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2019 favourites

Albums

1. Angel Du$t: Pretty Buff (Roadrunner)

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (Bad Seed Ltd.)

3. Sorry Girls: Deborah (Arbutus)

4. Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising (Sub Pop)

5. Men I Trust: Oncle Jazz (Return To Analog)

6. Aldous Harding: Designer (4AD)

7. Clairo: Immunity (The FADER Label)

8. Charli XCX: Charli (Atlantic)

9. Royal Trux: White Stuff / Pink Stuff (Fat Possum)

10. Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated (604/SchoolBoy)

11. The National: I Am Easy To Find (4AD)

12. Vanishing Twin: The Age of Immunology (Fire)

13. Purple Mountains: s/t (Drag City)

14. Tyler, the Creator: IGOR (A Boy Is A Gun)

15. Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride (Columbia)

16. Ariana Grande: thank u, next (Republic)

17. Young Guv: GUV I & II (Run For Cover)

18. Drugdealer: Raw Honey (Mexican Summer)

19. Teebs: Anicca (Brainfeeder)

20. Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe (ATO)

21. Tengger: Spiritual (Extra Noir) / Spiritual 2 (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

22. Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)

23. Drab Majesty: Modern Mirror (Dais)

24. Caroline Polachek: Pang (Perpetual Novice)

25. Private Agenda: Il De Reve (Lo)

26. Taylor Swift: Lover (Republic)

27. oso oso: Basking in the Glow (Triple Crown)

28. Pretty Matty: Pretty Matty (Get Better)

29. black midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)

30. Deerhunter: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)

31. Empath: Active Listening: Night on Earth (Get Better)

32. Better Oblivion Community Center: s/t (Dead Oceans)

33. Badge Époque Ensemble: s/t (Telephone Explosion)

34. Bart: Today, Tomorrow, & The Next Day (idée fixe)

35. Crumb: Jinx (Crumb)

36. Synkro: Images (Apollo)

37. Anna Meredith: FIBS (Black Prince Fury)

38. Corridor: Junior (Sub Pop)

39. Flore Laurentienne: Volume 1 (Costume)

40. Jayda G: Significant Changes (Ninja Tune)

41. Jacques Greene: Dawn Chorus (LuckyMe/Arts & Crafts)

42. Le SuperHomard: Meadow Lane Park (Elefant Spain)

43. The Twilight Sad: It Won/t Be Like This All the Time (Rock Action)

44. Barrie: Happy To Be Here (Winspeak)

45. Phillipi & Rodrigo: Paciencia (Deewee)

46. Death & Vanilla: Are You A Dreamer? (Fire)

47. Bodywash: Comforter (Luminelle)

48. Panda Bear: Buoys (Domino)

49. Pedro the Lion: Phoenix (Polyvinyl)

50. Skinny Pelembe: Dreaming Is Dead Now (Brownswood)

Tracks

1. Sorry Girls: One That You Want

2. Normani: Motivation

3. Clairo: Bags

4. Nasty Cherry: What Do You Like In Me

5. Lauv feat. Anne-Marie: fuck, i’m lonely

6. Charli XCX feat. Christine and the Queens: Gone

7. Aldous Harding: The Barrel

8. Daphni feat. Paradise: Sizzling

9. Ariana Grande: NASA

10. Grace Ives: Mirror

11. Weyes Blood: Everyday

12. Taylor Swift: The Man

13. Jai Paul: He

14. BTS feat. Halsey: Boy With Luv

15. FKA twigs: Cellophane

16. Carly Rae Jepsen: Too Much

17. The National: Rylan

18. Vampire Weekend: This Life

19. Grimes x i_o: Violence

20. Jessie Ware: Adore You

21. Kesha feat. Big Freedia: Raising Hell

22. Purple Mountains: All My Happiness Is Gone

23. ROSALÍA: Aute Cuture

24. 100 gecs: Money Machine

25. Caroline Polachek: So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings

26. Lauv feat. Troye Sivan: i’m so tired…

27. Georgia: About Work the Dancefloor

28. Magdalena Bay: Mine

29. The 1975: Frail State of Mind

30. Shawn Mendes: If I Can’t Have You

31. Angel Du$t: Big Ass Love

32. Tame Impala: Patience

33. Taylor Swift: Cruel Summer

34. Lil Mosey: Live This Wild

35. Jenny Hval: Ashes To Ashes

36. Kitten: Memphis

37. Claud: Easy

38. Helado Negro: Running

39. Caribou: Home

40. Teebs feat. Panda Bear: Studie

41. Post Malone: Circles

42. DJDS: Magic Loop

43. Tyler, the Creator: I THINK

44. Banoffee feat. Empress Of: Tennis Fan

45. PUP: Kids

46. Charli XCX feat. Lizzo: Blame It On Your Love

47. Deerhunter: Whatever Happens To People?

48. Royal Trux: Suburban Junky Lady (Ariel Pink Remix)

49. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Starcourt

50. Little Jesus: Los Años Maravillosos

EPs

1. Dry Cleaning: Sweet Princess/Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks (It’s OK)

2. Malibu: One Life (Joyful Noise)

3. Magdalena Bay: mini mix vol. 1 (Luminelle)

4. SASSY 009: KILL SASSY 009 (Luft)

5. Ducks Unlimited: Get Bleak (Bobo Integral)

6. Skee Mask: 808BB/ISS004 (Ilian Tape)

7. Daphni: Sizzling (Jialong)

8. girl in red: Chapter 2 (marie ulven)

9. Koffee: Rapture (Promised Land)

10. Octo Octa: For Lovers (Technicolour)

Compilations and Reissues

Autoclave: s/t (Dischord)

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season (UMC)

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind / Where You Been / Without A Sound (Cherry Red)

Duster: Capsule Losing Contact (Numero Group)

Emerson: If You Need Me Call Me (Kalita)

Galerie Stratique: Horizzzons (Public House)

Greg Belson's Divine Disco Volume Two: Obscure Gospel Disco from 1979 to 1987 (Cultures of Soul)

Hefner: Fidelity Wars (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)

His Name Is Alive: His Name Is Alive All The Mirrors In The House (Home Recordings 1979 - 1986) (Disciples)

Insides: Euphoria (Beacon Sound)

Jonathan Fire*Eater: Tremble Under Boom Lights / Wolf Songs For Lambs (Third Man)

R.E.M.: Monster (Craft)

Royal Trux: Quantum Entanglement (Fat Possum)

Seaside Lovers: Memories In Beach House (Ship To Shore)

Sloan: Navy Blues (murderecords)

Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements / Mars Audiac Quintet / Emperor Tomato Ketchup / Dots and Loops / Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night / Sound-Dust / Margerine Eclipse (Duophonic)

Steve Hiett: Down On The Road By The Beach (Be With/Efficient Space)

Supercrush: Never Let You Drift Apart (Debt Offensive)

Super Furry Animals: Guerilla (BMG)

Team Dresch: Personal Best / Captain My Captain (Jealous Butcher)

The Blue Nile: Hats (The Blue Nile)

The Springfields: Singles 1986​-​1991 (Slumberland)

Thrush Hermit: Clayton Park (New Scotland)

Various: A short illness from which he never recovered (Blackest Ever Black)

Various: Brought To Light (FatCat)

Various: Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 (Light In The Attic)

Various: The Daisy Age (Ace)

Various: The Sound Of Love International 002 (Love International)

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2017 Favourites

Albums

1. Slowdive: Slowdive (Dead Oceans)

2. Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory (Def Jam)

3. King Krule: The OOZ (True Panther)

4. Mac DeMarco: This Old Dog (Captured Tracks)

5. Kelly Lee Owens: Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)

6. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: On The Echoing Green (Mexican Summer)

7. Bedouine: Bedouine (Spacebomb)

8. Phoenix: Ti Amo (Glassnote)

9. Kelela: Take Me Apart (Warp)

10. Alvvays: Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)

11. Alex Lahey: I Love You Like A Brother (Dead Oceans)

12. Japandroids: Near To The Wild Heart Of Life (Anti)

13. Sampha: Process (Young Turks)

14. Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)

15. Charly Bliss: Guppy (Saddlecreek)

16. Jessie Ware: Glasshouse (Island)

17. Destroyer: ken (Merge)

18. Phoebe Bridgers: Strangers in the Alps (Dead Oceans)

19. Here Lies Man: Here Lies Man (RidingEasy)

20. The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic)

21. Paramore: After Laughter (Fueled By Ramen)

22. She-Devils: She-Devils (Arbutus)

23. Hannah Peel: Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia (My Own Pleasure)

24. Big Thief: Capacity (Saddlecreek)

25. Julien Baker: Turn On The Lights (Matador)

26. Sheer Mag: Need to Feel Your Love (Wilsuns RC)

27. GAS: Narkopop (Kompakt)

28. The New Pornographers: Whiteout Conditions (Dine Alone)

29. Foxygen: Hang (Jagjaguwar)

30. Alex G: Rocket (Domino)

31. The Mountain Goats: Goths (Merge)

32. Syd: Fin (Columbia)

33. The Afghan Whigs: In Spades (Sub Pop)

34. LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (Columbia)

35. SZA: CTRL (Top Dawg)

36. Metro Riders: Europe By Night (Possible Motive)

37. Thundercat: Drunk (Brainfeeder)

38. Future Islands: The Far Field (4AD)

39. Vagabon: Infinite Worlds (Father/Daughter)

40. Björk: Utopia (One Little Indian)

41. Quicksand: Interiors (Epitaph)

42. Rozwell Kid: Precious Art (SideOneDummy)

43. The xx: I See You (Young Turks)

44. Thurston Moore: Rock N Roll Consciousness (Ecstatic Peace)

45. Partner: In Search of Lost Time (You’ve Changed)

46. The Stevens: Good (Chapter)

47. Colter Wall: Colter Wall (Young Mary's Record Co.)

48. Upper Wilds: Guitar Module 2017 (Thrill Jockey)

49. Grandaddy: The Last Place (30th Century)

50. L’Rain: L’Rain (Astro Nautico)

Reissues/Compilations

1. Acetone: 1992-2001 (Light In The Attic)

2. The Necessaries: Event Horizon (Be With)

3. John Carpenter: Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 (Sacred Bones)

4. Cocteau Twins: Four Calendar Café / Milk & Kisses (Mercury)

5. The Replacements: For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 (Rhino)

6. Various: Singles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic)

7. Goo Goo Dolls: Superstar Car Wash (Warner Bros.)

8. Various: KIDS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MVD)

9. The Nils: The Nils (Label Obscura)

10. The Creation: Action Painting (Numero Group)

11. Evan Dando: Baby I’m Bored (Fire)

12. The Afghan Whigs: Up In It / Congregation / Uptown Avondale (Sub Pop)

13. Slow: Against the Glass (Artoffact)

14. Catherine Wheel: Ferment / Chrome (Music On Vinyl)

15. Helium: Ends With And (Matador)

16. Lift To Experience: The Texas- Jerusalem Crossroads (Mute)

17. Super Furry Animals: Radiator (BMG)

18. Roni Size/Reprazent: New Forms (Talkin’ Loud)

19. Plumtree: Mass Teen Fainting / Plumtree Predicts the Future / This Day Won’t Last At All (Label Obscura)

20. Various: Seafaring Strangers - Private Yacht (Numero Group)

Tracks

1. Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling”

2. Young Fathers feat. Leith Congregational Choir “Only God Knows”

3. Alvvays “In Undertow”

4. Paramore “Hard Times”

5. Alex Lahey “Every Day’s The Weekend”

6. Ralph “Cold to the Touch”

7. Mac DeMarco “On the Level”

8. Frank Ocean “Provider”

9. White Reaper “Judy French”

10. Thundercat feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins “Show You The Way”

11. Raye “The Line”

12. Japandroids “No Known Drink Or Drug”

13. Phoenix “Fior Di Latte”

14. Jessie Ware “Love To Love”

15. Superorganism “Something for your M.I.N.D”

16. Kesha “Praying”

17. She-Devils “The World Laughs”

18. Feltworth “Forget This Feeling”

19. Drake “Passionfruit”

20. U.S. Girls “Mad As Hell”

21. Sigrid “Strangers”

22. The New Pornographers “Whiteout Conditions”

23. Poppy “Pop Music”

24. Ride “Cali”

25. Vince Staples “BagBak”

26. Harry Styles “Sign of the Times”

27. Dom “Gud Tymes”

28. LCD Soundsystem “How Do You Sleep?”

29. Chastity “Flesh”

30. Frank Ocean “Chanel”

31. Gorillaz feat. Vince Staples “Ascension”

32. Parcels “Overnight”

33. Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

34. Jens Lekman “What's That Perfume That You Wear?”

35. Supercrush “I’ve Been Around”

36. Taylor Swift “Getaway Car”

37. Men I Trust “Tailwhip”

38. A l l i e “Bad Habits”

39. Justin Bieber & Blood Pop “Friends”

40. Amber Mark “Lose My Cool”

41. Nelly Furtado “Pipe Dreams”

42. Rostam “Gwam”

43. Young Galaxy “Elusive Dream”

44. Khalid “Young Dumb & Broke”

45. Blue Hawaii “No One Like You”

46. The xx “Say Something Loving”

47. Sudan Archives “Come Meh Way”

48. Liars “No Tree No Branch”

49. Broken Social Scene “Skyline”

50. Pierre Kwenders “Sexus Plexus Nexus”

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2016 Favourites

albums 

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)

2. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound (Domino)

3. Anna Meredith: Varmints (Moshi Moshi)

4. Frank Ocean: Blonde (Self-released)

5. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project (Island)

6. David Bowie: ★ (ISO)

7. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)

8. Kanye West: The Life Of Pablo (Def Jam)

9. TUNS: TUNS (Royal Mountain) 

10. A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service (Epic)

11. Joyce Manor: Cody (Epitaph)

12. How To Dress Well: Care (Weird World)

13. The Range: Potential (Domino)

14. DIIV: Is The Is Are (Captured Tracks)

15. PUP: The Dream Is Over (Royal Mountain)

16. Solange: A Seat At The Table (Saint)

17. Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION Side B (Interscope)

18. Rihanna: Anti (Westbury Road)

19. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam: I Had A Dream That You Were Mine (Glassnote)

20. The Radio Dept.: Running Out Of Love (Labrador)

21. Jessy Lanza: Oh No (Hyperdub)

22. The Lemon Twigs: Do Hollywood (4AD)

23. The Hardy Tree: Through Passages Of Time (Clay Pipe Music)

24. Nao: For All We Know (RCA)

25. The 1975: I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (Dirty Hit)

26. Clint Mansell: Black Mirror: San Junipero (Lakeshore)

27. Whitney: Light Upon The Lake (Secretly Canadian)

28. Pinegrove: Cardinal (Run For Cover)

29. KING: We Are KING (KING Creative)

30. Angel Olsen: My Woman (Jagjaguwar)

31. Kevin Morby: Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)

32. Andy Shauf: The Party (Arts & Crafts)

33. Japanese Breakfast: Psychopomp (Yellow K)

34. ANOHNI: Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)

35. Car Seat Headrest: Teens Of Denial (Matador)

36. Beach Slang: A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)

37. SIANspheric: Writing the Future in Letters of Fire (Sonic Unyon)

38. Chance The Rapper: Coloring Book (Self-released)

39. Teenage Fanclub: Here (Merge)

40. DIANA: Familiar Touch (Culvert)

41. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things OST (Lakeshore)

42. The Hidden Cameras: Home On Native Land (Outside)

43. Tegan & Sara: Love You To Death (Warner)

44. Suede: Night Thoughts (Suede Ltd.)

45. Yohuna: Patientness (Orchid Tapes)

46. Modern Baseball: Holy Ghost (Run For Cover)

47. Cavern of Anti-Matter: Void Beats/Invocation Trex (Duophonic)

48. Casey Mecija: Psychic Materials (Self-released)

49. S U R V I V E: HD037 (Relapse)

50. Martha: Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart (Fortuna Pop!)

reissues

1. Luna: Long Players (92-99) (Captured Tracks) 

2. The Verve: A Storm In Heaven / A Northern Soul (Virgin/EMI)

3. Sloan: One Chord To Another (Murderecords)

4. Lush: Origami (4AD)

5. Milk ‘N’ Cookies: Milk ‘N’ Cookies (Captured Tracks)

6. Super Furry Animals: Fuzzy Logic: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (BMG)

7. Tori Amos: Boys For Pele (Warner)

8. SIANspheric: Somnium (Sonic Unyon)

9. The Inbreds: Kombinator / It’s Sydney Or The Bush / Winning Hearts (Label Obscura)

10. Flying Saucer Attack: Distance / Further / Chorus (Drag City/Domino)

tracks

1. How To Dress Well: Lost Youth / Lost You

2. Radiohead: True Love Waits

3. Kanye West ft. The-Dream, Kelly Price, Chance The Rapper and Kirk Franklin: Ultralight Beam

4. The xx: On Hold

5. PUP: DVP

6. Frank Ocean: Ivy

7. Carly Rae Jepsen: Cry

8. Blood Orange: Augustine

9. A Tribe Called Quest: Whateva Will Be

10. Tiffany: Talk

11. Jessy Lanza: It Means I Love You

12. Max Richter: On Reflection

13. Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane: Black Beatles

14. Primal Scream ft. Sky Ferreira: Where The Light Gets In

15. Kanye West ft. Ty Dolla $ign: Real Friends

16. David Bowie: I Can't Give Everything Away

17. ANOHNI: Drone Bomb Me

18. Lil Yachty: Minnesota

19. Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna: This Is What You Came For

20. PJ Harvey: The Wheel

21. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk: I Feel It Coming

22. Japandroids: Near To The Wild Heart Of Life

23. Arab Strap: The First Big Weekend of 2016

24. Rihanna: Needed Me

25. Modern Baseball: Wedding Singer

26. G.L.O.S.S.: Give Violence A Chance

27. The 1975: The Sound

28. Grimes: California (Video Version)

29. Chance The Rapper ft. Knox Fortune: All Night

30. TUNS: Throw It All Away

31. Charles Bradley: Changes

32. Ariana Grande: Into You

33. Big Baby D.R.A.M.: Cash Machine

34. Goat Girl: Country Sleaze

35. Japanese Breakfast: In Heaven

36. Anderson .Paak: Parking Lot

37. Tinashe: Superlove

38. Super Furry Animals: Bing Bong

39. Palmistry: Sip

40. Kevin Morby: Dorothy

41. The Range: Florida

42. Metronomy ft. Robyn: Hang Me Out to Dry 

43. Greys: No Star

44. Tegan & Sara: Stop Desire

45. Sheer Mag: Can’t Stop Fighting

46. Joyce Manor: Fake I.D.

47. Angel Olsen: Shut Up Kiss Me

48. Andy Stott: Too Many Voices

49. Smiles: Black Hearts

50. PKEW PKEW PKEW: Mid 20’s Skateboarder

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2015 Favourites

Albums

1. Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION (Interscope)  

2. Grimes: Art Angels (4AD)

3. Julia Holter: Have You In My Wilderness (Domino)

4. Blur: The Magic Whip (Parlophone)

5. Beach Slang: The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl)

6. Björk: Vulnicura (One Little Indian)

7. Beach House: Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)

8. Max Richter: Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon)

9. U.S. Girls: Half Free (4AD)

10. Miguel: Wildheart (RCA)

11. Jamie xx: In Colour (Young Turks)

12. Deerhunter: Fading Frontier (4AD)

13. Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper (Domino)

14. Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete (Warp)

15. Justin Bieber: Purpose (Def Jam)

16. Natalie Prass: Natalie Prass (Spacebomb)

17. Jam City: Dream A Garden (Night Slugs)

18. Molly Nilsson: Zenith (Night School)

19. Sleater-Kinney: No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)

20. Young Galaxy: Falsework (Paper Bag)

21. Helen The Original Faces (Kranky)

22. Vince Staples: Summertime '06 (Def Jam)

23. Christine & The Queens: Christine & The Queens (Because/Warner)

24. Tame Impala: Currents (Interscope)

25. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)

26. Brandon Flowers: The Desired Effect (Island)

27. New Order: Music Complete (Mute)

28. Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material (Mercury)

29. Disasterpiece: It Follows OST (Milan)

30. Gwenno: Y Dydd Olaf (Heavenly)

31. Susanne Sundfør: Ten Love Songs (Warner)

32. Built To Spill: Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.)

33. Turnover: Peripheral Vision (Run For Cover)

34. Ash: Kablammo! (earMUSIC)

35. Tobias Jesso Jr.: Goon (True Panther)

36. West Kust: Last Forever (Run For Cover)

37. Tove Styrke: Kiddo (Sony)

38. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: A Year with 13 Moons (Mexican Summer)

39. Alex G: Beach Music (Domino)

40. Desaparecidos: Payola (Anti)

EPs

1. Sheer Mag: II (Wilsuns RC)

2. Annie: Endless Vacation (Pleasure Masters)

3. G.L.O.S.S.: Demo (Nervous Nelly)

4. Allie X: Collxtion I (Sleepless/Universal)

5. Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique: Love Is Free (Konichiwa)

6. Kelela: Hallucinogen (Warp)

7. Nicolas Jaar: Nymphs 1-3 (Other People)

8. Hinds: The Very Best of Hinds So Far (Mom + Pop)

9. Connan Mockasin & Dev Hynes Marfa Myths 001 (Mexican Summer)

10. Panda Bear: Crosswords (Domino)

Tracks

1. Grimes “REALiTi” 

2. Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?” 

3. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug & Popcaan “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” 

4. Carly Rae Jepsen “Warm Blood” 

5. Taylor Swift “Style” 

6. Justin Bieber “Sorry” 

7. Grimes “Flesh Without Blood” 

8. Jidenna feat. Kendrick Lamar “Classic Man (Remix)” 

9. Drake “Hotline Bling” 

10. Carly Rae Jepsen “All That” 

11. Blur “There Are Too Many of Us” 

12. Miguel “Coffee (Fucking)” 

13. Annie “Cara Mia” 

14. Jamie xx “Gosh” 

15. Kanye West “All Day” 

16. A$AP Rocky “L$D (LOVE x $EX x DREAMS)” 

17. Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell “WTF” 

18. Sheer Mag “Fan the Flames” 

19. Kacey Musgraves “Biscuits” 

20. Julia Holter “Sea Calls Me Home” 

21. Carly Rae Jepsen “Let’s Get Lost” 

22. Natalie Prass “Reprise”

23. Future “Fuck Up Some Commas” 

24. Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now” 

25. Chromatics “I Can Never Be Myself When You’re Around” 

26. SOPHIE “Just Like We Never Said Goodbye” 

27. Rihanna “Bitch Better Have My Money” 

28. Tove Styrke “Ego” 

29. Travis Scott feat. Kanye West “Piss On Your Grave” 

30. Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” 

31. Molly Nilsson “1995” 

32. Young Galaxy “Must Be Love” 

33. US Girls “Damn That Valley” 

34. Justin Bieber “I’ll Show You” 

35. The Weeknd “The Hills” 

36. DIIV “Dopamine” 

37. Lower Dens “To Die in L.A.” 

38. Beach House “Sparks” 

39. New Order “Tutti Frutti” 

40. Jason Derulo “Want To Want Me” 

Reissues

1. Broadcast: Work & Non-Work/The Noise Made By People/HaHa Sound/Tender Buttons/Future Crayon/Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)

2. The Replacements: The Twin/Tone Years (Rhino)

3. Rose McDowell: Cut With the Cake Knife (Night School)

4. Arthur Russell: Corn (Audika)

5. Unwound: Empire (Numero Group)

6. Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes/Under the Pink (Rhino)

7. Fingers Inc.: Another Side (Alleviated)

8. The Flaming Lips: Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner Bros.)

9. Willie Thrasher: Spirit Child (Light In the Attic)

10. Les Mouches: You're Worth More To Me Than 1000 Christians (Orchid Tapes)

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2014 Favourites

Albums

1. Taylor Swift: 1989 (Big Machine) 

2. Future Islands: Singles (4AD)

3. Foxes In Fiction: Ontario Gothic (Orchid Tapes)

4. Caribou: Our Love (Merge)  

5. Joyce Manor: Never Hungover Again (Epitaph)

6. Mac DeMarco: Salad Days (Captured Tracks)

7. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)

8. Real Estate: Atlas (Domino)

9. Ariel Pink: pom pom (4AD)

10. The War on Drugs: Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)

11. Andy Stott: Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)

12. Sun Kil Moon: Benji (Caldo Verde)

13. Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp)

14. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)

15. Ben Frost: A U R O R A (Mute)

16. Ought: More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)

17. Alvvays: Alvvays (Polyvinyl)

18. Perfect Pussy: Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)

19. FKA twigs: LP1 (Young Turks)

20. Tinashe: Aquarius (RCA)

21. Dean Blunt: Black Metal (Rough Trade)

22. How To Dress Well: What Is This Heart? (Weird World)

23. Jessie Ware: Tough Love (PMR)

24. Ex Hex: Ex Hex Rips (Merge)

25. Gerard Way: Hesitant Alien (Warner Bros.)

26. Owen Pallett: In Conflict (Domino)

27. Alex G: DSU (Orchid Tapes)

28. Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain)

29. Protomartyr: Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)

30. Manic Street Preachers: Futurology (Columbia)

31. Shellac: Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)

32. Damon Albarn: Everyday Robots (Parlophone)

33. Greys: If Anything (Buzz)

34. Swans: To Be Kind (Young God)

35. Merchandise: After the End (4AD)

36. Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else (Carpark)

37. Metronomy: Love Letters (Because)

38. Perfume Genius: Too Bright (Matador)

39. Grumbling Fur: Preternaturals (The Quietus Phonographic Corporation)

40. Makthaverskan: Makthaverskan II (Run For Cover)

41. Wild Beasts: Present Tense (Domino)

42. Ricky Eat Acid: Three Love Songs (Orchard Tapes)

43. Nothing: Guilty of Everything (Relapse)

44. White Lung: Deep Fantasy (Domino)

45. Last Ex: Last Ex (Constellation)

46. Mica Levi: Under the Skin OST (Rough Trade)

47. Godflesh: World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)

48. LNRDCROY: Much Less Normal (1080p)

49. Jane Weaver: The Silver Globe (Finders Keepers)

50. Literature: Chorus (Slumberland)

51. Iceage: Plowing into the Field of Love (Matador)

52. Charli XCX: Sucker (Warner)

53. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

54. Total Control: Typical System (Iron Lung)

55. Viet Cong: Cassette (Mexican Summer)

56. Frankie Cosmos: Zentropy (Double Whammy)

57. Dean Wareham: Dean Wareham (Sonic Cathedral)

58. Ryan Adams: Ryan Adams (PAX-AM)

59. Have a Nice Life: The Unnatural World (The Flenser)

60. Jungle: Jungle (XL)

Tracks

1. Future Islands “Seasons (Waiting On You)” 

2. Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”

3. Drake “Trophies”

4. Taylor Swift “Blank Space” 

5. Shamir “On The Regular”

6. QT “Hey QT”

7. Royksopp & Robyn “Do It Again”

8. Spoon “Do You” 

9. Sophie “Hard”

10. Tinashe feat. Dev Hynes “Bet”

11. Cam’ron & A-Trak “Dipshits”

12. A.G. Cook feat. Hannah Diamond “Keri Baby”

13. Yumi Zouma “The Brae”

14. Mac DeMarco “Passing Out Pieces”

15. Wet "Don't Wanna Be Your Girl"

16. Alvvays “Archie Marry Me”

17. Jamie XX “Sleep Sound”

18. Jessie Ware “Want Your Feeling”

19. Gerard Way “Action Cat”

20. Caribou “Can’t Do Without You”

21. Perfume Genius “Queen”

22. Mica Levi “Love”

23. Sturgill Simpson “The Promise”

24. FKA twigs “Two Weeks”

25. Charli XCX “Boom Clap”

26. Real Estate “Talking Backwards”

27. Joyce Manor "Catalina Fight Song"

28. How To Dress Well “Repeat Pleasure”

29. Drake “O to 100/The Catch Up”

30. Jungle “Busy Earnin’”

31. Owen Pallett “Infernal Fantasy”

32. Tinashe feat. ScHoolboy Q “2 On”

33. Johnny Jewel "The Last Dance”         

34. The War On Drugs “Red Eyes”

35. Jeremih & Shlohmo “No More”

36. Lana del Rey “West Coast”

37. Jam City “Unhappy”

38. Tobias Jesso Jr., “True Love” 

39. Katy Perry “Birthday”

40. Wild Beasts “Wanderlust”

41. Rae Sremmurd “No Type”

42. Hannah Diamond “Pink and Blue”

43. YG feat. Drake “Who Do You Love”

44. Allie X “Catch”

45. Perfect Pussy "Interference Fits"

46. mikewilllmakonnen “wishin you well”

47. Rick Ross feat. Big Sean & Kanye West “Sanctified”

48. Nick Jonas feat. Tinashe “Jealous”

49. Coldplay “A Sky Full of Stars”

50. Merchandise “Little Killer”

51. Alex G “Harvey”

52. 5 Seconds of Summer “She Looks So Perfect”

53. The Drums “I Can’t Pretend”

54. iLoveMakonnen feat. Drake “Tuesday”

55. Hamilton Leithauser “Alexandra”

56. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry “Johnny & Mary”

57. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Kelly”

58. Literature “The English Softhearts”

59. Kero Kero Bonito “Sick Beat”

60. Metronomy “Reservoir”

EPs

1. Ryan Adams: 1984 (PAX-AM)

2. Royksopp & Robyn: Do It Again (Dog Triumph)

3. Yumi Zouma: Yumi Zouma (Cascine)

4. Shamir: Northtown (Godmode)

5. Oneohtrix Point Never: Commissions I (Warp)

6. Tobias Jesso Jr.: Five Songs (True Panther)

7. Godflesh: Decline & Fall (Avalanche)

8. Ought: Once More With Feeling (Constellation)

9. doss: doss (Acephale)

10. Communions: Cobblestones (Posh Isolation)

Reissues

1. Various: Native North America: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-1985, Vol. 1 (Light In The Attic) 

2. Lewis: L’Amour (Light In The Attic)

3. Sleater-Kinney: Start Together (Sub Pop)

4. Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible (Epic)

5. Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About / The Lonesome Crowded West (Glacial Pace)

6. Slint: Spiderland (Touch & Go)

7. Cocteau Twins: Heaven Or Las Vegas (4AD)

8. Julee Cruise: Falling (Plain)

9. Coil/Nine Inch Nails: Recoiled (Cold Spring)

10. Underworld: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Universal)

11. Grace Jones: Nightclubbing (Island)

12. Swans: Filth (Young God)

13. The Aislers Set: Terrible Things Happen/The Last Match (Slumberland)

14. The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (Rhino)

15. William Basinski: Melancholia (Temporary Residence)

16. Unwound: No Energy (Numero Group)

17. Oasis: Definitely Maybe/(What’s The Story) Morning Glory (Creation)

18. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore (Universal)

19. The Clientele: Suburban Light (Merge)

20. Life Without Buildings: Any Other City (What’s Yr Rupture?)

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favourite albums of 2013

1. various: after dark 2 (italians do it better)

2. blood orange: cupid deluxe (domino)

3. kanye west: yeezus (g.o.o.d.)

4. the knife: shaking the habitual (mute)

5. jai paul: leaked demos (bandcamp)

6. sky ferreira: night time, my time (capitol)

7. arcade fire: reflektor (merge)

8. majical cloudz: impersonator (matador)

9. david bowie: the next day (iso)

10. julianna barwick: nepenthe (dead oceans)

11. suede: bloodsports (suede ltd)

12. vampire weekend: modern vampires of the city (xl)

13. ariana grande: yours truly (republic)

14. daft punk: random access memories (daft life)

15. deafheaven: sunbather (deathwish)

16. deerhunter: monomania (4ad)

17. factory floor: factory floor (dfa)

18. nick cave & the bad seeds: push the sky away (bad seed ltd)

19. darkside: psychic (other people)

20. tony molina: dissed & dismissed (melters)

21. perfect pussy: I have lost all desire for feeling (self-release)

22. drake: nothing was the same (cash money)

23. my bloody valentine: m b v (mbv)

24. julia holter: loud city song (domino)

25. dean blunt: the redeemer (hippos in tanks)

26. weed: deserve (couple skate)

27. the haxan cloak: excavation (tri angle)

28. iceage: you're nothing (matador)

29. grouper: the man who died in his boat (kranky)

30. these new puritans: field of reeds (infectious)

31. autre ne veut: anxiety (software)

32. disclosure: settle (pmr)

33. tim hecker: virgins (paper bag/kranky)

34. cut copy: free your mind (modular)

35. bill callahan: dream river (drag city)

36. paramore: paramore (fueled by ramen)

37. kacey musgraves: same trailer different park (mercury nashville)

38. cuushe: butterfly case (flau)

39. james blake: overgrown (universal republic)

40. born ruffians: birthmarks (paper bag)

41. charli xcx: true romance (asylum)

42. parquet courts: light up gold (what's yr rupture?)

43. jon hopkins: immunity (domino)

44. kelela: cut 4 me (fade to mind)

45. postiljonen: skyer (best fit)

46. laurel halo: chance of rain (hyperdub)

47. run the jewels: run the jewels (fool's gold)

48. beach fossils: clash the truth (captured tracks)

49. forest swords: engravings (tri angle)

50. diana: perpetual surrender (paper bag)

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honourable mentions

caitlin rose: the stand-in (ato)

milk teddy: zingers (knock yr socks off)

king krule: 6 feet beneath the moon (true panther)

tropic of cancer: restless idylls (blackest ever black)

jessy lanza: pull my hair back (hyperdub)

la big vic: cold war (underwater peoples)

the embassy: sweet sensation (international)

oneohtrix point never: r seven plus (warp)

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favourite reissues of 2013

1. the breeders: lsxx (4ad)

2. john carpenter & alan howarth: the fog (death waltz)

3. unwound: kid is gone (numero group)

4. various: i am the center: private issue new age music in america, 1950-1990 (light in the attic)

5. vangelis: blade runner (audio fidelity)

6. john carpenter & alan howarth: they live (death waltz)

7. the cleaners from venus: vol. 2 (captured tracks)

8. various: purple snow: forecasting the minneapolis sound (numero group)

9. nirvana: in utero 20th anniversary edition (dgc)

10. ashrae fax: static crash! (mexican summer)

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favourite video of 2013

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favourite tracks of 2012

1. Sky Ferreira: Everything is Embarrassing

2. Japandroids: The House That Heaven Built

3. French Montana feat. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & Drake: Pop That

4. AlunaGeorge: Your Drums, Your Love

5. Jessie Ware: Wildest Moments

6. Kanye West & R. Kelly: To the World

7. Solange: Losing You

8. Grimes: Genesis

9. Blur: Under the Westway

10. Lemonade: Neptune

11. Saint Etienne: Tonight

12. Carly Rae Jepsen: This Kiss

13. Usher: Climax

14. Beach House: Myth

15. Twin Shadow: Five Seconds

16. R. Kelly: Livin’ Single

17. Killer Mike feat. Bun B: Big Beast

18. Haim: Forever

19. Jessie Ware: 110%

20. Taylor Swift: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

21. AlunaGeorge: You Know You Like It

22. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX: I Love It

23. Childhood: Blue Velvet

24. Frank Ocean: Thinkin’ Bout You

25. A$AP Rocky: Goldie

26. Savages: Husbands

27. Evian Christ: Fuck It None Of Y’all Don’t Rap

28. Jai Paul: Jasmine (Demo)

29. Danny Brown: Grown Up

30. Big Boi feat. Kelly Rowland: Mama Told Me

31. Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj: Beauty & The Beat

32. Drake feat. Rihanna: Take Care

33. Action Bronson & RiFF RaFF: Bird On A Wire

34. Blood Diamonds feat. Grimes: Phone Sex

35. Merchandise: Time

36. Kindness: That's Alright

37. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Baby

38. Jam City: The Courts

39. Disclosure feat. Sam Smith: Latch

40. Rihanna: Diamonds

41. Twigs: Ache

42. Purity Ring: Fineshrine

43. Kwes: Bashful

44. Scuba: NE1BUTU

45. Rustie feat. AlunaGeorge: After Light

46. Ke$ha: Die Young

47. Yacht Club: Flash

48. Tame Impala: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

49. Sunless ’97: Body Weather

50. Rhye: The Fall

51. Liars: Brats

52. Future: Turn On The Lights

53. TOY: Heart Skips A Beat

54. Jesse Ruins: Dream Analysis

55. Solar Year feat. Grimes: Brotherhood

56. Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz: Mercy

57. The Magic: Mr. Hollywood

58. ScHoolBoy Q feat. A$AP Rocky: Hands On The Wheel

59. Cassie: King of Hearts

60. M.I.A.: Bad Girls

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favourite EPs of 2012

1. Burial: Kindred (Hyperdub)

2. Sky Ferreira: Ghost (Capitol)

3. AlunaGeorge: You Know You Like It (Tri Angle)

4. Solange: True (Terrible)

5. Evian Christ: Kings and Them (Tri Angle)

6. TNGHT: TNGHT (Lucky Me/Warp)

7. Mac DeMarco: Rock and Roll Night Club (Captured Tracks)

8. Pregnancy Scares: Pregnancy Scares (Deranged)

9. Twigs: EP (Self-released)

10. Each Other: Heavily Spaced (Self-released)

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favourite reissues of 2012

1. Everything by Death Waltz Recording Company

2. Blur: Blur 21 (Parlophone)

3. Cleaners From Venus: Box Set (Captured Tracks)

4. Smashing Pumpkins: Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (Virgin/EMI)

5. Donnie & Joe Emerson: Dreamin’ Wild (Light In The Attic)

6. Monoton: Monotonprodukt 07 (Oral)

7. The Wake: Here Comes Everybody (Captured Tracks)

8. Robert Turman: Flux (Spectrum Spools)

9. Medicine: Box Set (Captured Tracks)

10. Various: WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze (Numero Group)

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Favourite Albums of 2012... So Far

Beach House: Bloom (Sub Pop)

Beachwood Sparks: The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)

Boy Friend: Egyptian Wrinkle (Hell Yes)

Chairlift: Something (Columbia) 

Chromatics: Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)

Clams Casino: Instrumentals 2 (Mixtape)

Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory (Carpark)

d'Eon: LP (Hippos In Tanks)

Daughn Gibson: All Hell (White Denim)

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland: Black Is Beautiful (Hyperdub)

Death Grips: The Money Store (Epic)

DIIV: Oshin (Captured Tracks) 

Echo Lake: Wild Peace (Slumberland)

El-P: Cancer For Cure (Fat Possum)

Evian Christ: Kings and Them (Tri Angle)

Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)

The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Warner Bros.)

  Fort Romeau: Kingdoms (100% Silk)

Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)

Gap Dream: Gap Dream (Burger)

Grimes: Visions (Arbutus/4AD)

Laurel Halo: Quarantine (Hyperdub)

Japandroids: Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)

John Talabot: ƒin (Permanent Vacation)

Julia Holter: Ekstasis (Rving Intl.)

Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music (Williams Street)

Kindness: World, You Need A Change of Mind (Casablanca)

King Tuff: King Tuff (Sub Pop)

Lemonade: Diver (True Panther)

Liars: WIXIW (Mute)

Lightships: Electric Cables (Domino)

Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action At A Distance (Kranky)

Lower Dens: Nootropics (Ribbon)

The Magic: Ragged Gold (Half Machine)

Mark McGuire & Spencer Clark: Inner Tube (Pacific City Sound Visions)

The Men: Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)

Mirrorring: Foreign Body (Kranky)

Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)

Preteen Zenith: Rubble Guts & BB Eye (Good)

PS I Love You: Death Dreams (Paper Bag)

R. Kelly: Write Me Back (Jive)

Saint Etienne: Words and Music (Heavenly)

Schoolboy Q: Habits and Contradictions (Top Dawg)

Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)

Survive: Survive (Mannequin)

Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film (Italians Do It Better)

Tanlines: Mixed Emotions (True Panther)

Terry Malts: Killing Time (Slumberland)

Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse (In the Red)

The Walkmen: Heaven (Fat Possum)

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Finally. A video for my jam of 2012.

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Sunless '97: Body Weather

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Holograms: Hidden Structures