Music vs. Misery’s Favourites of 2011
Well, another year has come and gone. Whenever I take time to reflect on the records that affected me in the the previous twelve months, I am always amazed at how much music I managed to consume — and yet, it is never enough. Year end lists make me realize how much music is being made in the world and how I will never have enough time to listen to it all. But it doesn’t hurt to try, right?
Here are the albums of 2011 that made me smile, dance, cry, run faster, or lie on the floor staring at the ceiling late at night. There is no way to know how many of these albums will still be in my regular rotation ten years down the line, but I’m certain that the songs within them will forever remind me of the year that I turned twenty-two.
THE ANTLERS
Burst Apart
mp3: Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
mp3: Putting The Dog To Sleep
BELL X1
Bloodless Coup
mp3: Hey Anna Lena
mp3: The Trailing Skirts of God
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
A Different Kind of Fix
mp3: Lights Out, Words Gone
mp3: Leave It
BON IVER
Bon Iver
mp3: Holocene (watch: video)
mp3: Beth / Rest
CHIDDY BANG
Peanut Butter and Swelly (mixtape)
mp3: Too Much Soul
mp3: Heatwave
COLD WAR KIDS
Mine Is Yours
mp3: Out of the Wilderness
mp3: Louder Than Ever
CUT COPY
Zonoscope
mp3: Need You Now
mp3: Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat
THE DECEMBERISTS
The King is Dead
mp3: Don’t Carry It All
mp3: This Is Why We Fight (watch: video)
FRANK TURNER
England Keep My Bones
mp3: I Am Disappeared
mp3: If Ever I Stray (watch: video)
GOTYE
Making Mirrors
mp3: Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (watch: video)
mp3: Eyes Wide Open
GUILLEMOTS
Walk the River
mp3: Walk the River
mp3: I Must Be A Lover (watch: video)
HANDSOME FURS
Sound Kapital
mp3: Serve the People (watch: video)
mp3: Repatriated
HEY ROSETTA
Seeds
mp3: Yer Fall
mp3: Bandages (watch: video)
JAY-Z / KANYE WEST
Watch the Throne
mp3: Otis
mp3: That’s My Bitch (feat. Justin Vernon)
M83
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
mp3: Midnight City (watch: video)
mp3: New Map
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
mp3: Everybody’s on the Run
mp3: If I Had A Gun… (watch: video)
THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE
Departing
mp3: North Star
mp3: Tornado ‘87 (watch: live session)
WASHED OUT
Within and Without
mp3: You and I (feat. Caroline Polachek)
mp3: Amor Fati (watch: video)
WE ARE AUGUSTINES
Rise Ye Sunken Ships
mp3: Book of James (watch: video)
mp3: Chapel Song (watch: video)
YOUNG GALAXY
Shapeshifting
mp3: We Have Everything (watch: video)
mp3: Cover Your Tracks
YOUTH LAGOON
The Year of Hibernation
mp3: Montana (watch: video)
mp3: Seventeen
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