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We’re All In It Together: Quietus Writers’ Tracks Of 2013

Our staff and writers distil 2013's tracks down into handy top tens for our year-end hit parade

Much in the spirit of the season, when we asked our writers to give us their top ten tracks of the year last week, we got a hefty haul of lists. If there’s one thing that characterises this chart of single tracks, it’s its lack of singularity. No one choice had more than five votes, and while a clutch of artists and bands got nods for multiple tracks, similarly to our half year rundown, the rest of the picks were dispersed over a vast amount of territory, with the familiar big-hitters nestling alongside pieces from free-jazz groups and two-minute noise-punk cuts, not infrequently in the same list.

The two most voted-for artists were East India Youth and Kanye West, perhaps one of the few points of comparison between them (although, at time of publishing, we were still looking into reports that William Doyle has also taken to declaring, "I am Henry Ford, and I am Howard Hughes, and I am Michelangelo!" in interviews). And while we’d like to state that we weren’t beating down our scribes’ doors to get them to vote for the first artist released on the Quietus Phonographic Corporation, it’s also been hugely gratifying to find that our massive excitement when we first head ‘Heaven, How Long’ and ‘Dripping Down’ last year has been enthusiastically shared by our contributors.

After that, the acts getting the most nods were Daft Punk, Jon Hopkins, Grumbling Fur (who produced our album of the year, Glynnaestra), These New Puritans, David Bowie, The Knife, Hey Colossus, Girl Band (for their monstrous Blawan cover), Pusha T, John Grant and Daniel Avery, the latter in collaboration with Perc, for the banger par excellence remix of ‘Reception’, making for a mighty fine baker’s dozen of Quietus favourite tracks of 2013 (in alphabetical order):

Daniel Avery – ‘Reception’ (Perc Remix)

David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

East India Youth – ‘Heaven, How Long’

Girl Band – ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’

John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’

Grumbling Fur – ‘The Ballad Of Roy Batty’

Hey Colossus – ‘Hot Grave’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

The Knife – ‘Full Of Fire’

Pusha T – ‘Numbers On The Boards’

These New Puritans – ‘Organ Eternal’

Kanye West – ‘Bound 2’/’I Am A God’

We’d like to thank our writers for providing such varied lists, what amounts to a very fine index of music in 2013 and hopefully a mixture of the familiar and the as-yet-unknown for holiday listening. Undoubtedly, as with all of our end of year charts, there will be things that we’ve missed, so let us know your choices in the comments below.

John Doran – Editor

East India Youth – ‘Heaven, How Long’

Melt Yourself Down – ‘Fix My Life’

Steve Mason, Emiliana Torrini And Toy – ‘I Go Out’

Hey Colossus – ‘Hot Grave’

British Sea Power – ‘Machineries Of Joy’

Katie Gately – ‘Pipes’

Gazelle Twin – ‘Changeling’ (John Foxx And The Maths mix)

Mohamad Al Ali – ‘Mili Alay (Sway To Me)’

Fat White Family – ‘Wet Hot Beef’

Kanye West – ‘I Am A God’

Luke Turner – Editor

Daniel Avery – ‘Reception’ (Perc Remix)

East India Youth – ‘Coastal Reflexxions’

The Bug – ‘Dirty’

Einsturzende Neubauten vs Perc – ‘Sado Masodub’

Carter Tutti – ‘Coolicon’

Ugandan Methods – ‘Imperium’

Fat White Family – ‘Wet Hot Beef’

Real Lies – ‘World Peace’

Kelela – ‘A Lie’

No Bra – ‘Candy Store’

Rory Gibb – New/Electronic/Extreme Music Editor

Grumbling Fur – ‘Tilda Holds A Sword & Lilies’

East India Youth – ‘Heaven, How Long’

Joey Anderson – ‘Press Play’

Fat White Family – ‘Cream Of The Young’

RP Boo – ‘No Return’

Charles Cohen – ‘Sunrise – Women-Men’

Galcher Lustwerk – ‘Leisure’

Powell – ‘Rider’

Pev & Kowton – ‘End Point’

Rustie – ‘Triadzz’

Laurie Tuffrey – News Editor

These New Puritans – ‘Organ Eternal’

Kanye West – ‘Bound 2’

Daniel Avery – ‘Reception’ (Perc Remix)

East India Youth – ‘Heaven, How Long’

Pusha T – ‘Numbers On The Boards’

A$AP Ferg – ‘Hood Pope’

Factory Floor – ‘Turn It Up’

Post Louis – ‘This Could Be A Bridge’

Beyoncé – ‘No Angel’

Grumbling Fur – ‘The Ballad Of Roy Batty’

Sophie Coletta – Reviews Assistant

Pusha T – ‘Numbers On The Boards’

Daniel Avery – ‘Reception’ (Perc Remix)

Girl Band – ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’

Fishermen – ‘Serpents’

Blood Music – ‘Rare Earth Material’

Moin – ‘Murphy’

Powell – ‘Rider’

The KVB – ‘Dayzed (Regis Remix)’

Matt Whitehead – ‘A Is For Acid’ (Perc Redux)

VAR – ‘The World Fell’

Mat Colegate – Film Editor

The Body – ‘Shrouded’

Grumbling Fur – ‘The Ballad Of Roy Batty’

Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Centurion’

Powell – ‘Rider’

Oranssi Pazuzu – ‘Tyhjä Tempelli’

Cut Hands – ‘Madwoman’

Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge feat. U-God, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck and Killa Sin – ‘Murder Spree’

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – ‘Homes Built Over the Sea’

Matt Berry – ‘Medicine’

Seremonia – ‘Noitamestari’

Karl Smith – Literary Editor

Jon Hopkins – ‘Immunity’

Local Native – ‘Three Months’

Sigur Ros – ‘Yfirborð’

East India Youth – ‘Dripping Down’

Foals – ‘Milk & Black Spiders’

Nils Frahm – ‘Says’

Moby feat. Damien Jurado – ‘Almost Home’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Abandon Window’

The National – ‘Slipped’

Volcano Choir – ‘Dancepack’

Kiran Acharya

Palehorse – ‘Skin Flick’

Dawn of Midi – ‘Nix’

Loden – ‘Future Confetti with Doseone’

Kwes. – ‘Bashful’

The Dillinger Escape Plan – ‘Prancer’

Death Grips – ‘This Is Violence’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

Marnie Stern – ‘You Don’t Turn Down’

God Damn – ‘Red Checker’

Young Fathers – ‘Deadline’

Jeremy Allen – Writer

Dominique A – ‘Rendez-nous la lumière’

Gesaffelstein – ‘Pursuit’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’

David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Suede – ‘It Starts And Ends With You’

Savages – ‘Shut Up’

Daft Punk – ‘Giorgio By Moroder’

Pixies – ‘Indie Cindy’

Moodoïd – ‘Je suis le montage’

Connan Mockasin – ‘I’m the Man, That Will Find You’

Ged Babey – Writer

Big Sexy Noise – ‘Your Love Don’t Pay My Rent’

Ruts DC – ‘Mighty Soldier Dub’

Suede – ‘Hit Me’

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF – ‘On Moonlit Heath’

Gold Blade – ‘Someone Stole My Brain’

Pussy Cat & The Dirty Johnsons – ‘Livin’ with Mum And Dad’

The Fallen Leaves – ‘Always More’

Radioactive Bones – ‘Born To Wreck’

Alcohol Licks – ‘No Means No’

Neils Children – ‘Trust You’

Tristan Bath – Writer

Pete Swanson – ‘Life Ends At 30’

Katie Gately – ‘Pipes’

The Knife – ‘Raging Lung’

Sons Of Kemet – ‘Beware’

Dustin Wong – ‘Japan’

The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet with Michiyo Yagi – ‘Concert For Fukushima’

El Mahdy Jr. – ‘Permanent Defeat’

Young Echo – ‘Jupiter Rise’

Colin Stetson – ‘To See More Light’

Cream Juice – ‘So Smooth

Peter Bebergal – Writer

Sons Of Kemet – ‘All Will Surely Burn’

Fuzz – ‘What’s In My Head’

Crumbling Ghost – ‘The Good Old Way’

Carlton Melton – ‘Slow Wake’

Mikal Cronin – ‘Am I Wrong’

Forest Swords – ‘Thor’s Stone’

Tim Hecker – ‘Virginal I’

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – ‘Desert Ceremony’

Julian Lynch – ‘Carios kelleyi I’

Thee Oh Sees – ‘Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster’

Joseph Burnett – Writer

The Stranger – ‘Spiral Of Decline’

Else-Marie Pade & Jakob Kirkegaard – ‘Cirrocumulus’

Iancu Dumitrescu – ‘Pierres Sacrées’

Gabriel Saloman – ‘Boots On The Ground’

Gnaw – ‘Humming’

The Knife – ‘Full Of Fire’

Jozef Van Wissem – ‘Where You Lived And What You Lived For’

Umberto – ‘The Summoning’

William Basinski – ‘Nocturnes’

Bob Ostertag – ‘A Book Of Hours’

John Calvert – Writer

SCNTST – ‘Percee Scan’

The Knife – ‘Full Of Fire’

RP Boo – ‘There U’go Boi’

The Big Ups – ‘Goes Black’

The Weeknd – ‘Kiss Land’

Factory Floor – ‘Here Again’

Future Of The Left – ‘Things To Say To Friendly Policemen’

DJ Rashad – ‘I Don’t Give A Fuck’

Chvrches – ‘The Mother We Share’

Fat White Family – ‘Cream Of The Young’

Simon Jay Catling – Writer

Exhaustion – ‘Old Mickey’

Hookworms – ‘Away/Towards’

Los Porcos – ‘Sunshine’

Outfit – ‘I Want What’s Best’

MiSTOA POLTSA – ‘Teahead’

Nine Inch Nails – ‘Copy Of A’

Girl Band – ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’

Cowtown – ‘Nightbeats’

Föllakzoid – ‘Pulsar’

Thought Forms – ‘Burn Me Clean’

Joe Clay – Writer

Hookworms – ‘Away/Towards’

Mazes – ‘Skulking’

Crushed Beaks – ‘Feelers’

Vision Fortune – ‘XVII’

Boards Of Canada – ‘Reach for the Dead’

Jessy Lanza – ‘Kathy Lee’

Fuck Buttons – ‘Stalker’

Holden – ‘Blackpool Late Eighties’

Kerridge – ‘A Shadow Cast’

Daniel Avery – ‘Reception (Perc Remix)’

Austin Collings – Writer

The Fall – ‘The Remainderer’

The Fall – ‘Mister Rode’

Naked (On Drugs) – ‘Lee Ann’s Skin’

Kult Country – ‘Slowburn’

Greatwaves – ‘Into The Blue’

Ghost Outfit – ‘Words’

MONEY – ‘Hold Me Forever’

Sleaford Mods – ‘Jolly F*cker’

Bill Callahan – ‘The Sing’

Emperor Zero – ‘Mental Health Cafe’

Kyle Ellison – Writer

Young Thug feat. Maceo – ‘Picacho’

Chance The Rapper – ‘Paranoid’

Lil Durk – ‘Dis Ain’t What U Want’

Meek Mill – ‘Lil Nigga Snupe’

Kanye West – ‘New Slaves’

Jenny Hval – ‘Innocence Is Kinky’

Thundercat – ‘Heartbreaks And Setbacks’

Raekwon feat. AZ and Altrina Renee – ‘86’

Gucci Mane – ‘Hell Yes’

Pusha T – ‘Numbers On The Boards’

Matt Evans – Writer

Secret Chiefs 3 – ‘Tistrya’

Mutation – ‘Compass Point’

Fire! Orchestra – ‘Exit! Part One’

Melt Banana – ‘My Missing Link’

Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney – ‘Tavaf’

Tomahawk – ‘White Hats/Black Hats’

Richard Dawson – ‘The Ghost Of A Tree’

Katy Perry – ‘Roar’

Super Adventure Club – ‘9 Times’

Deveykus – ‘In the Left Hand Lies the Great Fire’

Matt Foster – Writer

Forest Swords – ‘Thor’s Stone’

Lord RAJA – ‘Pistol Syrup’

Factory Floor – ‘Here Again’

The Field – ‘No. No…’

Four Tet – ‘Aerial’

Franz Ferdinand – ‘Evil Eye’

David Bowie – ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’

The National – ‘I Need My Girl’

Murray A Lightburn – ‘A Thousand Light Years’

Paul Gonzenbach – ‘Last Night’s Booze’

Charlie Frame – Writer

Poliça feat. Justin Vernon – ‘Tiff’

Bardo Pond – ‘The Creator Has A Masterplan’

Lescop – ‘La Forêt’

Wildlife! feat. Terry Lynn – ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours’

The Knife – ‘Raging Lung’

Matmos – ‘ESP’

John Grant – ‘Glacier’

When Saints Go Machine – ‘System Of Unlimited Love’

DJ Rashad – ‘Let It Go’

Iron & Wine – ‘Lovers’ Revolution’

Alex Franquelli – Writer

Ulver – ‘Mother Of Mercy’

The Necks – ‘Open’

Locrian – ‘Visitation From The Wrath Of Heaven’

Etran Finatawa – ‘Icheraid Azaman’

Grumbling Fur – ‘Eyoreseye’

Dirty Beaches – ‘Au Revoir Mon Visage’

Julianna Barwick – ‘Look Into Your Own Mind’

Moonface – ‘Barbarian’

Fuck Buttons – ‘Year Of The Dog’

The Body – ‘An Altar Or A Grave’

John Freeman – Writer

MONEY – ‘Goodnight London’

Hjaltalin – ‘Ethereal’

Throwing Muses – ‘Slippershell’

Janelle Monáe – ‘Ghetto Woman’

Crocodiles – ‘She Splits Me Up’

Kanye West – ‘I Am A God’

Giant Drag – ‘We Like The Weather’

My Bloody Valentine – ‘wonder2’

Nadine Shah – ‘Runaway’

The Pastels – ‘Kicking Leaves’

Rich Hughes – Writer

Karen Gwyer – ‘Pikku-Kokki’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

The Memory Band – ‘When I Was On Horseback’

Daniel Avery – ‘Water Jump’

Lee Noble – ‘Cop Show’

Nils Frahm – ‘Says’

Daniel Bachman – ‘Jesus I’m A Sinner’

R.Seiliog – ‘Otisho’

Desert Heat – ‘Cat Mask At Huggie Temple’

Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle – ‘Gustavo’

Thomas Hughes – Writer

These New Puritans – ‘Organ Eternal’

Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Hoarse’

Kurt Vile – ‘Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze’

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – ‘Driver’

Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Wanna Be Yours’

Emiliana Torrini – ‘Tookah’

Grumbling Fur – ‘The Ballad Of Roy Batty’

Daniel Avery – ‘Water Jump’

A$AP Rocky – ‘Long Live A$AP’

Suede – ‘It Starts and Ends With You’

Nick Hutchings – Writer

Daughn Gibson – ‘The Pisgee Nest’

The National – ‘Don’t Swallow The Cap’

Thee Oh Sees – ‘Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster’

Kurt Vile – ‘Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze’

Factory Floor – ‘Two Different Ways’

The Asphodells – ‘Skwatch’

Darkstar – ‘Timeaway’

Daniel Avery – ‘All I Need’

Kelley Stoltz – ‘Double Exposure’

White Hills – ‘In Your Room’

Lisa Jenkins – Writer

East India Youth – ‘Heaven, How Long’

Hiatus feat. Shura – ‘We Can Be Ghosts Now’

John Grant – ‘GMF’

Lorde – ‘Team’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Mermaids’

PJ Harvey – ‘Shaker Aamer’

Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu – ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’

Lloyd Cole – ‘Period Piece’

Angel Haze – ‘Echelon [It’s My Way]’

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Sacrilege’

Filip Kalinowski – Writer

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Dutysięczny – ‘Pani Jedwabników’

RSS B0YS – ‘M00N00SR00M00 D0WN’

The Same – ‘Fungeez’

Chino – ‘Ghost’

Stara Rzeka – ‘Nachtlich Spaziergang durch Klinger’

Wojciech Bąkowski – ‘Najazdy podłogowe’

Hera & Hamid Drake – ‘Tempest Of Tibet’

LXMP – ‘Rockit (Mega Mix)’

Ptaki – ‘Krystyna’

PRO8L3M – ‘Kickdown’

Matthew Kent – Writer

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer feat. Tea Time & Azeem- ‘Ambivalent’

Chris Petit – ‘Night Drunks’

Liberez – ‘My Madness Offends’

Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet – ‘Little Glass of Sherry (Little Glass of Wine)’

KWC 92 – ‘Night Drive’

Patrick Cowley – ‘Journey Home’

Terry Riley and Don Cherry – ‘Descending Moonshine Dervishes’

October – ‘Unstable Phenomenon (Joey Anderson Remix)’

Wolf Eyes – ‘Confessions Of The Informer’

Thought Broadcast – ‘Psychomimic Side B’

Adrian Lobb – Writer

Casual Sex – ‘Nothing On Earth’

Teleman – ‘Steam Train Girl’

Rachel Zeffira – ‘The Deserters’

Eleanor Friedberger – ‘Stare at the Sun’

Mogwai – ‘Hungry Face’

Savages – ‘Shut Up’

Lorde – ‘Royals’

Eccentronic Research Council – ‘Maxine’s Dream’

Trans – ‘Rock Steady’

David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Julian Marszalek – Writer

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

Hey Colossus – ‘Hot Grave’

Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘I Sat By The Ocean’

The Asphodells – ‘One Minute’s Silence’

David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Melt Yourself Down – ‘Fix My Life’

Wooden Shjips – ‘These Shadows’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – ‘Poison Apple’

Laura Veirs – ‘Shape Shifter’

Colm McAuliffe – Writer

Gnod – ‘Visions Of Load’

John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’

Matmos – ‘Very Large Green Triangles’

Mutation – ‘Utopia Syndrome’

Black Hearted Brother – ‘Got Your Love’

Steve Mason – ‘A Lot Of Love’

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

Factory Floor – ‘Fall Back’

Low – ‘Amethyst’

Tim Hecker – ‘Prism’

Kevin Mccaighy – Writer

Aleister X – ‘HXLLYWXXD SIGNS’

Bad Guys – ‘Witness A New Low’

BATALJ – ‘Doppelganger’

Boards Of Canada – ‘Reach For The Dead’

The Knife – ‘An Eye For A Tooth’

Glass Candy – ‘The Possessed’

Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear – ‘Doing It Right’

MKS – ‘Flatline’

Pyres – ‘Year Of Sleep’

Marnie Stern – ‘Immortals’

David McKenna – Writer/Rockfort columnist

Puce Moment – ‘Moonoom’

Le Vasco – ‘I’m Not There’

Hypo & EDH – ‘Verynice’

Colleen – ‘Breaking Up The Earth’

Moodoïd – ‘De Folie Pure’

Rêve – ‘Cosmic Belly’Rouge Mécanique – ‘Witches’

Robi ‘On Ne Meurt Plus D’Amour’

F/Lor – ‘Oloyo Danz’

Chicaloyah – ‘Turn Into Windy Sand’

J.R. Moores – Writer

Wooden Wand – ‘Outsider Blues’

Wolf Eyes – ‘Confessions Of The Informer’

Grumbling Fur – ‘The Ballad of Roy Batty’

Oozing Wound – ‘New York Bands’

Erasure – ‘Make It Wonderful’

Liars – ‘I Saw You From The Lifeboat’

Icarus Line – ‘Laying Down For The Man’

Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge – ‘Rise Of The Ghostface Killah’

Bardo Pond – ‘Maggot Brain’

Dan Friel – ‘Ulysses’

Chad Parkhill – Writer

The Drones – ‘They’ll Kill You’

The Knife – ‘Ready To Lose’

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

Vampire Weekend – ‘Ya Hey’

Destroyer – ‘Bye Bye’

Fuck Buttons – ‘The Red Wing’

Haim – ‘The Wire’

Sophie – ‘Bipp’

EMA – ‘Satellites’

Kanye West – ‘Bound 2’

Theo Ploeg – Writer

Hunter Complex – ‘Heat’

Primal Scream – ‘2013’

Pete Swanson – ‘Life Ends At 30’

Justus Köhncke – ‘Das Selbstgespräch’

Factory Floor – ‘Fall Back’

Messer – ‘Staub’

Popnoname – ‘Change’

Rooie Waas – ‘Ja, Dus?’

Atoms For Peace – ‘Judge Jury And Executioner’

Kölsch – ‘All That Matter

Jack Pudwell – Writer

Sky Ferreira – ‘You’re Not The One’

Classixx – ‘All You’re Waiting For’

Sigur Rós – ‘Brennisteinn’

Paramore – ‘Ain’t It Fun’

Nine Inch Nails – ‘Copy Of A’

Justin Timberlake – ‘Let The Groove Get In’

Pissed Jeans – ‘Bathroom Laughter’

Charli XCX – ‘SuperLove’

Blood Orange – ‘You’re Not Good Enough’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Push The Sky Away’

Nick Reed – Writer

Flynt Flossy feat. Yung Humma – ‘Naughty Farmer’

Denki Groove – ‘Oyster’

Kaku P-Model – ‘Gipnoza’

Setna – ‘Tryptique I’

Har Mar Superstar – ‘Prisoner’

Flynt Flossy, Yung Humma and Whatchyamacallit – ‘Treat Me Like A Pirate’

William Onyeabor – ‘When The Going Is Smooth And Good’

Janelle Monáe – ‘Dance Apocalyptic’

Lemon Demon – ‘My Trains’

Gary Numan – ‘Splinter’

Chris Roberts – Writer

Prefab Sprout – ‘Adolescence’

David Bowie – ‘Love Is Lost’

Lorde – ‘Royals’

Moon Safari – ‘Mega Moon’

The National – ‘Pink Rabbits’

Bethia Beadman – ‘Fire’

Lloyd Cole – ‘Women’s Studies’

Savages – ‘City’s Full’

Anna Calvi – ‘One Breath’

James Blake – ‘Retrograde’

James Skinner – Writer

Songs: Ohia – ‘The Big Game Is Every Night’

Conor Oberst – ‘You Are Your Mother’s Child’

Okkervil River – ‘Pink-Slips’

Vampire Weekend – ‘Ya Hey’

The National – ‘Pink Rabbits’

Bill Callahan – ‘Small Plane’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Higgs Boson Blues’

Kanye West – ‘New Slaves’

Josephine Foster – ‘My Wandering Heart’

Mogwai – ‘Wizard Motor’

Barnaby Smith – Writer

Cass McCombs – ‘Home On The Range’

Cass McCombs – ‘Morning Star’

Alasdair Roberts – ‘The Wheels Of The World’

John Grant – ‘Glacier’

Jonathan Wilson – ‘Dear Friend’

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – ‘Float Along – Fill Your Lungs’

Minor Alps – ‘Buried Plans’

Julia Holter – ‘Horns Surrounding Me’

Alela Diane – ‘Before The Leaving’

Neil Finn – ‘Divebomber’

Paul Smith – Writer

East India Youth – ‘Looking For Someone’

Laura Mvula – ‘Green Garden’

Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu – ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’

Julia Holter – ‘Maxims’

Kelela – ‘Bank Head’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

Owiny Sigoma Band – ‘Harpoon Land’

Kanye West – ‘On Sight’

Talinn – ‘My Negative Approach’

British Sea Power – ‘Machineries Of Joy’

Stewart Smith – Writer

Fire! Orchestra – ‘Exit! Part One’

Howe Gelb – ‘Three Deaths of Lucky’

Glenn Jones – ‘Going Back To East Montgomery’

The Thing – ‘India’

William Parker – ‘For Abbey Lincoln’

Matana Roberts – ‘Invocation’

Mdou Moctar – ‘Chet Bhougassa’

Grumbling Fur – ‘Tilda Holds A Sword And Lillies’

Los Siquos Litarolenos – ‘Cinta Planeteria’

Juana Molina – ‘Eras’

Alfred Soto – Writer

Mariah Carey feat. Miguel – ‘#Beautiful’

Pusha T feat. Kendrick Lamar – ‘Nosetalgia’

Kevin Gates – ‘4:30am’

Kanye West – ‘New Skinhead’

Lindstrøm and Todd Terje ‎– ‘Lanzarote’

Pet Shop Boys – ‘Thursday’

Charli XCX – ‘SuperLove’

FIDLAR – ‘Cheap Beer’

Chlöe Howl – ‘Rumour’

Jonas Brothers – ‘Pom Poms’

Nick Southall – Writer

Omar Souleyman – ‘Wenu Wenu’

These New Puritans – ‘V (Island Song)’

Holden – ‘The Caterpillar’s Intervention’

Melt Yourself Down – ‘We Are Enough’

Sons Of Kemet – ‘All Will Surely Burn’

The Knife – ‘Full Of Fire’

Matthew E White – ‘Brazos’

Four Tet – ‘Unicorn’

Colin Stetson – ‘To See More Light’

Primal Scream – ‘2013’

Harry Sword – Writer

Endless Boogie – ‘The Montgomery Manuscript’

Samuel Kerridge – ‘Waiting for Love Part One’

The Fall – ‘Amorator’

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – ‘Mt Abraxus’

Power Trip – ‘Heretics Fork’

RP Boo – ‘There U Go Boi’

Laurel Halo – ‘Serendip’

Melvins – ‘City Dump’

Cathedral – ‘Tower Of Silence’

Joey Anderson – ‘Under The Cherry Moon’

Nick Talbot – Gravenhurst/Writer

Paul Jebanasam – ‘Rites: I’

Hyetal – ‘The City Is Ours’

Mary Epworth – ‘September’

These New Puritans – ‘Organ Eternal’

Tim Hecker – ‘Stab Variation’

Young Knives – ‘Maureen’

Faint Wild Light – ‘Halfsleep’

Burial – ‘Rival Dealers’

Grouper – ‘Vital’

Kanye West – ‘I Am A God’

Emptyset – ‘Disperse’

Andy Thomas – Writer

Dukes of Chutney – ‘Domino’

Pharaohs – ‘Ahumbo’

Matias Aguayo – ‘Una Fiesta Diferente’

William Adamson – ‘Rings of Saturn’

Not Waving – ‘Future Rain’

Max + Mara – ‘Hands’

Temples – ‘Colours To Life’

Myron & E – ‘If I Gave You My Love’

Francis Bebey – ‘Bissao’ (Pilooski Edit)

William Onyeabor – ‘Body & Soul’ (Scientist remix)

Cian Traynor – Writer

Colin Stetson – ‘Among The Sef (Righteous II)’

Holden – ‘Renata’

Boards Of Canada – ‘New Seeds’

Julianna Barwick – ‘The Harbinger’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

Kanye West – ‘Hold My Liquor’

Atoms For Peace – ‘Default’

Grouper – ‘Vital’

Angel Olsen – ‘Sweet Dreams’

Thee Oh Sees – ‘No Spell’

Paul Tucker – Writer

The Haxan Cloak – ‘A Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)’

John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’

Girl Band – ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’

Iceage – ‘Everything Drifts’

Hey Colossus – ‘Hot Grave’

Speedy Ortiz – ‘No Below’

Aidan Baker – ‘Tout Juste Sous La Surface, Je Guette’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘We Know Who U R’

Traams – ‘Flowers’

Kiran Leonard – ‘Geraldo’s Farm’

Ian Wade – Writer

Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge – ‘White Noise’

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘If I Had A Tail’

John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’

Franz Ferdinand – ‘Right Action’

Parquet Courts – ‘Stoned & Starving’

Joe Goddard – ‘Step Together’

James Blake – ‘Retrograde’

Wyndham Wallace – Writer

David Lemaitre – ‘Megalomania’

Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – ‘Get Lucky’

Kitchens Of Distinction – ‘Oak Tree’

Julia Holter – ‘Horns Surrounding Me’

David Bowie – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Nils Frahm – ‘Says’

Ane Brun – ‘Halo’

Anna Von Hausswolff – ‘Mountains Crave’

Darkstar – ‘Armonica’

Jim James – ‘State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U)’

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