EDIT -
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - First Watch - that what happens when I copy and paste from iTunes and delete the wrong bits.

A few more...

The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love
Holy Ghost! - Some Children
British Sea Power - Luna
Battles - Ice Cream

Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing
The Do - Too Insistent
Low - Nothing But Heart

My favourite tunes of 2011 (in random order etc.)

Truth - Alexander
African Soldier - Seun Kuti
Months
and
Jesus Came To My Birthday Party - The Middle East
Sweetie & Shag - Battles
Riding With Death - Zomby
I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li
Shuffle A Dream - Little Dragon
The Afterlife - Paul Simon
Milk and Honey - Hollie Cook
Standing O - Wilco
Gopuru - Gurrumul
Hard Work - Smoove & Turrell
I Never Learnt To Share - James Blake
Metaphors - Andreas Mattsson
Pay Me - Tom Waits

In no particular order, but these are the new tracks that I've loved this year. Lots of "ft"s and a remix. A mixed bag, but I'm enamoured by them all. Some post rock, hip hop and dubstep mixed with some folk and pop.

iamamiwhoami - ;john
Sleep ∞ Over - Romantic Streams
The Unthanks - Starless
The Deer Tracks - Ram Ram
James Morrison - Up (ft. Jessie J)
Caught In The Wake Forever - LiaFail(AtDawn)
Avril Lavigne - Smile
Balam Acab - Oh, Why
Burial - Stolen Dog
Kaiser Chiefs - Back In December
Radiohead - Seperator
JJ - We Can't Stop (ft. Ne-Yo)
Ben Howard - Old Pine
Coldplay - Paradise
Benga - United Kingdom
D1 - Flood Of Emotions (ft. Jenna G)
Distance - Falling (Ft. Alys Be)
Emeli Sande - Heaven
Jay-Z / Kanye West - Made In America (ft. Frank Ocean)
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Burial Remix)
Handsome Furs - Serve The People
Graciela Maria - Nothing Safe
Elbow - Lippy Kids
The Game - Red Nation (ft. Lil Wayne)
Gemma Hayes - All I Need

Mogwai - San Pedro

Magazine - Do The Meaning

The Horrors - Still Life

The Vaccines - Wet Suit

We Are Augustines - Book Of James

Ghostfunk - Ghostfunk(the whloe Lp's great/can't remember any titles)

I Think you should at least have one track from the new David Mead album, probably track one. Same for Eleanor Friedburger. Stick in House for Sale by Sir Nick and I would include Richie & Rueben by Fountains of Wayne and Kitty Wells dresses by Laura Cantrell. Although there haven't been any classic albums this year, I think there have been some great tracks.

The Lana Del Rey one made me sit up a bit.
The singles from The Pierces were good as well.

Thanks so much for your replies. After much thought this is what I came up with....

1. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
2. Magazine - The Burden Of A Song
3. Bill Callahan - America!
4. Wire - Please Take
5. The Fall - Greenway
6. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
7. The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?
8. The Felice Brothers - Fire At The Pagent
9. Destroyer - Kaputt
10. Half Man Half Biscuit - Rock And Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools
11. Suuns - Arena
12. Joe Goddard - Gabriel
13. Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress
14. The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex
15. PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land
16. Cults - Bumper
17. Adele - Rolling In The Deep
18. The Walkmen - Juveniles
19. Luke Haines - Gorgeous George
20. Yuck - Get Away

Read all about it here + YouTube links + listening opportunities...

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