Our final ten records in our countdown of the best of the annum are all five star masterpieces if you ask us, and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading our run down as much as we’ve enjoyed arguing about it. PLEASE NOTE: ROCKFEEDBACK TV IS UNDERGOING MAINTAINANCE AND WILL RETURN AS PART OF A REDESIGN EARLY IN 2012. Thanks for an ace 2011!
More / (23.12.11)
Miserablist folk mumblings, Danish hardcore punk, classy RnB, heart-on-sleeve lo-fi, music to have sex to and music that itself just sounds ‘totally f**ked’ – it’s the penultimate part of our records of the year countdown.
More / (23.12.11)
Nods are given to modern shoegaze, Swedish pop, slacker rock and a remix record(?), but, Radiohead not even making the top 20? It’s been a funny year, this.
More / (22.12.11)
Ambient black metal! Drive time folk! Lo-fi indie! Post-dubstep! More don’t-call-it-chillwave! Tuneless drone! Our records of the year countdown reaches numbers 40 to 31.
More / (20.12.11)
All week on Rockfeedback we’ll be counting down our fifty favourite albums of the year, starting with ten records that range from homicidal hip-hop to alt-country via stoner rock, all out pop, don’t-call-it-chillwave and contemporary classical bleeps and bloops along the way. My, aren’t we eclectic...
More / (19.12.11)
“At the announcement, outside the courthouse, masses of fans whooped with glee, apparently oblivious to the soulless inevitability of it all. As Conrad Murray was handcuffed and kept on remand, something in my conscience just didn’t sit right...”
More / (08.11.11)
Ben tells us why his favourite overlooked record – a fabulous but little-known (in these circles at least) folk curio from 1980 – is a far better approximation of Britishness than beer bellies, David Cameron and casual racism.
More / (01.11.11)
“Odonis Odonis are a noisy indie band from Canada, who release their debut album Hollandaze on Fact Cat records this week. They like Big Black, The Pixies and The Cure. And so do we. Agreeing on those three fundamental things, we thought we’d have them tell us about each and every song on their record. Here are their words, plus three tracks to sample...”
More / (26.10.11)
“We’re down in Cardiff for the Swn Festival, running a show and catching as many bands as we can. Here are 10 we reckon you shouldn’t miss...”
More / (21.10.11)
"It's not a million miles away from what we've become used to from the Canadian future R&B stars, but there's definitely another side of Tesfaye coming across here."
More / (10.10.11)
Wet Paint’s Macks Faulkron releases his debut EP Friends this week. Whether Bobby Conn’s forgotten avant-glam masterpiece had any influence on it is neither here nor there – it’s a record he loves very much. As he says, “I want the next band to enter my studio and say, ‘Hey man, can you make this sound more like that Bobby Conn guy?’ Please, no more ‘I want that Kings of Leon guitar sound!’”
More / (21.09.11)
"If only I could see it again, not in it's entirety but in a really cool video that looks like it was filmed in the year 1993 and made all the bands look like grunge gods..."
More / (01.09.11)