My top 20 favorite albums and songs from 2011.

1. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

2. M83-Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

3. Tune-Yards - Who Kill

4. Cults - Cults

5. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

6. Blood Orange - Costal Grooves

7. Atlas Sound - Parallax

8. Yacht - Shangri-La

9. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams

10. John Maus- We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

11. Thee Oh Sees Castlemania

12. Crystal Stills - In Love With Oblivion

13. Washed Out - Within And Without

14. Lykke Li-Wounded Rhymes

15. Youth Lagoon - The Year In Hibernation

16. Battles - Gloss Drop

17. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

18. Charles Bradely - No Time For Dreaming

19. Destroyer - Kaputt (I Actually Hated This The First Time I Heard It. Go Figure.)

20. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne

Favorite songs can be found here:

http://open.spotify.com/user/rustbeltthreads/playlist/6ibL9LzACQwmo0t66LZwGT

(track listing)

M83 – Intro

Crystal Stilts – Sycamore Tree

Lykke Li – Youth Knows No Pain

Beirut – Santa Fe

Tune-Yards – My Country

Cults – Abducted

Blood Orange – Forget It

Wye Oak – Civilian

Parenthetical Girls – The Pornographer

Cut Copy – Need You Now

Xiu Xiu – Only Girl

The Rapture – Come Back to Me

Jay Z – Ni**as In Paris

Mogwai – George Square Thatcher Death Party

Crystal Castles – Not In Love

Battles – Ice Cream (Featuring Matias Aguayo)

WU LYF – L Y F

Real Estate – Green Aisles

St. Vincent – Cruel

Twin Sister - Bad Street

Zola Jesus – Vessel

The War On Drugs – I Was There

Kurt Vile – Runner Ups

Youth Lagoon – Afternoon

EMA – Anteroom

Atlas Sound – Te Amo

Wilco – One Sunday Morning

British Sea Power – Heavy Water

YACHT – Shangri-La

Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed

WILD FLAG – Something Came Over Me

Thee Oh Sees – I Need Seed

The Mountain Goats – Estate Sale Sign

Raphael Saadiq – Heart Attack

Dum Dum Girls – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

Charles Bradley – Why Is It So Hard

The Kills – The Last Goodbye

John Maus – Believer

Enjoy and happy holidays y’all!