To finish 2011 (& look ahead to 2012)...

As with many top lists, there can often be found an 'honourable mention' tidbit.  Such is the case with mine.

So, down to it:
Honourable Mentions of 2011 (mostly just because I wanted to list 11, so I can't fit everything onto there...) :
-  "Swings & Cloves" - by Mosquito Fleet (ind; 01/11) (<--listen on linked Bandcamp page)
-  "Covers EP" - This Beautiful Republic (ind; 03/09) (Oasis' "Wonderwall" as covered by TBR)
-  "Streamstory" - by Jesse Sprinkle (ind; 02/25) ("Color of the First Light")
-  's/t' - by Holding Onto Hope (Come&Live; 10/04) ("Forsaken: Take 1") (free album from Come&Live Records)
-  "Bryce Avary, His Instruments, Your Voices" - by The Rocket Summer (ind; 05/24) (free album from his website)

Sadly, we only have roughly 8,765.81 hours in a year, & considering that we sleep for several hundred (I'm going to suggest perhaps 2,500) hours, plus all the other times we're doing something where we are not able to listen to music, plus the fact that there's so much stuff that's often on repeat, there isn't all that much time in the end to catch everything.  Over the past year, there's been a number of releases that I've heard are good, or amazing, or I'm just simply curious about.  That said, here's a few (11, as it turns out) that I'd like to catch up on...
"Vice Verses" - by Switchfoot;          "Patterns" - by Run Kid Run;
"Guide to an Escape" - by Rue Royale;          "Ad Astra Per Aspera" - by Abandon Kansas;
's/t' - Bon Iver;          "The Reckoning" - by NEEDTOBREATHE;
"Until We Have Faces" - by Red;          "Wrath" - by Preson Phillips;
"You're All Going to Die" - by Grave Robber;          "Odd Souls" - by Mutemath;
"The Keys to Open Gates" - by Mattie Montgomery
(there are others too, but these are some of the more noted ones &/or I forget the some of the others I was interested in throughout the past 379 days [379 in compensation for the fact that it's now Jan. 14th)

All this said & done, though, I can't not look ahead & be unenthusiastic about what I hope to hear in the next year...
"Mean What You Say" - by Sent By Ravens (Tooth & Nail; 02/28) ("Learn By the Night")
"The End is Where We Begin" - by Thousand Foot Krutch (ind.; sometime March 2012) ("War of Change")
"Now" - by Fireflight (Flicker; 03/06) ("Stay Close")
[untitled] - by Project 86 (ind.; sometime June)
[untitled] - by tobyMac (Forefront; late 2012)
[untitled] - by Anberlin (Universal; ??)
[untitled] - by Anchor & Braille (ind.; ??)
[untitled] - by Capital Lights (Tooth & Nail; ??)
[untitled] - by House of Heroes (Gotee; ??)
"The Peace of Wild Things" - by Paper Route (Universal Motown; ??) ("Better Life"; "Better Life" live)
[untitled] - by Poema (Tooth & Nail; ??)
"Cancer" - by Showbread (Come&Live; ??)
[untitled] - by The Rocket Summer (??; ??)

&, as announced yesterday:
[untitled] - by Falling Up (ind; ??)

(dates are of course subject to change; & I've just filled this out to the best of my ability; feel free to notify me otherwise).

But for now: enjoy.