2011's Indie

2011 has come to an end a couple of weeks ago so it's time to sum up the best indie bands (and albums) of the year.
So lets start with the new band of the year, the Vaccines. Their debut album "What did you expect from the Vaccines?" came out last spring and really spread some freshness to the indie rock english music scene. Most of the songs are shorter that 3 min, some of them don't even reach 2 minutes of leght.
Many artists are now trying to play the "I am a real artist because my songs are very short" but lets face it, posers or not, all the Vaccines songs on the album are lovely!
What is also to be apreciated is the fact that the songs on the record are bounded, so that you pass 45 minutes without interruptions or changes of style. (Personal favourite song "Noorgard"). Definitly one of the best records of the year!

Band n. 2: The wombats! "This modern glitch" is a mind-blowing record, starting with a song like "Tokio", which video is by the way very funny, and going on with some post punk electonic songs like "Jump into the fog" or "Techno fan". They ARE amazing!

number 3: most of you may not know this band, they're from Scotland and are called Zoey Van Goey. Their second album was released under the name of "Propeller versus Wings", thier style is very flokish and reminds a lot of Belle and Sebastian. This influence was more evident in the debut album "The cage was unlocked all along", dated 2009, whose first single was producer by Stuart Murdoch (singer and songwriter of Belle and Sebastian). A very strange and nice song of the 2011 record, in my opinion the best track of all, is "you told the drunks i knew karate" is very funny!

Band n.4: Glasvegas. their record "Euphoric Heartbeaks" is very influenced by the place were was recorded, California, it actually has this relaxed sound that some Red Hot Chili Peppers songs have.
It is much more introverted and depressed, though. I'd say it's perfect for a winter-chili-foggy-day feeling.
but some songs are real gems, for example "Dream Dream Dreaming" or "You".
What i also like about the band are the lyrics, James Allan ,the singer is a true poet, the words he uses are perfect and touching, and lets add the scottish exotic accent and one of the revelations of the year is here!

i really hope you enjoy all the records I've proposed you, well I did!

Noel Gallagher's artistic game

We do know Noel Gallagher as being a very out spoken musician and sometimes a bit unbearable, but we also know him for being a very talented artist. After Oasis split up two years ago (but fans still cry for this or fight to demonstrate that one of the brothers is better than the other) Noel and Liam, while insulting each other, walked along their own separate musical path.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds album is absolutely what we expected from a middle age man who wrote a piece of musical history with a band and now goes solo. The album has had a good commercial success but what is really interesting is the little "game" that Noel plays with his fans.
Any reader can now go watching on Youtube his video clips for the songs "The Death Of You And Me", "If I Had A Gun" and "AKA...What a life".(I shall reccomend you to start with "If I had a gun")
Some of you may notice that some of the characters are recurrent. For example in "If I had a gun" in two scenes are shown a red haired girl which happens to be a waitress in "The Death of you and me"
 and two blondies that in the end of the clip are filming the marriage which happen to chase the fair haired girl in "AKA... What a life".
The very obvious self citacion is that Noel Gallagher in the end of "If I had a gun" goes in a cafe called "Last Chance" and "The death of you and me" start in the same cafe.
Every video is a story that has an end, never the less each clip finishes with "to be continued", wich makes us fans to be more curious about what will happen in the next video.
To tell the truth now I feel like a Marvel geek because the same thing happens at the end of every Marvel movie: the last scene is a quiet revelation of which will be the next Marvel movie to be released.
Excuse me but now I'll be thinking of Noel Gallagher as the Thing screaming aroung "it's clobbering time!!!"