Here’s a list of 20 or so songs that individually made my ears happy this year. Most of them were culled from my top ten CDs but others exist on their own and I am grateful for the gift of such varied listening available this year. Again, in no particular order here you go… listen here!
- Modern Man/Arcade Fire
- It’s Working/MGMT
- Norway/Beach House
- Bloodbuzz Ohio/The National
- All I Want/LCD Soundsystem
- Written in Reverse/Spoon
- Cousins/Vampire Weekend
- Do You Want It All/Two Door Cinema Club
- New Theory/Washed Out
- Excuses/The Morning Benders
- One Life Stand/Hot Chip
- Barricade/Interpol
- The High Road/Broken Bells
- What Would I Want? Sky/Animal Collective
- Walkabout/Atlas Sound
- What’s It In For/Avi Buffalo
- Odessa/Caribou
- 21 @ 12/Hot Hot Heat
- Evening/Morning/Bombay Bicycle Club
- Crash Years/The New Pornographers
- Stylo/Gorillaz
- Breakin’ the Chains of Love/Fitz & The Tantrums
- Boy/Ra Ra Riot