Best Top Tracks Songs 2011 Part One

Song: Second Chance
Artist: Junior Boys
Album: It's All True       Click here for full album review.
Year: 2011


Song: Tell Me Now
Artist: The Generationals
Album: Actor-Caster       Click here for full album review.
Year: 2011


Song: Looping State of Mind
Artist: The Field
Album: Looping State of Mind       Click here for full album review.
Year: 2011

Top Album Covers: Rock & Roll Submarine by Urge Overkill

Urge Overkill had one of the best album covers of 2011 on their Rock n' Roll Submarine full-length.    The title track was a highlight.


Song: Rock & Roll Submarine
Band: Urge Overkill
Album: Rock & Roll Submarine
Year: 2011
Rock&Roll Submarine by UrgeOverkill

Urge Overkill on Bandcamp

Urge Overkill home page

Top Tracks of 2011: Reasons by She Wants Revenge from Valleyheart LP

Despite strongly disliking She Wants Revenge's Valleyheart LP, their track 'Reasons' contains every characteristic of a great band.



For Full Album Review of Valleyheart click right about here.



Artist: She Wants Revenge
Song: Reasons
Album: Valleyheart
Year: 2011

Album Review: Parallax by Atlas Sound

Deerhunter vocalist's solo project Atlas Sound delivers some technical and musical magic on his newest full length Parallax.    Each track arrives and departs with maturity and patience, traversing a route not unlike The The in its heyday, replete with erudite vocals from Bradford Cox that quietly mutate from Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger to U2's Bono.    Closing the album with one of the best tracks, Lightsworks, assures repeated plays and signal that this cat knows what he is doing.    For those parts of the planet with discernible changes of season, Parallax is a welcome record for our darkening days.

Changes from Parallax by Atlas Sound


Amplifiers from Parallax by Atlas Sound


Parallax from Parallax by Atlas Sound


Praying Man from Parallax by Atlas Sound


Lightsworks from Parallax by Atlas Sound




Atlas Sound on 4AD website.


Parallax by Atlas Sound Tracklist

01. The Shakes
02. Amplifiers
03. Te Amo
04. Parallax
05. Modern Aquatic Nightsongs
06. Mona Lisa
07. Praying Man
08. Doldrums
09. My Angel Is Broken
10. Terra Incognita
11. Flagstaff
12. Nightworks

Top Tracks of 2011: Black Night by The Dodos from No Color LP

The Dodos' Black Night evolves from a Love & Rockets' Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man template on this terrific track.


For Full Album Review of Dodo's No Color LP, click right about here.


Song: Black Night
Album: No Color
Artist: Dodos
Year: 2011

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Top Tracks of 2011-Santa Fe by Beirut from The Rip Tide LP

'Santa Fe' is easily the best track from Beirut's 2011 album 'The Rip Tide' and one of humankind's best tracks of the year.


For Full Album Review of Beirut's The Rip Tide click right about here.


Beirut - Santa Fe (from The Rip Tide)

Pure Radio Cosplay ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Top Tracks of 2011

The mind-blasting 'Pure Radio Cosplay' by Austin's hidden treasure ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.

Click here for the full review of 'Tao of Dead' by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Track: Pure Radio Cosplay
Album: Tao of Dead
Band: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Year: 2011



Drum Lesson by Nate Brown from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

Candil de la Calle by Apparat from Devil's WalkTop Tracks 2011

'Candil de la Calle' is an excellent introduction to Apparat's majestic 2011 LP The Devil's Walk. Click here for full review of The Devil's Walk album.

Track: Candil de la Calle
Artist: Apparat
LP: Devil's Walk
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Candil De La Calle by apparat

Six Finger Satellite Severe Exposure Review

Once upon a time, there were these guys from Rhode Island who kept their day jobs and balanced touring with their vacation time from work.    They called themselves Six Finger Satellite.    6FS released the brilliant mess of Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird and then released their opus Severe Exposure in 1995.    This music had a violently captivating flavour like forgetting your earplugs at the best and loudest concert you've every experienced and not fashioning a pair out of squished up napkins.    And, once upon a time, Beavis and Butthead included the Parlour Games video on their show.    My ears still ring from Severe Exposure many, many years later.

Six Finger Satellite - Simian Fever (from Severe Exposure LP)
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Six Finger Satellite - Parlour Games (Severe Exposure LP)


Six Finger Satellite - Simian Fever (Severe Exposure LP)




Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure track list

Tracklist:
1. Bad Comrade
2. Parlour Games
3. White Queen to Black Knight
4. Pulling a Train
5. Simian Fever
6. Cock Fight
7. Dark Companion
8. Where Humans Go
9. Rabies (Baby's got the)
10. Board the Bus

Album Review:Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys

Bellingham, Washington's Death Cab for Cutie have been skulking stages as long as their sonic cousins John Vanderslice, Pedro the Lion and Built to Spill.    Death Cab's newest LP 'Codes and Keys' is masterwork.    Thoughtful, introspective lyrics built upon their musical abstractions slip their hooks into you like The Postal Service and Silver Scooter on a vision quest in the Queen Charlotte Islands.    Death Cab have an absolute understanding of the development and construction of an LP, as the crucial placement of tracks 2, 4 and 7 anchor the remaining songs in the timeless path of their rock n' roll time machine.

Track 2: Death Cab for Cutie - Codes & Keys



Track 4: Death Cab for Cutie - Doors Unlocked and Open



Track 5: Death Cab for Cutie - You are a Tourist



Track 7: Death Cab for Cutie - Monday Morning

Album Review:Wye Oak - Civilian

This boy-girl duo Wye Oak aligns the musical spirits of Sonic Youth, Curve, Medicine, and Unrest for a centerpiece of production and pop mastery for their newest album Civilian.    Throughout the LP, the songs often begin with a simple structure that regularly reveal fresh elements that pleasantly surprise you and then disappear moments later.    Great music for baking cinnamon buns or even playing Scrabble or possibly even celebrating an evolution.

Wye Oak - Alter


Wye Oak - Plains


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Wye Oak - Civilian by WorkItMedia

FREE Download of Wye Oak - That I Do (Mickey Free Remix)
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Wye Oak - That I Do (Mickey Free Remix) by Gold Lion

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Siamese (Wye Oak) by chrankoss

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Wye Oak - I Hope You Die by Hypetrak




Wye Oak - Civilian tracklist

01 “Two Small Deaths”
02 “The Alter”
03 “Holy Holy”
04 “Dogs Eyes”
05 “Civilian”
06 “Fish”
07 “Plains”
08 “Hot as Day”
09 “We Were Wealth”
10 “Doubt”