Another year of not caring about new music has gone splendidly. Sure, I checked out some of the bigger albums (like Beyoncé’s Renaissance) but for the most part, I’m only listening to individual tracks. Were their some important and/or exhilarating albums I missed? I’m sure, but ignorance really has been bliss. My top 50 songs are below. Check out the Spotify playist here.
The 1975 – “About You”
Alvvays – “Belinda Says”
Anxious – “Where You Been”
Bear and the Beasts – “Bare Witness”
Beyoncé – “Break My Soul”
The Blessed Madonna – “Serotonin Moonbeams”
Braxe + Falcon feat. Panda Bear – “Step by Step”
Phoebe Bridgers – “So Much Wine”
Brandi Carlile – “You and Me on the Rock (In the Canyon Haze)”
Chat Pile – “Lake Time (Mr. Rodan)”
Jacob Collier (feat. Lizzy McAlpine and John Mayer) – “Never Gonna Be Alone”
Lucy Dacus – “Kissing Lessons”
Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat. MF Doom – “Belize”
Dawes – “The Interest of Time”
Destroyer – “June”
Future Islands – “King of Sweden”
Aimee-Leigh Gemstone – “Sassy on Sunday”
Ludwig Göransson – “Turning Red”
Gorillaz feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown – “New Gold”
Hot Chip – “Down”
Jamie xx – “Let’s Do It Again”
Carly Rae Jepsen – “Go Find Yourself or Whatever”
Jimmy Eat World – “Place Your Debts”
Durand Jones & the Indications – “The Way That I Do”
Kae Tempest feat. Kevin Abstract – “More Pressure”
Steve Lacy – “Bad Habit”
Kendrick Lamar feat. Baby Keem and Sam Dew – “Savior”
LCD Soundsystem – “New Body Rhumba”
MJ Lenderman – “You Are Every Girl to Me”
Lizzo – “About Damn Time”
Brian Metolius – “Robert Dyas (The Funky Range of Our Christmas Gifts)”
Mitski – “Should’ve Been Me”
Marcus Mumford – “Grace”
Phoenix feat. Ezra Koenig – “Tonight”
Plains, Waxahatchee and Jess Williamson – “Abilene”
Pusha T – “Diet Coke”
Secret Machines – “Day 21”
Seratones – “Good Day”
The Smile – “Speech Bubbles”
Soccer Mommy – “Shotgun”
Spoon – “Wild”
Bartees Strange – “Heavy Heart”
The Suffers – “Don’t Bother Me”
Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero”
Trombone Shorty – “Come Back”
TRSH – “Miso Soup”
Wallice – “90s American Superstar”
Weyes Blood – “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs feat. Perfume Genius – “Spitting Off the Edge of the World”
Yeule – “Don’t Be So Hard on Your Own Beauty”