So sometimes you love a track but not a whole album or it's on an EP or single or maybe you love one track even more than any of the others on a downright amazing LP and want to give it a special mention. Thats what this little piece is about. We just wanted to highlight some of our favourite individual tracks of 2011. Here are the top 5.
New Look - Nap On The Bow OMG words cannot describe this dreamy electronic ejaculate. Musical perfection, just about. A superb little death and worthy contender for song of the year.
Blood Orange - Bad Girls If Prince was starting his career now then this would be his Purple Rain, but he's not relevant any more and thankfully Blood Orange is around to take the baton. This is a classic already.
Metronomy - We Broke Free Made me cry the first time and still gives me shivers.
M83 - Midnight Sky Hands in the air people, this was my 2011 anthem.
Kavinsky Feat. Lovefoxxx – Nightcall This actually came out in 2010 but was re-ivigorated by it's inclusion on the awesome Drive OST. The opening scenes feature this superb track and help make this iconic hit film of 2011 hence the inclusion.
Merry Christmas peeps, tweeps, fb's, bloggers and net heads! Eriin is the newest member of team vainzine. She's done a few things already but this is her formal introduction, not that we're very formal 'round here but you get the picture. In here own words she's A 17 year old from Warwickshire, stuck in a woeful sixth form, surviving the middle class suburban landscape by attending gigs, listening to music, reading obscure things and watching Newsnight. All conglomerating in lots and lots of writing with almost there journalistic flair. Here's her top 5 for 2011.
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi The most booming and captivating voice I've heard in a while. 'Jezebel', even though it's a cover, gives me goosebumps. She's like 2011's little Siouxsie Sioux.
Metronomy - The English Riviera Pretty much nothing like their last indie nu rave stuff, which if regurgitated again in 2011 would've left them in that forgotten ditch of the Klaxons. (No matter how much the NME are bloody touting them). It's chilled out and quietly pretty. 'She Wants' is a god damn fave.
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Tbh, I wasn't sure how they would top their previous album cos I loved it so much. But even with the duo veering off with models and Jack White's side project (you can a bit off Mosshart's Dead weather-ness in there) but as a whole, the album still has the trademark sleaze and swagger just more refined.
Girls - father, son, holy ghost It annoyed me when critics dumped them with Beach House and Waves on their debut album, when their work had tons more depth. This album takes a couple of listens to get into to realise how consistently strong it is. 'Vomit' is the most striking.
Nicola Roberts - Cinderellas eyes *cheesy name barf* - even though it sounds like a poor man's early M.I.A that would be on repeat in New Look, she's the only girls aloud member to do a solo album that doesn't sound completely like a soulless profile booster i.e she's not twattin' around with 'messy fucking raindrops' like Cheryl the mofo Cole.
So sometimes you love a track but not a whole album or it's on an EP or single or maybe you love one track even more than any of the others on a downright amazing LP and want to give it a special mention. Thats what this little piece is about. We just wanted to highlight some of our favourite individual tracks of 2011. Here are the top 5. 
