Office by Alex Penny
I am who I am, and I am nothing more.
The life and thoughts of a music obsessed, nerdy teenager who should have lived during the 1950's.
I’ll be the first to admit that I am great at procrastinating. As can be expected, I did not begin writing this list until about two days ago and it was at that moment that I realised that I’ve sort of fallen off bandwagon (I don’t even know if that’s the right word but it was the first thing that popped into my head) when it comes to music, even the stuff by bands/artists I really like. I had no idea when most albums were being released, who had released new music and so on. Needless to say, it proved rather difficult to actually work up the enthusiasm it required to listen (and re-listen) and mentally critique a decent number of albums so that my list wouldn’t appear so sparse. So here is my list that, for the first time in existence, is listed in order of preference!
Top Ten Albums of 2011:
Honourable Mentions (albums I liked but not enough to make my list, EPs and otherwise):
*I would like to point out that somehow I did not get around to listening to albums by the following artists (or I just forgot they released an album and it was too late to listen to all of them): Blink 182 (I don’t know how that happened, I even downloaded the leak), Madina Lake, Mayday Parade, Bright Eyes, Every Avenue, Sum 41, Yellowcard (again, I’m lazy but I did listen to the acoustic version and it was heavenly), Eisley, The Kills, The Maine (I sort of lost interest in their music), Cobra Starship (I was too scared it was going to suck so I decided to save myself the disappointment by not listening to it all) and You Me At Six (the guest vocalists kind of put me off so I didn’t listen to it for the same reason as Cobra).
The new LNK website, webstore and collection have officially launched!
A little over 2 years ago, Liner Note Kids began as a shirt I made to wear to a concert.
And look where we are now. LNK shirts are being worn with pride by liner note kids all over the world. Somehow this hope and dream has turned into a proper brand, and it’s all thanks to you.
LNK 2.0 is the first proper screenprint collection and I’m so proud of it. The shirts somehow manage to celebrate my love for all things retro, music and typography all at once and I can’t get enough of them. I hope you feel the same! you can check out all the new designs in the webstore here.
Please keep in mind that the webstore is in USD and as such, prices will change as the NZD-USD exchange rate does. I realise that the USD is in a pretty bad state at the moment, but don’t worry cos LNK is having a RELAUNCH SALE! For the next 2 weeks you can get 10% off everything when you use the discount code LNKRELAUNCH :) My gift to you for supporting me and sticking by me all these years.
Please also keep in mind that the last time i coded a website from scratch was 2008… so if you find anything wrong with it, please let me know so I can try get it sorted :)
That said, I’m keen to know what you think of the site, the webstore, the new collection, everything!?
I am so damn proud of Charli and how far she has managed to come these past few years. She is an amazingly talented artist, designer, photographer and an all-round wonderful person (plus a million other things that I haven’t yet described) and she deserves this more than anyone I know.
I still remember the first time I bought an LNK shirt (or rather shirts) and how unbelievably excited and proud I was to wear it whenever I could (seriously, every free dress day at school was LNK day for me).
You can also consider this as me urging each and every one of you to check out her new collection because, even though I’m probably biased, it’s incredible, unique and suits every single possible style or trend you could imagine.
