Sometime mid-2011 I decided that Mondays best be spent spiriting new music direct unto your ears; highlighting and critically-interpreting free legal downloads for your pleasure.
There'll be piles more choice jams shared between me and you and everyone we know through 2012, but, here, just for this week, I thought we'd harken back. With this collection of 30 awesome tracks —effectively the 30 Best Singles of 2011— that were freely available in 2011.
Those with keen eyes may, indeed, note that it's actually a list of 33 jams; bonus free stuff! There's two cuts apiece from Dominant Legs, Grimes (pictured!), and Sleep ∞ Over, all of whom I love dearly, and all of whom issued not one but two totally killer singles in 2011. And, the links below are all-killer, no filler, for sure...
- Alex Winston, "Locomotive (Beach Fossils Remix)"
- Beirut, "O Lećozinho"
- Bleached, "Searching Through the Past"
- Bobby, "Sore Spores"
- Braids, "Lemonade"
- The Deeep, "Slow Coaster"
- Destroyer, "Chinatown"
- Dominant Legs, "Hoop of Love" and "Where We Trip the Light"
- Ducktails, "Killin' the Vibe"
- Dum Dum Girls, "Coming Down"
- EMA, "The Grey Ship"
- Evangelista, "Artifical Lamb"
- Evans the Death, "I'm So Unclean"
- Gang Gang Dance, "Mindkilla"
- Grimes, "Vanessa" and "Oblivion"
- The Harpoons, "Keep You Around"
- Iron and Wine, "Walking Far from Home"
- Jens Lekman, "An Argument with Myself"
- Lana del Rey, "Video Games (Balam Acab Remix)"
- Love Inks, "Blackeye"
- Mozart's Sister, "Don't Leave It to Me"
- Oscar and Martin, "Do the Right Thing"
- Phantogram, "Don't Move"
- Purity Ring, "Ungirthed"
- Real Estate, "Green Aisles"
- Sean Nicholas Savage, "True Love"
- Sleep ∞ Over, "Casual Diamond" and "Romantic Streams"
- Tops, "Diamond Look"
- Tune-Yards, "Bizness"
- U.S. Girls, "If These Walls Could Talk"
- Win Win, "Release RPM"
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