Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Best of 2013


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. Fuck Buttons - The Red Wing
2. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
3. Bored Nothing - Shit For Brains
4. Milk Music - Cruising With God
5. Run the Jewels - No Come Down
6. Oneohtrix Point Never
- Americans 

7. Pusha T - Nosetalgia (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
8. The Knife - Full of Fire
9. The Analog Session - April
10. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Day
11. Deerhunter - Monomania
12. The Men - I Saw Her Face
13. The Dismemberment Plan - Let's Just Go to the Dogs Tonight 

14. James Blake - Voyeur 
15. Speedy Ortiz - No Below
16. Danny Brown - Kush Coma (feat. A$AP Rocky & Zelooperz)
17. Anna Meredith - ALR
18. Pissed Jeans - Cafeteria Food
19. FKA twigs - Water Me
20. Future Of The Left - Why Aren't I Going To Hell
21. The Handsome Family - Octopus
22. Wooden Shjips - Everybody Knows
23. Mikal Cronin - Change
24. Planningtorock - Public Love
25. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams) 


Top 5 Albums:


1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
4. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
5. Mikal Cronin - MCII




Thursday, January 3, 2013

The Best of 2012

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. Grimes - Oblivion
2. Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days
3. Kendrick Lamar - Backstreet Freestyle

4. Lower Dens - Brains
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
6. James Blackshaw - The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone
7. Bat For Lashes - All Your Gold
8. John Talabot - So Will Be Now...
9. Freddie Gibbs - Kush Cloud (feat. Krayzie Bone & SpaceGhostPurrp)
10. Spider Bags - I'll Go Crazy
11. Four Tet - Pyramid
12. Mac Demarco - Freaking Out the Neighborhood
13. Future of the Left - Polymers Are Forever
14. Crystal Castles - Telepath
15. King Tuff - Alone & Stoned
16. Ty Segall - You're the Doctor
17. Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox - Trios
18. Cat Power - Ruin
19. David Byrne & St. Vincent - I Should Watch TV
20. The Futureheads - Meet Me Halfway
21. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
22. Frankie Rose - Interstellar
23. Japandroids - Fire's Highway
24. Moon Duo - I Can See
25. Dan Deacon - True Thrush

Top 5 Albums

1. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
2. Grimes - Visions
3. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
4. John Talabot - ƒIN
5. Spider Bags - Shake My Head