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Top 25 Songs of January 2016

My favourite songs from a jam-packed month of quality music.

25. Gryffin – Heading Home

 

24. Modern Space – It’s Only A Dream

No link to the song above. I dig the following too.

 

23. Wet – All The Ways

 

22. Mother Mother – Monkey Tree (UK Mix)

 

21. Matthew Good – Kid Down The Well

 

20. Gwen Stefani – Used To Love You (MAIZE Remix)

 

19. Shearwater – Quiet Americans

 

18. Lucius – Madness

 

17. Marianas Trench – Who Do You Love/End of An Era

 

16. Pusha T & The-Dream – M.F.T.R.

 

15. Wintersleep – Amerika

 

14. Mates of State – Sides of Boxes

 

13. School of Seven Bells – Open Your Eyes

 

12. Troye Sivan – Heaven (f. Betty Who)/Talk Me Down/Youth

 

11. Skizzy Mars – Comb

 

10. Cage The Elephant – Too Late To Say Goodbye/Cold Cold Cold

 

9. Walk The Moon – Work This Body

 

8. The 1975 – The Sound

 

7. St. Lucia – Physical

 

6. DNCE – Cake By The Ocean

 

5. Marianas Trench – One Love

 

4. Mates of State – Staring Contest

 

3. The 1975 – Love Me

The INXS vibe is palpable here. As is the feeling that this band is destined for great things.

 

2. Panic! At The Disco – LA Devotee

Unbearably catchy. Maybe the best song they’ve ever done — strong words as their catalogue is teflon strong.

 

1. Yeasayer – I Am Chemistry

Number one couldn’t be anything else. I shed tears at the first listen of this masterpiece. This is art. In every way imaginable.

Top 20 Songs of June 2015

June was a great month for new music. Here are the songs I listened to most in June:

20. Django Django – Shake And Tremble

 

19. My Morning Jacket – Big Decisions

 

18. A Silent Film – Strong Enough/Message In The Sand

 

17. Walk The Moon – Different Colors

 

16. Mumford and Sons – The Wolf

 

15. Waitress – Hop Along

 

14. Brandon Flowers – Diggin’ Up The Heart

 

13. Ratatat – Cream on Chrome

These Brooklyn cats are such bad asses.

 

12. Muse – Dead Inside

Will and Kathryn from SYTYCD!

 

11. Death From Above 1979 – White Is Red

Probably my favourite tune this Canuck duo have ever done.

 

10. Jamie XX – Loud Places/I Know There’s Gonna Be Good Times

 

9. Awolnation – Woman Woman

One of the many catchy tunes on Awolnation’s latest LP.

 

8. A Silent Film – Paralysed

I’m miffed and sorry that this song and the EP from whence it comes have not not received more attention/YouTube views.

 

7. The Chainsmokers f. Great Good Fine OK – Let You Go

Massive dance anthem deservedly getting a tonne of play.

 

6. Tame Impala – Cause I’m A Man

So unique, so fresh, so good.

 

5. Best Coast – Feeling Ok

Took me maybe 4 or 5 listens before I was hooked.

 

4. Beirut – No No No

Welcome baaaaaack Mr. Condon! So happy new Beirut music has arrived.

 

3. Awolnation – I Am

What a great album from Aaron Bruno and company. Even this sort-of ballad sounds raw and rife with energy. Love the vocal harmonies on this track.

 

2. Ed Sheeran – Photograph/Photograph (Felix Jaehn Remix)

I guess I was out to lunch, as I didn’t know about “Photograph” until recently. I’m not surprised it’s become a worldwide smash; Ed Sheeran is damn near incomparable at writing simple yet affecting melodies and lyrics. The original is great, but I might even dig the remix more. Felix Jaehn is on fire right now.

 

1. Miguel – Coffee

It’s his voice. It’s that melody. It’s that this ‘clean’ version is more hard-hitting than the explicit one. It’s that, “word play, turns into gun play, gun play, turns into pillow talk, pillow talk, turns into sweet dreams, sweet dreams, turn into coffee in the morning.” It’ll go down as one of my favourite lyrics of the year. One of my favourite songs too.