Editors Note: As a special for the last week of 2011, BestNewBands.com is running lists of our writer’s top-5 albums of 2011. Because it’s the end of the year and because we want to find out what our writers really like, these albums are not restricted to “New” bands. Here are Kelly Knapp’s top albums
Nicolas Jaar has been pegged as a dance producer, but it’s a lazy label (as most of them are). His tracks won’t lead listeners to the dance floor. They wander towards the back of your head, exploring the undefined space between what you hear and what your mind wants you to hear. At times the
One evening Greg Hughes, an American musician in London, boarded a train to London Bridge. The sign on the train was incorrect though; the train actually stopped at Kidbrooke. Hughes got off the train and stood at the platform, waiting. Next to him stood a young woman by the name of Tessa Murray. “’Did you
New Jersey’s The Static Jacks are climbing the steep steps to indie-rock acclaim. Guitar-in-hand, the group breathes juvenile hellfire and wrestles across the barriers of punk, garage and soul on their full-length debut, If You’re Young, produced by Chris Shaw (Ted Leo, Bad Brains). Released in late August, the album has received coverage from Rolling