By now you've made your way through all the end-of-year lists you can stomach, I'm sure. But wait! There's more: my favorite songs of 2011. I've made a mix of my 24 favorite tracks, excluding anything from my favorite albums of the year because it's a given that those albums each contain multiple favorites. The tracks below are not ranked, but are ordered for an ideal two-hour mix. (And for what it's worth, I don't think a lot of these tracks showed up on others' lists, so hopefully a lot of this will be new to you.) Click play on the first track to listen in sequence—or download all the songs and listen to them however you want. [Part I] [Part II]
Panda Bear: Last Night At The Jetty
Fujiya & Miyagi: Ventriloquizzing
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Thought Ballune
Ray and the Prisms: Astrograph
Roedelius Schneider: Single Boogie
Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
Little Scream: The Heron and the Fox
The War on Drugs: Come to the City
Dirty Beaches: Lord Knows Best
John Vanderslice: The Piano Lesson
Tinariwen: Tenere Taqqim Tossam
Bombino: Tigrawahi Tikma (Bring Us Together)
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