Musik des Jahres

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Foals - Total Life Forever

Kaki King - Junior

The Corin Tucker Band - 1,000 Years

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Tocotronic: Schall und Wahn

Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles 2

Songs: 

Junip - Rope and Summit (on Fields)

"unmasking your fears / one by one see them disappear / into the fog down below / slipping is fine / as long as you don't fall"

Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion (on Dear Companion)

"Dear Companion, before I close my eyes I wonder / am I on your mind?"

Belle and Sebastian feat. Carey Mulligan -  Write About Love (on Belle and Sebastian Write About Love)

"At one o'clock, I take my lunch up on the roof / The city's spread below, I'll write about a man / He's intellectual and he's hot, but he understands" 

Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke (on I Speak Because I Can)

"Eye to eye / Nose to nose / ripping off each other's clothes / in the most peculiar way." 

Blitzen Trapper - The Man Who Would Speak True (on Destroyer of the Void)

"For there ain't no road but the road to home / there ain't no crops but the ones you've sewn / and if you learn one thing from me / you better guard your tongue like your enemy"

Scout Niblett - Duke of Anxiety (on The Calcination of Scout Niblett)

"How funny it seems / There's answers in dreams / I just can't seem to remember / Mine"

M.I.A. - Born Free (on /\/\ /\ Y /\)

"You can think big with your idea / You ain't never gonna find utopia"

The Thermals - I Don't Believe You (on Personal Life)

"Oh there's nothing we can do / if I don't believe you / our history is incomplete"

Laura Veirs - July Flame (on July Flame)

"July flame / I'm seeing fireworks / they're so beautiful / tell me where it hurts"

Caribou - Odessa (on Swim)

"Saving up for, the day when she goes / The day that she stands up / For everything that she chose"

HEALTH  - We Are Water (on Get Color, released in 2009)

"Our bones won't grow in the dirt"

Janelle Monáe - Cold War / Tightrope (on ArchAndroid)

"So you think I'm alone? / But being alone's the only way to be"
 "You either follow or you lead, yeah / I'm talkin' bout you, / I'll keep on blaming the machine, yeah"

Turin Brakes - The Sea Change (on Outbursts)

"we saw the changing at the sea / another thing was done / remember when you could rely / those days are all but gone "

Two Door Cinema Club - Poker Face (Lady Gaga Cover)

"Baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun"

Gorillaz - Crystalised (The xx Cover)

"So don't think that I'm pushing you away / When you're the one that I've kept closest"

Also: 

Die Sterne - 24/7, Spoon - Transference,  Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle, Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This, Owen Pallett - Heartland, Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 2, Warpaint - The Fool, Azure Ray - Drawing Down the Moon, Sharon Van Etten - Epic, Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring, Love is All - Ten Thousand and Ten Injuries, Sofa Surfers - Blind Side, The Black Keys - Brothers, John & Jehn - Time for the Devil, The Hundred in the Hands - The Hundred in the Hands, Sage Francis - Life, Frazey Ford - Obediah, Lali Puna - Our Inventions, Hanoi James - Year of Panic.

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