Music, music, music. What with digital downloads, Spotify and internet streaming, I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep up with what’s new in music. But 2011 provided some old favourites as well as some new pleasures.
There were great new albums last year from the Foo Fighters, Kate Bush, The Horrors, Wilco, M83, P J Harvey, Duran Duran and Lykke Li along with a greatest hits collection form the Manic Street Preachers. I totally recommend David Lynch’s excellent Crazy Clown Time, which you simply must hear. Foster the Kids hooked me with the single Pumped Up Kicks and their album Torches has several interesting tracks, one to watch this year.
Bret McKenzie’s The Muppets (not released here until February) and Alex Turner’s Submarine soundtracks are full of great songs and compliment their respective films well (at least I hope so in the case of The Muppets – but then it’s The Muppets and it’s bound to be fantastic and I already love the songs).
I’ve put together a Spotify playlist featuring a few tracks from these albums where available which you can listen to here – Songs of 2011
There is still plenty of great music out there for me to discover so if you have any recommendations then let me know.
Finally I must thank Sketch along with Joe Duddell of Phonic FM’s (Exeter’s Sound Alternative) Sketch’s Sunday Scribble for putting me on to some excellent new music last year. This great little show airs locally in Exeter but can be found online every Sunday between 10am and 12pm and is well worth tuning in for.
If your interesting in any of the albums I have mentioned you can get them from Amazon by clicking on these links –
