It's time to break the radio silence on BTA, and bring you my best albums and tracks of the year 2011. A year that belonged to Ms. Harvey. Since Let England Shake was released early in the year no-one else had a chance.
Top 10 Albums:
10. Big Deal - Lights Out
9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
8. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
7. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
6. Metronomy - The English Riviera
5. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
4. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
3. Pete & The Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
2. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
And here's my Best of the Year mix:
1. This Many Boyfriends - Young Lovers Go Pop
2. Black Lips - Modern Art
3. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
4. Adele - Rolling In The Deep
5. Lykke Li - Get Some
6. Metronomy - The Look
7. Los Campesinos - By Your Hand
8. Herman Dune - Tell Me Something I Don't Know
9. Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten
10. The Vaccines - Norgaard
11. Big Deal - Talk
12. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
13. Laura Marling - Sophia
14. The Naked & Famous - Young Blood
15. Lana Del Ray - Video Games
16. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
17. Fanfarlo - Replicate
18. Gill Scott Heron (Jamie XX Remix) - I'll Take Care of U
19. Bon Iver - Calgary
20. Pete & The Pirates - Half Moon Street
Download it here