Onwards with our overview of the decade just passing, and today we alight on the year we were confidently repeatedly told that Jessie J was inevitably going to be an enormous international star. She did have a Billboard top ten album in 2014, but when you release an album four years later that fails to chart anywhere, homeland included... In fairness she can't have known that 21 and + (and One Direction's debut) were to come out later in the year and thoroughly change the parameters for international success. Where were you when you found out Amy Winehouse had died? We were at Truck festival, the year that they made it a three day event and lost so much money they had to sell it off to help it become the "Kendal Calling if wet" it is today, and being the early days of the smartphone experience we didn't find out until past midnight that Saturday. 2011! Born This Way, We Found Love and Moves Like Jagger, Beyonce at Glastonbury, Brother hype and Rizzle Kicks everywhere, REM splitting and LCD Soundsystem playing the hits - hey, one of them kept to their promise - and...
The Lovely Eggs - Don't Look at Me (I Don't Like It)
Comet Gain - Working Circle Explosive!
Johnny Foreigner - You vs Everything
Dananananaykroyd - Muscle Memory
WILD FLAG - Romance
TOY - Left Myself Behind
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Record Shop
Girls Names - Séance On A Wet Afternoon
Fashoda Crisis - The Berry-Brown Face of Robert Kilroy Silk
Three Trapped Tigers - Noise Trade
Maybeshewill - Red Paper Lanterns
Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix
TV On The Radio - No Future Shock
Clock Opera - Belongings
Chad Valley - Now That I'm Real (How Does It Feel?)
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
I Break Horses - Winter Beats
Fujiya & Miyagi - Taiwanese Boots
Marques Toliver - Charter Magic
Tune-Yards - Es-so
The Weeknd - House Of Balloons/Glass Table Girls
Slow Club - Two Cousins
St. Vincent - Cheerleader
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Low - Try To Sleep
Other Lives - For 12
Woodkid - Iron
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Bill Callahan - America!
David Thomas Broughton - Nature
Wild Beasts - Bed Of Nails
Golden Fable - The Chill, Pt. 2
Bibio - K Is For Kelson
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Fixers - Crystals
GIVERS - Up Up Up
Nicola Roberts - Beat Of My Drum
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
Standard Fare - Suitcase
Race Horses - Benidorm
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