Doof's Top Songs 2015
Only one song per artist natch |
60 | | Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
'Space Boots'
I genuinely find this endearing, brings the lols |
59 | | Songhoy Blues Music In Exile
'Kashmir'
Better than the original
Nope, but I like this |
58 | | Half Moon Run Sun Leads Me On
'The Debt' |
57 | | Wilco Star Wars
'Magnetized' |
56 | | Prefuse 73 Every Color of Darkness
'Prime Meridian Narcissism' |
55 | | Sleaford Mods Key Markets
'Face to Faces'
Oi oi! New series of Peep Show and a new Jez and Super Hans album this year |
54 | | Built to Spill Untethered Moon
'Living Zoo' |
53 | | Yumi Zouma II
'Catastrophe'
Ok they clearly only have one song...but it still sounds good in 2015 |
52 | | Lower Dens Escape from Evil
'Ondine' |
51 | | Lapalux Lustmore
'Don't Mean a Thing' |
50 | | Cult Leader Useless Animal
'You Are Not My Blood'
Near genius Kozelek cover |
49 | | Guy Garvey Courting The Squall
'Unwind'
The only song on the album I enjoyed, this is the Garv at his most restrained and minimal |
48 | | Kylesa Exhausting Fire
'Moving Day' |
47 | | Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl
'Heaven' |
46 | | Roots Manuva Bleeds
'Hard Bastards'
"I'm a bastard, you're a bastard, everyone's a bastard bastard" sings my Esher homeboy |
45 | | Dylan Stark Heartland
'Heartland'
Sounds like an army of computer sprites having a messy orgy |
44 | | Young Thug Barter 6
'Check'
This cut is raspberry blowin' fire |
43 | | EL VY Return to the Moon
'Paul is Alive'
New Matt side project out next year working under the name 'Berninger & the Necessary Haircuts', stoked |
42 | | John Grant Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
'You & Him'
Grant to go industrial rock on the next album |
41 | | Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat The Most Important Place in the World
'Vanilla'
Pray this isn't the soundtrack to your love life you pathetic worm |
40 | | Clutch Psychic Warfare
'X-Ray Visions'
Starting to worry the only chance of Clutch releasing an entire album this tight will be if they put out a 'Best Of' but when they're hot they're hot |
39 | | Therapy? Disquiet
'Words Fail Me'
Words. Fail. Me. |
38 | | Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot
'The Apple Orchard in Saghmosavanq'
Sput wtf am I doing listening to this and now liking it |
37 | | Helios Yume
'Every Passing Hour'
Wafty-wispy and the definitive have-a-cup-of-cocoa-core anthem of 2015 |
36 | | The Maccabees Marks To Prove It
'Spit it Out'
Missing Arcade Fire? This tune brings the high drama and strained yelping you are craving |
35 | | Refused Freedom
'366'
This sounds exactly like the best moments from 'The Shape of Punk to Come' hence good song |
34 | | Cannibal Ox Blade of the Ronin
'Blade: the Art of Ox' |
33 | | Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down...
'That's Life Tho (almost hate to say) |
32 | | Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire
'Horsepower'
You gotta love the bit when they find that hidden extra gear at 3:50 and insanity ensues |
31 | | Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School
'Slumlord'
The proverbial diamond hidden in an album's worth of 80's detritus sh*t |
30 | | low Ones and Sixes
'Lies' |
29 | | Gunship Gunship
'Tech Noir' |
28 | | Black Wing ...Is Doomed
'Death Sentences' |
27 | | Ryley Walker Primrose Green
'Sweet Satisfaction' |
26 | | Big Blood Double Days II
'Go See Boats' |
25 | | Jim O'Rourke Simple Songs
'End of the Road' |
24 | | Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
'Tropic of Cancer' |
23 | | Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars
'The Traveller'
More songs like this one this year please Beach House |
22 | | Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls
'Jester in Agony'
Should soundtrack 'Terminator VII: Every Last Human is Dead and the Robots got Bored Watching Repeats of Friends So Switched Themselves Off' |
21 | | Mercury Rev The Light In You
'Amelie'
A terrifying fairytale where the lovely Amelie has locked you away to go through cold turkey until you break your smack/furry porn/Impractical Jokers addiction (delete as appropriate) |
20 | | Anna Von Hausswolff The Miraculous
'Come Wander with Me'
Sublime Scary Mary-isms on this organ humping epic |
19 | | The Membranes Dark Matter/Dark Energy
'If You Enter the Arena, Be Prepared to Deal with the Lions'
Sounds like Fugazi and The Jesus Lizard fighting to the death in a bearpit |
18 | | Jamie xx In Colour
'Gosh' |
17 | | Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves
'The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box'
Intro of the year winner 2015 |
16 | | Joanna Newsom Divers
'Time, As a Symptom'
Joanna likes to put the most emotional tune at the end of the disc the sly cow |
15 | | Evil Blizzard Everybody Come to Church
'Balloon'
If you like Balloons and Ozzy style vocals knock yourself out |
14 | | Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons
'Dead Body'
Little Simz at her most grimey equals Little Simz at her best, the Burial vibes are strong here |
13 | | Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear
'I Went to the Store One Day'
The most important song on 'Honeybear', this marks the final stage of acceptance the whole album has painstakingly built towards...the moment when Tillman stops pretending to be such a c*nt and admits he's fallen in love. |
12 | | Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
'How much a Dollar Cost'
Kenny goes all highbrow mixing 'Pyramid Song' with Bible fables no less, more fun to listen to than that sounds. ***Now Officially Obama Approved*** |
11 | | George Clanton 100% Electronica
'Wonder Gently'
The song snapping to life after the 2:30 mark is one of the best musical moments of the year, but it's matched here at the 4:33 mark where the song collapses back in on itself again. |
10 | | Ought Sun Coming Down
'Beautiful Blue Sky'
Tim Darcy channels David Byrne to help Ought deliver their very own 'Once in a Lifetime' |
9 | | Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes
'Birds of Flims'
Yes, Kozelek is still seemingly reading out extracts from his diary, this time it's 'Mark The Switzerland Years', but on this particular ramble it all 'Benji' clicks |
8 | | Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra
'New Alhambra'
The finest example of the hypnotic beauty of the album, has a real lullaby quality to it, this song seems to musically heal it's own sadness like a soothing bandage. |
7 | | Deerhunter Fading Frontier
'Breaker'
Pure pop from Deerhunter, on current form The Strokes would sell their kidneys to write a song this good |
6 | | Everything Everything Get To Heaven
'The Wheel (Is Turning Now)'
A timely broadside aimed at manipulative and charismatic Far Right spokesmen who have popped up seemingly from nowhere recently, when questioned the band didn't deny this one's aimed at UKIP's Farage. |
5 | | Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete
'Sticky Drama'
The sound of Grimes being rogered silly by those evil Decepticons. Autobots roll out? Nah, not this time. |
4 | | Destroyer Poison Season
'Bangkok'
Bang...Bejar said this album would be Destroyer At the Sands a la Sinatra and this is the track that most embodies that vibe...kok |
3 | | Tame Impala Currents
'Let it Happen'
An opening wormhole of a track that's so addictive and engaging it ended up writing cheques it's parent album unsurprisingly struggled to cash. |
2 | | Clarence Clarity No Now
'Will to Believe'
On occasion the sonic overload on 'No Now' can be teeth scrapingly irritating but when the stars align, as they do most emphatically here, magic happens (as they say). |
1 | | Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
'Fourth of July'
The moment on Carrie and Lowell where Death himself enters the room and puts his hand on your unsuspecting shoulder, stealing away your breath and freezing your heart, the song equivalent of someone 'walking over your grave' if you believe in such guff. |
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