Music from a year

As I've mentioned in an earlier post, there're many lists of best albums for the year 2011 currently being published. I'm not much for making lists of albums, I'm more into collecting songs I like and love and following the bands and artists that are close to my heart. However, I think I should mention some albums that have made my 2011 so much better and of which I am glad that I'm not without.

A part from the reissues of Suede's five studio albums and the fourth solo album from Brett Anderson, which is better than I had hoped for, there are some albums, and bands, that I am honoured to have been listening to, and seen live on two occasions. With no one better that the other, I really love these three albums:

Invasionen - 'Saker som jag sagt till natten'
Foster the People - 'Torches'
Austra - 'Feel It Break'

Other good music from this year, according to me (and I have surely forgotten some), in no particular order:

Lamb - '5'
Other Lives - 'Tamer Animals'
Dum Dum Girls - 'Only In Dreams'
Masquer - 'Cover My Face As The Animals Cry'
Zola Jesus - 'Conatus'
Anna Calvi - 'Anna Calvi'
PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake'
Visions of Trees - 'Sometimes It Kills'/'No Flag'
Visions of Trees - 'Siren (Novocaine)'/'Sience of Hate'
Lana del Rey - 'Video Games'/'Blue Jeans'

Additionally, I'm sure there're lots of tracks and albums that I haven't discovered yet...

Have you discovered the deluxe edition of Austra's 'Feel It Break'? It includes some of the great "b-sides" from the singles, like 'Identity'.

Vinyl on play

Got a new record the other day, Lana del Ray's 'Video Games'/'Blue Jeans'. I like to listen to vinyl records from time to time, to hear that dust sound together with nice music coming at you through the speakers. I just listen to the music, that's what matters.

Blue Jeans

I have listened to this song by Lana del Rey so many times since I first played the youtube video. I think I like it more than 'Video Games' I posted some days ago. I actually like it so much that I've pre-ordered the 7".

On repeat

It's growing on me, this song I started listening to some days ago. It's like a lingering summer breeze as the cold wind of autumn hits my face. It's a nice mix of today and yesterday. And it's a sigh of stillness in an ever changing world.

A thank you to Mr Osman for tweeting about it. Here it is: