{"id":18611,"date":"2011-12-11T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2011\/12\/albums-of-2011\/18611"},"modified":"2011-12-11T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:57","slug":"albums-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2011\/12\/18611\/albums-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Albums of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So, in the spirit of procrastination, here is my auto-generated albums of 2011 based on what last.fm thinks I&#8217;ve listened to. Obviously, this can&#8217;t include the CDs I listen to in my DVD player or car. Or mp3 player for that matter. BUT STILL. I don&#8217;t think I really bought many albums this year from this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Chapel+Club\">Chapel Club<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Chapel Club - Palace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Chapel+Club\/Palace\">Palace<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c8f60_58099715.png\" \/><br \/>Released 31\/1\/2011<br \/>Ok, so Chapel Club&#8230; I didn&#8217;t actually buy their album. I think this is on the list because I kept listening to that one song, <a title=\"Chapel Club \u00e2\u20ac\u201c All The Eastern Girls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Chapel+Club\/_\/All+The+Eastern+Girls\">All The Eastern Girls<\/a>. It&#8217;s a really good song. <\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Patrick+Wolf\">Patrick Wolf<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Patrick+Wolf\/Lupercalia\">Lupercalia<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c8f60_71502024.png\" \/><br \/>Released 20\/6\/2011<br \/>This is the only Patrick Wolf album I own, so I can really put it in context with his back-catalogue but I really like this. It&#8217;s the most loved up album that I&#8217;ve heard in a long time and it&#8217;s so happy and yay and weeee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Dave+Hause\">Dave Hause<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Dave Hause - Resolutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Dave+Hause\/Resolutions\">Resolutions<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c8f60_69085020.jpg\" \/><br \/>Released 1\/2\/2011<br \/>So this  album got released back in February, but I didn&#8217;t know anything about Dave Hause until I saw him on The Revival Tour back in October. He was epic then and at the Windmill in Brixton a few days later (when I bought the album). This is packed full of songs that are great to sing along to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/The+Horrible+Crowes\">The Horrible Crowes<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"The Horrible Crowes - Elsie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/The+Horrible+Crowes\/Elsie\">Elsie<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c8f60_66122640.jpg\" \/><br \/>Released 5\/9\/2011<br \/>I do love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/+noredirect\/Gaslight+Anthem\">Gaslight Anthem<\/a> and the Horrible Crowes do sound a bit like them, what with sharing Brian Fallon and all. However, this  is a different animal. Elsie is darker and more romantic than any of the Gaslight Anthem&#8217;s albums and I like the difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Frank+Turner\">Frank Turner<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Frank+Turner\/England+Keep+My+Bones\">England Keep My Bones<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/83095_60988283.jpg\" \/><br \/>Released 6\/6\/2011<br \/>It was tough choosing between this and Elsie, but in the end it had to be done. Hearing <a title=\"Frank Turner \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Peggy Sang the Blues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Frank+Turner\/_\/Peggy+Sang+the+Blues\">Peggy Sang the Blues<\/a> at Frank&#8217;s Brixton gig actually moved me to tears last year, because hearing about his cool grandma reminded me how great my own grandparents were. The whole album is full of songs about Englishness and mortality and belief and right now all of that really resonates with me. Even Hallelujah, the hymn for the modern atheist is great even if I can&#8217;t bring myself to sing along to it at gigs (I&#8217;ve tried, really, it just doesn&#8217;t happen &#8211; I put it down to getting a similar buzz from singing along at gigs that I get from really getting into singing worship music at church and&#8230;this song essentially being anti-worship and cancelling it out. *shrug* I dunno).<\/p>\n<p>Created using <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\/user\/OnDistantShores\" rel=\"nofollow\">OnDistantShores<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lastfmstats.livefrombmore.com\/albumoftheyear\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Album Of The Year journal generator<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/herdivineshadow\/journal\/2011\/12\/11\/58of9d_albums_of_2011\">Link to the original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in the spirit of procrastination, here is my auto-generated albums of 2011 based on what last.fm thinks I&#8217;ve listened to. Obviously, this can&#8217;t include the CDs I listen to in my DVD player or car. Or mp3 player for that matter. BUT STILL. I don&#8217;t think I really bought many albums this year from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2011\/12\/18611\/albums-of-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Albums of 2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}