19.95 – Compact disc /
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 exclu... Buy or find out more →
Our Blood
$24.95 – Compact disc / Merge Records
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, t... Buy or find out more →
Only In Dreams
$24.95 – Compact disc / Sub Pop Records
Originally a one-woman-show fronted by Dee Dee, the band has come a long way from recording in the lounge room and spiffed up by pop maestro RICHARD GOTTEHRER (BLONDIE, GO-GO's). Their 2010 EP 'He Gets Me High' was highl... Buy or find out more →
Take Care Take Care Take Care
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Spunk Records
The fifth album from Explosions In The Sky is called "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care". It was recorded on a pecan ranch in West Texas by the band's good friend and frequent collaborator John Congleton. The six songs are... Buy or find out more →
Cannibal Courtship
$26.95 – Compact disc /
Dengue Fever, whose exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf, and garage psych returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music... Buy or find out more →
Gimme Some
$25.95 – Compact disc / Cooking Vinyl
For their sixth album the band chose to work with a producer for the first time ever enlisting the skills of Per Sunding at Tambourine Studios in Malmo. The new album, a follow up to 2009's more experimental Living Thing... Buy or find out more →
Mariachi El Bronx II
$22.95 – Compact disc / Ato Records
'Going acoustic and dressing in black charro outfits is probably the punkest move they could have taken; El Bronx negotiate in exactly the same way as The Bronx – they don’t. They fear nothing, explore everything and cre... Buy or find out more →
So Beautiful Or So What
$26.95 – Compact disc / Concord Jazz
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
$16.95 – Compact disc /
Manchester native Noel Gallagher needs little introduction. The principle songwriter/guitarist (and sometimes singer) for seminal Brit pop band Oasis is responsible for bringing us some of the biggest anthems of a genera... Buy or find out more →
Last Of The Country Gentlemen
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Mute Records
'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 ... Buy or find out more →
Dark Magic
$21.95 – Compact disc / Dot Dash Records
Renowned for their transcendental live sets (think Grateful Dead at the Pyramids, but relocated to Melbourne’s inner north), SAND PEBBLES moon-eyed guitar lines, narcotic rhythm tracks and vocal harmonies will have you r... Buy or find out more →
Early In The Morning
$19.95 – Compact disc / Vagrant
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 vocal. Buy or find out more →
- If I H...
Forever The Moon
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc /
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 Californ... Buy or find out more →
Seeker Lover Keeper
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Dew Process
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 s... Buy or find out more →
Bonfires In Silver City
$29.95 – Compact disc /
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... Buy or find out more →
Long Player Late Bloomer
$19.95 – Compact disc /
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 trademarks. Buy or find out more →
- Get I...
The King Is Dead
$27.95 – Compact disc /
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... Buy or find out more →
The Harrow And The Harvest
$25.95$24.95 – Compact disc / Acony
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, Te... Buy or find out more →
Mad Rush: Solo Piano Music Of Philip Glass
$24.95 – Compact disc / Abc Classics
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 phe... Buy or find out more →
Road To Damascus
$26.95 – Compact disc / Real World
- The Road To Damascus
- Syriana
- Gharrib (Stranger)
- Black Zil
- Galation Bridge At Dawn
- Al Mazzeh
- Al Araby
- The Great Game
- Jannat Al Dunia
- The Templehof File
- A Ya Zain
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Love In A Time Of Chaos
Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses
$24.95$21.95 – Compact disc /
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... Buy or find out more →
Behold The Spirit
$24.95 – Compact disc / Tompkins Square Reocrds
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... Buy or find out more →
100 Acres Of Sycamore
$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Heavenly
Fionn Regan releases his new album '100 Acres Of Sycamore' through Heavenly Recordings on 15th August. The album is the follow-up to last year's 'The Shadow Of An Empire'. The album is not just one of the year's most bea... Buy or find out more →
Ashes & Fire
$25.95$19.95 – Compact disc /
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 wil... Buy or find out more →
Guidewires 2
$23.95 – Compact disc /
- Cailean's
- As Crechas
- Hats off to Dod
- The Selkie
- King of the Scals
- Ridees
- Law Abiding Musician
- Mo Mhaire
- Buoy M5
- Eff Reels
- The Mobile Candelabra
- Caoimhin
- Mercury Falling
Time
$29.95 – Compact disc /
‘Time’ is the aptly named and long awaited 3rd album from one of Australia’s best country-roots songwriters Sara Tindley. In 2007 her critically acclaimed album ‘Lucky the Sun’ (produced by Bill Chambers) introduced us t... Buy or find out more →
In Trance
$24.95 – Compact disc / Real World
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara have honed a distinctive, visceral electric fusion of Europe and Africa - a unity of Justin's rock and roll energy and Juldeh's West African trance rhythms. Live on stage, their repertoire ... Buy or find out more →
Asleep On The Floodplain
$23.95 – Compact disc / Drag City
- Above A Desert I've Never Seen
- Light Of The Light
- Brilliant Blue Sea Between Us
- Saint Of Fisherman
- Hold But Let Go
- River Of My Youth
- Poppies
- S Word And Leviathan
- New Name On An Old Cement Bridge, A
- Dawn Running Home