Mondays are for pressing all your buttons.

Elephant & Castle (feat. tUnE-yArDs) – En Memoria (via soundcloud)

Plants and Animals – Lightshow (via soundcloud)

Kayln Rock – Valentine

Alvin Purple – Huh her / Please Please (via bandcamp)

Ventury – Volcano (via soundcloud)

Mondays are for having guts.

Laura Gibson – ‘Le Grande’

Isidore – ‘Reappearance’

Theophilus London – ‘Last Night (LVRS ANTHEM)’

Well, 2011. You were quite the year! So much so that I’ve only been able to recover enough to think about you a full week into 2012. Crazy, huh? New jobs, lots of change, oodles of shenanigans, and yes, lots of good music. So much so, that I undoubtedly missed vast quantities of things that I really should have got to. Ho hum.

So what things did Skye like? Blimey. I just looked at the Excel spreadsheet of this year’s releases (see how cool Skye is!), and there’s a lot of stuff on there. However it’s fair to say that I do actually have a favourite record of 2011, despite my general resistance to ranking things. I know, crazy times, huh, maybe the Mayans are right after all.

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1.     Metronomy – The English Riviera

2.     Pete & The Pirates – One Thousand Pictures

3.     The Cloud Room – Zither

4.     Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow

5      Thirteen Senses – Crystal Sounds

6.     Human League – Credo

7.     Active Child – You Are All I See

8.     The Strokes – Angels

9.     Thomas Dolby – A Map Of The Floating City

10.     Kaiser Chiefs – The Future Is Medieval

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Mondays are for getting brightened up.

La Sera – Please Be My Third Eye

Lightning Love – Deadbeat (via bandcamp)

Haroula Rose – Close My Eyes to See (Luke Top remix)

Bear and Moose – I’m back

Class Actress – Weekend (via soundcloud)  + mixtape

Ryan Hemsworth – Three Hours In (via soundcloud)

Mondays are for the holidays…

Tahiti Boy and guests – ‘Forget it’s Christmas’

Napoleon IIIrd – ‘Deck The Halls’

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Mondays are for a good game of Scrabble (and forgetting to do that thing you meant to do).

Klifton Filente – To Win (via bandcamp)

Another’s Blood – Lost Communication

Drunken Prayer – The Missionfield

Grand and Noble – This Light

Kaylyn Rock – Alex the Great

This is all kinds of awesome. Borderline offensive? Hmm. Judge for yourself, but it’s witty and its cheesy and it’s all the kinds of things I love about ZvG. Okay, it could have done with a giant KimZilla or something but regardless, this tale of martial arts, derring-do and rank cowardice in Old Glasgow is a lot of fun. It helps that it’s married to one of the real standout tracks from Propellor versus Wings, too.

Mondays are for getting washed out.

Maribel – Jezebel Jive (via soundcloud)

The Full Colour Hardback Books – The Future of Britain (via bandcamp)

Return to Mono  – Black Swan (Le Crayon remix)

New Hands – This I’ve Heard (via bandcamp)

Monday are for revelations.

Daniel Zero – “So step up”

Sandman Viper Command – “The Metal I’ve Spent”

Damn Vandals – “Hey Little Bunny”

ZAKEE – “Dope Girl”