love at first look & listen

…Our Top 25?  You didn’t think we’d let 2011 end without a “Best Of” post, did you?  Of course not.  With all of the amazing music that came out this year, making this list seemed a bit daunting to us, but we weren’t about to let that stop us from showing you a little love.  So without further ado (and in no real particular order), we present our top 25 songs that we posted this year…

1)    We Are Augustines “Chapel Song”

2)    Angus and Julia Stone “Big Jet Plane”

3)    The Chain Gang of 1974 “Hold On”

4)    Reptar “Stuck In My Id”

5)    Young Empires “Rain of Gold”

6)    Sharon Van Etten “Love More”

7)    The Naked and Famous “Young Blood”

8)    Grandpa Was A Lion “Paris”

9)    Jhameel “The Human Condition”

10) Blood Diamonds “Move The Stars”

11) Dom “Living In America”

12) The Civil Wars “Barton Hollow”

13) Wild Nothing “Chinatown”

14) CANT “Too Late Too Far”

15) fun. (ft. Janelle Monae) “We Are Young”

16) Boy & Bear “Rabbit Song”

17) Chad Valley “Up and Down”

18) The Checks “Candyman Shimmer”

19) Dry The River “Coast”

20) Gardens & Villa “Black Hills”

21) The Head and the Heart “Down in the Valley”

22) I Break Horses “Winter Beats”

23) Jonquil “It Never Rains”

24) NewVillager “Lighthouse”

25) Young The Giant “My Body”