Top 20 Songs of the Year
My long thought out list. The best music I have heard all year, and enjoyed consistantly. I’ve tried to make as many as possible downloadable, or at the least listenable.
Where not available, have a look at The Hype Machine for mp3s.
1. Jamie Radford - You’re so warm [mp3]
A perfect instrumental. The one song that hasn’t gone way past it’s best before date, it still sounds fresh, and it’s just as unnerving. Athens, Georgia based Hip-Hop producer Jamie Radford has created an incessant piece of music
rotating and creating shapes of electronic pulses, lounge piano and people laughing. A veritable musical Spirograph.
2. Joanna Newsom - Emily
[listen @ hype machine]
The first track from my album of the year, and longest track in this years list. Folk, classical arrangements and over-production to match the over-the-magical-hill-and-down-to-the-magical-sunken-city story telling. Scores of wonderful moments, 12 minutes of harp led, you must wonder where she gets all the energy from. Probably some sort of pixie-dust.
3. D_Rradio - Never Slept Better [buy]
Minimalist electro loops evolving from recorded from guitar riffs, and the quite possibly the sound that the sea would throw back at you after it swallowed the London Philharmonic.
4. Sleeping States - Trip to NYC [mp3]
Overlayed and quite possible overdrawn folk that you are more likely to hear on the underground than out in the forest with the animals and unicorns.
5. Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing! [mp3]
One of tracks I’ve listen to the most, and has been talked about the most on blogs this side of the atlantic. I keep hearing Broken Social Scene comparisons but it is way to twee and indie-pop for that.It’d be pure 100% brew twee without the overlap, and tangled melodies that unravel themselves to reveal a 7 headed, multi-coloured, glokenspiel wielding indie pop behemoth who just wants to sit outside your house and harmonise with the chimney pots.
6. Voxtrot - The Start of Something[mp3]
7. Slow Club - Pirates
See them on tour with the Noisettes + Hot Club De Paris early next year
8. Movern Callar - Lover’s Stone [mp3]
9. “Suzy Wong Gone Wrong”[mp3]
The eternal search. Find out who this song is by and you will be rewarded genourously. I have no idea.
10. Cars + Trains - Broken Streetlight Serenade[mp3]
11. Regina Spektor - Fidelity
12. Fionn Regan - Put a penny in the slot
13. Sky Larkin - Rolling Pin[mp3]
14. Robin Allender - The School Field[mp3]
15. Beirut - Postcards from Italy[mp3]
16. Emmy the Great - Absentee
17. Jeremy Warmsley - Dirty Blue Jeans
18. Rose Kemp - Fire in the Garden [mp3]
19. Victor Scott - Fortune Favours the Brave [mp3]
20. TV On The Radio - Wolf like me [mp3]
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And further to the last post, my top ten British artists of the year. All but 2 feature in the above list.
1. Victor Scott
2. Slow Club
3. Sleeping States
4. Sky Larkin
5. Los Campesinos
6. Emmy the Great
7. Movern Callar
8. D_Rradio
9. The Bridge Gang
10. Muse
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What sort of music would you like to hear more music similar to on this blog? Use the numbers above as reference points if that helps….
Songs of the year?
have you tried shazam to find out who that song is by?
Thank you for introducing me to some of the most amazing music I’ve heard this year. My list would probably look pretty similar to yours as a result!
Ello, what a wonderful list of supreme indie goodness.
I hope 2007 brings as much good music as this year !!
Rock on !!
Rx
Kudos on the Jaamie Radford track, pity his other stuff doesn’t live up to it!
Not all his other stuff is similar, but I’ve really enjoyed the album - “Breakup song” is a great place to start, and one of his best songs.
YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR TOP @) SONGS