Well, I thought about this post before, but never really got down to it, and since
st. tropez suggested the same idea, I finally decided to proceed with it...
This year has been quite rich in good music so far and the albums that caught my attention haven't been few. This is the best of the first six months of 2011.
First of all, there was the sophomore
White Lies album, panned by Pitchfork but eventually pleasing most of their fans.
Then came
Beady Eye with their debut, which some people even called "the best Oasis album since Morning Glory",
or
The Vaccines with their extremely catchy indie rock tunes.
But then, there came a buch of pretty good hard rock albums, from bands such as
Funeral For a Friend,
Thursday,
Rise Against
or
Foo Fighters,
that I've been spinning over and over ever since. But I could not forget the folk rock goodness that was
The King Is Dead by
The Decemberists. Especially its first track is "musically all over the place".
Neither could I forget this year's indie pop discovery,
Cults
So that's about it for now. I obviously couldn't hold myself back, again, but still, these "few" albums are, for me, the most interesting/important of the first half of the year. Hopefully, there will be a few more lists from you guys and certainly one big from me at the end of the year.
