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Songs From 2019 (one per artist)

Another mixed bag of stuff i either enjoyed a lot, thought was excellent or interesting (regardless of taste… sort of), emerging artists to maybe look out for, and generally music that for whatever reason connected with me in some way, including the odd earworm i just couldn’t shake. Some artists are left off just to vary a little more from some other popular lists. Hope you enjoy some of this too and find something new to be taken by. Please do buy their music if you can and hopefully from a local independent record store if possible to support their work. There’s a spotify playlist (below) for easier listening but I’ve also posted a few links to extra things on some of them if you want to check them out.  Spotify:

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In Alphabetical order:

A.A. Bondy - Killers 3 Abdallah Oumbadougou - Thingalene Alasdair Roberts - Common Clay Alex Rex - Latest Regret Andy Shauf - Try Again Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz Angel Olsen - All Mirrors        bonus. her collab with Mark Ronson “True Blue” Anne Müller - Solo? Repeat! Antoinette Konan - Kokoloko Tani Arthur Russell - Words Of Love Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou - Sandia Baby Rose - All To Myself BCI - Grateful Bedouine - When You’re Gone Benny The Butcher - Crowns For Kings      ft. Black Thought Ben Walker - Afon Better Oblivion Community Center - Chesapeake Beverly Glenn-Copeland - A Little Talk     (from a reissue of her 2004 record Primal Prayer) Bibio - Curls The Big Moon - It’s Easy Then Big Thief - a. Not    b. Cattails    (from 2 excellent albums released in the same year: “U.F.O.F” and “Two Hands”) Bill Callahan - a. What Comes After Certainty    b. The Ballad Of The Hulk Bill Fay - Filled With Wonder Once Again Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow billy woods - a. Spongebob w/ Kenny Segal     b. Western Education Is Forbidden    ft. Fielded        (From 2 excellent records this year: “Hiding Places” with Kenny Segal, and “Terror Management”) Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses Blu & Oh No - The Lost Angels Anthem    ft. Kezia Bon Iver - Hey, Ma Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Beast For Thee Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman      (”supergroup” of the great Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D Johnson & Josh Kaufman) Brent Cobb & Jade Bird - Feet Off The Ground Brighde Chaimbeul -  O Chiadain an Lo Brigyn - Oer Brittany Howard - Stay High    (the video for this, with Terry Crews, is a delight) Bruce Hornsby - Voyager One    ft. yMusic Burd Ellen - Sweet Lemany Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett - Kestrel Caribou - You and I Caroline Polachek - Door Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters Caterina Barbieri - Arrows Of Time Clairo - Bags Cochemea - Mitote comfort - Not Passing The Cool Greenhouse - Cardboard Man    (a pretty hilarious song about David Cameron) CRAC - You Can’t Turn Your Back On Me    (Unreleased old track from ‘76) Cross Record - PYSOL My Castle CZ Wang and Neo Image - Just Off Wave Damon Locks / Black Monument Ensemble - a. Rebuild a Nation   b. Power Daniel Norgren - The Flow Danny Brown - Dirty Laundry Daphni - Sizzling    ft. Paradise Daughter Of Swords - Fellows      (Mountain Man member Alexandra Sauser-Monnig’s 1st solo record) Dave - Psycho David Kilgour - Smoke You Right Out Of Here David Thomas Broughton - Ambiguity     (from the 15th anniversary reissue of his remarkable debut album, The Complete Guide To Insufficiency) Denzel Curry - RICKY Destroyer - Crimson Tide Dry Cleaning - Dog Proposal Dubi Dolczek - Do The Gloop Durand Jones & The Indications - Long Way Home Ela Orleans - The Season      (From 2012 but on a career retrospective, Movies For Ears, put out this year) Elkhorn - Song Of The Son Emile Mosseri - a. The Last Black Man In San Francisco b. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)    ft. Mike Marshall         (both from the wonderful score for the wonderful film The Last Black Man In San Francisco, the latter a cover of an old song sung here by the guy who sang “I Got 5 On It”!!) Erland Cooper - Haar Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze        (from a re-issue of his “self-released proto-ambient masterpiece” in ‘75) Fat White Family - Feet Faye Webster - Room Temperature Fennesz - In My Room Fernando Falcão -  As 7 Filhas Da Rainha Sumaia     (reissue from ‘87) FKA twigs - cellophane Florist - Shadow Bloom Flowdan - Welcome To London Fontaines D.C. - Roy’s Tune Four Tet / KH - Only Human French Vanilla - All The Time Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty   ft. J. Cole Georgia - About Work The Dancefloor Girl Band - Shoulderblades The Good Ones - Will You Be My Protector?   (of Rwanda) Grand Veymont - Les Rapides Bleus       (of France) Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - Sunkwa     (of Ghana) Hailaker - Not Much HAIM - Summer GIrl Hana Vu - Actress Hand Habits - placeholder Hannah Cohen - Get In Line The Harlem Gospel Travellers - If You Can’t Make It Through A Storm Hayden Thorpe - Diviner     (Former Wild Beasts frontman’s debut solo record) Helado Negro - Running The Highwomen - Redesigning Women Hiss Golden Messenger - I Need A Teacher Holly Herndon - Frontier Homeboy Sandman - Far Out Hoops - They Say Hotel Neon & Blurstem - Language Of Loss House and Land - Rainbow ‘Mid Life’s Willows Ibibio Sound Machine - Wanna Come Down IDER - Saddest Generation The Innocence Mission - On Your Side International Teachers Of Pop - I Stole Yer Plimsoles    ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods) Jacken Elswyth - The Banks Of Green Williow Jaimie Branch - nuevo roquero estéreo Jake Xerxes Fussell - The River St. Johns Jamila Woods - ZORA Jayda G - Leave Room 2 Breathe Jenny Hval - Ashes To Ashes       Jenny Lewis - Red Bull and Hennessy Jesca Hoop - Outside of Eden     ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) and Jesca’s 12 year-old nephew Justis. This live performance is so sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPmE_hU7Ss Jessica Pratt - As The World Turns Joanna Sternberg - This Is Not Who I Want To Be Joan Shelley - Cycle John Blek - North Star Lady Jordan Rakei - Say Something        bonus. under his DJ pseudonym: Dan Kye - Focus Jo Schornikow - Incomplete Joseph Shabason - West of Heaven Julianna Barwick - evening Junius Paul - Baker’s Dozen Kali Malone - Spectacle Of Ritual Kate Teague - Sweetheart Kate Tempest - a. Firesmoke    b. People’s Faces Kelly Moran - Halogen (Una Corda)       (from a record full of all the bare piano parts she played for her prior record before all the editing and processing) Kim Gordon - Air BnB Kindness - Hard To Believe     ft. Jazmine Sullivan KOKOKO! - Buka Dansa     (Congolese collective upcycling discarded materials to make their instruments) Konradsen - Baby Hallelujah     (of Norway) Lambchop - Everything For You Laura Cannell - a. Sing As The Crow Flies     b. Flaxen Fields Laura Stevenson - Lay Back, Arms Out Le Groupe Obscur -  Planète Ténèbres Leonard Cohen - Happens To The Heart Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks Little Simz - 101 FM Lizzo - Tempo   ft. Missy Elliot Loren Conors & Daniel Carter - Departing Lou Roy - Bite Low Chord - Walkk Lower Dens - Galapagos Mahalia - What You Did    ft. Ella Mai Majja - Black James Dean Maria Somerville - This Way Maria Usbeck - Amor Anciano Mary Halvorson & John Dieterich - Vega’s Array      (Mary the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant this year, because she is) Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - IV Matana Roberts - As Far As The Eye Can See Meitei - Ike Melanie Charles - Trill Suite, No. 1 (Daydreaming/Skylark) The Menzingers - Anna Messiahs Of Glory - No Other Love      (from a collection of rare black gospel from the Midwest between ‘65-’78 put out on Tompkins Square) Mica Levi - a. Hosting     b. Lobo y Lady (from the excellent Colombian film Monos) Michael Abels - a. I Got 5 On It (Tethered Mix)    b. Pas De Deux (both from the terrific score to the excellent Jordan Peele film, Us) Michael Kiwanuka - Living In Denial Michael Nau - Poor Condition Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Wonderful To Love Minor Pieces - Rothko      (duo of Ian William Craig & newcomer Missy Donaldson) Modern Nature - Footsteps Molly Sarlé - Twisted      (Mountain Man member’s 1st solo record) Moodymann - I’ll Provide Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light Moor Mother - After Images Moses Boyd - Stranger Than Fiction Moses Sumney - Polly Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Love Without Possession MSYLMA - Inqirad (Rihab-U Dhakir)     (Saudi Arabia) The Murder Capital - Don’t Cling To Life Nardeydey - Freefalling The National - Rylan   ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) The New Pornographers - Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - a. Waiting For You   b. Bright Horses   c. Night Raid Nivhek - After Its Own Death: Side A    (Liz Harris of Grouper) Noname - Song 32 Octo Octa - Move Your Body ODD OKODDO - Auma      (Kenyan/German duo) Øyvind Torvund - Starry Night      (Norwegian composer) Pet Shop Boys - Burning The Heather Petter Eldh - Fanfarum for Komarum II Porridge Radio - Give/Take PREGOBLIN - Combustion Purple Mountains - a. Snow Is Falling In Manhattan    b. All My Happiness Is Gone   c. That’s Just The Way That I Feel Quelle Chris - Obamacare Quinie - Whas At The Windy Rapsody - Ibtihaj   ft. D’Angelo & GZA Reb Fountain - Faster Rian Treanor - ATAXIA_A1 Richard Dawson - Two Halves Robert Stillman - All Are Welcome Róisín Murphy - Incapable Rosalía - Milionària Rosenau & Sanborn - Saturday Rozi Plain - Symmetrical Ruth Garbus - Strash Sam Lee - The Moon Shines Bright   ft. Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins) Sam Wilkes - Run Sandro Perri - Soft Landing SAULT - Smile and Go Seabuckthorn - To Which The Rest Were Dreamt serpentwithfeet - Receipts    ft. Ty Dolla $ign Sessa - Flor do Real         (of Brazil) Sheer Mag - Hardly To Blame Shit and Shine - No No No No Sinead O Brien - A Thing You Call Joy Siobhan Wilson - Plastic Grave Six Organs Of Admittance - Two Forms Moving Sleaford Mods - Kebab Spider Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm Snowy - EFFED    ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods) SOAK - Knock Me Off My Feet Solange - Binz Sophie Crawford - A Miner’s Life Squid - Houseplants         bonus. Their cover of Robert Wyatt’s  “PIgs..... In There at End of the Road Festival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktZtQbo-YU Stella Donnelly - Old Man SUSS - Ursa Major Swamp Dogg - Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg   ft. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis Tami T - Birthday  Tenesha The Wordsmith - Why White Folks Can’t Call Me Nigga Theon Cross - Activate     ft. Moses Boyd & Nubya Garcia Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus Tierra Whack - Wasteland Tim Hecker - That World Tiny Leaves - Respair Toya Delazy - Funani         (of South Africa) Twain - Death (Or S.F.?) Twin Peaks - Dance Through It Tyler Childers - All Your’n Vagabon - Water Me Down Vampire Weekend - This Life Vanishing Twin - Magicians Success Velvet Negroni - Confetti Vendredi Sur Mer - Chewing-Gum      (of France) Victoria Monét - Ass Like That Vieo Abiungo - Cobble Together Visible Cloaks - Stratum      ft. Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano Warmduscher - Midnight Dipper Weyes Blood - Andromeda Wilco - Love Is Everywhere (Beware) William Tyler - Our Lady Of The Desert Willie Scott & The Birmingham Spirituals - Keep Your Faith To The Sky     (from a collection of obscure 70′s era gospel on Luaka Bop, “The Time For Peace Is Now - Gospel Music About Us”) Xylouris White - Tree Song Ye Vagabonds - The Foggy Dew Zsela - Noise

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Songs From 2018 (one per artist)

Another mixed bag of stuff i either enjoyed a lot, thought was excellent or interesting (regardless of taste… sort of), emerging artists to maybe look out for, and generally music that for whatever reason connected with me in some way, including the odd earworm i just couldn’t shake. Hope you enjoy some of this too and find something new to be taken by. There’s a spotify playlist (below) for easier listening but for the music that wasn’t on there, i’ve posted links next to them so do check them out! Spotify:

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In Alphabetical order:

The 1975 - Love It If We Made It

700 Bliss - Ring The Alarm         (Moor Mother & DJ Haram collab)  

Advance Base - Your Dog      (Owen Ashworth is a longtime favourite and always love what he puts out. Such a gifted lyricist and such an empathetic deliverer, just always cutting deep, just always sounding uniquely him. The records & artists he’s putting out on his Orindal footprint are really impressive too - Julie Byrne, Gia Margaret, Dear Nora - so do keep an eye out on those releases)

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Quantum Theory Love Song

Alasdair Roberts w/ Amble Skuse & David McGuiness - a. The Fair Flower of Northumberland b. Johnny O’the Brine (One of my favourite records this year, a quietly inventive old folk beaut from one of my favourite singers on earth. Included two as a. exemplifies his singing that i love so much and b. better highlights the inventiveness of the record)

Alison Cotton - All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre

Amen Dunes - Miki Dora

Anderson .Paak - 6 Summers

Angelique Kidjo - Once In A Lifetime        (From her complete re-imagining of the Talking Heads classic Remain In Light record, with all her Benin spirit infused)

Anna & Elizabeth - Mother In The Graveyard

Anna Calvi - As A Man

Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

Aqueduct Ensemble - Cut Grass I

Arctic Monkeys - Four Out Of Five        

Armand Hammer - Alternate Side Parking       (Elucid & Billy Woods)

Arp - Reading a Wave

audiobooks - Call of Duty Free

Barry Walker - Late Heavy Bombardment

Beach House - Dive

Ben Vince - What I Can See     ft. Micachu

Big Red Machine - Forest Green          (Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) & Aaron Dessner (The National) project. I’m likely never not gonna be into Justin’s work, he’s always stretching himself with virtually no regard to expectation and always finding interesting and new spaces)

Birds Of Passage - Another Thousand Eyes

Black Midi - bmbmbm      (Heard about them non-stop all year, about being this incredible live band, and all teenagers, so been intrigued for quite some time. Virtually no online presence, remaining somewhat mysterious, and only a couple of pieces to go by, but curious to see what’s coming from them) https://soundcloud.com/speedywunderground/sw024-black-midi-bmbmbm

Blocks & Escher - One Touch     

Blood Orange - Saint

Bodega - Name Escape

Bonny Doon - I Am Here (I Am Alive)       

Bruce - Elo

Capitol K - Fennel Dance

Cat Power - Stay

Channel Tres - Controller

Chris Carter - Cernubicua

Christina Vantzou - Some Limited and Waning Memory

Christine & the Queens - 5 Dollars

Colter Wall - Wild Dogs

Cool Maritime - Mossage

Cornelia Murr - Man On My Mind

Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain

Damien Jurado - The Last Great Washington State

Daniel Avery - Slow Fade

Daughters - Long Road, No Turns

David Thomas Broughton - Drifting Snow       (An old, unreleased recording lying around, brought out as a seasonal single, and i think it’s beautiful. My favourite live performer, and i would encourage anyone who sees this to check him out both on record and if he's ever in a town near you.) https://davidthomasbroughton.bandcamp.com/track/drifting-snow-seasonal-single

The Dead Tongues - Pale November Dew

Dear Nora - Simulation Feels       (12 years away, and back after renewed interest in their re-issued Mountain Rock LP last year courtesy of Owen Ashworth’s (Advance Base) Orindal Records)

Deux Trois - Roy

DJ Koze - Muddy Funster     ft. Kurt Wagner       (It’s probably fair that “Pick Up” is the best song on the record, but I’m a sucker for Kurt so liked this one a lot too)

Dolphin Midwives - Mirror

Doug Paisley - Drinking With a Friend

Drinks - Real Outside

Durand Jones & The Indications - Don’t You Know

Earl Sweatshirt - Nowhere2go

Earth Eater - Inclined

Emily Fairlight - Body Below      

Empress Of - When I’m With Him

Eric Chenaux - Wild Moon      (Most likely my favourite record from this year, if not any it feels right now. I’m fully begulied by it. Fair play to you if you recognize the sounds you hear as a guitar!)

Erin Rae - Bad Mind      

Erland Cooper - Solan Goose

Ezra Furman - Suck The Blood From My Wound

Fatoumata Diawara - Kanou Dan Yen

Field Report - Every Time

Flasher - Who’s Got Time?

Frog Eyes - Pay For Hire

Fucked Up - a. Normal People or b. Came Down Wrong   ft. Jennifer Castle & J Mascis

Gabe Gurnsey - Ultra Clear Sound

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Blam

Gia Margaret - Groceries     (Wonderful debut on Orindal)

Glenn Jones - The Giant Who Ate Himself

Grouper - Driving

Hailu Mergia - Tizita

Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La

Hatchie - Sure

Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg

Hen Ogledd - Etheldreda       (The great Richard Dawson’s experimental group, connecting the ancient/medieval with the present in a way that definitely rewards with more listens)

Hermit & The Recluse - Sirens       (New project from the rapper Ka, who continues to fascinate, with producer Animoss. This time the concept record combining his personal street stories with Greek mythology, with Orpheus vs The Sirens)

Hilary Woods - Kith

Homeboy Sandman & Edan - #NeverUseTheInternetAgain       (Nice to hear Edan once again after so long, and especially with a favourite of mine in Homeboy Sandman)

Ian William Craig - Discovered In Flat

Idles - Danny Nedelko         (Probably my favourite song of the year, and one of the most beautiful, impassioned & dearly needed statements of love & community we need right now. The video moved me to damned tears, it’s so beautiful)

The Innocence Mission - Green Bus

Institute of Landscape Architecture - Melting Landscapes       (field recordings documenting Alpine glaciers and their changing landscape) https://landscapearchitecture.bandcamp.com/releases

James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead

Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel

Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Gold Purple Orange

Jeff Tweedy - I Know What It’s Like

Jennifer Castle - Tomorrow’s Mourning

Jenny Hval - Sleep

Jeremy Dutcher - Mehcinut

Jerry David DiCicca - Watermelon

Jessica Pratt - This Time Around         (Massive fan of Jessica and this is without doubt one of my absolute favourite songs this year)

JFDR - My Work (String Version/Live)

John Prine - Summer’s End

Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush

Joseph Shabason - Forest Run       (From his 2nd record, Anne, a touching record on his mother’s Parkinson’s Disease featuring interviews with her over his ambient, sax-effected work)

JPEGMAFIA - 1539 N. Calvert

Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2

Julia Jacklin - Head Alone

Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn       (I was late to this record, but i may have listened to it more than any other come December-time.)

Kadhja Bonet - Delphine

Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury

Kathryn Joseph - From When I Wake The Want Is

Kelsey Lu - Shades Of Blue

Khruangbin - Maria También

Kim Petras - Heart To Break       (There’s actually a chance this is my favourite song of the year)

Kurt Vile - Bassackwards

Lambchop - The December-ish You

Landless - The Trees They Grow Tall

Laura Cannell & André Bosman - Golden Lanes At Dusk

Laurence Pike - Life Hacks

Leikeli47 - Girl Blunt

Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me

Lisa O’Neil - Factory Girl [trad]        

Lizzo - Boys

Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America

Louis Cole - Real Life     ft. Brad Mehldau      

Low - Quorum

Lucinda Chua - Whatever It Takes      (experimental cellist & composer who, as well as making expansive, looped soundscapes, also writes and sings in an equally spellbinding fashion)

Lucy Dacus - Night Shift

LUMP - May I Be The Light        (Laura Marling & Tuung’s Mike Lindsay collab)

Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Kuud Kuulama

Maggie Rogers - Fallingwater

Makaya McCraven - Butterss’s

Malibu Ken - Acid King           (Aesop Rock & Tobacco collab)

Marie Davidson - Work It         

Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner

Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating

Maxine Funke - a. Boy On The Bow or b. One Step a. https://maxinefunke1.bandcamp.com/track/boy-on-the-bow b. https://maxinefunke1.bandcamp.com/track/one-step

Mich Cota - Kijà/Care                (Two-spirit Canadian Algonquin artist who, after seeing her supporting Baby Dee at Cafe Oto very recently, had me excited for the bangers to come!)

Michael Nau - Funny Wind

Milo - Stet

Miss Red - Dagga

Mitski - Nobody

Moses Sumney - Rank and File

Moulay Ahmed El Hassani - Yak Ennas Mlklil Darou Labas 

Mount Eerie - Tintin In Tibet      

Mountain Man - Rang Tang Ring Toon      (8 years since their last record, and so good to hear their harmonies once again. Ever as beautiful and transportive, but this time more wiser. It’s a really lovely record and such a needed balm)

Nap Eyes - Every Time The Feeling

Nathan Bowles - Now If You Remember          (Didn’t know this was a cover, originally by Julie Tippetts, but it lodged itself in my head pretty good. Aquarium Drunkard rightly suggested an album or two back that, if Banjo Futurism is a thing then Nathan Bowles would likely be leading the pack. The remainder of this record definitely reflects that)

Nathan Salsburg - Impossible Air

The Necks - Body https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/body

Neko Case - Hell-On

Nils Frahm - My Friend The Forest

Noname - Ace       ft. Saba & Smino

Nostrum Grocers - ‘98 gewehr         (Milo & Elucid collab)

Oliver Coates - A Church

The Orielles - Bobbi’s Second World

The Other Years - Red-Tailed Hawk

Ought - Desire

Our Native Daughters - Mama’s Cryin’ Long      (New group project with Rhiannon Giddens, of Carolina Chocolate Drops, inspired by New World slave narratives and reclaiming/restoring black women’s stories)

Panda Bear - Dolphin

Parquet Courts - Wide Awake

Penelope Trappes - Burn On

Peter Broderick - Words Of Love       (An unreleased Arthur Russell song Peter got to record after befriending friends and family of the great man. Part of a free album Peter released of Arthur Russell covers at Christmas featuring one other unreleased song. Do check it, it’s lovely)

Phosphorescent - Christmas Down Under        (I could pick many from this record, but the sci-fi-like presence in the vocals gives it a strangeness and position i really loved)

Preoccupations - Espionage

Pusha T - Come Back Baby

Richard Swift - Broken Finger Blues        (Such a dear and sad loss. I actually included this song a few years ago when Aquarium Drunkard featured it, so feel like i should select a different one from this most-recent record.... but dammit if it doesn’t highlight the very best of Swift’s talents).

Richmond Fontaine - Horses In Las Vegas https://richmondfontaine.bandcamp.com/track/horses-in-las-vegas

Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence - Over You

Rocheman - Parades I & II        (Caught/discovered Rocheman supporting Jenny Hval earlier this year in a church, and was really into it so I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes from here)

Rosali - I Wanna Know

Rosalía - Pienso en Tu Mirá

Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything

Roy Montgomery - Outsider Love Ballad No. 1   ft. Katie Von Schleicher

Saba - Life

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

Sam Lee & Peter Wiegold - Rambling Boys

Sandro Perri - In Another Life 

Sarah Davachi - Third Hour

Sarah Louise - Bowman’s Root

The Scorpios - Mashena

The Sea & Cake - Any Day

Seabuckthorn - Disentangled

Seán Mac Erlaine - Cotter’s Dream

Serpentwithfeet - Bless Ur Heart

Shad - Magic    ft. Lido Pimienta

Shannon & The Clams - The Boy

Shit & Shine - You Were Very High

Sidi Touré - Djirbi Mardjie

Sidney Gish - I Eat Salads Now

Snail Mail - Heat Wave

SOB x RBE - Paid In Full

Soccer Mommy - Your Dog

Sons of Kemet - My Queen Is Harriet Tubman

Sophie Hunger - I Opened A Bar

Sophie Hutchings - Repose

Sorry GIrls - Waking Up

Sourakata Koita - Ha-Madi     (I don’t usually include too many - if any - reissues, but i love kora music and this record, “en Hollande” (’84), was a great discovery this year)

Stella Donnelly - Boys Will Be Boys      (I was sure i had this in last year’s list when it was a single, but appears not so including it now with the album release).

Steven A. Clark - Feel This Way

Suuns - Make it Real

Swamp Dogg - Answer Me, My Love

Szun Waves - Constellation

Terje Isungset - Blue Horizon     ft. Maria Skranes   (all the music is played by intruments made of ice)

Theo Alexander - Matter of Balance

Tierra Whack - Black Nails or Hungry Hippo      (A record of 15 one-minute tracks, full of ideas and all kinds of fun. Check out the “Whack World” short film for the record) 

Tim Hecker - Keyed Out

Tinashe - Throw A Fit     (Came across this song randomly via a Youtube video of dancer Jojo Gomez, and the attitude of it all just kind of thrilled me)

Tirzah - Gladly

Toby Hay - Bears Dance

Tom Demac & Real Lies - White Flowers

Tomberlin - Seventeen

Tracey Thorn - Queen

Tracyanne & Danny - It Can’t Be Love Unless It Hurts    (I think, actually, that Jacqueline off the record would edge my choice here, but i needed a little more Tracyanne (Camera Obscura) in here to highlight the two of them)

Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down     (Aussie band made up of various Aussie bands, most recognizably Gareth Liddiard of The Drones, with an excellent debut record “A Laughing Death In Meatspace” that along with their name fits the music on this record. It’s acerbic, feral, sardonic, and plain great)

Ty Segall - Every 1′s A Winner        (Just an absolute killer Hot Chocolate cover, of all things!)

Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Heron Dance

Valee - Womp Womp     ft. Jeremih

Valotihkuu - Walking Through Dew Drops On The Lawn

Vera Sola - Small Minds

Vince Staples - FUN!

Virginia Wing - The Second Shift

Witch Project - Manifest

Womans Hour - Don’t Speak       (So great to hear them finally return)

Wooden Shjips - Red Line

Y La Bamba - Mujeres

Yo La Tengo - a. You Are Here and b. Ashes

Yoshinori Hayashi - Overflow

Zilla With Her Eyes Shut - Whatever It Is

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Songs From 2017 (One per artist)

Another mixed bag of stuff i either enjoyed a lot, thought was excellent or interesting (regardless of taste... sort of), artists to maybe look out for, and generally music that for whatever reason connected with me in some way.  Hope you enjoy some of this too and find something new to be taken by. First time i’ve compiled it into a spotify playlist (below) for easier listening (!) but for the music that wasn’t on there, i’ve posted links next to them so do check them out! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/jolomoco/playlist/4encG0gAwzuz5VmwPwprZG (As ever.... as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (besides this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any?) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do share this along)

  In Alphabetical order:

79rs Gang - Dead and Gone

Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone

Alder & Ash - a. The Glisten, The Glow   or   b. At Night In the Slaughterhouse

Aldous Harding - Horizon

Alela Diane - Émigré

Alex Cameron - Candy May

Amber Mark - Monsoon

Amor - Higher Moment

Andrea Belfi - Lead

Anna of the North - Oslo

Anna Von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra

Arca - Piel

Arve Henriksen - Paridae

Bargou 08 - Chech el Khater

Baxter Dury - Miami

Bedouine - Dusty Eyes

Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Winding & Unwinding

Benoît Pioulard - Velha, Nacre

Big Thief - Mythological Beauty

Björk - The Gate

Black Thought (of The Roots) - Freestyle on Funk Flex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQgSpV3fA

Brian Eno - a. Reflection   or b. Only Once Away My Son w/ Kevin Shields b. https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/brian-eno-with-kevin-shields

Call Super - I Look Like I Look In A Tinfoil Mirror

Camille Thurman - Flower is a Lovesome Thing

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox - Tasseography

Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling

CCFX - The One To Wait

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest

Chehei Hatakeyama & Federico Durand - Ana https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/track/ana

Chloe x Halle - Tra Ta Ta

Chronotope Project - Mariposa

Chuck Johnson - Riga Black

The Clientele - The Neighbour

Colin Stetson - Like Wolves On The Fold

Colleen - Separating

The Como Mamas - Move Upstairs

Country Florist - Beaux D’Arc

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything

David Bazan - Care  

David Rawlings - Airplane

Dent May - Across The Multiverse     ft. Frankie Cosmos

Destroyer - Sky’s Grey

Dmitry Evgrafov - Kintsukuroi      ft. Benoît Piolard

Downtown Boys - A Wall

Elkhorn - Due West

Elucid - Piano Wire

Everything is Recorded - Close But Not Quite      ft. Sampha

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Fever Ray - This Country

Fionn Regan - Cormorant Bird

Four Tet - Planet

Francis & The Lights - Cruise

Frank Ocean - Chanel

Friendship - If You See My Beloved

G Yamazawa - North Cack

Girl Ray - Stupid Things

Godflesh - Parasite

Gordi - I’m Done    ft. S.Carey

The Granite Shore - The Performance of a Lifetime https://thegraniteshore.bandcamp.com/track/the-performance-of-a-lifetime

The Green Kingdom - Silt

Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Seagull For Chuck Berry

Hand Habits - Flower Glass

Hannu Karjalainen - The Emigrant

Hayden Pedigo - Dream Plains

Hiss Golden Messenger - Harder Rain

Homeboy Sandman - Bamboo

Hundred Waters - Blanket Me

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Pa’lante

Ibeyi - No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms

Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me A Reason

IDER - Body Love

Inner Travels - Ripple Patterns (Sea of Leaves) https://innerislands.bandcamp.com/track/ripple-patterns

Irreversible Entanglements - Fireworks

Jaimie Branch - Theme 001

Jlin - Kyanite

Joan Shelley - Where I’ll Find You

Joe - Tail Lift

Joey Bada$$ - Land of the Free

John Moreland - a. Sallisaw Blue    or b. Old Wounds

Jonwayne - TED Talk

Joseph Shabason - Aytche

Juana Molina - Paraguaya

Julie Byrne - I Live Now As A Singer

Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

Justin Walter - Unseen Forces

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Will Make Room For You

Kamasi Washington - Truth

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

Karine Polwart - All On a Summer’s Evening

Kelly Lee Owens - Anxi     ft. Jenny Hval

Kendrick Lamar - Humble

The Killers - Run For Cover

King Krule - Czech One

Kirin J Callinan - Bravado

KJ - Cotton

Lana Del Rey - Love

Laraaji - Introspection

Laura Cannell - Awaken Waken

Laura Marling - Wild Fire

Les Filles de Illighadad - Jori

Lisa Knapp - The Night Before May Day

Lo Moon - This is It

Luka Productions - Furu Boyan

Marvin Pontiac - I Don’t Have A Cow

Mary Lattimore - Wawa By The Ocean

Michael Nau - I Root

Michael Vincent Waller - By Itself

Mind Over Mirrors - Splintering

Moses Sumney - Doomed

Mount Eerie - Real Death

Mount Kimbie - Marilyn     ft. Micachu

Nadia Reid - Preservation

The Necks - Rise

Nightlands - Lost Moon

Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv

Ola Szmidt - Autumn

Otto A Totland - Anona

Oumou Sangare - Yere Faga      ft. Tony Allen

Perfume Genius - Slip Away

Peter Perrett - How The West Was Won

Pharmakon - No Natural Order    

Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness

Pissed Jeans - a. I’m A Man    ft. words & voice of Lindsay Hunter or b. Worldwide Marine Asset Financial Analyst

Porter Ricks - Scuba Rondo

Prana Crafter - a. Holy Temple of Flow    or b. Crown of Amethyst a. https://soundcloud.com/mike-newman/prana-crafter-holy-tempel-of-flow b. https://pranacrafter.bandcamp.com/track/crown-of-amethyst-3

Priests - Pink White House

Protomartyr - Male Plague

Quelle Chris - Pendulum Swing   ft. Homeboy Sandman

Randy Newman - Putin

Rapsody - Power      ft. Kendrick Lamar

Reese McHenry - Bad Girl https://sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/track/bad-girl-3

Richard Dawson - Ogre

Rod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal - Moon Lush https://soundsofthedawn.bandcamp.com/track/moon-lush

Ron Gallo - Kill The Medicine Man

Ross Hammond & Jon Bafus - Subterranean Doom Coffee

Rostam - Gwan

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solari

S.Carey - Fool’s Gold

Sam Amidon - Juma Mountain

Seabuckthorn - Turns

Sheer Mag - Expect The Bayonet

Simeon Walker - Lull

Simon Fisher Turner - Hope Swims

Six Organs of Admittance - Adoration Song https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/track/adoration-song

Sleaford Mods - Snout

Slow Dancer - I Would

Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill

Sophie Hutchings - Pipe Dream

Spoon - Hot Thoughts

St. Vincent - New York

Sufjan Stevens - Visions of Gideon    

Sunmoonstar - Satellites

Sylvan Esso - Sound

This Is The Kit - Easy On The Thieves

Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm

Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - Eh Ya Ye

Trio Mediæval & Arve Henriksen - St. Sunniva Hymn - Eterna Christi Munera

Twain - Solar Pilgrim

Vince Staples - Big Fish

Visible Cloaks - Neume

The War On Drugs - Thinking of a Place

Waxahatchee - Recite Remorse

The Weather Station - Thirty

White Poppy - Magic Feel

William Basinski - A Shadow In Time

William Eggleston - Untitled Improvisation DCC 04.33.3

William Ryan Fritch - a. Gurts    or b. In Our Blood

Wooden Wand - School’s Out

Yaeji - Feel It Out

Zara McFarlane - Peace Begins Within

[therandombanjo]

169 Songs From 2016 (One Per Artist)

Once Again.....

Just a selection of music/audio/sounds from the year gone by, that mostly i enjoyed a good deal or thought was pretty outstanding, interesting or notable in some fashion. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i’m very fond of as artists/songs, some are there as artists to maybe look out for, and some others are just earworms or songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know - and perhaps might have been missed; some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it over other lists.

As always it’s a mixed bag, and I hope at the very least there is one piece of music here that’s new to you and that you are taken by.

And finally, as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (bar this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any?) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do send this on.

Hope you enjoy. 

In alphabetical order: 

7FO - Forest of Old Cloth https://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/7fo-forest-of-old-cloth-cmmnd002  

Abra – Crybaby https://soundcloud.com/darkwaveduchess/abracrybaby  

Adam Green – Never Lift A Finger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFKYccm9XM  

Aesop Rock – Shrunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7RE8zycJQ  

Alex Cameron – The Comeback https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/alex-cameron-the-comeback-2  

Amanda Bergman - Falcons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5DKVwwFqY  

Ametsub – Precipice Drive https://soundcloud.com/blueberry-recordings/precipice-drive  

Anchorsong – Butterflies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HZooDAfws  

Andreas Brandal – Slow Motion https://andreasbrandal.bandcamp.com/track/slow-motion  

Andy Shauf – The Magician https://soundcloud.com/antirecords/andy-shauf-the-magician  

Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nleRCBhLr3k  

Anna Homler & Steve Moshier – Gu She’ Na’ Di https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwlBoJHnaY  

ANOHNI - a. Obama or b. Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth? a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVD50Q114-s b. https://open.spotify.com/track/5SyBAbwn4GM6N3E71kUKfO  

The Avalanches -  Because I'm Me      ft. Camp Lo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0KsZ_MVBc  

Ayuune Sule – Who Knows Tomorrow https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/who-know-tomorrow  

Bad Breeding – Remembering https://soundcloud.com/badbreeding/remembering-1  

BE - Blue Lullaby https://soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/be-blue-lullaby-16-bit  

Black Mountain – Mothers of the Sun https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/black-mountain-mothers-of-the-sun-2  

Blood Sport - Perfect Choice, Pastel Reflection https://bloodsport.bandcamp.com/track/perfect-choice-pastel-perfection  

Body Games - Sunny Day https://bodygames.bandcamp.com/track/sunny-day  

Bon Iver - a. 22 (OVER S∞∞N) or b. 715 -  CR∑∑KS or c. 29 #Strafford APTS or d. anything from it. a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISCEilPMNak b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Fx1yq3A8M c. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utVR5Q67_k  

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Bitchin Bajas - Show Your Love And Your Love Will Be Returned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-16Wen0Abo  

Braids – Companion https://soundcloud.com/braidsmusic/companion  

Brent Cobb – Shine On Rainy Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQSUA5j7G9s  

Brian Eno - Fickle Sun (III) I'm Set Free (Velvet Underground cover) or b. The Ship a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4hmN_5ns0 b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1riJSHhkY  

Brigid Mae Power - It's Clearing Now https://soundcloud.com/brigidmaepower/its-clearing-now  

Bruxa Maria - Socially Cleansed https://bruxamaria.bandcamp.com/track/socially-cleansed-3  

Cakes Da Killa – Up Out My Face      ft. Peaches https://soundcloud.com/cakesdakilla/up-out-my-face  

Case/Lang/Veirs – Atomic Number https://soundcloud.com/antirecords/caselangveirs-atomic-number  

Cass McCombs – Bum Bum Bum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R4TEsqkwO8  

Cassius – Action         ft. Cat Power & Mike D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA0z0b7tNLg  

CC Dust – Never Going To Die https://soundcloud.com/prnldeath/cc-dust-never-gonna-die  

Chairlift – Moth To The Flame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QfUuVyJlbg   

Chance the Rapper - No Problem     ft. Lil' Wayne & 2 Chainz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkkYlQNmbc  

Christine and the Queens - Tilted    (live on Jools Holland) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxM3W5uaVok  

Cian Nugent - First Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmokave0mqs  

The Comet Is Coming - Space Carnival https://soundcloud.com/thecometiscoming/space-carnival  

Conor Oberst – Gossamer Thin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6cBDF2KwQ   

Counter Intuits – His Master’s Voice https://open.spotify.com/track/7rj7dB1KCB4fq0WrD4TxRQ  

Daniel Woolhouse - Map Of The Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xqqYczNY9Y  

David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZscv36UUHo  

David Thomas Broughton - a. Crippling Lack Pt. 1  or  b. Words of Art    ft. Adian Moffat a. https://songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/track/crippling-lack-pt-1 b. https://soundcloud.com/songbytoad/david-thomas-broughton-words  

The Dead Tongues - a. Empire Builder  or  b. Black Flower Blooming a. https://thedeadtongues.bandcamp.com/track/empire-builder b. https://thedeadtongues.bandcamp.com/track/black-flower-blooming  

Drive-By Truckers – What It Means   (live on KEXP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfN9Qz_kIU0  

The Drones – Private Execution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOI_8CXFCeo  

The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Baka of the Future https://soundcloud.com/nawarecordings/the-dwarfs-of-east-agouza-baka-of-the-future  

Eric Bachmann – Mercy https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/eric-bachmann-mercy  

Family Atlantica - Enjera https://soundcloud.com/gillespetersonworldwide/family-atlantica-enjera  

Fatou Seidi Ghali and Alamnou Akrouni – Achibaba https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/achibaba  

Federico Albanese – Migrants https://soundcloud.com/federicoalbanese/migrants  

Francis and the Lights – Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo  

Frank Ocean - Nikes https://vimeo.com/179791907  

Future of the Left - Back When I Was Brilliant https://thefutureoftheleft.bandcamp.com/track/back-when-i-was-brilliant  

Gaelynn Lea - Someday We'll Linger In The Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sag9vdgCT_8  

Georgia - Ama Yes Uzume https://soundcloud.com/paltoflats/georgia-ama-yes-uzume-all-kind-music-pflp-005  

Glenn Jones – Flower Turned Inside-Out https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/flower-turned-inside-out-1  

G.L.O.S.S. – Give Violence A Chance https://girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/track/give-violence-a-chance  

Gord Downie – The Stranger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2VzjkwtFc  

Gregory Euclide’s THESIS PROJECT –  sets of collaborations including: Takeshi Nishimoto & Roger Doring S. Carey & Taylor Deupree Dustin O'Halloran & Benoit Pioulard Seabuckthorn & Loscil https://soundcloud.com/user-735924804-981519664  

Grouper – I’m Clean Now https://grouper.bandcamp.com/track/im-clean-now  

Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam – A 1000 Times https://soundcloud.com/hamiltonrostam/a-1000-times  

Hans Abrahamsen w/ Barbara Hannigan – I Will Go Out Now https://open.spotify.com/track/4KliMAHvE4xKEcTyexELP3  

Har Mar Superstar – How Did I Get Through The Day    (live on The Current) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R370hYrZ7_I  

Hare Squead – Herside Story       (Irish Hip Hop group) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXVJTRXgCCg  

The Hayman Kupa Band – Someone to Care For https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8JxSkmeHQ  

Hidden Orchestra - Wingbeats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEoUWnrb6J8  

Hiiragi Fukuda - October 23 2015 https://hiiragi-fukuda.bandcamp.com/track/october-23-2015  

Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee https://soundcloud.com/hissgoldenmessenger/sets/heart-like-a-levee  

Homeboy Sandman – Talking (Bleep) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsossmuDXA  

Hope Sandoval & Kurt Vile – Let Me Get There https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxQzGymwCWI  

Horse Lords - Truthers     (first song in this live session) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBqeYHeNkcA  

Hurry – When I’m With You https://soundcloud.com/lame-o-records/hurry-when-im-with-you  

Ian William Craig - A Single Hope https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/ian-william-craig-a-single-hope  

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans https://soundcloud.com/strut/idris-ackamoor-we-be-all-africans   

Japanese Breakfast – Jane Cum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqa-v9A3Ecw  

Jeff Parker - Cliche https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/cliche  

Jenny Hval - Female Vampire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVaWc00aZ30  

Joan Shelley -  Cost Of The Cold https://joanshelley.bandcamp.com/track/cost-of-the-cold  

Jóhann Jóhannsson - A Song For Europa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngUnLL4CAck     

Jorja Smith – Blue Lights https://soundcloud.com/jorjasmith/blue_lights  

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Rainbow Lollipop https://josefinohrnandtheliberation.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-lollipop  

Julianna Barwick – Nebula https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/julianna-barwick-nebula-1   

Julie Byrne – Natural Blue https://soundcloud.com/juliebyrne/natural-blue-1  

Julien Marchal – Insight XIV https://julienmarchal.bandcamp.com/track/insight-xiv  

Ka - a. Just   or   b. 30 Keys a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do2xXV2xrr0 b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T17WjDXoQz0  

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Existence In The Unfurling https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-2  

Kamaiyah - How Does It Feel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42t0ij0wj-U  

Karl Blau – Fallin’ Rain https://soundcloud.com/karl_blau/fallin-rain  

Katie Kim - Day Is Coming     (or anything from the record) https://katiekim.bandcamp.com/track/day-is-coming-2     

Kaytranada – Lite Spots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnou4zthz4  

Kemper Norton - Coming Home https://fandf.bandcamp.com/track/coming-home  

Kevin Morby - Beautiful Strangers https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/kevin-morby-beautiful-strangers-1  

Kim Gordon – Murdered Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvgRg_mUhtQ  

Lambchop - The Hustle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9wz5esgAo  

Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement https://brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/track/simultaneous-flight-movement  

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y  

The Lemon Twigs – As Long As We’re Together https://soundcloud.com/thelemontwigs/as-long-as-were-together  

Let’s Eat Grandma - Deep Six Textbook https://soundcloud.com/letseatgrandma/deep-six-textbook  

Lido Pimienta – Agua   (pop jam addressing the global water crisis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtfWH2KJqFM   bonus: Above Top Secret ft. Lido – Bang       (Nancy Sinatra spin, addressing the issue of missing & murdered Indigenous women) https://soundcloud.com/abovetopsecretmusic/bang-ft-lido-pimienta  

Loscil - Monument Builders https://soundcloud.com/kranky/loscil-monument-builders   

Lost Under Heaven - I & I https://soundcloud.com/lostunderheaven/i-i-1  

Lula Pena – Ausencia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bowrjEJ_0  

Maarja Nuut – Siidisulis Linnukene https://maarjanuut.bandcamp.com/track/siidisulis-linnukene  

Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo https://soundcloud.com/cascine/maria-usbeck-moai-y-yo-2  

Marie Davidson – Adieu Au Dancefloor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmDaK3Iz2Y bonus. Essaie Pas - Retox    (duo Marie is part of) https://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/03-retox  

Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Jigeen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8TS3zhgtE   

Mary Lattimore - Otis Walks Into The Woods https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/mary-lattimore-otis-walks-into-the-woods  

Matmos – Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqOGGJqtZM   

The Menzingers – Lookers https://soundcloud.com/epitaph-records/the-menzingers-lookers  

Metronomy – Old Skool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiVF7LjKU8  

Meursault – Simple Is Good https://soundcloud.com/songbytoad/meursault-simple-is-good  

Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Barok Main https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hf8S0XjRAw  

Michael Nau - Love Survive    (solo release from the Cotton Jones man) https://michaelnau.bandcamp.com/album/love-survive  

Mitski – Your Best American Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hDHm9MD0I  

Monster Rally - Washed Ashore https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/track/washed-ashore    

Moor Mother - Deadbeat Protest https://moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com/track/deadbeat-protest   

MUNA – I Know A Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FagZ-KOBmg  

Nap Eyes - Mixer https://soundcloud.com/youve-changed-records/nap-eyes-mixer  

The Necks – Timepiece (Excerpt) https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/the-necks-timepiece-excerpt-soma025  

Neil Cowley Trio – Grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXRDRg3bAHk  

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -  I Need You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAMZYpZi_M4  

Nicolas Jaar – History Lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=643_-rR87no  

Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina https://soundcloud.com/glitterbeat/noura-mint-seymali-arbina  

Oliver Coates - Innocent Love https://olivercoates.bandcamp.com/track/innocent-love  

Parquet Courts – Dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRG3R2FmGlY  

PJ Harvey - The Community of Hope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsLqsqbObyg  

Preoccupations – Anxiety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csMbqrFT1dM  

Puce Mary - The Spiral https://soundcloud.com/poshisolation/the-spiral?in=poshisolation/sets/puce-mary-the-spiral-lp  

Ragana – You Take Nothing        (the proceeds to this song go to the Water Protectors of Standing Rock) https://ragana.bandcamp.com/track/you-take-nothing  

Rachel Sermanni – Gently II https://rachelsermanni.bandcamp.com/track/gently-ii  

Radiohead - Daydreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU   

The Range - Regular https://open.spotify.com/track/4AzJyi4gvSbsXfd4HUEGiR  

Repetitor - Suženi Snovi https://repetitor.bandcamp.com/track/su-eni-snovi  

Rick Redbeard – The Golden Age https://soundcloud.com/rick-redbeard/the-golden-age   

Riko Dan – a. Screamer (w/ Pinch)   or   b. Iceman (w/ The Bug) a. https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/premiere-pinch-screamer-ft-riko-dan?in=dj-pinch/sets/tec090 b. https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/the-bug-iceman-ft-riko-dan-track   

Robert Stillman - Ruthie In May https://open.spotify.com/track/0vS2R6OBmvmmikSXvlTBxh  

Roy Montgomery - Weathering Mortality https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/track/weathering-mortality-featuring-voice-by-emma-johnson  

Sales – Seven’s Day https://soundcloud.com/sales/sevens-day  

Seabuckthorn – Overgrown Courtyard   https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/track/overgrown-courtyard  

Serpentwithfeet – blisters https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/serpentwithfeet-blisters   

Shirley Collins - Death & The Lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTWxI_DJOE    

Shura – What’s It Gonna Be https://soundcloud.com/shura/whats-it-gonna-be  

Six Organs of Admittance - Taken By Ascent https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/six-organs-of-admittance-taken-by-ascent   

Solange - Cranes In The Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qrinhNnOM  

Sonny & The Sunsets - Moods https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/sonny-the-sunsets-moods-1  

Stein Urheim - Strandebarm https://soundcloud.com/hubro/stein-urheim-strandebarm-from-the-upcoming-album-strandebarm  

Stian Westerhus - Kings Never Sleep https://stianwesterhus.bandcamp.com/track/kings-never-sleep  

Strand of Oaks – Radio Kids https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/strand-of-oaks-radio-kids-2  

Suuns – Translate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSOly5EKyOE  

Tanya Tagaq - Centre    ft. Shad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPpZex_QxGE  

Tasha The Amazon - Prayer https://soundcloud.com/tashatheamazon/tasha-the-amazon-prayer-produced-by-bass-and-bakery    

Tegan and Sara – Boyfriend https://soundcloud.com/teganandsara/boyfriend   

Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon – Begin https://soundcloud.com/timoburgers/tim-burgess-peter-gordon-begin  

Tim Darcy - Tall Glass of Water   (first solo single from the Ought frontman)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbgPiAGspB8   bonus. from his experimental/"avant-garde" poetry project w/ AJ Cornell - Cosmetic Sadness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxkii5DAAkc   

Tim Hecker – Castrati Stack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIhIlEY-7FY  

A Tribe Called Quest - We the People.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2Su3erRIA  

Tuskha – First Date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYaEdv76Lkk  

Twin Peaks – Butterfly https://soundcloud.com/twinpeaksdudes/twin-peaks-butterfly   

Ultimate Painting - Monday Morning, Somewhere Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krycTXIPBQA   

The Veldt - Sanctified https://theveldtmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sanctified  

Western Skies Motel - Whirl https://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com/track/whirl  

Weyes Blood - Seven Words https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/seven-words  

Whitney - No Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGKN6qiDqnk   

Wiley / Dusky – Sort It Out Sharon https://soundcloud.com/duskymusic/sort-it-out-sharon  

William Ryan Fritch - Recoiled      (Given how prolific, and brilliant, he is it's hard to pick just one thing from his yearly output so I recommend checking out his entire bandcamp) https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/ill-tides  

William Tyler - Highway Anxiety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHJIh7ycT4  

Xylouris White - Black Peak https://soundcloud.com/bella-union/xylouris-white-black-peak-single  

Yussef Kamaal - Yo Chavez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkIn4bHp6Pc  

Zach De La Rocha – Digging For Windows https://soundcloud.com/zackdelarocha/digging-for-windows?in=fawn-ann/sets/zach-de-la-rocha

[therandombanjo]

131 Songs from 2015 (one per artist)

Just a selection of music/audio/sounds from the year gone by, that mostly i enjoyed a good deal or thought was pretty outstanding, interesting or notable in some fashion. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i’m very fond of as artists/songs, some are there as artists to maybe look out for, and some others are just earworms or songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know - and perhaps might have been missed; some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it over other lists.

As always it’s a mixed bag, and I hope at the very least there is one piece of music here that's new to you and that you are taken by.

 And finally, as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (bar this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any?) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do send this on. Hope you like it.

In Alphabetical order:  

79rs Gang - a. Fungal Alafia Ahshay         or b. Drama a. https://open.spotify.com/track/1RKgOZC9jo9NViHR70TojU b. https://soundcloud.com/sinking-city-records/03-drama

Advance Base - Trisha Please Come Home https://soundcloud.com/advance-base/trisha-please-come-home

Alasdair Roberts - The Way Unfavoured            (no available link for full song so below is also b.  In Dispraise Of Hunger) http://www.juno.co.uk/products/alasdair-roberts/557443-01/ b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACCyw7XtUCc

Anderson .Paak - The Season/Carry Me https://soundcloud.com/andersonpaak/the-season-carry-me

Anna Von Hausswolff - The Hope Only of Empty Men https://open.spotify.com/track/3chwceDKkL7DLHkg9c67sq

Arca - Mutant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw_StQ8DczM

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ayé Sira Bla https://open.spotify.com/track/313OGD3ZgcMNSW78MIgLU2

Be - One https://soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/one-edit

Beach House - Sparks https://soundcloud.com/subpop/beachhouse_sparks

BEAK> - There's No One         ft. Jonwayne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Rmj_ESFAM

Benoît Pioulard - An Image Apart From Ourselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgg9JTbIcXA

The Besnard Lakes - a. Golden Lion       or b. The Plain Moon            (got to see them live this year and it was a thrill. Jace's piercing falsetto cutting through the storm is quite a thing) a. https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/the-besnard-lakes-golden-lion b. https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/the-besnard-lakes-the-plain-moon-1

Bettye Lavette - a. Unbelieveable          and b. Worthy      (Still going strong!) a. https://open.spotify.com/track/12wC2RYrCdKA7NOQujvQBi b. https://open.spotify.com/track/50pSSx4A2gT35HReLuLTBM

Bill Fay - War Machine             https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/bill-fay-war-machine-2

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Danse Profane https://open.spotify.com/track/2k92SnYWzVK3LiBzlC3qVa

Bjork - Stonemilker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQEyezu7G20

Blick Bassy - Wap Do Wap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMrdU8rykTc

Call Super - Sulu Sekou https://soundcloud.com/houndstoothlbl/call-super-sulu-sekou-7inch-version-houndstooth

The Cairo Gang - Ice Fishing https://soundcloud.com/godrecordsyep/the-cairo-gang-ice-fishing

Carter Tutti Void - f = (2.2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3pAHQ-ZI1k

Christine & The Queens - Jonathan    ft. Perfume Genius              (plus bonus: last year's Saint Claude video) https://soundcloud.com/christineandthequeens/jonathan-feat-perfume-genius-premiere bonus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFYmz2lfT4

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - The Rest of Us https://soundcloud.com/floatingadigitalworld/therestofus

Colleen - Holding Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffCBMAqSxo

Courtney Barnett - Depreston      or b. Pedestrian at Best a. https://soundcloud.com/scott-savard-1/depreston-courtney-barnett b. https://soundcloud.com/courtney-barnett-milk/pedestrian-at-best

D'Angelo - The Charade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3CunfPYkME

David Bowie - a. Lazarus        or b. Blackstar a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9RDIIa0k b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw

Dave Rawlings Machine -  The Weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXszUg37G4

Dawn of Midi - Nix https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/dawn-of-midi-nix-edit

Dawn Richard - Warriors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow8JJX1H_u4

Deerhunter - Living My Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x8_3kHM18s

Destroyer - Girl In A Sling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcWD_CroKhc

Diane Cluck - This Is Our Love      (from the Karen Dalton tribute "Remembering Mountains") https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/this-is-our-love-diane-cluck

DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Tata https://soundcloud.com/wonderwheel-recordings/tata-1?in=wonderwheel-recordings/sets/dj-khalab-baba-sissoko-kumu

DJ Koze - XTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYiTkGjO7Rc

Doug Hream Blunt - Gentle Persuasion               (Fantastic re-issue compilation from David Byrne's Luaka Bop label of mid-80's 'outsider'. Nice backstory to this one too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frg-n_DTSQ4

East India Youth - Carousel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3NFKJj5ts

Emily Hall - Ode to Nature https://soundcloud.com/bedroom-community/ode-to-nature-emily-hall

Emma Kupa - Half Sister https://soundcloud.com/wiaiwya/emma-kupa-half-sister

Eric Chenaux - Have I Lost My Eyes? https://vimeo.com/117852417

Erykah Badu - Hello           ft. Andre 3000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGqHYNTNHU

Ezra Furman - a. Lousy Connection            or b. Body Was Made a. https://soundcloud.com/bella-union/ezra-furman-lousy-connection-mfit b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEkjxX_YrM

Father John Misty - a. Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins)       or b. The Ideal Husband a. https://soundcloud.com/fatherjohnmisty/chateau-lobby-4-in-c-for-two-virgins b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2dAu6yYOjk

Field Music - The Noisy Days Are Over https://soundcloud.com/memphisindustries/field-music-the-noisy-days-are-over-single-version

FKA Twigs - Figure 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdj-urL1zNA

Gaspar Nali - A Bale Ndikuwuzeni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmWi0vn5Y4

Gaz Coombes - The Girl Who Fell To Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P31qLdg8BbM

Giant Sand - Heaventually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akZWdz7RgEE

Girl Band - Pears For Lunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgi3ZvolkRQ

Girlpool - Before the World Was Big https://soundcloud.com/wichita-recordings/girlpool-before-the-world-was-big

Hey Colossus - March of the Headaches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHtr6QXq2sk

Heems - Flag Shopping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Y5_K-GN9E

Holly Herndon - Interference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybzSWlpgJOA

Ian William Craig - Glassblower https://open.spotify.com/track/593RfoFfs8Ym8KZ81tcXPn

Ihsan Al Munzer - Jamileh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_oyvEMdSUw

Isswat - Yalalela          (From the wonderful Sahel Sounds label) https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/isswat

Jacober - Move Slow http://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/track/move-slow

Jam City - Today https://soundcloud.com/jam-city/today

James Place - Another Mourning In America https://open.spotify.com/track/22kw0jdeuq4NICgaXd24s7

Jamie Woon - Message (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jVLVATUo4

Jason Isbell - Flagship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKX5caTE0IE

Jeffrey Lewis - Outta Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYxNQVcwZ8

Jenny Hval - The Battle Is Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdLSx71CtXc

Jessica Pratt - Game That I Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQvJC4zDeY

JLin - Unknown Tongues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ-IuNCCjQw

JME - Work https://soundcloud.com/rapsdaily/jme-work-3download

Joan Shelley - Stay On My Shore     ft. Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy https://soundcloud.com/noquarterrex/stay-on-my-shore-by-joan-shelley

Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9Ro9pP2gc

Joe - Thinkin' About https://soundcloud.com/krystyan-budurin/joe-thinkin-about

Jon Mueller - A Magnetic Center (B) https://rhythmplex.bandcamp.com/track/b

Julia Holter - Feel You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JgMniIpRM

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle https://soundcloud.com/6131ecords/sprained-ankle

Kamasi Washington - Change Of The Guard https://soundcloud.com/kamasiwashington/01-change-of-the-guard?in=kamasiwashington/sets/the-epic

Kemper Norton - Ostiaz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_Nj_7STzE

Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK7PVJFbS8

Kurt Vile - That's Life, Tho (Hate to Say) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Seg7Xj--lI

Leif - October Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzqwQc8Bp8

LEVELZ - LVL 09 https://soundcloud.com/levelzmcr/lvl-09-new-video-free-download

Lightning Bolt - The Metal East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJwKEcG-94o

Lonelady - Into The Cave https://open.spotify.com/track/4eHnzihxT9234HoAOxGLM1

Low - a. Lies           or b. Gentle a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S182S04Sy9U b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bt-vZ7OO3w

Lubomyr Melnyk - Sunshimmers          (One must see him play live to see his connection with the piano, so there's a couple of videos below to help experience Lubomyr more fully)  http://exclaim.ca/music/article/lubomyr_melnyk-rivers_streams_album_stream Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoGDBRohAWk Small Feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qT1IxvaEQ0

Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Mimoun Marhaba https://soundcloud.com/border-community/maalem-mahmoud-guinia-floating-points-mimoun-marhaba

The Mantles - Island https://themantles.bandcamp.com/track/island

Matana Roberts - This Land is Yours https://open.spotify.com/track/1Xb1jApyk88xvRgHFYpJZY

Matthew E White - Rock & Roll Is Cold      and also b. Tranquility (song for Philip Seymour Hoffman) a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co4krl2xge0 b. https://soundcloud.com/matthew-e-white/tranquility-1

Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Remnants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtKlhj_54s

Max Richter - Dream 13 (minus even)              (From his 8-hour "Sleep" record) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dvpT0hA0Lk

Mbongwana Star - Malukayi https://soundcloud.com/platform/mbongwana-star-malukayi-boiler-room-debuts

Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down The Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL88DC9WwI

Meilyr Jones - Refugees https://youtu.be/DKbwIVZajaw?t=40s

Milo - An Encyclopedia https://soundcloud.com/nativetrash/milo-an-encyclopedia-so-the

Michael Chapman - This Reminds Me of You            (75-year old master still going string) https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/track/this-reminds-me-of-you

Michael Price - Easter https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/michael-price-easter

Missy Elliot - WTF (Where They From)          (Nice to see her back) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_3Qgib6RQ

Mount Eerie - Sauna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSH6PkResXM

Mute Forest - Deforestation http://muteforest.bandcamp.com/track/deforestation-6

Nathaniel Rateliff - Liverpool https://open.spotify.com/track/7DbQnWY07hxDi1sRZJU4uV

Okzharp - Dear Ribane      ft. Manthe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2btaDYuVFfw

Oneohtrix Point Never - a. No Good      or b. Child of Rage a. https://open.spotify.com/track/6PUOChKWPfbXrmrUUCkpVG b. https://open.spotify.com/track/26LyvWs5kLUR90P7xwESU9

Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky       (live on KEXP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSna2APlZ4I

Owiny Sigoma Band - I Made You / You Made Me https://soundcloud.com/brownswood/i-made-you-you-made-me-owiny-sigoma-band

Panda Bear - Tropic of Cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn05Q-8OSKU

Peter Broderick - Red Earth https://soundcloud.com/bella-union/peter-broderick-red-earth

Phil Cook - Ain't It Sweet https://soundcloud.com/phillip-g-cook/aint-it-sweet

Pill - Hotline         or b. Misty Eyed Porno Reader a. https://dulltools.bandcamp.com/track/hotline b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uKFVy0vuw

Pops Staples - Somebody Was Watching https://soundcloud.com/antirecords/pops-staples-somebody-was-watching

Protomartyr - Dope Cloud https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/protomartyr-dope-cloud-2

Rival Consoles - Howl https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/rival-consoles-howl

Roots Manuva - Stepping Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0w2A76JA2c

Ryan Sambol - Human Being https://open.spotify.com/track/5IGe0tBwM6TBrRoo9LXlTJ

Ryley Walker - The High Road       or b. Primrose Green a. live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgifHgq7oo8 b. https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/sets/ryley-walker-primrose-green-1

Shilpa Ray - Burning Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjLa29qD_o

Sleaford Mods - No One's Bothered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8izKL1tP8

Steve Gunn & the Black Twig Pickers - Cardinal 51 https://open.spotify.com/track/2LvkPrliJaaGivwM8HK8XB

Submotion Orchestra - Kimono https://soundcloud.com/submotion-orchestra/kimono

Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July https://soundcloud.com/asthmatickitty/sufjan-stevens-fourth-of-july

Sweet Baboo - Got To Hang On To You https://sweetbaboo.bandcamp.com/track/got-to-hang-onto-you

Sylvie Simmons - Rhythm of the Rain              https://sylviesimmons.bandcamp.com/track/rhythm-of-the-rain

Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uts-_rsxPM

Tate Kobang - Bank Rolls remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT0GKX-Pfkg

Terakaft - Anabayou https://soundcloud.com/houdamel/terakaft-anabayou-alonealbum

This Is The Kit - Magic Spell https://soundcloud.com/viaductpromotions/this-is-the-kit-magic-spell

Thundercat - Them Changes https://soundcloud.com/brainfeeder/thundercat-them-changes

Tim Heidecker - Our Values Are Under Attack      (From his hilarious "Decker" web series which i implore you take a peek) https://soundcloud.com/timheidecker/our-values-are-under-attack Decker EP 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA-EqQhF_9o

Tirzah - Make It Up https://soundcloud.com/greco-roman/tirzah-make-it-up

Tom Carter - Long Time Underground LP (Anything, and all, off this record; it's pretty stunning work) https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/long-time-underground

Tom Waits - Take One Last Look      (performed on David Letterman near Dave's final show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6km7YIZ-wI

Torres - The Exchange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIIJsIuQd8

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/unknown-mortal-orchestra-multi-love

US Girls - Damn That Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93yOrb04Eao

Victoria Hume - Closing https://soundcloud.com/lostmap/victoria-hume-closing

Vince Staples - Norf Norf https://soundcloud.com/future-hendrix-3/norf-norf-vince-staples

Walton - Bulldoze https://soundcloud.com/tectonic-recordings/bulldoze

The Wave Pictures - I Could Hear The Telephone (3 Floors Above Me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDkmcc8rS8

Weather Station - Way It Is, Way It Could Be https://soundcloud.com/outside-music/theweatherstation-wayitiswayitcouldbe

William Ryan Fritch - a. Entirety     or b. Heavy      or c. In Denial a. https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/track/entirety-free-download b. https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/track/heavy c. https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/track/in-denial

Yo La Tengo - My Heart's Not In It            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjbYWD0VIII

Zachary Cale - Blue Moth https://soundcloud.com/noquarterrex/zachary-cale-blue-moth

[therandombanjo]

123 Songs From 2014 (one per artist) .... (plus extras)

Hello. Here again is a grouping of music/audio/sounds from the year gone by. That year being 2014, the 12th year of the month. These are just 123 songs from a big batch of songs/artists i could have chosen from the year that i enjoyed a good deal or thought was pretty outstanding or notable, but you gotta cap it somewhere. (Key word here is “from”, and not “of” 2014) - it’s just a selection from the past year.

As always it’s a mixed bag as i’m fond of, and fascinated by, many styles & sounds and find value & richness in them all in one way or another. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i’m very fond of as artists/songs, some are there as artists to look out for, and some others are just earworms or pleasing songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know & perhaps might have been missed; some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it over other lists.

Hopefully there’s something new in here for you that you might be into.

Finally, as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (bar this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do send this on. Hope you like it.

In Alphabetical order:

1. Angel Olsen - Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnpS0nPYkZM

2. Alasdair Roberts - Artless One     (I sometimes think he's my favourite singer) https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/alasdair-roberts-artless-one

3. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers https://soundcloud.com/modernlove/andy-stott-faith-in-strangers

4. Adult Jazz - Hum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AIF9NstTk

5. Avi Buffalo - Memories of You https://soundcloud.com/subpop/avi-buffalo-memories-of-you

6. Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/amen-dunes-lonely-richard

7. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me https://soundcloud.com/alvvays/archie-marry-me-1

8. Alexander Turnquist - Wildflower https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/alexander-turnquist-wildflower

9. Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears       (New Zealander) https://soundcloud.com/spunkrecords/aldous-harding-stop-your-tears

10. Amy LaVere - Rabbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFZznvA_zg

11. Alice Boman - What https://soundcloud.com/aliceboman/what

12. Bing & Ruth - We Are On The Side Of Angels https://soundcloud.com/apparatworks/bing-ruth-we-are-on-the-side

13. Benjamin Clementine - a. London      and b. Edmonton a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHoL6XRRAo b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDeCuJ4RDew

14. Bodhi ft. George the Poet - My City https://soundcloud.com/bodhi-music/bodhi-vs-george-the-poet-my-city

15. Blonde Redhead - Dripping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmd2CXGpXQ

16. Caribou - Can't Do Without You https://soundcloud.com/caribouband/cant-do-without-you

17. Copeland - Advice to Young Girls     ft. Actress https://soundcloud.com/mewedemeyer/copeland-ft-actress-advice-to

18. D'Angelo & the Vanguard - a. Sugah Daddy    and b. Back to the Future (Part 1)                (Incredible return) https://soundcloud.com/dangelomusicofficial/sugah-daddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISCFeQ7963A

19. David Bowie - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFX1y62l9C4

20. David Thomas Broughton (and Juice Ensemble) - a. A Man to Call My Own     and b. In Service a. https://soundcloud.com/songbytoad/david-thomas-broughton-juice-9 b. https://soundcloud.com/songbytoad/david-thomas-broughton-juice-2

21. Doug Paisley - What's Up Is Down    ft. (the very amazing & wonderful) Mary Margaret O'Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gETSmwhyxbI (Extra: and this fine collaboration with another big favourite, Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Until I Find You") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfFx9JvH4Y

22. David Byrne & Anna Calvi  - Strange Weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylBZmqY0Oag

23. Dan Bodan - A Soft Opening https://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/asoftopening

24. Deers - Bamboo      (they're Spanish) https://soundcloud.com/deers-band/bamboo-deers-demo-1

25. Damien Jurado - Metallic Cloud https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/damien-jurado-metallic-cloud

26. David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - Comin' On https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/david-kilgour-the-heavy-eights-comin-on

27. Ezra Furman (and The Boy-friends) - My Zero      (Honestly one of the best, most enjoyable gigs I've been to. Took me by surprise at End of the Road festival & it was just the most rollicking fun time) https://soundcloud.com/barnonepop/ezra-furman-my-zero

28. Ex Hex - Don't Wanna Lose https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/ex-hex-dont-wanna-lose

29. Eno + Hyde - DBF https://soundcloud.com/warp-records/dbf-eno-hyde

30.. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)         (Might as well go with that incredible Letterman performance, ey?.... You know the one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ee4bfu_t3c (recorded version) https://soundcloud.com/future-islands/seasons-waiting-on-you (Extra: and also this fine version from Slow Club) https://soundcloud.com/slowclub/future-island-seasons-waiting

31. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me    ft. Kendrick Lamar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXD0vv-ds8

32. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks       (Would urge you to watch any of her videos. She's a stunningly realised artist. Incredible talent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDP9MKVhZc

33. Father John Misty - Bored In the USA https://soundcloud.com/subpop/father-john-misty-bored-in-the-usa (on Letterman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg

34. Frazey Ford - September Fields https://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/frazey-ford-september-fields-2

35. Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains - La Vérité https://soundcloud.com/franceinter/francois-and-the-atlas-mountain-la-verite

36. Frankie Cosmos - Birthday Song https://soundcloud.com/double-double-whammy/birthday-song

37. Girl Band - a. De Bom Bom     and. Lawman a. https://soundcloud.com/prescription-pr/de-bom-bom b. https://soundcloud.com/prescription-pr/girl-band-lawman

38.The Gloaming - Samradh Samradh         (Some of the finest musicians of their kind, pushing Irish music forward) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP0wcwCQbOs

39. Glass Animals - a. Hazey      and b. Gooey a. https://soundcloud.com/glassanimals/hazey b. https://soundcloud.com/glassanimals/gooey

40. Gruff Rhys - Lost Tribes        (something about the "ooohs" feel really good) https://soundcloud.com/gruffrhys/lost-tribes

41. Hiss Golden Messenger - Mahogany Dread https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/hiss-golden-messenger-mahogany-dread

42. Holly Herndon - Home https://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/holly-herndon-home-1

43. Hundred Waters - Murmurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo-8Oa2t4Ro

44. Half-Japanese - In Its Pull      (almost purely for the ".........YEAH") https://soundcloud.com/joyful-noise-recordings/half-japanese-in-its-pull

45. Jessica Pratt - Back, Baby https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/jessica-pratt-back-baby

46. Jon Mueller's Death Blues - Ensemble https://soundcloud.com/rhythmplex/sets/death-blues-ensemble

47. Jenny Lewis - a. Just One Of The Guys     and b. She's Not Me a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irvcf6dCk-k b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9hKp2zm6X4

48. Jennifer Castle - Sailing Away https://soundcloud.com/noquarterrex/jennifer-castle-sailing-away

49. John Southworth - Ode to the Morning Sky https://soundcloud.com/johnsouthworth/ode-to-the-morning-sky

50. Jane Weaver - The Electric Mountain https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/jane-weaver-electric-mountain

51. Jason Feathers - Courtyard Marriott    (a new project ft. Justin Vernon) https://soundcloud.com/tgnp/jason-feathers-courtyard-Marriott

52. Jack J - Something On My Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FSAP5Gcvs

53. Kate Tempest - Circles https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/kate-tempest-circles

54. Kevin Drew - Good Sex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8usGHvwQg

55. Katie Gately - Pivot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRfceukY1Q

56. Kingsley Bloom - Hymn & Hawberry http://kingsleybloom.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-hawberry

57. Leonard Cohen - Almost Like the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VYXECtjOos (Extra: And this poetry reading he did of it for The New Yorker) https://soundcloud.com/newyorker/listen-to-leonard-cohen-read-almost-like-the-blues

58. La Roux - Uptight Downtown https://soundcloud.com/la-roux-official/la-roux-uptight-downtown

59. Lucinda Williams - Stand Right by Each Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrFERMF0hLE

60. Lonelady - Groove it Out https://soundcloud.com/lonelady/groove-it-out

61. Lubomyr Melnyk - Evertina https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/lubomyr-melnyk-evertina

62. Laibach - a. The Whistleblowers     and b. Bossanova a. https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/laibach-the-whistleblowers-1 b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeHZm_APDU

63. Merchandise - Begging For Your Life / In the City Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfbaAesfbTg

64. Moodyman - Lyk U Use 2     ft. Andres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8X9RIO_cI

65. Michael A Grammar - Nature's Child https://soundcloud.com/melodic-records/11-natures-child

66. Mac DeMarco - Go Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxJd6qGiqI

67. My Brightest Diamond - Pressure https://soundcloud.com/asthmatickitty/mbd-pressure

68. Milo - You Are Go(o)d to Me https://soundcloud.com/hellfyreclub/you-are-good-to-me

69. Modest Mouse -  Lampshades On Fire        (Just nice to hear them back) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztdoHfbTRsk

70. Michael Kiwanuka - You've Got Nothing to Lose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsrymeSoeZ0

71. Natalie Prass - Why Don't You Believe In Me https://soundcloud.com/spacebomb/natalie-prass-why-dont-you-believe-in-me

72. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni https://soundcloud.com/glitterbeat/tzenni

73. Night Beds - Me, Liquor and God https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/night-beds-me-liquor-and-god

74. Nao - Adore You    (Young Londoner) https://soundcloud.com/thisnao/nao-adore-you

75. Neko Case, Kelly Hogan & Ellie Kemper - These Aren't the Droids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZuvOzN1yOQ

76. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/pharmakon-bestial-burden

77. Parkay Quartz (Parquet Courts) - a. Content Nausea     and b.  Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth a. https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/02-content-nausea b. https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/parkay-quarts-uncast-shadow-of-a-southern-myth

78. Panda Bear - Mr Noah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXIIL2tmR8

79. Perfume Genius - Queen     (features my favourite line of the year and possibly the best/most memorable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OSSUwPVM4

80. Priests - a. And Breeding       and b. Right Wing a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu8Yw1zCdpA b. https://soundcloud.com/radioalumbra/priests-right-wing

81. Petite Noir - Chess https://soundcloud.com/petitenoir/chess

82. Phosphorescent - You Can Make Me Feel Bad   (Arthur Russell cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOTCoJfYcg

83. Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)     ft. Zack De La Rocha https://soundcloud.com/massappealrecs/close-your-eyes-and-count-to-fuck-feat-zack-de-la-rocha

84. Real Estate - Talking Backwards https://soundcloud.com/real-estate-the-band/talking-backwards-1

85. Real Lies - North Circular https://soundcloud.com/axperr/real-lies-north-circular

86. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake      (Seeing this live to open her set at End of the Road festival, this suddenly became so much more than i'd already thought it was. I cannot hear or feel it in any other way than how I did on that night. It was SOOO sexy!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s05h40EvEA

87. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNDB9VqI3Q

88. Spoon - a. Rent I Pay    and   b. Do You a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOPfmfRVWmk b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNyg6Qc_os

89. Sharon Van Etten - a. Your Love Is Killing Me   and   b. Our Love a. https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/sharon-van-etten-your-love-is-killing-me b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55SPTQ0qDg

90. Strand of Oaks - Shut In https://soundcloud.com/deadoceans/strand-of-oaks-shut-i-n

91. Steve Gunn - Milly's Garden https://soundcloud.com/paradise-of-bachelors/steve-gunn-way-out-weather

92. Stein Urheim - Kosmoloda (Spotify) Stein Urheim – Kosmoloda (Spotify) Stein Urheim – Kosmoloda

93. Sylvan Esso - Coffee https://soundcloud.com/sylvanesso/coffee

94. Swans - a. A Little God In Our Hands     and b. Oxygen (or anything, it's fucking epic) a. https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/swans-a-little-god b. https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/swans-oxygen-radio-edit

95. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBNdOTu2Wn0

96. Slow Club - The Pieces https://soundcloud.com/slowclub/the-pieces-radio-version

97. Sturgill Simpson - The Promise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCD9Vh_CtE

98. Sinkane - Hold Tight https://soundcloud.com/sinkane/07-hold-tight-416

99. She Keeps Bees - Is What it is https://soundcloud.com/futuregods/is-what-it-is

100. Sia - Chandelier      (Long admired Sia, and this is an outstanding pop song. The video & Maddie's dance thrill & move me everytime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM

101. The Staves - Open (Justin Vernon remix) https://soundcloud.com/the-staves/open-justin-vernon-remix

102. Songhoy Blues - Al Hassidi Terei https://soundcloud.com/search?q=songhoy%20blues

103. Susanna & Jenny Hval - I Have Walked This Body https://soundcloud.com/susannawallumroed/jenny-hval-susanna-i-have-walked-this-body-album-out-in-august

104. The Soft Pink Truth - Ready to Fuck https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/the-soft-pink-truth-ready-to

105. Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Brando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_NIop72vis

106. Shabazz Palaces - Forerunner Foray https://soundcloud.com/subpop/shabazz-palaces-forerunner-foray

107. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off      (it’s one of the few (perhaps 2?) big pop songs I really liked and, for all its ubiquitous presence, I have strangely never grown tired of it. I like her) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

108. Twin Peaks - I Found A New Way https://soundcloud.com/twinpeaksdudes/i-found-a-new-way

109. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams https://soundcloud.com/artsandcrafts/hot-dreams-1

110. Tweedy - Summer Noon     (Wilco's Jeff & his son Spencer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyO2EY38YcA

111. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbiFcPhccu8

112. Ty Segall - Tall Man Skinny Lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMCqI199pE

113. Tobias Jesso Jr - True Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baVveuLnoA4

114. Tops - Outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-zUa0UaW0

115. Vashti Bunyan - Across the Water https://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords/vashti-bunyan-across-the-water

116. Viet Cong - Continental Shelf https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/vietcong-continental-shelf

117. War On Drugs - Under the Pressure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ9IXScip68

118. Wild Beasts - Wanderlust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IIbbFIQTKI

119. A Winged Victory For the Sullen - Atomos VI https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/a-winged-victory-for-the-sullen-atomos-vi-edit

120. Woman's Hour - a. Her Ghost    and b. Conversations a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS5paNae-ss b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGitM0sAmoU

121. William Ryan Fritch - a. Half Awake in Slow Motion     and b. With The Winds Against Us a. https://soundcloud.com/losttribesound/awake-in-slow-motion b. https://soundcloud.com/losttribesound/winds-against-us

122. Yelle - Complètement Fou https://soundcloud.com/yelle/completement-fou

123. Zun Zun Egui - African Tree http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/blog/zun-zun-egui-african-tree/

[therandombanjo]

Some other music from 2013 (belated post)

Totally forgot to post this last year. 1st time i'd checked in for a while and saw it still in the drafts so just putting it up now as it was. Just some other music I liked, or found interesting, etc in 2013. A few really ought to have been on the main list but it's possible you can enjoy them all the same. Hope there's something new for you.

Anna Von Hausswolff - Funeral For My Future Children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj0mNzZJGCQ

Ballake Sissoko - Maimouna https://soundcloud.com/no-format/1-maimouna

Bleached - Dreaming Without You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGEmeb9YlA

Caitlin Rose - I Was Cruel https://soundcloud.com/the-caitlin-rose/i-was-cruel

Cayucas - A Summer Thing (Formerly Oregon Bike Trails - in a previous list - now Cayucas) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINzGHV68PA

Daniel Bachman - Honeysuckle Reel https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/honeysuckle-reel-by-daniel

Deptford Goth - Feel Real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dc8DtVxb0

DJ Koze - My Plans ft. Matthew Dear https://soundcloud.com/pamparecords/09my-plans http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15091-my-plans-ft-matthew-dear/

Dungeonesse - Nightlight https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/dungeonesse-nightlight

Har Mar Superstar - Lady, You Shot Me https://soundcloud.com/harmarsuperstar/lady-you-shot-me

Jagwar Ma - Man I Need http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8KCPw9kYpo

James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk - Haftorang http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15195-haftorang/

Joan As Police Woman - The Classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXqJth6Eo4

Jonwayne - Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rob_v-tbCho

Kode9 - Uh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-82P05vgM0

Mano le Tough - Please https://soundcloud.com/#manoletough/mano-le-tough-please

Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - What Happened To My Brother https://soundcloud.com/#perils-from-the-sea/what-happened-to-my-brother

Mehliana - Hungry Ghost https://soundcloud.com/nonesuchrecords/mehliana-hungry-ghost

Motel Mirrors - a. Suddenly You       b. Meet Me On The Corner a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77hNahWeDg b. https://soundcloud.com/motel-mirrors

Monster Rally - Lovely You http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/track/lovely-you

Natalie Prass - Plunder - (and “Move Me Around” as it’s a free d’load) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OuVUQIE3gM b. Move Me Around - http://americansongwriter2013.bandcamp.com/track/move-me-round

Nu Sensae - Throw https://soundcloud.com/#suicide-squeeze-records/throw-by-n-sensae

Olympia - Olympia EP   http://olympia.bandcamp.com/album/olympia-ep

Osunlade - Dionne https://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/premiere-osunlade-dionne

Pharmakon - Crawling On Bruised Knees https://soundcloud.com/#sacredbones/pharmakon-crawling-on-bruised

Phil Cook - The Jensens https://soundcloud.com/#phillip-g-cook/the-jensens

Scott And Charlene’s Wedding - Two Weeks https://soundcloud.com/criticalheights/scott-charlenes-wedding-two

Steve Gunn - Water Wheel https://soundcloud.com/paradise-of-bachelors/01-water-wheel-020413-1

Tessela - Hackney Parrot https://soundcloud.com/proxychen/tessela-hackney-parrot

Thee Oh Sees - Thumb Cutter - Toe Buster https://soundcloud.com/thee-oh-sees/toe-cutter-thumb-buster

Vondelpark - California Analog Dream https://soundcloud.com/dockville/vondelpark-uk-california

Zachary Cale - Hold Fast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYT-kzE730

[therandombanjo]

101 Songs from 2013 (one per artist)

Once again, here's a bunch of music/audio/sounds from the past year. These are just 101 songs of many more songs/artists i could have chosen from the year that i loved/liked a good deal or thought was pretty outstanding or notable, but you gotta cap it somewhere. Key word here is “from”, and not “of” 2012 - it’s just a selection from the past year. It’s a mixed bag as i’m fond of, and fascinated by, many styles & sounds and find value & richness in them all in one way or another. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i’m very fond of as artists/songs, some are there to look out for, and some others are just earworms or just pleasing songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know & perhaps might have been missed; some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it. Whatever it is i’m boring on saying, it’s reasonably varied so hopefully there’s something new in here for you that you might be into. And as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything, this won’t be seen by many (if any) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do send this on however it is that it’s done on this thing, thanks. Hope you like it.

In Alphabetical order:

1. Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun - Home Hat Placement https://soundcloud.com/#northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

2. Action Bronson - Strictly 4 My Jeeps          (Video's pretty amazing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfP7qK0khuQ

3. Alela Diane - The Way We Fall         (Alela went through a tough divorce, and I think this is the strongest, sharpest Alela has been, and it’s great to hear her in this space) https://soundcloud.com/#alela-diane/the-way-we-fall-1

4. Angel Olsen - Sweet Dreams   (a shift to fuzzy guitars, and that voice still shines) http://vimeo.com/55317322

5. Archie Bronson Outfit - I Was A Dead Duck       (recorded & mixed within a day for the Speedy Wunderground label) https://soundcloud.com/#speedywunderground/sw002-archie-bronson-outfit-1

6. Bill Callahan - The Sing https://soundcloud.com/#juliavalentine2/bill-callahan-the-sing

7. Black Pus - 1000 Years https://soundcloud.com/#thrilljockey/black-pus-1000-years

8. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Dawn McCarthy - So Sad      (off their Everly Brothers tribute record, "What The Brothers Sang") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupC5q9Fjlg

9. Burial - Hiders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0FLh2EIfs

10. Cat Power - Bully [live on BBC Later]       (It later appeared on the "Sun" deluxe edition, but this live debuting of it was just completely arresting & stunning) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyLwc2UGzo

11. Chvrches - Recover     (Fine follow-up to last year's great "The Mother We Share") https://soundcloud.com/#chvrches/recover

12. CocoRosie - Roots Of My Hair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhagTUTjo8M

13. Colin Stetson - a. High Above A Grey Green Sea   or   b. To See More Light      (Always interested to hear what Colin’s doing. Do check a live vid of him to see just how huge his bass sax is & the physicality of it all, and inventiveness. It's pretty incredible) a. https://soundcloud.com/#constellation-records/high-above-a-grey-green-sea b. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPg-g2vP8U

14. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener https://soundcloud.com/#courtney-barnett-milk/courtney-barnett-avant

15. David Bowie - Where Are We Now?         (Just a beauty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtsV50_-p4 - Also this James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) 'Hello Steve Reich' remix to "Love Is Lost"... which is a bit good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGO0IxAr4A

16. Daniel Avery - Water Jump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO91czgRPgY

17. Daughn Gibson - Phantom Rider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M26Caa-7r9E

18. Dean Blunt - Papi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKO4tym4yPg

19. Darkside - The Only Shrine I've Seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMydPiLSC5Q

20. Doug Paisley - Song My Love Can Sing https://soundcloud.com/#noquarterrex/song-my-love-can-sing-by-doug

21. Damien Jurado - Silver Timothy https://soundcloud.com/#secretlycanadian/damien-jurado-silver-timothy-1

22. Disclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind    ft. London Grammar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBW9VEE29W4

23. Diana - Born Again https://soundcloud.com/#dianasound/born-again

24. Ellery James Roberts - Kerou's Lament         (formerly of Wu-Lyf) https://soundcloud.com/#kerou/lament

25. Eluvium - Don’t Get Any Closer https://soundcloud.com/#temporary-residence-ltd-1/eluvium-dont-get-any-closer

26. Fryars - On Your Own http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-b16E8j_Y

27. Future Of The Left - Bread, Cheese, Bow & Arrow https://soundcloud.com/#prescriptions-music/mastered

28. Franz Ferdinand - Right Action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqTsUtQLRFk

29. Grouper - Vital https://soundcloud.com/#kranky/grouper-vital

30. The Haxan Cloak - Excavation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cq3nwR1www

31. Highasakite - Indian Summer https://soundcloud.com/#jajajanordic/highasakite-indian-summer

32. Howard Ivans - Red Face Boy           (Ivan Howard from The Rosebuds - also Gayngs - backed by the great Spacebomb house band, Matthew E. White's crew) https://soundcloud.com/#spacebomb/howard-ivans-red-face-boy-1

33. Hiss Golden Messenger - Sufferer (Love My Conquerer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgRCLarNRc

34. Iceage - Ecstasy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-096mgWfHoA

35. James Blake - Retrograde https://soundcloud.com/#i-d-online-1/james-blake-retrograde

36. Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N    ft. Erykah Badu         (the song just gets better and better with each of its parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoU

37. Jason Isbell - Elephant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJhyrrUTgc

38. Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64e9HKXyUes https://soundcloud.com/#petra_x/innocence-is-kinky-jenny-hval

39. Jim James - A New Life      https://soundcloud.com/#jim_james/a-new-life

40. Joe - Slope      (Not the old RnB singer. A talented & interesting producer) https://soundcloud.com/#hessleaudio/joe-slope

41. John Wizards - Tek Lef Schrempf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVjjBv7nU8

42. Julianna Barwick - a. Pacing  or  b. One Half         (One of my favourites around. Doing the dishes to Julianna will have you wanting to do the dishes forever…) a. https://soundcloud.com/#suicide-squeeze-records/pacing-by-julianna-barwick b. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQVjRCL6jI

43. Julia Holter - In The Green Wild       (Her structures & builds & just all-round musicality are pretty incredible) https://soundcloud.com/#dominorecordco/julia-holter-in-the-green

44. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal https://soundcloud.com/#jonhopkins/open-eye-signal

45. John Grant - GMF https://soundcloud.com/#partisan-records/john-grant-gmf

46. Kanye West - Black Skinhead (Flying Lotus & Thundercat remix version)      (such great little touches to this song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyavk-F7YSw

47. Kirin J Callinan - Embracism https://soundcloud.com/#terrible-records/embracism-final-master

48. Kieran Hebden/(Four Tet) - The Track I’ve Been Playing That People Keep Asking About https://soundcloud.com/#dotsandashes/four-tet-the-track-ive-been

49. Kurt Vile - Wakin’ On a Pretty Day         (over 9 minutes & still not long enough. Echo the sentiment in the link) http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/02/14/kurt-vile-wakin-on-a-pretty-day/

50. Kevin Morby - Slow Train    ft. Cate Le Bon https://soundcloud.com/#woodsist/kevin-morby-slow-train

51. London Grammar - Strong https://soundcloud.com/#londongrammar/london-grammar-strong-radio

52. Lonnie Holley - Six Space Shuttles & 144,000 Elephants       (Just a fascinating & incredible thing that Lonnie does) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKGmCMBP9E

53. Lizzo - Batches & Cookies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQaRQe86suA

54. Made In Heights - Pirouette https://soundcloud.com/#madeinheights/pirouette

55. Majical Cloudz - Childhood's End http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gZ4lYi-Ho

56. Mark Mulcahy - Let The Fireflies Fade Away https://soundcloud.com/#firerecords/mark-mulcahy-4

57. Matias Aguayo - El Sucu Tucu https://soundcloud.com/#berlinmusiccommission/matias-aguayo-el-sucu-tucu

58. Metronomy - I'm Aquarius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwHLFsiE-A

59. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life http://thequietus.com/articles/11285-watch-melt-yourself-down-fix-my-life-video

60. M.I.A - Bring The Noize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCkIYkaLBGs

61. Mikal Cronin - Shout It Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFTCkyeTuAY

62. Moire - Lose It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96J-XcJi9Zw

63. Molly Drake - What Can A Song Do To You?       (Nick Drake's mum, from a release this year. I adore it & find her beguiling) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9bNtoMYyuU

64. Mount Moriah - I Built A Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5VB7PjfWQc

65. Mouse Outfit - Got Me Thinkn'   ft. Sparkz     (Some of the best UK hip-hop i've heard in a while, from Manchester). https://soundcloud.com/#themouseoutfit/got_me-thinkin_feat_sparkz

66. Moby   ft. Damien Jurado - Almost Home        (Damien's voice is just reaching new places & heights with each record & it's amazing to see. In full-on Bon Iver mode, here! Think it's a bit lovely, myself)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_VkETFPzQ

67. The National - I Should Live In Salt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-EF9fAHIY

68. Nadia Sirota - Étude 3         (the beginning and ends to this piece i just love) http://bedroomcommunity.bandcamp.com/track/tude-3

69. Neko Case - Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unNa-9qGkfI

70. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjF57zEbxpI

71. Nils Frahm - Hammers https://soundcloud.com/#nils_frahm/hammers

72. Okkervil River - On A Balcony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtXZtO8vrs

73. Oneohtrix Point Never - Zebra https://soundcloud.com/#warp-records/oneohtrix-point-never-zebra

74. Parquet Courts - Master of My Craft         (Would probably have been "Stoned & Starving" but that was more last year) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UFzde_Y_t0

75. Perfect Pussy - I, II, III or IV.    (Take your pick) http://prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com/

76. Phosphorescent - a. Ride On / Right On         (Would be "Song For Zula", but that was out last year & so going with something different. An absolute favourite artist) a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NrM5IIyRm0 b. Muchacho’s Tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn5zuw5rjsM

77. PJ Harvey - Shaker Aamer https://soundcloud.com/#reprieve/pj-harvey_shaker-aamer

78. Priests - Radiation http://priests.bandcamp.com/track/radiation

79. Rebekah Higgs - Loneliness http://rebekahhiggs.bandcamp.com/track/loneliness-2

80. The Range - Metal Swing https://soundcloud.com/#dazedandconfused/the-range-metal-swing

81. Run The Jewels - Banana Clipper    ft Big Boi      (RTJ = Killer Mike & El-P) https://soundcloud.com/#foolsgoldrecs/run-the-jewels-banana-clipper

82. Ron Sexsmith - Sneak Out The Back Door         (live on Comedy Bang Bang, a podcast i love very much & an endless source of joy. I love songs like this, and it’s especially great how it encompasses Ron’s career, social situations & life itself) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6aoi_XwI9M

83. Roy Harper - Time Is Temporary https://soundcloud.com/#bella-union/roy-harper-time-is-temporary

84. Sam Amidon - a. Weeping Mary   or   b. My Old Friend       (I love what he did with this Tim McGraw cover, but i've sang Weeping Mary as much as any song this year. A big favourite of mine, is Sam.) a. https://soundcloud.com/#barquemgmt/weeping-mary b. https://soundcloud.com/#nonesuchrecords/sam-amidon-my-old-friend

85. Savages - She Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebq-cENNn0

86. Sam Smith - Lay Me Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SC1Pqzl4c

87. Selebrities - Temporary Touch https://soundcloud.com/#cascine/02-temporary-touch-2

88. Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yleXykJyXbo

89. St. Vincent - Birth In Reverse https://soundcloud.com/#st_vincent/birth-in-reverse

90. Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami           (Amelia Meath of Mountain Man & Nick Sanborn) https://soundcloud.com/#enuj3102/sylvan-esso-hey-mami

91. Suuns - 2020 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQgicu6G6n8

92. Tim Hecker - Live Room https://soundcloud.com/#paper-bag-records/04-live-room

93. Torres - Come To Terms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbR-rUtxcik

94. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good At Being In Trouble https://soundcloud.com/#alltomorrowsparties/unknown-mortal-orchestra-so

95. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8itnSsNxSg - And this kind of remarkable Phosphorescent take. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZMcbVAxDm8

96. Volcano Choir - Byegone https://soundcloud.com/#jagjaguwar/volcano-choir-byegone-official

97. War On Drugs - Red Eyes https://soundcloud.com/#secretlycanadian/the-war-on-drugs-red-eyes

98. William Tyler - We Can't Go Home Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqSxhK2Bsys

99. Woman’s Hour - a. Darkest Place    or    b. To The End     (as fine a new band in the UK we have, i find. Very happy for them they've signed to Secretly Canadian!) a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--eZv4eDpaw b. https://soundcloud.com/#womanshourband/womans-hour-to-the-end - And also this GREAT cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcimJAhu88

100. Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy https://soundcloud.com/#paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-pretty-boy-3

101. Yo La Tengo - Is That Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG6CI5E8XAg

[therandombanjo]

More Music from 2012

Thought i'd put up another list of songs/artists from 2012 that i liked, just to share some more music folks might have missed. So many of these could just have easily made it onto the "101 Songs..." list and i think they're just as great, if not greater, as the ones that did, for the most part. To repeat from the previous list's synopsis: It's a mixed bag, as i’m fond of & fascinated by many styles & sounds & expressions and find value & richness in them all in one way or another. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i’m very fond of as artists/songs, some are there to look out for, and some others are just earworms or just pleasing songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know. Whatever it is i’m boring on saying, it’s reasonably varied so hopefully there’s something new in here for you that you might be into. And as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything, this won’t be seen by many (if any) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do send this on however it is that it’s done on this thing, thanks. Hope you like it.

In Alphabetical order:

1. Aaron Embry - Moon Of The Daylit Sky https://soundcloud.com/#aaronembry/moon-of-the-daylit-sky-album

2. Action Bronson - 9-24-11 https://soundcloud.com/#dontsleeppp_march/action-bronson-9-24-11-prod

3. Alkibar Gignor - Zeinabou    (as well as b.) (And c.) a. Zeinabou https://soundcloud.com/#sahelsounds/alkibar-gignor-zeinabou b. Kaounare http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/alkibar-gignor-kaounare c. Adounia http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/adounia

4. Baio - Tanto https://soundcloud.com/#greco-roman/baio-tanto-feat-matias-aguayo

5. Bat For Lashes - Laura http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznHTBZIa8E

6. Beach House - Myth https://soundcloud.com/#subpop/beach-house-myth-1

7. Big Freedia - Booty Whop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niWKFWFJ5Iw

8. Bill Callahan - So Long, Marianne     (Leonard Cohen cover) https://soundcloud.com/#titcho64/so-long-marianne-bill-callahan

9. The Black Twig Pickers - Merry Mountain Hoedown https://soundcloud.com/#user768222778/the-black-twig-pickers-merry

10. Cadence Weapon - Conditioning https://soundcloud.com/#cadenceweapon/cadence-weapon-conditioning

11. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe    (song is golden, the 2012 U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Team video is the best & ought to bring joy to your life) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0MPsJLg0ls

12. Cave Singers - Have To Pretend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQilKbK9Mk

13. Death Grips - I've Seen Footage https://soundcloud.com/#alltomorrowsparties/death-grips-ive-seen-footage

14. Delicate Steve - Africa Talks To You http://delicatesteve.bandcamp.com/track/afria-talks-to-you

15. Dent May - Shakedown Street   (Grateful Dead cover) https://soundcloud.com/#paw-tracks/dent-may-shakedown-street

16. Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows https://soundcloud.com/#subpop/dumdumgirls-lordknows

17. Eternal Summers - You Kill https://soundcloud.com/#kaninerecords/03-you-kill

18. Evy Jane - Sayso https://soundcloud.com/#brooklynvegan/evy-jane-sayso

19. Field Music - (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing https://soundcloud.com/#field-music/i-keep-thinking-about-a-new

20. Four Tet & Burial - Nova https://soundcloud.com/#four-tet/burial-four-tet-nova

21. Foxygen - Make It Known https://soundcloud.com/#jagjaguwar/foxygen-make-it-known

22. Frank Ocean - Thinkin' Bout You https://soundcloud.com/#lexia-delmar/frank-ocean-thinkin-bout-you

23. Gregory Porter - Be Good     (The video is just wonderful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HvpIgHBSdo

24. Haim - Don't Save Me https://soundcloud.com/#haimtime/haim-dont-save-me

25. Hamell On Trial - Ain't That Love    (plus b. because they're quite diff.) a. Ain't That Love https://soundcloud.com/#hamellontour/aintthatlove b. Together  ft. Kimya Dawson https://soundcloud.com/#hamellontour/together

26. Holly Herndon - Dilato    (a fascinating exploration if you stick with it) http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14568-dilato/

27. Jim Jones Revue - Where Da Money Go? https://soundcloud.com/#jimjonesrevue/where-da-money-go-1

28. Katy B - Aaliyah    ft. Jessie Ware https://soundcloud.com/#katyb/katy-b-x-geeneus-x-jessie-ware

29. Le Marchand De Soleil - Laila Je T'aime https://soundcloud.com/#sahelsounds/le-marchand-du-soleil-laila-je

30. Lemonade - Neptune https://soundcloud.com/#lemonademusic/neptune

31. Lori McKenna - What's Shakin' On The Hill     (Nick Lowe cover) https://soundcloud.com/#fiestaredrecords/lori-mckenna-whats-shakin-on

32. Lotus Plaza - Come Back https://soundcloud.com/#fadermedia/lotus-plaza-come-back

33. Low-Born - GR         (that drumming) http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14444-low-born

34. Lower - Craver https://soundcloud.com/#life-or-death-pr/01-craver

35. Lower Dens - Brains https://soundcloud.com/#dominorecordco/lowerdensbrains

36. Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns https://soundcloud.com/#majical-cloudz/turns-turns-turns

37. Major Lazer - Get Free    ft. Amber Coffman (of Dirty Projectors) https://soundcloud.com/#majorlazer/get-free-feat-amber-of-dirty-1

38. Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Vas Tu Rentrer https://soundcloud.com/#valensi-1/quand-vas-tu-rentrer-melodys

39. Mike Harding - Sea Palling: Wet Mics and Grey Seals http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14700-sea-palling-wet-mics-and-grey-seals/

40. Monster Rally - Gold http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-sea-lp

41. Moonface - Headed For The Door https://soundcloud.com/#stephaniepigott/moonface-headed-for-the-door

42. Nils Frahm - Screws    (all 9 songs/piano recordings, beautiful, and a Free download.) https://soundcloud.com/#erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws

43. part timer - undead    (out the year previous, but i found it late in 2012 and i think it ought to be heard. It's rather great & I love it a whole lot). http://parttimer.bandcamp.com/album/undead

44. Pat Jordache - Steps (Damaged Goods) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A40hpjVDPMc

45. Portico Quartet - Ruins https://soundcloud.com/#porticoquartet/portico-quartet-ruins

46. Romare - The Blues (It Began In Africa) https://soundcloud.com/#black-acre-records/romare-the-blues-it-began-in

47. The Rosebuds - Entire covering of Sade's "Love Deluxe" for that record's 20th anniversary. Worth reading Kelly's little bit on it. http://therosebuds.bandcamp.com/album/love-deluxe-the-rosebuds-perform-sade

48. Sharon Van Etten - Magic Chords https://soundcloud.com/#lilapit/sharon-van-etten-magic-chords

49. The Smittens - Burning Streets of Rome     (for that chorus, ha. Love it.) https://soundcloud.com/fikarecordings/burning-streets-of-rome

50. Sun Kil Moon / Album Leaf - What Happened to My Brother https://soundcloud.com/#perils-from-the-sea/what-happened-to-my-brother

51. Thee Oh Sees - Flood's New Light https://soundcloud.com/#filter-magazine/thee-oh-sees-floods-new-light

52. Vondelpark - Dracula https://soundcloud.com/#vondelparkmusic/dracula

53. Wiki - Wikispeaks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QdEfruq_0

54. Wild Cub - Jonti    (b. also a cover of Jessie Ware's "Running") a. Jonti https://soundcloud.com/#ourvinyl/wild-cub-jonti b. Running http://www.spinner.com/2012/11/21/wild-cub-running-jessie-ware-cover-video-of-the-day/

55. William Ryan Fritch - Kaleidoscope http://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscope

56. William Tyler - Cadillac Desert http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14671-cadillac-desert/

57. XXYYXX - About You https://soundcloud.com/#tmcatlin/xxyyxx-about-you

[therandombanjo]

101 Songs from 2012 (one per artist)

These are just 101 songs of many more songs/artists i could have chosen from the year that i loved/liked a good deal or thought was pretty outstanding or notable, but you gotta cap it somewhere. And please note a key word here is "from", and not "of" 2012 - it's just a selection from many artists/songs i liked or thought were great this past year. It's a mixed bag as i'm fond of, and fascinated by, many styles & sounds and find value & richness in them all in one way or another. Some of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons & regardless of taste), some of them i'm very fond of as artists/songs, some are there to look out for, and some others are just earworms or just pleasing songs that just stayed knocking about in my head and are just nice to know; some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it. Whatever it is i'm boring on saying, it's reasonably varied so hopefully there's something new in here for you that you might be into. And as i don't tumblr or blog or anything, this won't be seen by many (if any) people so if you like it or think it's of any worth in any way, please do send this on however it is that it's done on this thing, thanks. Hope you like it. 

In Alphabetical order:

1. Advance Base - Summer Music http://soundcloud.com/advance-base/summer-music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouoRCvg9EE

2. Airhead - Wait https://soundcloud.com/#r-srecords/airhead-wait http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRLuVmLXu8

3. Alasdair Roberts - My Rola-Bola Board http://open.spotify.com/track/6JpY1GdYKJjJ2e180yLe93 http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=88434216&ac=now http://hypem.com/#!/track/1rxpc/Alasdair+Roberts+-+My+Rola-Bola+Board

4. AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love https://soundcloud.com/#no85/alunageorge-your-drums-your http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfCSx5641U4

5. Andy Stott - Numb https://soundcloud.com/#adhocfm/andy-stott-numb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOsBk-V9uA

6. Angel Olsen - The Waiting https://soundcloud.com/#batheticrecords/the-waiting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJ0m4CRRc8

7. Antony & the Johnsons - Cut The World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9a1C1qXHfM

8. Antlers - Crest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYPKnOuUj0

9. Ariel Pink - Only In My Dreams http://soundcloud.com/dummymag/ariel-pink-only-in-my-dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBVGHigpTk

10. Avec Pas D’Casque - La Journée Qui S’en Vient Est Flambant Neuve http://soundcloud.com/shania-bogdan/la-journ-e-qui-sen-vient-est http://avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/track/la-journ-e-qui-sen-vient-est-flambant-neuve

11. Benjamin Booker - Have You Seen My Son? http://soundcloud.com/benjamin-booker/have-you-seen-my-son http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/08/20/benjamin-booker-have-you-seen-my-son-waiting-ones-demos/

12. Bill Fay - Be At Peace With Yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nAvcIhvoHg

13. Bowerbirds - Walk The Furrows http://open.spotify.com/track/0rO2FnFXXZeDCEKOUnLmGA

14. Cat Power - Ruin https://soundcloud.com/#artsandcraftsmx/cat-power-ruin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nl3Oo4-IQ4

15. Chad Valley - Fall 4 U http://soundcloud.com/chadvalley/fall-4-u-feat-glasser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4aBmI3Mb7Y

16. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms http://soundcloud.com/chairlift/i-belong-in-your-arms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aTOyFRwJ0

17. Chvrches - The Mother We Share http://soundcloud.com/chvrches/the-mother-we-share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxUEzOvU-Y

18. Coin Locker Kid - Gretle http://coinlockerkid.bandcamp.com/track/gretle

19. The Coup - WAVIP     ft. Das Racist & Killer Mike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32LMpifye4

20. Damien Jurado - Working Titles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn63pG-k2Hg

21. Dan Bodan - Aaron (Renaissance Man remix)   (orig. is great too, just heard this 1st) https://soundcloud.com/#dfa-records/dan-bodan-aaron-renaissance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exODQFTh4Jc

22. Daniel Rossen - Saint Nothing http://soundcloud.com/odsoso/daniel-rossen-saint-nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMG2jbvCr0Y

23. Daughn Gibson - Tiffany Lou http://soundcloud.com/wearehitsville/daughn-gibson-tiffany-lou http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1e97QKg0M

24. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPYKJAnwUo

25. Dirty Projectors - Just From Chevron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2fKwaCo2k

26. Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice http://soundcloud.com/divinefits/04-would-that-not-be-nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wN12zQNzHE

27. Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby  (re-released this year, orig. '79. Couldn't leave it out as it's been a big favourite for a couple of years)  https://soundcloud.com/#lightintheatticrecords/donnie-joe-emerson-baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIJXHvoynw - (pay no attention to the video's images AT ALL at first. Discover it image-free, then follow as you wish)

28. Doug Paisley - Sad Sinner http://soundcloud.com/twentyfourbit/doug-paisley-sad-sinner http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13463-sad-sinner/

29. Earl Sweatshirt - Chum http://soundcloud.com/ofwgkta-official/chum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwMxHmUBU7o

30. El-P - The Full Retard http://soundcloud.com/fatpossum/el-p-the-full-retard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EniJQmpP540

31. Erika Spring - Hidden https://soundcloud.com/#cascine/erika-spring-02-hidden-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsBq_AiW1XU

32. Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On https://soundcloud.com/#bella-union/father-john-misty-nancy-from-now-on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ubw2XzxsM

33. Field Report - Fergus Falls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzkdzXy03E4

34. Fiona Apple - Daredevil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3907cSye6iM

35. Free Energy - Electric Fever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN36PBthJyc

36. Fryars - Love So Cold https://soundcloud.com/#fryars/love-so-cold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LbYJhE0CU

37. Future Islands - Tomorrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9eBDkdiJmc

38. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3tURx8a2Q

39. Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know https://soundcloud.com/#secretlycanadian/hdik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJBOR9el3d4

40. Hiss Golden Messenger - Jesus Shot Me In The Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtwM-cUHAI

41. How To Dress Well - & It Was U https://soundcloud.com/#howtodresswell/how-to-dress-well-it-was-u-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbsTxV98os

42. Icona Pop - I Love It https://soundcloud.com/#grillmarketing/icona-pop-i-love-it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkA6PMaxpWU

43. Idiot Wind - Find The Rhythm In The Noise http://someidiotwind.bandcamp.com/album/find-the-rhythm-in-the-noise-7

44. J.D. McPherson - North Side Gal   (sort of re-released this year and finding a larger audience, i just enjoy it too much to leave off & would like others to hear it) https://soundcloud.com/#the-vinyl-district/jd-mcpherson-north-side-gal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGn4LncY0g

45. Jack Ladder - Hurtsville http://jackladder.bandcamp.com/track/hurtsville

46. Jai Paul - Jasmine https://soundcloud.com/#jaipaul/jai-paul-jasmine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQMg56ZVZY

47. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built https://soundcloud.com/#polyvinyl-records/7-the-house-that-heaven-built http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqaEQTi3rew

48. Jessica Pratt - Night Faces https://soundcloud.com/#birthrecords/jessica-pratt-night-faces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1lESEpYrc

49. Jessie Ware - 110% https://soundcloud.com/#jessieware/jessie-ware-110-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvaw7SYJtLI

50. Joey Bada$$ - Survival Tactics      ft. Capital STEEZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWAk8-leVA

51. Julia Holter - Marienbad https://soundcloud.com/#lightfiction/01-marienbad

52. Kendrick Lamar - Cartoon & Cereal      ft. Gunplay https://soundcloud.com/#brooklynvegan/kendrick-lamar-cartoon-cereal

53. Killer Mike - Reagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

54. King Tuff - Bad Thing https://soundcloud.com/#subpop/king-tuff-bad-thing-1

55. Kirin J Callinan - Thighs https://soundcloud.com/#terrible-records/kirin-j-callinan-thighs

56. Kisses - Funny Heartbeat https://soundcloud.com/#kisses/funnyheartbeat

57. Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow https://soundcloud.com/#mergerecords/lambchop-gone-tomorrow

58. Lau - Saint Monday https://soundcloud.com/#tomreveal/lau-saint-monday-from-race-the

59. Laura Mvula - Like The Morning Dew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_AHzit2JE

60. Lavender Diamond - Everybody’s Heart’s Breaking Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHZY8IOgIc

61. Leonard Cohen - Darkness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRq-OVfSg6U

62. Le1f - Wut     (must-see video to appreciate it even more) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc

63. Lianne La Havas - Lost and Found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5uZjDNEko

64. Lord Huron - Time To Run https://soundcloud.com/#antler/lord-huron-time-to-run

65. Mac DeMarco - Ode to Viceroy https://soundcloud.com/#capturedtracks/mac-demarco-ode-to-viceroy/s-PIVa6

66. Matthew E. White - One Of These Days https://soundcloud.com/#matthew-e-white/matthew-e-white-one-of-these

67. Merchandise - Become What You Are https://soundcloud.com/#echoes-ephemera/merchandise-become-what-you

68. Meursault - Flittin https://soundcloud.com/#meursaultmusic/meursault-flittin

69. Micachu & The Shapes - OK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvP-gg-6zc

70. Michael Kiwanuka - I Won't Lie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2KhjyKEus

71. Mister Lies - Cleam https://soundcloud.com/#mister-lies/cleam

72. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar https://soundcloud.com/#forcefieldpr/mount-eerie-ocean-roar

73. Mount Moriah - Younger Days https://soundcloud.com/#mergerecords/mount-moriah-miracle-temple

74. Mystikal - Hit Me https://soundcloud.com/#mark-willise/mystikal-hit-me/

75. Nautic - Fresh Eyes https://soundcloud.com/#deekrecordings/fresh-eyes

76. Nicholas Krgovich - Dreamin’ Man     (Neil Young cover) https://soundcloud.com/#nicholas_krgovich/dreamin-man-neil-young

77. Nick Lowe - Stoplight Roses (technically last year, but video of Sept. this year, so...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBhsWuTgNQo

78. Niki & The Dove - Tomorrow https://soundcloud.com/#subpop/niki-the-dove-tomorrow

79. Nicolas Jaar - And I Say     ft. Scout Larue & Will Epstein https://soundcloud.com/#brooklynvegan/nicolas-jaar-and-i-say-feat

80. Night Beds - Even If We Try https://soundcloud.com/#deadoceans/03-even-if-we-try

81. OMBRE - Cara Falsa https://soundcloud.com/#asthmatickitty/ombre-cara-falsa

82. Paul Westerberg - My Road Now https://soundcloud.com/#consequenceofsound/paul-westerberg-my-road-now

83. Phosphorescent - Song For Zula http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcdOLKx2XG8

84. Pissed Jeans - Bathroom Laughter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Bo3a4sL00

85. Polica - Lay Your Cards Out https://soundcloud.com/#memphisindustries/polica-lay-your-cards-out

86. Randy Newman - I’m Dreaming (Of A White President) https://soundcloud.com/#nonesuchrecords/randy-newman-im-dreaming-2012

87. RM Hubbert - The False Bride    (w/ Alasdair Roberts) https://soundcloud.com/#pichaelmarker/rm-hubbert-the-false-bride

88. Royal Headache - Girls https://soundcloud.com/#all-i-do-is-listen/royal-headache-girls

89. Rufus Wainwright - Montauk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIzPbjpYUk

90. Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka - Bas Jan Ader http://seamusandviljam.bandcamp.com/track/bas-jan-ader

91. Sigur Ros - Fjögur Píanó http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i9vEBWnu9I

92. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing https://soundcloud.com/#emi-astralwerks-promo/sky-ferreira-everything-is-1

93. SOAK - Sea Creatures   (16 yr old Irish lady, and about as charming & heartaching as it gets). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgxCIWnR4A

94. Solange - Losing You https://soundcloud.com/#terrible-records/solange-losing-you

95. St. Vincent - Krokodil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7WEzJuUiE

96. Sun Airway - Wild Palms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emga6mBztTg

97. Sun Kil Moon - Sunshine In Chicago https://soundcloud.com/#brooklynvegan/sun-kil-moon-sunshine-in

98. Taken By Trees - Dreams https://soundcloud.com/#secretlycanadian/taken-by-trees-dreams

99. The Walkmen - We Can’t Be Beat https://soundcloud.com/#fatpossum/the-walkmen-we-cant-be-beat

100. Woman's Hour - Our Love Has No Rhythm https://soundcloud.com/#womanshourband/our-love-has-no-rhythm

101. The XX - Try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kxVoC6tXI

[therandombanjo]

101 Songs of 2011 (one per artist)

I didn't really search too far and wide for much music this year, so most of these names won't be too unfamiliar with folks, but i still listened to a fair amount and i'm sure there are at least an artist/song or two that you don't know in here somewhere. These are just 101 songs of many more songs/artists i could have chose - i've gone back and forth debating which to list - but you gotta cap it somewhere. A lot of them i think are exceptional (for numerous reasons), some of them just melodically pleasing that are just nice to know. Some songs/artists are in here ahead of others just to vary it. All in all i was going for a reasonably accessible list, so, er, that explains it i guess.

In Alphabetical order:

1. A.A. Bondy - Surfer King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8MH4Hb97g

2. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Symphony Pathetique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5hvWY46iM

3. Active Child - You Are All I See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WdgBLFhD4

4. Alabama Shakes - I Found You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVSUH6_oBY

5. The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8Ckamh8Gw

6. Atlas Sound - Terra Incognita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rY5Uf4E0e4&ob=av2e

7. Austra - Lose It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8gEU8-i8A

8. Azari & III - Hungry for the Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14DPjwa1Mw

9. Balam Acab - Oh, Why http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldM8R8IgWE

10. Battles - Ice Cream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAbc5yhbBFQ

11. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgLMslbDuY&ob=av2e

12. Beirut - Goshen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYdXi-AseF8

13. Bill Callahan - America! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJHYrWo3oTY

14. Blood Diamonds - Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVqZGyM5Rjw

15. Bon Iver - Beth/Rest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtQe0JOCnM

16. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - We Are Unhappy http://soundcloud.com/lara-7/bonnie-prince-billy-we-are

17. Bowerbirds - Tuck The Darkness In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77O4zH8ICjk

18. Carter Tanton - Murderous Joy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPx0WoR3jAI

19. Colin Stetson - Judges (live, to understand the awe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK90kN871p8

20. Collections of Colonies of Bees - Vorms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4AK693gc4

21. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GXGc4EobS8

22. David Thomas Broughton - Potential Of Our Progeny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjF21Ju7iYk

23. Death Grips - Klink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaE8cMt_8iU

24. Destroyer - Chinatown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7oaUUWWYk

25. Doug Paisley - No One But You http://soundcloud.com/heavenlyrecordings/hvn212-doug-paisley-no-one-but

26. Elbow - Lippy Kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdIa7aKmJY

27. The Felice Brothers - River Jordan (spotify link only, sorry) http://open.spotify.com/track/0QYukJ0mQx5t23tVEpsWWC

28. The Field - Then It's White http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3nEoH_wxk

29. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HHgedNNQco

30. Flow Child - The Human http://soundcloud.com/flow-child/the-human

31. Frank Fairfield - Poor Old Lance http://soundcloud.com/netwerk-art/frank-fairfield-poor-old-lance

32. Frank Ocean - Novacane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfPJT4XjAI&ob=av2e

33. Friends - I'm His Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VNumNJyqE

34. Fucked Up - Queen Of Hearts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgOt7YFN0I

35. Future Islands - Balance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41jLPwf8kI

36. Gillian Welch - Dark Turn of Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rye-slzWN1c

37. Girls - My Ma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8jHRZymNs

38. Givers - Up Up Up (CSS Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faiC1rUfuvc

39. Grandpa Was a Lion - Hello From the Farm http://grandpawasalion.bandcamp.com/track/hello-from-the-farm

40. Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson - Lyman Place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrmErVyAvvQ

41. Holy Other - Touch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3qlkOBd9o

42. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQAEl1Mz1Y

43. Jamie Woon - Night Air http://soundcloud.com/woon/night-air

44. Jamie xx - Far Nearer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NwgXhkADY

45. Joe Goddard - Gabriel (feat. Valentina) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GWKBe-u8Q

46. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPKMRcgSBa8

47. Kate Bush - Snowflake (ft. her 13yr old son, "Bertie") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWMYfcg1o8

48. Kathleen Edwards - Change The Sheets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QjGa6bBRvo

49. Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTY6AITe1Q

50. Lambchop - If Not I'll Just Die http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxcibPQaJg

51. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (to be different: Balam Acab Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGNWCqANHA

52. Leonard Cohen - Show Me The Place http://soundcloud.com/leonardcohen/show-me

53. Lianne La Havas - No Room For Doubt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f845_v41YFo

54. Lil' Wayne - 6 Foot 7 Foot (feat. Cory Gunz) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9GPWx9D-1U

55. Little Dragon - Ritual Union http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yeb3q5nqWA

56. Little Wings - How Come? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzroTnn2mko

57. Lord Huron - She Lit A Fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJLjzk7DmeM

58. The Low Anthem - Burn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrFMvwgXka0

59. Lykke Li - Sadness is a Blessing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaOZBVIqoI

60. M83 - Midnight City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE

61. Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPA79kWaBdU

62. Megafaun - Hope You Know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxuWlX2QqFA

63. Mia Doi Todd - Summer Lover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTjgSjxOhg

64. Michael Beach - Straight Spines http://soundcloud.com/ctindie/michael-beach-straight-spines

65. Michael Kiwanuka - I'm Getting Ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wgj6vJDfjY

66. Monster Rally - Surf Erie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byLQnNaGr2w

67. Mount Moriah - Lament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqGnKmC6m6Q

68. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire - Huzzah! remix ft. Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown, and El-P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJBhs-ck8c

69. My Morning Jacket - Holdin' On To Black Metal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adx2QwKVM68

70. Nurses - Fever Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-XtZobVxc

71. Okkervil River - The Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAAceeWA_Q

72. Other Lives - Tamer Animals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ2PNaKJJcY

73. Panda Bear - Slow Motion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOjWhEhbmA

74. Patrick Wolf - The City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBJIbSScBM

75. Phantogram - Don't Move http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2RlV6cteiA

76. PJ Harvey - England http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DepKZOpHfo

77. Ponytail - Easy Peasy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CTgbWHNak

78. Radiohead - Lotus Flower http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

79. Richard Buckner - Escape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJD4QD5pk8

80. Richard Swift - Broken Finger Blues http://soundcloud.com/dancecontestwinner/broken-finger-blues

81. Robin Pecknold - I'm Losing Myself ft. Ed Droste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0GyRgn40o

82. The Rosebuds - Go Ahead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxMa7jijgR4

83. Sandro Perri - Changes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv3pMACSbI

84. Sarah Siskind - Nowhere In The Middle http://soundcloud.com/sarahsiskind/nowhere-in-the-middle

85. Small Black - Moon Killer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMQ4iOO6Jc

86. St Vincent - Surgeon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIbR5jdA58

87. Summer Fiction - Throw Your Arms Around Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzYiPsTzl_w

88. Tom Waits - Bad As Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Ta3H-ck6s&ob=av2e

89. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness (live, for extra awe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ZOVYxJj_E

90. Twin Sister - Kimmi in a Rice Field (Balam Acab Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOQfvte9V8

91. Tyler Ramsey - The Valley Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5LXpAPDmCM

92. Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw

93. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - How Can U Luv Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU664XJiEPc

94. The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQH5-1ot4w

95. The Weeknd - What You Need http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCVhhUxnp8

96. Wild Beasts - Reach A Bit Further http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGoqAFvsYs4

97. Wild Flag - Romance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKplBq-9eSo

98. Will Cookson - Prelude http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=84691232&ac=now

99. WU LYF - Spitting Blood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKPCeoSTWg

100. Youth Lagoon - Cannons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNEfXAErR3Y

101. Zoo Kid (Now King Krule) - Out Getting Ribs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9wLrAtcd6Y