Saturday, January 07, 2012

2011 in Review - Top 25 Albums

I'm sure I'll eventually get around to beefing this up with reviews, cover art, mp3 links and other such niceties -- for now, here's the list of my Top 25 Albums for 2011:

1 Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Bloomer
2 Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double 'O' Groove Of
3 Wye Oak - Civilian
4 Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart
5 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
6 Sloan - The Double Cross
7 The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
8 Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
9 Burial - Street Halo EP
10 Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
11 The Field - Looping State of Mind
12 Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
13 Royal Bangs - Flux Outside
14 White Denim - D
15 Radiohead - The King of Limbs
16 Feist - Metals
17 Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Commitee Part Two
18 Young Knives - Ornaments From The Silver Arcade
19 Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
20 Washed Out - Within And Without
21 Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
22 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
23 Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
24 Pete And The Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
25 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Top 50 Songs of 2011

Here's a link to a .zip file of the entire collection - in alphabetical order by artist name.

A printable list of the Top 50 is available here.

Addendum: As last year, this collection includes a number of songs from records that did not make my Top 25 Records of 2011 list; likewise, several of those records are not represented in this collection.