2011 in music

So, yeah, Adele, pretty much overall.

Amy Winehouse’s “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” sounds more like her and better than I expected, sadly. Destroyer’s “Kaputt” wound up neck-and-neck with The Roots’ “Undun” and The Weeknd’s output for album of the year (because, good G-d amighty, it’s not like Dan Bejar released three free mixtapes in one year, or spent the year as the best small-screen band).

Radiohead’s lovely remixed work (and Jamie XX’s mix for a high-level overview of others’ work — not to mention his work with Gil Scott-Heron on “We’re New Here”) was solid too.

I enjoyed plunking down for Cut Copy, Washed Out, Little Dragon, Raphael Saadiq, Bon Iver, Feist, Muhsinah, Shabazz Palaces, James Blake, Blood Orange and a few others who’ll come to me soon.