I de seneste uger har diskant.dk’s skribenter mindet musikåret der er gået og nomineret, voteret og kåret årets tyve bedste albums. Resultatet følger herunder – og endnu længere nede har flere af skribenterne på diskant.dk givet deres helt personlige bud på årets ti bedste albums.
Som det har været tilfældet de seneste år har vi ikke skelnet mellem danske og udenlandske udgivelser. Sidste år resulterede det i fem danske albums på listen, og i år er der tre danske albums med.
2011s tyve bedste albums ifølge diskant.dk’s skribenter:
1. Opeth: “Heritage”
2. Elbow: “Build A Rocket Boys!”
3. Kurt Vile: “Smoke Ring For My Halo”
4. Graveyard: “Hisingen Blues”
5. Bon Iver: “Bon Iver”
6. Mastodon: “The Hunter”
7. PJ Harvey: “Let England Shake”
8. Steven Wilson: “Grace For Drowning”
9. The Black Keys: “El Camino”
10. Marissa Nadler: “Marissa Nadler”
11. When Saints Go Machine: “Konkylie”
12. Alex Turner: “Submarine”
13. Foo Fighters: “Wasting Light”
14. Adele: “21”
15. Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire
16. Mikael Simpson: “Noget Laant, Noget Blaat”
17. Okkervil River: “I Am Very Far”
18. Marie Key: “I byen igen”
19. Wilco: “The Whole Love”
20. Iron & Wine: “Kiss Each Other Clean”
Her følger nogle af skribenternes personlige lister:
Bell Bruun
1. Foo Fighters: “Waisting Light”
2. Opeth: “Heritage”
3. Mastodon: “The Hunter”
4. PJ Harvey: “Let England Shake”
5. Demonaz: “March Of The Norse”
6. Beady Eye: “Different Gear, Still Speeding”
7. Mikael Simpson: “Noget Laant, Noget Blaat”
8. The Strokes: “Angles”
9. Burzum: “Fallen”
10: Radiohead: “The King of Limbs”
Carsten Fjølner
1. Jason Isbell: “Here We Rest”
2. Gillian Welch: “The Harrow & The Harvest”
3. Kurt Vile: “Smoke Ring For My Halo”
4. Josh T. Pearson: “Last of the Country Gentlemen”
5. Bon Iver: “Bon Iver”
6. Marissa Nadler: “Marissa Nadler”
7. Hayes Carrl: “KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)”
8. Chris Bathgate: “Salt Year”
9. Wilco: “The Whole Love”
10. Jeffrey Foucault: “Horse Latitudes”
Claus Michaelsen
1. Graveyard: “Hissingen Blues”
2. Anathema: “Falling Deeper”
3. Imperial State Electric: “In Concert”
4. Opeth: “Heritage”
5. The Haunted: “Unseen”
6. Ulver: “Wars Of The Roses”
7. Steven Wilson: “Grace For Drowning”
8. Protest The Hero: “Scurrilous”
9. Opeth: “The Devils Orchard”
10. Veto: “Everything Is Amplified”
Klaus Lindvig
1. Anathema: “Falling Deeper”
2. In Flames: “Sounds of a Playground Fading”
3. Ulver: “Wars Of The Roses”
4. Mastodon: “The Hunter”
5. Skinny Puppy: “Handover”
6. Mikael Simpson: “Noget Laant, Noget Blaat”
7. Pain of Salvation: “Road Salt Two”
8. Marie Key: “I byen igen”
9. Opeth: “Heritage”
10. Steven Wilson: “Grace For Drowning”
Lars Asmussen
1. The Black Keys: ”El Camino”
2. Bon Iver: ”Bon Iver”
3. The Civil Wars: ”Barton Hollow”
4. My Morning Jacket: ”Circuital”
5. Machine Head: ”Unto the Locust”
6. The Decemberists: ”The King is Dead”
7. Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire”
8. Graveyard: ”Hisingen Blues”
9. Wilco: ”The Whole Love”
10. In Flames: ”Songs of a Playground Fading”
Morten Wamsler
1. Alex Turner: “Submarine”
2. Beirut: “The Rip Tide”
3. Other Lives: “Tamer Animals”
4. Okkervil River: “I Am Very Far”
5. Adam Cohen: “Like a Man”
6. Elbow: “Build a Rocket Boys”
7. Cowboy Junkies: “Demons – The Nomad Series Vol. 2”
8. Bonnie Prince Billy: “Wolfroy Goes To Town”
9. Souad Massi: “O Houria”
10. Arctic Monkeys: “Suck It And See”
Simon Lei Fredslund
1 Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I’m With You”
2 Elbow: “Build A Rocket Boys!”
3 Kurt Vile: “Smoke Ring For My Halo”
4 R.E.M.: “Collapse Into Now”
5 Death Cab For Cutie: “Codes & Keys”
6 When Saints Go Machine: “Konkylie”
7 The Strokes: “Angles”
8 Troels Abrahamsen: “Unset”
9 Kasabian: “Velociraptor!”
10 White Lies: “Ritual”
Søren Genefke
1.Jethro Tull: “Aqualung 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition”
2.Opeth: “Heritage”
3.Steven Wilson: “Grace For Drowning”
4.Black Country Communion: “2”
5.King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: “Diamond Mine”
6.Essence: “Lost In Violence”
7.Graveyard: “Hisingen Blues”
8.Pearl Jam: “Live On Ten Legs (Box)”
9.The Haunted: “Unseen”
10.Tom Waits: “Bad As Me”
Thomas Steen Jensen
1. Opeth: Heritage
2. Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
3. Elbow: Build A Rocket, Boys
4. The Antlers: Burst Apart
5. Kloster: The Waves And Wind Still Knows His Voice
6. Amiina: Puzzle
7. Low: C´mon
8. Mastodon: The Hunter
9. Fucked Up: David Comes To Life
10. Kate Bush: 50 Words For Snow
