Listomania: favourite albums of 2011

Happy 2012, everyone! Here are my top 10 favourite albums from the freshly finished year of 2011. (Each album links to a goodie, by the way.)

#10

1000

by Cheveu


#9

Cherish The Light Years

by Cold Cave


#8

Feel It Break

by Austra


#7

Burst Apart

by The Antlers


#6

The Hunter

by Mastodon


#5

Belong

by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart


#4

We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

by John Maus


#3

Common Era

by Belong


#2

Let England Shake

by PJ Harvey


#1

Bon Iver, Bon Iver

by Bon Iver


You can find the complete list over here. This past year I tried to be more up to date regarding new releases. Obviously I didn't find out about EVERYTHING, but that's not the point. I just want to be a little bit more musically aware about the right now, the time I'm living in. It's always easy to look back and get hold of the classics but I want to be able to tell my kids later "I remember when that album came out". There's time to lay back and delve in the past but for the present you need to keep a certain pace. And keeping that pace has become my hobby.