Top 25 Of 2011
Better late than never, I guess. |
| 25 |  | Smith Westerns
Dye It Blonde
Try If You Like: Surfer Blood, fuzzy guitars |
Tracks: "Imagine, pt. 3", "Smile" |
| 24 |  | Feist
Metals
TIYL: Broken Social Scene, Apple commercials |
Tracks: "The Circle Married the Line", "Bittersweet Melodies" |
| 23 |  | Young Galaxy
Shapeshifting
TIYL: Cut Copy, The xx |
Tracks: "We Have Everything", "B.S.E." |
| 22 |  | Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Sit Resist
TIYL: Anais Mitchell, BtMI! |
Tracks: "Master of Art", "The Wait" |
| 21 |  | Astronautalis
This is Our Science
TIYL: Doomtree, Modest Mouse |
Tracks: "Dimitri Mendeleev", "Life the Curse" |
| 20 |  | Gotye
Making Mirrors
TIYL: Idiosyncratic pop? |
Tracks: "Bronte", "Somebody That I Used to Know" |
| 19 |  | Vanessa Carlton
Rabbits on the Run
TIYL: Eisley, pianos |
Tracks: "Fairweather Friend", "The Marching Line" |
| 18 |  | Braids
Native Speaker
TIYL: Feels-era Animal Collective |
Tracks: "Glass Deers", "Lemonade" |
| 17 |  | St. Vincent
Strange Mercy
TIYL: Cute girls making weird music |
Tracks: "Surgeon", "Cruel" |
| 16 |  | Frank Turner
England Keep My Bones
TIYL: The Gaslight Anthem, Frightened Rabbit |
Tracks: "Redemption", "I Am Disappeared" |
| 15 |  | The Joy Formidable
The Big Roar
TIYL: My Bloody Valentine, lots and lots of guitars |
Tracks: "Whirring", "A Heavy Abacus" |
| 14 |  | Eisley
The Valley
TIYL: Emily Haines, Vanessa Carlton |
Tracks: "Ambulance", "Please" |
| 13 |  | Parts & Labor
Constant Future
TIYL: No Age, getting two-second hooks stuck in your head for a week |
Tracks: "A Thousand Roads", "Skin and Bones" |
| 12 |  | Fair to Midland
Arrows and Anchors
TIYL: dredg, Porcupine Tree |
Tracks: "The Greener Grass", "Whiskey & Ritalin" |
| 11 |  | Submotion Orchestra
Finest Hour
TIYL: Portishead, Air |
Tracks: "Always", "Finest Hour" |
| 10 |  | PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
TIYL: Thinking about war, Joni Mitchell maybe? |
Tracks: "All and Everyone", "Let England Shake" |
| 9 |  | Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
TIYL: Bearded men in cabins |
Tracks: "Holocene", "Calgary" |
| 8 |  | tUnE-yArDs
w h o k i l l
TIYL: Deconstruction |
Tracks: "Gangsta", "Killa" |
| 7 |  | Swarms
Old Raves End
TIYL: Clubroot, Burial |
Tracks: "Flikr of ur Eyes", "Sterling" |
| 6 | | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
TIYL: the '80s |
Tracks: "Wait", "Midnight City" |
| 5 |  | Florence and the Machine
Ceremonials
TIYL: Bat for Lashes, Marina & the Diamonds |
Tracks: "All This and Heaven Too", "Shake it Out" |
| 4 |  | Gang Gang Dance
Eye Contact
TIYL: Middle Eastern acid trips |
Tracks: "MindKilla", "Thru and Thru" |
| 3 |  | The Jezabels
Prisoner
TIYL: The Joy Formidable, Eisley |
Tracks: "Endless Summer", "City Girl" |
| 2 |  | The Caretaker
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
TIYL: Vinyl crackle, memories |
Tracks: "Camaraderie at Arms Length", "A Relationship with the Sublime" |
| 1 |  | Manchester Orchestra
Simple Math
TIYL: The Dear Hunter, singing along |
Tracks: "Simple Math", "Apprehension" |
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