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2011, 31 days of good, music

(31) Days of Good: Day 5

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I love pop music, I really do.  Unfortunately, because of all the garbage that gets played out on the radio and the dime a dozen award shows these days, I feel like pop music gets a bad rap.  But take a look beyond all of the Rihana’s, Beiber’s, Ke-dollar-ha’s, and Usher’s out there, and you’ll find that pop music really isn’t all that bad.  So without further ado, some of my favorite pop songs of 2011.

 

I wish I could write songs half as well as Brett Dennen.  The folk/pop singer-songwriter released his fourth studio album this year and it was packed with some truly fantastic and infectious pop songs.  As good as an album Loverboy is, it was actually very easy to pick just one track.  “Sydney (I’ll Come Running)” is most definitely one of my favorite songs of the year and it’s one that’s been on constant repeat since first listen.  I dare you to listen just once.

♪ Brett Dennen – Sydney (I’ll Come Running) (from Loverboy)

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Hailing from Lafayette, LA, GIVERS are an indie pop quintet that specialize in youthful songs filled with optimism and positivity.  They have a peppiness to them that reminds me of Vampire Weekend, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., and Pepper Rabbit.  In 2010, the band was named the ‘Best of What’s Next’ by PASTE Magazine and a ‘Band to Watch’ by Stereogum, who describes their music as “packed with that sort of psychedelic buoyancy, homegrown exoticism… and rattling optimism/joy.”  Today’s track come from the band’s debut album, In Light, and expect to hear a lot more from GIVERS, I don’t expect them to slow down anytime soon.

♪ GIVERS – Up Up Up (from In Light)

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Library Voices are a Canadian indie pop band from Regina, Saskatchewan.  Formed in 2008 as a ten-piece group of musician friends, they have released two EPs and two full-length albums.  Their second full-length album, this year’s Summer of Lust, has a number of post-worthy tracks, but if you can only listen to one, “Generation Handclap” is a no-brainer.

♪ Library Voices – Generation Handclap (from Summer of Lust)

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What were your favorite pop songs of 2011?

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[new music roundup] 10.18.11

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Some of my favorite new releases this week, including the highly anticipated new 2-disc LP from M83.  Enjoy.

Class Actress//Rapproacher

For fans of: Austra, Phantogram, Summer Camp, Discovery
Key tracks: Keep You, Weekend, Love Me Like You Used To, Missed

 

Gauntlet Hair//Gauntlet Hair


For fans of: Dunes, Dominant Legs, Sleep ∞ Over, Les Sins
Key tracks: Top Bunk, Keep Time, Mop It Up, Lights Out

 

Library Voices//Summer of Lust


For fans of: Rah Rah, The Wooden Sky, Hannah Georgas, Two Hours Traffic
Key tracks: Generation Handclap, If Raymond Carver Was Born In The 90s, Que Sera Sarah, Anthem for a New Canadia

 

M83//Hurry Up We’re Dreaming


For fans of: Washed Out, Active Child, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky
Key tracks: Intro (feat. Zola Jesus), Midnight City, Wait, My Tears Are Becoming a Sea, Raconte-Moi Une Histoire

 

Niki & The Dove//The Drummer EP


For fans of: Those Dancing Days, Kite, Little Marbles, Young Galaxy
Key tracks: Last Night, Mother Project, Manon, Sundog

 

Penguin Prison//Penguin Prison


For fans of: Feldberg, Human Life, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Holy Ghost!
Key tracks: Don’t Fuck With My Money, The Worse It Gets, Golden Train, A Funny Thing

 

Psychic Ills//Hazed Dream


For fans of: Cave, Oneida, Jackie O Motherfucker, Bardo Pond
Key tracks: Mind Daze, Midnight Moon, That’s Alright, Incense Head

 

Real Estate//Days


For fans of: Beach Fossils, Kurt Vile, Woods, Atlas Sound
Key tracks: Green Aisles, Easy, It’s Real, Out of Tune

 

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin//Tape Club


For fans of: Voxtrot, Headlights, Mates of State, Telekinesis
Key tracks: Yellow Missing Signs, Coming Through, Let’s Get Tired, The Clod and the Pebble

 

Other notable new releases:
Body Language//Social Studies
The Deep Dark Woods//The Place I Left Behind
Four Tet//Fabriclive 59
Forest Fire//Staring At the X
Gigamesh//Gigamesh EP
Kimya Dawson//Thunder Thighs
Kissing Party//Wasters Wall
The Reminding Ideas//House of Weather
States//Room to Run

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[watch] Library Voices//Generation Handclap

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New-York-area blogger, The Audio Perv, recently premiered brand new video for Library Voices’ Generation Handclap.

If you unfamiliar with Library Voices, they’re a seven-piece indie-pop outfit hailing from Regina, Saskatchewan.  They just finished up two fantastic shows in the Big Apple and hopefully they’ll be heading out West.  The video is about being young and having fun. It’s chalk-full of scenes that are just as fun to watch as they must have been to film (riding tandem bicycles, playing Pac Man in an arcade, and throwing a kegger) and showcase the “generation handclap” or “generation drunk text,” as coined by the lyrics of the song. [source: planetary group & the audio perv]

For more Library Voices, be sure to visit them on the world wide web and follow them on twitter.

♫ Library Voices – Generation Handclap ♫