It's not really the end of a year without every blog on the internet posting the best albums of the year etc... Here is my top ten, with a clear number one, an easy 2-4, and then it's sort of a toss up after that...
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Read on for 30 of my favorite songs from the year with embedded audio. They are not in any particular order, and to make the list more interesting I didn't include more than two songs from one album. This definitely isn't a personal Top 30 list -- just more of a list of 30 songs that I happened to listen to a lot during the last 12 months.
Real Estate - Beach Comber | |
The Mantles - Don't Lie | |
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky! | |
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks | |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric | |
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace | |
Animal Collective - Bluish | |
Girls - Lust for Life | |
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up | |
Beach Fossils - Daydream | |
Andrew Cedermark - Hard Livin' | |
Phoenix - 1901 | |
The Middle East - Blood | |
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - 40 Day Dream | |
Passion Pit - Little Secrets | |
Woods - Suffering Season (Daytrotter Session) | |
Mos Def - Auditorium | |
Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision | |
Toro Y Moi - Human Nature (MJ Cover) | |
Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/Noah Lennox) | |
Beach Fossils - Vacation | |
Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness (w/MGMT & Ratatat) | |
No Age - Losing Feeling | |
Smith Westerns - Imagine pt3 | |
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes | |
She & Him - Let Me Get What I Want (Smiths Cover) | |
Beirut - My Wife Lost in the Wild | |
Holiday Shores - Bradley Bear | |
Love Language - Lalita | |
Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You |