Best of 2011: Jon Pareles

Soundcheck | Dec 22, 2011

New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles rounds out our week-long look back at the best of the year in music.

Jon Pareles' list:

  • Metals (album) - Feist
  • So Beautiful Or So What (album) - Paul Simon
  • Watch the Throne (album) - Jay-Z and Kanye West 
  • Ashes and Fire (album) - Ryan Adams
  • Bad as Me (album) - Tom Waits 
  • Take Care (album) - Drake
  • W H O K I L L (album) - tUnE-yArDs
  • Wounded Rhymes (album) - Lykke Li 
  • Cotonou Club (album) - Le Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo 
  • Aesthethica (album) - Liturgy

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