Sunday, December 27, 2015

2015 Review: Top 50 Singles of the Year

I hope you are all enjoying this holiday season and that you have overcome by now the Boxing Day blues! To send off 2015 on an upbeat note, we are presenting today the list of our favorite Tracks of the Year and in a few days we are going to welcome 2016 with the best albums we've listened to over the past 365 days.

The honorable distinction of "Single of the Year" for 2015 goes to Courtney Barnett's "Pedestrian At Best", a truly great rock track that impresses on first listen and never ceases to provide thrills every time you hear those runaway guitar riffs and Courtney's cheeky declaration "Give me all your money and I'll make some origami honey". 

Runner up is the first taster from Savages upcoming, sophomore album "Adore Life". If the explosive "The Answer" is any indication, Savages are going to take 2016 by storm. Tame Impala's epic "Let It Happen", which is accompanied by one of the best videos of the year, completes the Top 3 of 2015.

Check out below all 50 tracks we have selected as our favorite single releases of the year and keep in mind that we're only allowing one song per artist or band so that our list represents as many as possible from the numerous excellent releases we've enjoyed during 2015:

Top 50 Singles of 2015

1.  Pedestrian At Best - COURTNEY BARNETT


2.  The Answer - SAVAGES


3.  Let It Happen - TAME IMPALA 


4.  Lampshades On Fire - MODEST MOUSE 


5.  A New Wave - SLEATER-KINNEY

6.  Why Does It Shake? - PROTOMARTYR

7.  Snakeskin - DEERHUNTER
  

8.  Fool - NADINE SHAH

9.  False Hope - LAURA MARLING

10. Feel You - JULIA HOLTER

11. Interference - HOLLY HERNDON
12. A Beautiful Woman - DERADOORIAN
13. Raising The Skate - SPEEDY ORTIZ
14. Under A Rock - WAXAHATCHEE
15. Damn That Valley - U.S. GIRLS
16. Begin Again - PURITY RING
17. Go Out - BLUR
18. Go! - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
19. Straight - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
20. Irony.Utility.Pretext. - ALGIERS
21. The Blacker the Berry - KENDRICK LAMAR
22. Bunkerpop - LONELADY
23. Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with Crescendo) - EL VY
24. Living Zoo - BUILT TO SPILL
25. America Says Hello - THE CHILLS
26. Laughing In The Sugar Bowl - VERUCA SALT
27. Pay Attention - COLLEEN GREEN
28. To Die in L.A. - LOWER DENS
29. Forces From Above - DESTROYER
30. First Light - DJANGO DJANGO
31. Straight Lines - SHOPPING
32. Giant Peach - WOLF ALICE
33. Pears for Lunch - GIRL BAND
34. What Went Down - FOALS
35. Restless - NEW ORDER
36. Water Water - EMPRESS OF
37. Stonefist - HEALTH
38. Sparks - BEACH HOUSE
39. Cavalry Captain - THE DECEMBERISTS
40. Pretty Pimpin - KURT VILE
41. Random Name Generator - WILCO
42. What Part of Me - LOW
43. Should Have Known Better - SUFJAN STEVENS
44. I Don't Want To Let You Down - SHARON VAN ETTEN
45. Cumbia De Donde - CALEXICO
46. Black Sun - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
47. The Shade - METRIC
48. Flesh without Blood - GRIMES
49. What Kind of Man - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
50. Winter / Feeling Alright - DAUGHTER / WARPAINT


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