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 |