{"id":1415,"date":"2012-01-04T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:51:05","slug":"favourite-albums-of-2011-and-rumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/favourite-albums-of-2011-and-rumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumer and The War On Drugs – best of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here, for those of you of a trainspottery persuasion, are my 40 favourite albums of 2011. Plus, as a bonus, one of two tracks from an underpublicised limited edition Christmas single by Rumer. This is a Gilbert O’Sullivan song, which always sounded rather mawkish in his version, but she respects the innocence of the lyric and adds some romance. Rather special. Oh, and a track from The War On Drugs, who would have made it onto my best of year comp, only I didn’t get the album until December 23rd. Fantastic stuff.<\/p>\n

Rumer – We Will<\/a><\/p>\n

The War On Drugs – Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. PAUL SIMON \u2013 So Beautiful Or So What<\/li>\n
  2. THE ARCTIC MONKEYS \u2013 Suck It And See<\/li>\n
  3. THE WAR ON DRUGS \u2013 Slave Ambient<\/li>\n
  4. GILLIAN WELCH \u2013 The Harrow & The Harvest<\/li>\n
  5. PJ HARVEY \u2013 Let England Shake<\/li>\n
  6. FOSTER THE PEOPLE \u2013 Torches<\/li>\n
  7. WILCO \u2013 THE WHOLE LOVE<\/li>\n
  8. FLEET FOXES \u2013 Helplessness Blues<\/li>\n
  9. BON IVER<\/li>\n
  10. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE \u2013 Sky Full Of Holes<\/li>\n
  11. TINARIWEN \u2013 Tassili<\/li>\n
  12. BJORK \u2013 Biophilia<\/li>\n
  13. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS \u2013 Go Go Boots<\/li>\n
  14. LAURA MARLING \u2013 A Creature I Don\u2019t Know<\/li>\n
  15. CORNERSHOP – Cornershop & The Double ‘o’ Groove Of<\/li>\n
  16. GLEN CAMPBELL \u2013 Ghost On The Canvas<\/li>\n
  17. TOM WAITS \u2013 Bad As Me<\/li>\n
  18. J MASCIS – Several Shades Of Why<\/li>\n
  19. RYAN ADAMS \u2013 Ashes & Fire<\/li>\n
  20. JACKIE LEVEN \u2013 Wayside Shrines<\/li>\n
  21. JAMES BLAKE<\/li>\n
  22. R.E.M. \u2013 Collapse Into Now<\/li>\n
  23. THE PIERCES \u2013 You And I<\/li>\n
  24. ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER \u2013 Last Summer<\/li>\n
  25. ANNA CALVI<\/li>\n
  26. RY COODER \u2013 Pull Up Some Dirt & Sit Down<\/li>\n
  27. BONNY PRINCE BILLY \u2013 Wolfroy Goes To Town<\/li>\n
  28. BEIRUT \u2013 The Rip Tide<\/li>\n
  29. JONATHAN WILSON \u2013 Gentle Spirit<\/li>\n
  30. JAY-Z & KANYE WEST \u2013 Watch The Throne<\/li>\n
  31. PANDA BEAR – Tomboy<\/li>\n
  32. LUKE HAINES – Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations etc<\/li>\n
  33. JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN \u2013 The Deep Field<\/li>\n
  34. THEA GILMORE & SANDY DENNY \u2013 Don\u2019t Stop Singing<\/li>\n
  35. BRIAN ENO \u2013 Drums Between The Bells<\/li>\n
  36. KD LANG & The Siss Boom Band \u2013 Sing It Loud<\/li>\n
  37. KURT VILE \u2013 Smoke Ring For My Halo<\/li>\n
  38. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER \u2013 Replica<\/li>\n
  39. GRUFF RHYS \u2013 Hotel Shampoo<\/li>\n
  40. SHELBY LYNNE- Revelation Road<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here, for those of you of a trainspottery persuasion, are my 40 favourite albums of 2011. Plus, as a bonus, one of two tracks from an underpublicised limited edition Christmas single by Rumer. This is a Gilbert O’Sullivan song, which always sounded rather mawkish in his version, but she respects the innocence of the lyric and adds some romance. Rather special. Oh, and a track from The War On Drugs, who would have made it onto my best of year comp, only I didn’t get the album until December 23rd. Fantastic stuff. Rumer – We Will The War On Drugs – Brothers PAUL SIMON \u2013 So Beautiful Or So What THE ARCTIC MONKEYS \u2013 Suck It And See THE WAR ON DRUGS \u2013 Slave Ambient…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}