"Surgeon" is a woozy highlight of the tremendous Strange Mercy. With Annie Clark's axiomatic vocals and the plain surprising synthesizer jam-out outro, "Surgeon" is a new outlook into Clark's future with the St. Vincent sound and it's exciting to see what she'll do next.
9. Battles - "Ice Cream (Ft. Matias Aguayo)"
"Ice Cream" is an excellent cross point between Battles' pop-oriented math rock, humorous musicianship, and off-the-wall instrumentation. The inclusion of Aguayo's quirky vocals makes "Ice Cream" the best Battles tune and an excellent direction for Battles to take in the future rather than delving into more crafty math rock.
8. Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"
Exploding onto the scene in 2008, Helplessness Blues was easily the most anticipated release in 2011 and the leading single "Helplessness Blues" was an easy gateway into what Helplessness Blues might be about. With the soaring vocals and cheerful instrumentation. The moment they break out into the "If I had an orchard I'd work until I was sore!" points towards another addicting Fleet Foxes tunes.
7. Wilco - "I Might"
The first thing about "I Might" from Wilco is that is goes back to Wilco's roots of quirky musicianship and excellent qualities that Wilco has, or had... "I Might" is that bright output Wilco put out on The Whole Love, but unfortunately the rest of the album doesn't have that "kick."
6. Tyler the Creator - "Sandwitches (Ft. Hodgy Beats)"
With Odd Future being the most quotable bunch of 2011, you can find about ten of those quotes on "Sandwitches" that are just to obscene to be said on here. "Sandwitches" exemplifies Tyler's ability to create off-the-wall beats and awesome samples over simply hilarious rapping, it's some of the best hip-hop of 2011.
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