Music: 2011 in review

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Today marks my 5th year since joining last.fm; for a while it was the only social network I was actually active on and, though I don’t spend as much time on there these days, I still find the graphs and data it collects about listening habits fascinating.

Lists of my favourite music of 2011 after the jump.

wire - red barked tree sons and daughters - mirror mirror  wild beasts - smother

My play data on last.fm is rather different, but these are the 2011-released albums & tracks I enjoyed the most over past 12 months:

Albums

  1. Wire – Red Barked Tree
  2. Sons and Daughters – Mirror Mirror
  3. Wild Beasts – Smother
  4. Shadowclub – Guns and Money
  5. Mogwai – Hardcore will never die, but you will
  6. When Saints Go Machine – Konkylie
  7. Faun – Eden
  8. Ulterior – Wild in Wildlife
  9. Veto – Everything Is Amplified
  10. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes

Tracks

  1. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
  2. Faun – Alba
  3. The Glitch Mob – We Can Make The World Stop
  4. Designer Drugs – For All We Know
  5. Yoav – Ghost Dance (free download)
  6. Kongos – I’m Only Joking
  7. Isochronous – Destiny
  8. Sons and Daughters – Bee Song
  9. When Saints Go Machine – Church And Law
  10. Veto – This is not
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