You’d call this “singles of the year” in the old days but I’ve just got no idea what songs bands release any more, so I just picked a number of tracks from albums or singles or free downloads or Soundclouds or Bandcamps or whatever! These were my favourite songs of 2011 in no particular order, although I did leave the best one until last.

CSS – City Grrrl
Tortoise Family Connections – Mother
Something Beginning With L – Last Night’s Party
Boxer Rebellion – Step Out Of The Car
Fiona Bevan – Us And The Darkness
Howling Bells – Into The Sky
Luke Haines – Inside The Restless Mind Of Rollerball Rocco
Thomas Tantrum – Sleep
Young Knives – Human Again
Art Brut – Lost Weekend
Baddies – Tiger Face
Lovely Eggs – Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It)
Finger – Die! Die Superhero!
Scumbag Philosopher – Heroes At Home
Cashier No 9 – Oh Pity
Ultrasound – Welfare State
Cowboy Racer – Fly My Plane
Vile Electrodes – Play With Fire
Jonny Cola and the A Grades – Postcode Wars
Jensen Code – I Am Cargo
P J Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
Killed By 9V Batteries – Worst Of Total Anarchy
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Stick Figures In Love
Nurse Who Loved Me – Little Things
Wind-Up Birds – Some Slum Clearances
Colorama – Eleri
Kate Bush – Wild Man
British Sea Power – Mongk II