these are songs that i heard for the first time this year, rather than songs that came out this year. in no particular order:
Adele, “Rolling in the Deep” (video is pretty good too)
TV on the Radio, “Second Song” (also a decent video)
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, “Home” (official video is a hipster’s wet dream and unembeddable – sticking with this one)
The Books, “The Story of Hip-Hop”
John Powell, “Test-Drive” from How to Train Your Dragon
2011 has been a pretty weird year for everyone as far as i can tell. the first six months were pretty dark for me personally. the second half of the year has been a lot kinder.
i got no more insight.
