
Top 30 Albums
- Josh Garrels – Love & War & The Sea In Between
- Various – Seven Swans Reimagined
- Matisyahu – Live At Stubb’s Vol. II
- Thrice – Major/Minor
- Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth
- Dominic Balli – American Dream
- Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
- Deas Vail – Deas Vail
- Switchfoot – Vice Verses
- The Ember Days – Emergency
- Timbre – Silent Night
- HANDS – Give Me Rest
- Seryn – This Is Where We Are
- Danielson – The Best of Gloucester County
- Hillsong United – Aftermath
- Becoming The Archetype – Celestial Completion
- Emery – We Do What We Want
- My Epic – Broken Voice
- The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
- Mat Kearney – Young Love
- O Brother – Garden Window
- La Dispute – Wildlife
- Relient K – K is for Karaoke
- Mutemath – Odd Soul
- Coldplay – Myloto Xoto
- Life In Your Way – Kingdoms
- John Mark Mcmillan – Economy
- The Decemberists – The King is Dead
- Weird Al – Alpocalpyse
- Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
For more details on why each album was chosen, see my personal blog post here.
Top 30 Songs
- Five Iron Frenzy – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
- Josh Garrels – Rise
- Josh Garrels – The Resistance
- Josh Garrels – Farther Along
- Switchfoot – Where I Belong
- The Ember Days – Unite Your Bride
- Josh Garrels – Ulysses
- Chris Tomlin – How Great Is Our God (World Edition)
- Gungor – Brother Moon
- Foo Fighters – Walk
- Josh Garrels – Beyond the Blue
- Thrice – Treading Paper
- David Crowder Band – The Transfiguration
- O Brother – Lay Down
- Thrice – Words In The Water
- Insomniac Folklore – Thirsty Eyes
- Matisyahu – Youth (Live)
- Thrice – Call it In The Air
- My Epic – Alone
- Deas Vail – Quiet Like Sirens
- MUTEMATH – Blood Pressure
- Hillsong United – Aftermath
- Seryn – We WIll All Be Changed
- Coldplay – Us Against the World
- Switchfoot – Afterlife
- Dominic Balli – Take My Love
- Relient K – Africa
- Matisyahu – Motivate (Live)
- The Decemberists – Don’t Carry It All
- Weird Al – Party in the CIA





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probably my favorite list of all. Josh Garrels, Mat Kearney, MuteMath, Emery and Relient K all in my favorites of the year. the only thing missing for me is NEEDTOBREATHE’s “The Reckoning”. thanks for sharing Josh!
Agreed, but definetely I’m dissapointed with Relient K, the rest is OK !!
Thanks guys. I respect NEEDTOBREATHE and checked out their new album but it just hasn’t clicked with me.
La Dispute- Wildlife. Ahem. :)
Argh. Thanks, I fixed it!
Shameless plug – I wrote a post over on my personal blog with some more details about what I liked about each album: http://thegracenotes.net/2011/12/28/my-favorite-albums-of-2011/
Hahaha I love that Weird Al is on here.