Christmas Eve is just around the corner and we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, which can only mean one thing… it is time to round up our favourite records of the year and do our best- of lists. Not only are the lists fun (!), but they also serve as a great reminder of how much great music is put out each and every year.

The rules are simple: In order to qualify an album has to have been released in the current calendar year, it cannot be a re- release, it has to be a full- length (no EPs) and it cannot be a Crunchy release (for the obvious reasons).

In this fourth and final instalment of the Crunchy end-of-year lists, I, Andreas, finally get to list my favourite albums of 2011. Since I have been the one doing these posts, I’ve selfishly let the series end on my own list and also made it ridiculously long. Greedy as I clearly am.

However, before my unnecessarily excessive list,  we’ve also done a spotify playlist with the best songs of 2011. The list features 104 songs from 104 different artists/bands of (almost) all genres, which translates in to roughly 7 hours of great listening. So much great music (!), so little time. 

Check out the spotify list here.  Enjoy!

… and now for a Top 30 (sorry) of my favourite albums of the past year…

Andreas’s Top 30
1 Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
2 Austra - Feel It Break
3 Cut Copy - Zonoscope
4 Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
5 St Vincent – Strange Mercy
6 Wild Beasts - Smother
7 Danny Brown - XXX
8 Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
9 Widowspeak - Widowspeak
10 Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
11 The Horrors - Skying
12 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
13 James Blake - James Blake
14 SBTRKT - SBTRKT
15 Yuck - Yuck
16 Action Bronson - Dr. Lecter
17 Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
18 Real Estate - Days
19 The Dodos - No Color
20 Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
21 Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
22 Bodies of Water - Twist Again
23 A$AP Rocky - Live, Love, A$AP
24 True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
25 tUnE- yArDs - W H O K I L L
26 Kendrick Lamarr - Section.80
27 The Men - Leave Home
28 Rustie – Glass Swords
29 Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
30 Cass McComs - WIT'S END

Christmas Eve is just around the corner and we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, which can only mean one thing… it is time to round up our favourite records of the year and do our best- of lists. Not only are the lists fun (!), but they also serve as a great reminder of how much great music is put out each and every year.

The rules are simple: In order to qualify an album has to have been released in the current calendar year, it cannot be a re- release, it has to be a full- length (no EPs) and it cannot be a Crunchy release (for the obvious reasons).

In this third instalment of the Crunchy end-of-year lists it is our resident Icelander, Thorhallur Jonsson, and the boss-man himself, Yebo, who list their favourite albums of 2011. The most incredible thing? Three instalments in and there are no duds! All great music! Eeeeeexcellent.

Thor’s Top 10 [In alphabetic order]
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Black Keys – El Camino
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
The Horrors – Skying
Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Wilco – The Whole Love
Youth Lagoon – Year of Hibernation

Yebo’s Top 5 [In alphabetic order]
Black Keys – El Camino
Thulebasen – Gate 5
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
True Widow – As High As the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
Tyler, The Creator - Goblin


The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

Christmas Eve is just around the corner and we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, which can only mean one thing… it is time to round up our favourite records of the year and do our best- of lists. Not only are the lists fun (!), but they also serve as a great reminder of how much great music is put out each and every year.

The rules are simple: In order to qualify an album has to have been released in the current calendar year, it cannot be a re- release, it has to be a full- length (no EPs) and it cannot be a Crunchy release (for the obvious reasons).

In this second instalment of the Crunchy end-of-year lists it is our PR head honcho, Jessica Tolf Vulpius, and Mr Digital, Mogens Kjeldsen (aka. Ramogens), who list their favourite albums of 2011. Once more, great people with great taste.

Jessica “Head’o’PR” Tolf Vulpius Top 5
1. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
2. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
3. Thulebasen – Gate 5
4. The Kills – Blood Pressures
5. Black Keys – El Camino

Mogens “Mr. Digital” Kjeldsen Top 5 [In alphabetical order]
bob hund - det överexponerade gömstället.
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
iceage - New Brigade
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

Tom Waits – Bad As Me

Christmas Eve is just around the corner and we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, which can only mean one thing… it is time to round up our favourite records of the year and do our best- of lists. Not only are the lists fun (!), but they also serve as a great reminder of how much great music is put out each and every year.

This year each of the Crunchy staffers have put together a top 5- 10 of their favourite records of 2011. We will present them in a series of blog post with this one, the very first post, featuring our two beloved interns of the past six months; Annette Truong and Camilla Rikke Vang. Great people with great taste.

The rules are simple: In order to qualify an album has to have been released in the current calendar year, it cannot be a re- release, it has to be a full- length (no EPs) and it cannot be a Crunchy release (for the obvious reasons).

Let’s get to it!

Annette’s Top 10
1 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2 Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3 The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave
4 I Break Horses - Hearts
5 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
6 Wild Beasts - Smother
7 Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
8 Thulebasen - Gate 5
9 Surfer Blood - Tarot Classics
10 Feist - Metals

Camilla’s Top 5 [In alphabetic order]
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
P.J.Harvey - Let England Shake
The Kills - Blood Pressures

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake