Soft Metals‘ Patricia & Ian listed over 40 of their favorite releases of 2011, check them out below. Glad to see Silk Flowers and Kindest Lines getting some love.
Soft Metals’ self-titled debut LP is out now on Captured Tracks.
We probably forgot some really amazing ones, but these spring to mind. Releases in alphabetical order:
Frank Alpine: Frank Alpine [Wierd Records]
Animal Bodies: Kiss of the Fang [Sweating Tapes]
Arohan: Going [Sweating Tapes]
Austra: Feel It Break [Domino]
Bestial Mouths: Hissing Veil [Dias]
Blouse: Blouse [Captured Tracks]
Bronze: Copper [RVNG]
Disco Nihilist: Running Far Away [Running Back]
Finesse: Elevate/ Believe [Ecstacy]
Grimes: Darkbloom [Arbutus/ Hippos In Tanks]
Xander Harris: Urban Gothic [Not Not Fun]
HTRK: Work [Work, Work] : [Ghostly]
Tim Hecker: Dropped Pianos [Kranky]
Innergaze: Shadow Disco [100% Silk]
Jeff & Jane Hudson: Flesh [Captured Tracks/ Dark Entries]
Jewels of the Nile: Pleasure [ Desire]
Joie Noire: 1 [Desire]
Kindest Lines: Covered in Dust [Wierd Records]
Suzanne Kraft: Morning Come [Running Back]
Philippe Laurent: Hot Bip [Minimal Wave]
Legowelt: Teac Life [self released]
Light Asylum: In Tension [Mexican Summer]
John Maus: We Must Become The Pittiless Censors of Ourselves [Ribbon Music/Upset The Rhythm]
Moon Duo: Mazes [Sacred Bones]
Mushy: Faded Heart [Mannequin]
Mutant Beat Dance: Another World / New News Is Old News [Rong]
Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica [ Mexican Summer/ Software]
Pictureplane: Thee Physical [Lovepump United]
The Present Moment: Loyal To A Fault [Mannequin/ Desire]
Silk Flowers: Ltd. Form [Post Present Medium]
Sleep Over: Forever [Hippos in Tanks]
Soft Moon: Tota Decay [Captured Tracks]
Solvent: RDJCS5 [Suction]
Steve Summers: Mode For Love [Long Island Electrical Systems]
//TENSE//: TV Teach Me/Control 7″ [Answering Machine]
Terminal Twilight: House of Love [Infinite Soundtracks]
Tunnels: The Blackout [Thrill Jockey]
Tycho: Dive [Ghostly]
Vice Device/Hot Victory: Split 7″ [Sweating Tapes]
Violet Tremors: Time Is The Traitor [VT Records]
Virgo Four:Resurrection[Rush Hour]
Visage Musique: Volume 1 [Visage Musique]
Xeno & Oaklander: Sets & Lights album [Wierd Records]
Zola Jesus: Conatus [Sacred Bones]
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