2011 review

SINGLE OF THE YEAR?

p : Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Song for Reinier Lucassen's Sphinx
r : Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love
a : Dorian Concept - Her Tears Taste Like Pears
o : Brandon Biondo - Sleeve

ALBUM OF THE YEAR?
p : Elodie (Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk) - Echos Pastoraux
r : The Sea and Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly
a : Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
o : John maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

MIXTAPE OF THE YEAR?
p : Triton - Joue avec le fonds, part 5 (mix & remixes)
r : ...c'est un peu 2010 les mixtapes non ?
a : Spoti shuffle
o : Toro y moi - Made in bed mix

ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK OF THE YEAR?
p : Ben Frost - Sleeping Beauty
r : Portal 2
a : Beer burping
o : Clint Mansell - Black swan

RE-EDITION OF THE YEAR?
p : Eugene Kelly - Lady (in CAROLINE NOW!: The Songs of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys)
r : Nirvana - Nevermind
a : ...'re-edited' is probably not the right word but I'd say 'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie' by John Cassavetes at the Genesis cinema in Stepney. I missed it by the way, but not without regrets. Thank schmob for dvds.
o : Serge Gainsbourg - L'histoire de Melody Nelson

BOOK OF THE YEAR?
p : Raphael Sorin - Les Terribles - entretiens (éditions Finitude)
r : Camille Landais, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez - Pour une révolution fiscale (Le Seuil/République des idées)
a : ...it's got to be the one I haven't finished writing yet... sorry, haven't read a book published in 2011 but I have read about a lot of them in the London Review of Books and they seemed pretty good so go on their website and take your pick.
o : Jonathan Coe - La vie très privée de Mr Sim (Gallimard)

MOVIE OF THE YEAR?
p : True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen
r : Essential Killing - Jerzy Skolimowski
a : ...it's weird to say but with a bit of perspective, if you put the choice on a scale of expected disappointment vs stupefying satisfaction, it has to be We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lynne Ramsay. Have you noticed the RED theme?
o : Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

GIG OF THE YEAR?
p : Water Signs and Stay+ - Point Ephemere
r : Aphex Twin - La Route du Rock
a : Evan Parker - Southbank
o : Baxter Dury - Le Trianon Paris

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR?
p : bandcamp.com
r : internetkhole.blogspot.com
a : spotify.com
o : nissan-stagejuk3d.com

SWINDLE OF THE YEAR?
p : AA... A ?
r : Radiohead
a : The swindle question.
o : Nolwenn Leroy - Bretonne : Edition Deluxe

HOT IN 2011?
p : The Offline People in mutation...
r : DSK, toujours...
a : Piles
o : Japan Disaster...


* p : pardon my french / r : rocketsfallonrocketsfall / a : achylles brown / o : overchill