This list was compiled of music found and listened to (a lot) by me in 2011.  Although the majority was, not every song was technically released in 2011, they were just consumed by various mediums such as iTunes, Amazon, Turntable.fm, Rdio, Spotify, Google Music Beta, my iPod (R.I.P.), Earbits and discovered through various blogs/magazines such as Pitchfork, WeAreHunted, Spin, Rolling Stone, the talented core of musicians/artists I know, The Project Matters and of course friends and family.

The links are to the bands’ respective Facebook pages.

1 M83 - Steve McQueen

2 Grouplove - Betty’s Bomb Shell

3 Youth Lagoon - Montana

4 M83 - Outro

5 Hooray For Earth  Bringing Us Closer Together

6 Mates of State - Palomino

7 College - A Real Hero feat. Electric Youth

8 Crystal Stilts - Flying Into The Sun

9 The Naked and Famous - Young Blood

10 Hurter - Gray

11 The Naked and Famous  - Girls Like You

12 Green Arrows - 1,2,3

13 Death Cab For Cutie - Stay Young Go Dancing

14 Lana Del Rey - Video Games

15 Perfume Genius - All Waters

16 Drake - Marvin’s Room

17 Christina Perri - A Thousand Years

18 Escape Directors - The War Outside

19 Justice - Civilization

20 Coldplay - Don’t Let It Break Your Heart

21 Kimbra - Cameo Lover

22 Foster The People - Waste

23 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Keep Me Waiting

24 Runaway Dorothy  - Takes Alot of Love

25 Phantogram - When I’m Small

Honorable Mention(s):

Hooray For Earth – Same

M83 – Wait

Angels & Airwaves – All That We Are

To each and everyone of these bands and artists that touched my life this year; Thank You.  Most of these songs I will be listening to 25 years from now in one form or another.   (Form: TBD, right now its iTunes/iTunes Match)

matt

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