End of year roundup...

Hi peoples

Just a quick shout to wish all of our clients and friends a happy new year. We hope you had a great christmas too, obviously. Here's a new video that LostAlone put together for their cover of Darlene Love's All Alone On Christmas which they recorded with us (and Youtube sound later mangles but you get the picture). I hope it communicates our festive love to all of you.

It's been another fantastic year for us working with some amazing people, getting involved with really diverse projects and most importantly feeling happier than ever with the noise coming out of the studio. One of the nicest things in recent weeks has been seeing bands we've worked with like Papayér, Crash Of Rhinos and Emphemetry turning up on a load of end of year 'Best Of' lists. Hopefully there's more that have been making an impression this year, just lob us an email and let us know what you've been up to - we like our virtual postcards this time of year.

And so on to our own 2011 Top Albums list. I've put together a Spotify playlist at the end of this list featuring almost all of the albums that made my 2011 a much more musically satisfying one. Any artists not on Spotify have had links added to them so you can chase them up yourselves.

If 2012 is anywhere near as good then I'll be a happy boy. This list is in no particular order as that would be far too difficult.

Death Cab - Codes and Keys

Baths - Pop Music/False B-Sides

Chilly Gonzales - The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales

Army Navy - The Last Place

Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar

Into It. Over It. - Proper

MC Esoteric - Boston Pharaoh

Standard Fare - Out Of Sight, Out Of Town

Com Truise - Galactic Melt

Destroyer - Kaputt

Parts & Labor - Constant Future

Siskiyou - Keep Away The Dead

Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

Jim Guthrie - Sword & Sworcery LP - Ballad Of The Space Babies

Ochre - Early Learning

Serengeti - Family & Friends

Royal Bangs - Flux Outside

Crash Of Rhinos - Distal

Emphemetry - A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets

White Town - Monopole

Low - C'mon

Nils Frahm - Felt

Cut Copy - Zonoscope

The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Roots Manuva - 4Everevolution

Vessels - Helioscope

Breathe Owl Breathe - Magic Central

Mallard The Wonderdog - Pops His Clogs

13 & God - Own Your Ghost

The Bigger Lovers - How I Learned To Stop Worrying

Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness

Russian Circles - Empros

Yelle - Safari Disco Club

Zola Jesus - Conatus

Childish Gambino - Camp

Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

Laura Veirs - Tumble Bee

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming!

Other Lives - Tamer Animals

Slow Club - Paradise

David Gibb - There Are Birds In My Garden

Wye Oak - Civilian

Cheap Jazz - The Shape Of Fun To Come

Listener - Wooden Heart

Plaid - Scintilli

Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos

Listen to it all via Spotify HERE

Happy New Year

Rob x