In terms of both solstice and the impending July 4th weekend cookouts, summer has fully sprung, and with it come the mid-year Best Of LPs lists. We offered our rundown last week, including Gang Gang, Prurient, Krallice, Pictureplane, Liturgy, Destroyer, Toro Y Moi, along with debuts from Austra, Iceage, Puro Instinct, Pure X, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Today we have a midterm report from SPIN, who eschew all of the aforementioned, but join us in paying props to PJ Harvey, Bon Iver, the Weeknd, tUnE-yArDs, Yuck, Fleet Foxes, Smith Westerns, Adele, and Fucked Up.
Here are those overlaps, and the other records that make up SPIN's suggestions for 2011.5:
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Big K.R.I.T. - Return Of 4eva
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
James Blake - James Blake
Adele - 21
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
DJ Quik - The Book Of David
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
The Strokes - Angles
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Yuck - Yuck
Alela Diane - Alela Diane& Wild Divine
G-Side - The ONE … COHESIVE
You can get some contextual editorial along for the choices over at SPIN.
