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Q‘s 50 Best Albums Of 2011

Published on 2011-12-12 08:11:00

50 Justice – Audio, Video, Disco49 Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra.48 Noah And The Whale – Last Night On Earth47 Mastodon – The Hunter46 SBTRKT – SBTRKT45 Miles Kane – The Colour Of The Trap44 Death In Vegas – Trans-Love Energies43 King Creosote – Diamond Mine42 Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen41 Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost40 Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi – Rome39 James Blake – James Blake28 Feist – Metals37 Washed Out – Within And Without36 Katy

MOJO‘s Top 50 Albums Of 2011

Published on 2011-12-12 08:09:00

50 Joe Henry – Revere49 Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra48 Wire – Red Barked Tree47 Radiohead: The King Of Limbs46 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds45 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l44 Glen Campbell – Ghost On The Canvas43 Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Scholss Elmau42 Booker T. Jones – The Road From Memphis41 Destroyer – Kaputt40 Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming39 Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See38 The Sand Bag – All Through The Nigh

Uncut‘s Top 50 Albums Of 2011

Published on 2011-12-12 08:07:00

50 Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra49 Arbouretum – The Gathering48 Cornershop Featuring Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop And The Double-O Groove Of47 The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World46 Iceage – New Brigade45 Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin44 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l43 St. Vincent – Strange Mercy42 Jenny Hval – Viscera41 Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’40 Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow39 Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong38 His Golden Messenger – From Coun

Cover of the day

Published on 2011-12-12 07:56:00

Franklin J. Schaffner:"Papillon" (1973)

Published on 2011-12-12 07:51:00

Although it's overly exhaustive as it catalogues its protagonist's many attempts to regain his freedom, Papillon remains the mother, or at least the master, of all prison-escape flicks. Less of a straight-up procedural than such heirs to the throne as Escape From Alcatraz, the film tempers its unashamedly psychological approach (dream sequences, tests of will, and triumph-of-the-downtrodden hokum) with enough gritty realism (knife fights, guillotines, malaria, and leprous smugglers) to ap

Anna Calvi:"Anna Calvi" (2011)

Published on 2011-12-12 07:45:00

When one of the most successful independent record labels of the past decade puts out only a mere smattering of work by female solo artists, you can’t help but feel that they’ve got something of a mental block. However, it seems that Domino were just waiting for the right woman to come along. Anna Calvi is certainly that. Rather than the Brit School background that seems par for the course for any hotly tipped British female solo talent, Anna Calvi is instead the product of a rather mo

Dick Richards:"Farewell, My Lovely" (1975)

Published on 2011-11-23 06:51:00

Soaked in period detail, the third remake of Raymond Chandler's eponymous novel is fascinating to look at if a mite leisurely in pacing. Gumshoe Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by mountainous criminal Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran) to find a former girlfriend. Raymond Chandler had many qualities as a writer but reverence was hardly one of them. Thus, the reverence for the period, manifest in the impressively detailed art direction, seems strangely out of place for a writer whose

Lee Hazlewood:"Trouble Is a Lonesome Town" (1963)

Published on 2011-11-23 06:44:00

Trouble Is a Lonesome Town was Lee Hazlewood's first proper solo album, following his prosperous late-'50s partnership with Duane Eddy and prior to his mentoring and making of '60s boot-walker Nancy Sinatra. Hazlewood considered it a "writer's album" from which other artists could cull songs, but Trouble is a perfectly legitimate effort in its own right and characteristically wonderful Hazlewood. The songs are succinct, country-drenched cowboy ballads given a certain undeniable authority by Hazl

Milos Forman:"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)

Published on 2011-11-22 18:16:00

Milos Forman had proven his talent for astute social comedy in such earlier Czech films as Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967), and his adept treatment of Cuckoo's Nest's metaphorically loaded conflict fulfilled the promise of an immigrant observer of American culture indicated in his first U.S. feature, Taking Off (1971). Shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, and visually imprisoning the characters in tightly framed composition

Sleater-Kinney:"The Hot Rock" (1999)

Published on 2011-11-22 18:08:00

Expectations for Sleater-Kinney's fourth album were stratospheric, with the raging, tuneful feminist catharsis of Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out having garnered near-universal critical raves and outlandish media hype. Afraid of falling into a predictable rut, though, the band bravely pushed its range of expression into more personal, subdued, and cerebral territory on The Hot Rock. That means the record isn't quite as immediately satisfying as its two brilliant pred