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Our Musical Highlights of 2011
Published 10 January 2012 by BWL

We've (finally) got round to listing our favourite music of 2011. Better late than never! We've done you a special Spotify highlights playlist too - enjoy!

Tony's top albums of 2011:

Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Julia Kent - Green And Grey
Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?
Braids - Native Speaker
James Blake - James Blake
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs Evil
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
Demdike Stare - Triptych
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Talib Kweli - Gutter Palaces
Satelliti - Im Magen Des Kosmos
Nils Frahm - Felt
Theo Parrish - Ugly Edits
Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up!
The Roots - Undun
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older

Tony's top tracks of 2011:

Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
Lana De Rey - Video Games
Factory Floor - Two Different Ways
Pilöt - Mantes Religieuse
Friends - I'm His Girl
Timber Timbre - Bad Ritual
Battles (featuring Matias Aguayo) - Ice Cream
Adele - Rolling In The Deep
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Peaking Lights - Summertime
Spank Rock - Energy
The Fall - Nate WIll Not Return
Jai Paul - BTSTU
K-X-P - Cymbalim

Ben's top albums of 2011 (in no particular order):

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Braids - Native Speaker
Grails - Deep Politics
Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7fingers
Circle - Infektio
Trumpets Of Death - Teeth + Teeth = Teeths
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Nils Frahm - Felt
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Satelliti - Im Magen Des Kosmos
Zun Zun Egui - Katang
Peaking Lights - 936
Matthew Halsall - On The Go
Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak

Rachel's top albums of 2011 (in no particular order):

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
Trumpets of Death - Teeth + Teeth = Teeths
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
trioVD - X (technically an EP!)

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