February 2012
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Julianna Barwick // The Magic Place
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 22ND 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #33 Julianna Barwick’s The Magic Place was one of the easiest records to fall in love with last year. After self-releasing her Sanguine and Florine EPs, Barwick signed to Asthmatic Kitty in 2010 to begin work on her first proper full length. The process of recording and self-releasing those two EPs -...
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Radiohead // The King Of Limbs
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 18TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #28 By releasing their music with little prior warning, Radiohead have bucked the trend of sustaining hype or anticipation. The King Of Limbs, the band’s eighth studio album, was scheduled for release on February 19th and officially announced a mere five days prior. Its actual release date was brought...
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Yuck // Yuck
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 15TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #52 Brushing up on your Yuck (doesn’t that sound fun?) is a task that can leave you more or less on the fence. On the one hand, this was one of the more memorable debut albums of 2011 and it only grew in stature as the year progressed. But then again, it’s a record that tries so hard to recreate...
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PJ Harvey // Let England Shake
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 14TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #1 The impact of Let England Shake on PJ Harvey’s career cannot be underestimated. At a time when the listenership of the Yeovil-born singer songwriter seemed to be gradually shrinking, it was unthinkable that something like a war record could catapult her artist back into the limelight to a position...
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Tim Hecker // Ravedeath, 1972
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 14TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #3 It’s perhaps beneficial to begin by marking out what Ravedeath, 1972 is not instead of what it is, for it is many of these things and a whole lot more. Tim Hecker has been quietly mining the sonics of what has become termed ‘ambient’ for ten years, never quite achieving mainstream...
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Nicolas Jaar // Space Is Only Noise
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 14TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #13 Not only was Space Is Only Noise the first truly great ‘electronic’ album of 2011, it transpired to be one of the most essential. Nicolas Jaar was born in New York but spent his pre-teen years in Santiago, Chile before moving back there for his studies. He debuted three years prior to...
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James Blake // James Blake
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 7TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #15 In a fantastic review of James Blake on Tiny Mix Tapes, Jakob Darof begins by drawing a necessary parallel between the record in question to that of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, and how fans can build hype around an album by declaring it the best of the year before that year has...
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Cut Copy // Zonoscope
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 7TH 2011 1YRON’S TOP 52 RECORDS OF 2011 RANKING: #14 Listening to In Ghost Colours for the first time, it’s probably advantageous to remember where you are or what you’re doing. Cut Copy’s second release is the kind of nostalgia-inflected, synth-brimming juggernaut that sounds fantastic no matter what’s going on around you, the kind...