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Over the past few weeks, on our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and over on our music board, we've been counting down our staff's approximated favourite songs of the year, so far.
Here's a quick Spotify playlist reminder of the songs that made us wiggle, yelp and blub into our bitter shandies....
1) Low 'Try to Sleep' (more info why, here)
2) Gang Gang Dance 'Glass Jar'
3) Nicola Roberts 'Beat Of My Drum'
4) Metronomy 'Everything Goes My Way'
5) Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat 'The Copper Top'
6) EMA 'The Grey Ship'
7) Factory Floor '(R E A L L O V E)'
8) The Antlers 'Corsicana'
9) Austra 'Beat And The Pulse'
10) Connan Mockasin 'Forever Dolphin Love - Erol Alkan Rework'
11) Beyoncé 'Halo' - How to Dress Well remix
12) Fever Ray 'The Wolf** (not available on Spotify)
13) John Maus 'Believer'
14) Wild Beasts 'Bed Of Nails'
15) Destroyer 'Bay Of Pigs'
16) Bright Eyes 'Triple Spiral'
17) The National 'Exile Vilify (From the Game Portal 2)'
18) Kate Bush 'This Woman's Work'
19) James Blake 'The Wilhelm Scream'
20) Lady Gaga 'Heavy Metal Lover'
21) Tom Vek 'A Chore - Tom Vek's Re-edit'
22) Mogwai 'Rano Piano'
23) Tune-Yards 'Killa'
24) Jamie Woon 'Shoulda'
25) Ford & Lopatin 'Joey Rogers'
26) Florrie 'Begging Me'
27) Julianna Barwick 'Prizewinning'
28) Found 'Machine Age Dancing'
29) Kurt Vile 'Puppet To The Man'
30) Metronomy 'She Wants'
31) Vessels 'Meatman, Piano Tuner, Prostitute'
32) Guillemots 'Dancing In the Devils Shoes'
33) PJ Harvey 'The Glorious Land'
34) Okkervil River 'Your Past Life as a Blast'
35) Panda Bear 'Benfica'
36) Here We Go Magic 'Backwards Time'
37) Thurston Moore 'Benediction'
38) Friendly Fires 'Live Those Days Tonight (Lone Remix)'
39) The Antlers 'Putting The Dog To Sleep'
40) Eddie Vedder 'Sleepless Nights'
41) Young Magic 'You With Air'
42) Katy B feat. Ms Dynamite 'Lights On - Single Mix'
43) Holy Other 'Feeling Something' (Not available on Spotify)
44) The Mountain Goats 'Age of Kings (n/a)
45) Fear of Men 'Spirit House (n/a)
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It's got to be...
JESSIE J???
:-)
VESSELS
Recur... but thats probably just me
It had better be
either 'The Morning' or 'House of Balloons' by The Weeknd or i'll be very disappointed...
oh and if you'd like to know more about any of these songs
there are blurbs and audio/video things over on http://drownedinsoundcloud.com - which one day will feed into this website
i gurantee you its that POS beth track that everybody freaked out over just to stir some hype/buzz
not just you...
me as well. x
Has somebody just been dumped?
This is a seriously downbeat list - where's Bizness, or Hawaiian Air, or The Look? Weird.
i know, i know
it's odd that the ones that came up more often in our staff picks were slightly more downbeat but it is a fairly balanced mix. i guess darker songs are often a little less surface which means they draw you in and connect that little bit more.
i'd have had 'Hawaiian Air' on there but I was alone in that choice (should probably just run this site as a dictatorship, innit) and Live Those Days Tonight was picked by 3 people, so that made the list instead.
Read what DiS writers said about their choices over here:
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4299254
'Killa' instead of 'Bizness'? Eh?
Wow.
There really is an awful lot of shitty synth pop out this year, isn't there?
Benfica is amazing, but barely in the Top 5 of this amazing album.
I'm going to go with Friendship Bracelet as my no.1.
Oh God that Aidan Moffat song :( Kills me every time
Tall Ships - 'Hit the Floor' for me.

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