Best indie tracks of 2011.

1. Active Child
You Are All I See

2. Wild Beasts
End Come Too Soon

3. M83.
My Tears Are Becoming A Sea

4. Active Child
Hanging On

5. Oliver Tank
Up All Night

6. Laki Mera
The Beginning Of The End

7. Fleet Foxes
Helpless Blues

8. Bon Iver
Calgary

9. Burning Hearts
Into The Wilderness

10. M83.
New Map

11. Kye Kye
Reach

12. Phantogram
16 Years

13. Destroyer
Chinatown

14. Dark Captain
Submarines

15. Casa del Mirto
Human Feelings

16. The Weeknd
The Zone

17. Blouse
White

18. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
My Terrible Friend

19. Real Estate
It's Real

20. Youth Lagoon
Montana

21. Washed Out
Amor Fati

22. Asobi Seksu
Perfectly Crystal

23. Snow Patrol
This Isn't Everything You Are

24. Still Corners
Cuckoo

25. Future Island
Balance

26. Zola Jesus
Hikikomori

27. John Maus
Believer

28. Papercuts
Do You Realy Wanst To Know

29. Trophy Wife
The Quiet Earth

30. Work Drugs
Sunset Junction

Best indie albums of 2011.

1. M83. 

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

2. Wild Beasts

Smoother

3. Laki Mera

The Proximity Effect

4.  Active Child
You Are All I See

5. Oliver Tank

Dreams

6. Fleet Foxes

Helpless Blues

7. Youth Lagoon

The Year Of Hibernation

8. Real Estate
Days

9. Blouse

Blouse

10. Kye Kye
Young Love

11. Dark Captain

Dead Legs And Alibis

12. Bon Iver
Bon Iver

 13. The Weeknd

Thursday

14. Papercuts
Fading Parade

15. Destroyer
Kaputt

16. Zola Jesus
Conatus

17. Washed Out
Within And Without

18. I Break Horses
Hearts

19. Future Islands
On The Water

20. Asobi Seksu
Fluoroscence

21. Phantogram
Nightlife

22. Dream Diary
You Are The Beat

 23. Yuck
Yuck

24. The War On Drugs
Slave Ambient

25.Surfer Blood
Tarot Classics

26. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Belong

27. The Drums
Portamento

28. Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Paper Crush

29. Work Drugs
Aurora Lies

30. Feist
Metals

Andrew Bird

Fake Conversations (live EP)

01. Effigy
02. The Naming Of Things
03. Nyatiti
04. Tables And Chairs
05. Weather Systems

In preparation for his first full-length in almost three years, Andrew Bird is releasing a special live EP from his 2011 tour. The Fake Conversations EP will be distributed with the purchase of tickets to his upcoming tour, along with another live EP from that tour once it’s completed.

In the meantime, Bird has put out one track from the EP, “Tables and Chairs” for free online. It’s a slower, weirder version of the track, which was originally released on his Baroque masterpiece Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs back in 2005. The new album, Break It Yourself, goes on sale March 6 via Bella Union Records. Check out the new and original “Tables and Chairs” below and the full tour schedule under those.

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Happy Particles

Under Speeling Waves

01. Aerials
02. Infinite Jet
03. Slowness 03:51   
04. Guide Dogs Of The Inner Cities   
05. Offline Contact   
06. Reprise   
07. Come Home All Dead Ones   
08. Empty Circle   
09. Classes In Silence (for Jess)   
10. AM Sky (Bleary)

This lovely debut from Glasgow slow-core melodists Happy Particles may be sneaking out as a self-release on December 25, but don’t be misled by their low-key approach: the ambient vistas conjured therein could rival those of Sigur Rós.

Much of this is down to Steven Kane’s ethereal voice, but when your band shares stellar personnel with Remember Remember (Kane, Graeme Ronald and James Swinburne play in both outfits) then there’s a fair bet that epic, virtuosic melodies will unfurl – and so they do.

‘Slowness’ is awash with chamber post-rock – the strings throughout the album are gorgeous – while the slow-release splendour of ‘Empty Circle’ starts off like the Blue Nile and ends up in the stars, and you hope Happy Particles follow suit.

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Nick Camillo

Ad Infinitum

01. Intro
02. Eight Foot Flower
03. Something I Ought to Know
04. Aeroplane
05. Silver and Sweet
06. Who Are You
07. Used to Be
08. Beat of the Drum
09. Sydni’s Song
10. Ten
11. Hey, Autumn
12. Outro

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