Dots & Dashes' Tracks of 2011.

So this is Christmas (well, the correct month at least so its sense of overwhelming schmaltz is nigh) and what have you done you say? Well, we've compiled a few lists along with everyone else equipped with online landfill where whimsical thoughts, Soundcloud links, transcribed scribbles and the like are to be dumped. Here are the tracks that made 2011 tick, tock, rawk, et cetera: from cacophonous shoegaze and the tropical frenzy of Zun Zun Egui all straight outta Bristol, to independent pop impeccability from Florrie and of course The Look, consider this a chart of sorts. If you'll be my adoring, doting listener, I can be your long-lost pal. I can call you adoring, doting listener and adoring, doting listener when you call me, you can call me Reggie... Available for office parties, aimless social gatherings, funerals, Bat Mitzvahs and so on and so forth.

Dots & Dashes' Tracks of '11
20. Senator, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks

19. Call Off Your Storm, Hiatus

18. Illuminations, Sunless '97


17. Heads Off, Towns

16. Fandango Fresh, Zun Zun Egui

15. Through The Night, Ren Harvieu

14. Change The Sheets, Kathleen Edwards

13. The Old House is Gone, St. Lucia

12. Tell Her No, Tennis

11. Maw, Her Name is Calla

10. Here To Me, Carousels

9. Begging Me, Florrie


8. Dirty Water, NIVA

7. Whale Trail, Gruff Rhys

6. Locked, Four Tet

5. Business, Battlekat

4. White Nights, Oh Land

3. Te Amo, Atlas Sound

2. Green Sea, Fear Of Men


1. The Look, Metronomy