Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My Best of 2011: Top 25 Tracks

I'm sure I missed a few on this list, that probably deserve to be in the top 25, but for me these stood out in my memory of 2011. (click on the title to listen, and see video. some of these contain explicit lyrics and PG-13 type videos)

1. Holocene: Bon Iver

2. Wildfire: SBTRKT

3. Wilhelm Scream: James Blake

4. Lotus Flower: Radiohead

5. Art of Almost: Wilco

6. Go Outside: Cults


8. Helplessness Blues: Fleet Foxes

9. Rivers & Roads: Head & the Heart

10. Tree By the River: Iron & Wine

11. Helena Beat: Foster the People

12. Can't Hold Us: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

13. Mountain Song/ Woman for Me: Rayland Baxter

14. Wicked Games: the Weeknd

15. Tamer Animals: Other Lives

16. Whirring: the Joy Formidable

17. Video Games: Lana Del Rey

18. Free Press and Curl: Shabazz Palaces

19. Lucky Now: Ryan Adams

20. Punching in a Dream: the Naked & Famous

21. It's Real: Real Estate

22. Barton Hollow: the Civil Wars

23. This is Why We Fight: the Decemberists

24. Heartbeat: Childish Gambino

25. Amor Fati: Washed Out

Next 5:

Bizness: tUnE-yArDs
Ice Cream: Battles
Novacane: Frank Ocean
D.D.: the Weeknd
Polish Girl: Neon Indian

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