The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? (Columbia; 2011)

Tweed jackets and hoarse throats beat the stones from the jeans as some new morning opens upon a familiar coffee shop.

Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’ (Columbia; 2011)

Down by the Delta, my soul ran through the beasts and grabbed a harmonica from a blind priest.

Foster the People - Torches (Columbia; 2011)

Pump up the kid floats before they topple onto the homes of your first loving girl- and boyfriends with the greenest of all leaves ... and rosiest Fall ...

Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math (Columbia, 2011)

Built to spill the squeaks from the sappy frogs aboard a ship of lightning, lonely in the forest.

Adele - 21 (2011)

Hearts and souls rolling in the deep nighttime woods in search of some eternal ocean.