
Our look back at the year in music comes to a month where we had the most downloads to pick from, so it is not surprising that this is the longest lists of our favorites. We even left off quite a few tracks we really dug. Here it is 2011 Our Year In Sound; October Phantogram; Don't Move All In The Golden Afternoon; Tidal Wave Jetman Jet Team; Color Coding [...]

Go Cozy - Glimmer Without the distraction of what my excitement may try to mask, it's great to find something from where I call home. Out of the suburbia Silver Spring, MD just outside of DC they've produced a handful of free tracks that are worthy of sound tracking your next session of staring at your finest oxfords.

Go Cozy - Glimmer This song does for me exactly what Wild Nothing 's O, Lilac did for me last Summer. Awash with languid clean-strums and led by an enchanting lead-guitar line, the vocals sit comfortably (cozily) beneath them both, gazing up at it all. The guitars sprawl out like a fuzzy time-line; in one sense we have a birds-eye view from the mountaintop, but by warm, resonant vocals we are grounded - by very human emotions addressed through simple, naive verse-chorus structures. In spite of all the evidence pointing to the contrary, [...]