My faves this year

 

 

James Blake - Retrograde

Foals - Inhaler

Arcade Fire - Reflecktor

The Strokes - One Way Trigger

Moderat - Bad Kingdom

Chequerboard - Open the Gates

Daft Punk - Contact

A Thousand Falls - Lost

 

 

Naught Boy - La La La

 

Edited November 20, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

Good shouts there, limiting it to 1 per artist, and of a rock/indie flavour (ok some are quite pop but not really popular if you get what i mean):

 

Arcade Fire "Reflektor"

Arctic Monkeys "Do I Wanna Know?"

Daughter "Youth"

Ellery James Roberts "Kerou's Lament"

Everything Everything "Kemosabe"

James Blake "Retrograde"

HAERTS "All The Days"

The Irrepressibles "Two Men In Love"

Jagwar Ma "The Throw"

Junip "Line Of Fire"

London Grammar "Wasting My Young Years"

Phosphorescent "Song For Zula"

Poliça "Tiff"

Queens of the Stone Age "My God Is The Sun"

St. Lucia "Elevate"

Sigur Rós "Brennisteinn"

Vampire Weekend "Step / Diane Young"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Sacrilege"

I would have Two Men in Love as 2012 - but it is stunning.

I would have Two Men in Love as 2012 - but it is stunning.

 

Well I only discovered it this year, plus it was only released as a single in 2013.

 

"Inhaler" is technically 2012. :P

Didn't we have some kind of 'songs of the year'-thing in here a couple of years back? Was a great way to catch up with the obvious ones you'd somehow missed.

Didn't we have some kind of 'songs of the year'-thing in here a couple of years back? Was a great way to catch up with the obvious ones you'd somehow missed.

 

Yep the 2012 version is here

Edited November 20, 201311 yr by Doctor Blind

Actually I was thinking of another one.

 

Edit: This - http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...c=138402&hl

Edited November 20, 201311 yr by Thomsen

limiting it to 1 per artist

 

Vampire Weekend "Step / Diane Young"

 

Erm... :P

 

My taste isn't alternative enough to really comment in here but James Blake's 'Retrograde' is definitely one of my faves of the year. Most of the others are big hits.

I did this a couple of weeks ago...here's my top 40

 

1. Rachel Zeffira - 'The Deserters'

2. Jagwar Ma - 'The Throw'

3. Steve Mason - 'A Lot of Love'

4. f*** Buttons - 'Year of the Dog'

5. Randolph's Leap - 'News'

6. Electric Wave Bureau - 'When I'm Really Old'

7. Younghusband - 'Silver Sisters'

8. The Chambermaids - 'I Wonder Why'

9. Roly Porter - 'Cloud'

10.The Pictish Trail - 'Sequels'

11.Boards of Canada - 'Sundown'

12.of Montreal – 'Hegira émigré'

13.Pixies - 'Andro Queen'

14.Cian Ciaran - 'Shape Control'

15.Neon Neon - 'Mid Century Modern Nightmare'

16.Day Ravies - 'Double Act'

17.Widowspeak - 'Perennials'

18.Mazzy Star - 'Seasons of your Day'

19.Eagleowl - 'Mf'

20.Beach Fossils - 'Crashed Out'

21.Born Ruffians - 'Permanent Hesitation'

22.Primal Scream - 'I Want You'

23.James Yorkston - 'I Can Take All This'

24.Yo La Tengo - 'Is That Enough'

25.Low - 'So Blue'

26.Mark Lanegan - 'Mack the Knife'

27.Tim Hecker - 'Live Room Out'

28.Wolf Alice - 'Bros'

29.Mu-Ziq - 'Monyth'

30.Sigur Ros - 'Brennisteinn'

31.Mogwai - 'The Huts'

32.Roddy Woomble - 'Into the Distance on Luck'

33.Alasdair Roberts - 'Song Composed in December / The Bluebell Polka / Rap Y Clyceau Glas'

34.Franz Ferdinand - 'Love Illumination'

35.The Duckworth Lewis Method - 'The Laughing Cavaliers'

36.Frankie Rose - 'Sorrow'

37.Si Begg - 'And Thats It'

38.Kim Deal - 'Wish It Was'

39.Four Tet - 'Buchla'

40.My Bloody Valentine - 'Only Tomorrow'

TV on the Radio – Mercy

Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?

Phoenix – Bankrupt!

Daughter – Smother

Phoenix – Bourgeois

CHVRCHES – ZVVL

Tom Odell – Another Love

Foals – Late Night

Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?

Local Natives – Black Balloons

4 Guys from the Future – Nothing to Say

Moderat – Bad Kingdom

Moderat – Damage Done

Arcade Fire – Afterlife

Thomas Dybdahl – But We Did

New Gods – Razorblades

Maps – A.M.A.

Arcade Fire – Reflektor

The National - This Is The Last Time

Empire of the Sun - Awakening

Local Natives - Heavy Feet

Foals - Inhaler

 

HEYA

 

p.s.:

 

Foals - Inhaler

Arcade Fire - Reflecktor

Arcade Fire "Reflektor"

Arctic Monkeys "Do I Wanna Know?"

Ellery James Roberts "Kerou's Lament"

HAERTS "All The Days"

The Irrepressibles "Two Men In Love"

Jagwar Ma "The Throw"

Phosphorescent "Song For Zula"

Sigur Rós "Brennisteinn"

2. Jagwar Ma - 'The Throw'

4. f*** Buttons - 'Year of the Dog'

 

awesome. <3