Each year I deliberate how to present this list. This year, mostly for lack of time, I decided to make it simpler and divide it into two lists. The first (aka the one you're reading now) is for those albums that shone in the turbid, murky and dark waters of the ocean of mediocre music, but still were not good enough to make the cut for greatness. The second list will honor those albums that will linger in memory long after this year has ended. So, without further ado, here is the "close but no cigar' list
[Me] - Naked EP (Lizard king, 18/03/2011)
Applause - Where it all began (3ème bureau, 06/06/2011)
Atari teenage riot - Is this hyperreal (Dim mak, 07/06/2011)
Cavalera conspiracy - Blunt force trauma (Roadrunner, 29/03/2011)
DJ Shadow - I'm excited EP (Island, 29/07/2011) http://djshadow.com/
Gin Wigmore - Gravel & wine (Island, 07/11/2011)
Gusgus - Arabian horse (Kompakt, 09/05/2011)
Le butcherettes - Sin sin sin (Rodriguez Lopez productions, 10/05/2011)
Minkus - The shape of things to come (Watermelon, 01/03/2011)
Mother mother - Eureka (Last gang, 15/03/2011)
Psychologist - Propeller EP (Not even, 27/07/2011)
Remission - Winds of promise EP (React!, 15/01/2011)
Rock bottom - Your demise EP (Harvcore, 2011)
Saint saviour - Suukei EP (Guerrilla, 02/10/2011)
Sepultura - Kairos (Nuclear blast America, 12/07/2011)
Sparrow and The workshop - Spitting daggers (Distiller, 30/05/2011)
The do - Both ways open jaws (Get down, 07/03/2011)
The pack A.D. - Unpersons (Mint, 13/09/2011)
Whores – Ruiner (Self released, 2011) http://whores.bandcamp.com/
