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.

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