My 2011 Fave Albums

Not in any particular order
  1. Mine Is Yours - Cold War Kids
  2. Suck It and See - Arctic Monkeys
  3. Angles - The Strokes
  4. Neighborhoods - blink-182
  5. The Rip Tide - Beirut
  6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  7. Torches - Foster The People
  8. Cults - Cults
  9. Hsyterical - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  10. Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You - Does It Offend You, Yeah?!

Honorable mentions:

  1. Romantic Comedy - Big Troubles
  2. Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine
  3. Days - Real Estate
  4. Passive Me, Aggresive You - The Naked and Famous
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Linkin Park - The Catalyst

You know those days when you think about your current life and feel unhappy and then you start reminiscing glory days while listening to old songs from bands you used to love so much but never listen to them again nowadays, yeah that’s what happened to me.

I was getting excited by the thought of the possibility of seeing blink-182 this year and began reminiscing about the time when I started really getting into them. Which was around the time I started liking Linkin Park too, thanks to an old guy friend. But I was never really into them, I just like them because I hung out with this guy friend who played their songs like 24/7 everytime I came over his place.

Anyway, I was listening to blink-182 again and I remembered about Linkin Park (among other old bands I used to listen). So I downloaded their latest album thinking it’d be the same old shit like it was. How I was deeply mistaken when I pressed play.

I was never a huge fan, so I guess I can judge them fairly why they developed their music this way. Plus I saw those interviews and recording sneak-peeks and even watched the short documentary of making the album and I must say it was a brave move they did. It’s not a bad recording at all, in fact I feel excited when I heard this particular track. I hate to use cliches like ‘mature’ or ‘growing-up’ because in this case it isn’t necessarily that. They’re expanding is more like it and it has renewed, if not added, my love to them.

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Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?

I haven’t had a chance to listen to the whole album thoroughly, but this song is catchy. It’s basically a song about letting things work out by itself instead of picking it apart and putting it together again to see if it’d be what it wasn’t. Basically, they’re telling us to stop overthinking things.

I love it :D

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The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampire and Wolves)

“I’m sick of dancing with the beast.”

Really really in love with this song. It sounds like a typical indie brit rock with a dash of club beats. IDEK what the hell I’m talking about, but this song is great.

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The National - Start a War

I’m in love with the intro. I’m in love with the band. If there’s any band that could make me feel somehow more mature, this band is the one.

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Allo Darlin’ - If Loneliness Was Art

Love it! Love it! Love it!

I love it so much that it’s not enough to feature them on my latest mixtape, I have to do a proper post for them. Check out their self-titled first album for some pop-folk, British, Female frontwoman sound.

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Tokyo Police Club - Bambi

When I first listen to their new album Champ I fell in love immediately with this song. It’s got a catchy intro that just gets stuck in your head like that! Then I heard this song on the latest episode of Gossip Girl, so that’s a bonus added. Enjoy!

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