My annual mix, given to friends and containing (mostly) new music from the year that was:

1. The National — ‘Fake Empire’

2. LCD Soundsystem — ‘Someone Great’

3. OutKast — ‘Art of Story Telling (Part Four)’

4. The Kinks — ‘This Time Tomorrow’

5. Jens Lekman — ‘Your Arms Around Me’

6. The Arcade Fire — ‘Keep the Car Running’

7. Of Montreal — ‘Gronlandic Edit’

8. Flight of the Conchords — ‘Hip-hopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous’

9. Rufus Wainwright — ‘Going to a Town’

10. M.I.A. — ‘Paper Planes’

11. Band of Horses — ‘Lam on the Lam’

12. Dr. Dog — ‘Heart It Races’

13. Spoon — ‘The Underdog’

14. Iron & Wine — ‘Resurrection Fern’ 

15. Shout Out Louds — ‘Tonight I Have to Leave It’

16. Okkervil River — ‘Unless It’s Kicks’

17. Wilco — ‘Impossible Germany’

18. My Morning Jacket — ‘Rocket Man’