VV's Favorite EPs of 2011

#10.Crystal Stilts - Radiant Door (Buy)

 

#9. Kingsley Flood - Colder Still (Buy)

 

#8. Typhoon - A New Kind Of House (Buy)

   

#7. Conrad Plymouth - Comrade Plymouth (Buy)

   

 
#6. Pickwick - Myths (Buy)

 

#5. Milo Greene - The Hello Sessions (Buy)

 #4. Ivan & Alyosha - Fathers Be Kind (Buy)

#3. The Wooden Sky - City of Light (Buy)
 

#2. Spirit Family Reunion - Self-Titled (Buy at a show)

 

#1. Alabama Shakes - Alabama Shakes EP (Buy)

 

New music: Cinema Red and Blue

Cinema Red and Blue is kind of an indie rock supergroup, featuring members of Comet Gain, Crystal Stilts and Ladybug Transistor.  The result is an album of lived-in songs that reek of college radio (a very good thing).  While I've found that most collaborative records are interesting at first, but the novelty wears thin after repeated listens, I get the impression that Cinema Red and Blue's self-titled debut will only sound better with time.  The music is a jangly and vaguely psychedelic in a Paisley Underground kind of way - really digging this.

Cinema Red and Blue - Same Mistakes