Best Songs of 2011

In anticipation of our favourite annual post here at LITC—Best Albums of such-and-such year—we are proud to share fifty tracks that we think are the best released this year.  Trust us, there was so much good music released this year that we found picking our fifty favourite tracks to be a rather excruciating process. We’d also love to hear about any songs that you feel should not have been left off of this list in the comments section! So without further ado, here are our fifty favourite tracks from 2011 (in alphabetical order):

1. ‘All the Sand in All the Sea’   DeVotchKa   100 Lovers
2. ‘Angel Is Broken’   Atlas Sound   Parallax
3. ‘Animal’   Neon Trees   Habits   
4. ‘Ash/Black Veil’   Apparat   The Devil’s Walk  
5. ‘Battery Kinzie’   Fleet Foxes   Helplessness Blues
6. ‘Belong’   The Pains of Being Pure at Heart   Belong
7. ‘Circulation’   Thurston Moore   Demolished Thoughts
8. ‘Codex’   Radiohead   The King Of Limbs
9. ‘Country Dumb’   Josh T. Pearson   Last of the Country Gentlemen
10. ‘Cruel’   St Vincent   Strange Mercy
11. ‘Days’   The Drums   Portamento
12. ‘Degeneration Street’   The Dears   Degeneration Street
13. ‘Don’t Move’   Phantogram   Nightlife EP
14. ‘Downtown Eastern Bloc’   Times New Viking   Dancer Equired
15. ‘5 Chords’   The Dears   Degeneration Street
16. ‘Fuck This Place’   Frightened Rabbit   A Frightened Rabbit EP 
17. ‘Galactic Tides’   The Dears   Degeneration Street
18. ‘Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now’   The Pains of Being Pure at Heart   Belong
19. ‘Helplessness Blues’   Fleet Foxes   Helplessness Blues
20. ‘Honey Bunny’   Girls   Father, Son, Holy Ghost
21. ‘I Don’t Want Love’   The Antlers   Burst Apart   
22. ‘Keep You’   Class Actress   Rapprocher     
23. ‘The King’   RAMESH   The King
24. ‘The Last Living Rose’   PJ Harvey   Let England Shake
25. ‘Lippy Kids’   Elbow   Build A Rocket Boys!
26. ‘Montana’   Youth Lagoon   Youth Lagoon
27. ‘Municipality’   Real Estate   Days
28. ‘No Room to Live’   Times New Viking   Dancer Equired
29. ‘No Widows’   The Antlers   Burst Apart
30. ‘People’   David Bazan   Strange Negotiations
31. ‘Save Me’   Gotye   Making Mirrors
32. ‘Scottish Winds’   Frightened Rabbit   A Frightened Rabbit EP
33. ‘17’   Youth Lagoon   Youth Lagoon
34. ‘Smile’   Smith Westerns   Dye It Blonde
35. ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’   Gotye (ft. Kimbra)   Making Mirrors
36. ‘Song Of Los’   Apparat   The Devil’s Walk  
37. ‘Steve McQueen’   M83   Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
38. ‘Strange Negotiations’   David Bazan   Strange Negotiations
39. ‘Sweetheart I Aint Your Christ’   Josh T. Pearson   Last of the Country Gentlemen
40. ‘Tatooine’   Jeremy Messersmith   Tatooine Single
41. ‘To Every Man His Chimera’   Cass McCombs   Humor Risk
42. ‘Trembling Hands’   Explosions in the Sky   Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
43. ‘Try to Sleep’   Low   C’mon
44. ‘Under My Nose’   Fucked Up   David Comes to Life
45. ‘Video Games’   Lana Del Rey   Video Games
46. ‘Wait’  Alberta Cross   The Rolling Thunder EP 
47. ‘Wash’   Bon Iver   Bon Iver
48. ‘Weekend’   Class Actress   Rapprocher  
49. ‘Weekend’   Smith Westerns   Dye It Blonde
50. ‘Your Eyes’   Bombay Bicycle Club   A Different Kind of Fix

If you’d like to check out these tracks for temporary review before you go out and buy the single or the record, you may click here to have a listen.

Keep a lookout for our upcoming Best Albums of 2011 post!