Playlist: Best Of 2011
Whoa. Playlist roll? Playlist roll, betches.
On a side note, there’s a nostalgic comfort in coming up with playlists on 8tracks. It harkens back to high-school years where all you really needed to preoccupy yourself on a Sunday afternoon was a notepad, a 2-deck radio, a stack of cassettes and a naive sense of musical superiority (everyone else, was after all, listening to Vertical Horizon).
In no particular order, these are my 18 favourite tracks birthed from the musical foetus of 2011:
- History - Little Tybee
- The Bay - Metronomy
- Go Outside - Cults
- Silly Fathers - Rubblebucket
- Marathon - Tennis
- It’s Real - Real Estate
- Settle Down - Kimbra
- I Would Do Anything For You - Foster The People
- Shark Ridden Waters - Gruff Rhys
- A Long Time - Mayer Hawthorne
- Get Some - Lykke Li
- Nightlight - Little Dragon
- Santa Fe - Beirut
- Pussycat - Kyoto Protocol
- I Was Just A Card - Laura Marling
- Anti-Pioneer - Feist
- Putting The Dog To Sleep - The Antlers
- Safe Travels (Don’t Die) - Lisa Hannigan
Notable mention: Saddest Song Of 2011 honors ought to go to The Antlers for “Putting The Dog To Sleep”. Moody, sun-obliterating mojo going on there…
More playlists on my 8tracks page.
