The Best of 2020

Top 15 Songs:

1. Fontaines D.C. - You Said
2. Grimes - Delete Forever
3. Dogleg - Fox
4. Fiona Apple - Shameika
5. Beatriz Ferreyra - Echos
6. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Something To Rap About (feat. Tyler The Creator)
7. Dehd - Desire
8. Kelly Lee Owens - Melt!
9. U.S. Girls - 4 American Dollars
10. Dan Deacon - Fell Into the Ocean
11. Porridge Radio - Sweet
12. IDLES - Grounds
13. Run the Jewels - JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha)
14. Kiwi Jr. - Salary Man
15. Megan Thee Stallion - Savage Remix (feat. Beyonce)

Top Album:

1. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

The Best of 2019

Top 20 Songs:

1. Purple Mountains - Nights That Won’t Happen
2. Spellling - Under the Sun
3. Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
4. Lizzo - Juice
5. Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II
6. Jay Som - Tenderness
7. William Tyler - Fail Safe
8. Deerhunter - What Happens to People?
9. black midi - 953
10. Angel Olsen - Lark
11. Jenny Hval - High Alice
12. FKA twigs - Sad Day
13. Chris Forsyth - Tomorrow Might as Well Be Today
14. Priests - Texas Instruments
15. Mac DeMarco - Preoccupied
16. Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus
17. Bat for Lashes - Feel For You
18. HAIM - Summer Girl
19. Ex Hex - Want It to Be True
20. Sleater-Kinney - Broken

Top 10 Albums:

1. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
2. FKA twigs - Magdalene
3. William Tyler - Goes West
4. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
5. black midi - Schlagenheim
6. Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
7. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
8. Spellling - Mazy Fly
9. Priests - The Seduction of Kansas
10. Orville Peck - Pony

The Best of 2018

My final list of the top 5 songs and top album of the year, as determined by me.

Top 5 (in alphabetical order past number one):

Best Song:

Snail Mail - Pristine

The Rest of the Best

Lucy Dacus - Night Shift
Screaming Females - Glass House
Ryley Walker - 22 Days
Young Fathers - Wow

Best Album:

Ryley Walker Deafman Glance

The Best of 2017

Songs:

1. William Basinski--"For David Robert Jones"
2. Jay Som--"One More Time, Please"
3. Priests--"Suck"
4. Sheer Mag--"Need To Feel Your Love"
5. Blanck Mass-- "Hive Mind"
6. Tinariwen--"Sastanaqqam"
7. Ty Segall --"Break a Guitar"
8. Milk Music--"Twists & Turns & Headtrips"
9. King Krule--"Dum Surfer"
10. Taiwan Housing Project--"Authentic Alien Perfume"

Albums:

1. Priests--Nothing Feels Natural
2. William Basinski--A Shadow in Time
3. Jay Som--Everybody Works
4. Sheer Mag--Need to Feel Your Love
5. Ty Segall --Ty Segall

The Best of 2016

Song: Sturgill Simpson -- In Bloom

Albums: Radiohead -- A Moon Shaped Pool

The Best of 2015

My final list of the top 10 songs and top album of the year, as determined by me. One song per artist limit.

Top 10 Songs (in alphabetical order past number one): 

Best Song
Grimes - REALiTi

The Rest of the Best
Blanck Mass - Atrophies
Colleen Green - TV
Holly Herndon - Chorus
iLoveMakonnen - Whip It (Remix) (feat. Migos & Rich The Kid)
Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
Thundercat - Them Changes
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The World Is Crowded
Ryley Walker - Hide In The Roses
Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Nervous

Top Album:

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love 

The Best of 2014

My final list of the top 25 songs and top 5 albums of the year, as determined by me. Mostly by gut feeling, although factors such as longevity and sentimental value are factors in addition to overall personal enjoyment. One song per artist limit.
 Top 25 Songs:

1. Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite
2. Ought - Habit
3. Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
4. EMA - Satellites
5. Sun Kil Moon - Dogs
6. Rustie - Raptor
7. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
8. FKA twigs - Two Weeks
9. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Thuggin'
10. Ex Hex - How You Got That Girl
11. Alex G - Promise
12. Fatima - Underwater
13. Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me
14. Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection
15. Spider Bags - Summer Of '79
16. Parquet Courts - Bodies Made Of
17. Parkay Quarts - Pretty Machines
18. Cloud Nothings - Psychic Trauma
19. The Men - Another Night
20. St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
21. Childbirth - I Only Fucked You As a Joke
22. Shellac - Riding Bikes
23. Perfume Genius - Queen
24. Owen Pallett - The Riverbed
25. Aphex Twin - aisatsana [102]

Top 5 Albums:

1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
2. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
3. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
4. Fatima - Yellow Memories
5. Alex G - DSU