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Here is my final playlist of the year and one that is the most fun and most painstaking to put together. This year I increased the list to 150, as new music just keeps coming and all of these songs are life-enriching in some way.
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Bonus listening? Christmas playlist. | Best tracks cumulative playlist 2005 – present
Top 100 songs of 2015
- Grimes – Realiti (Demo version)
- Tame Impala – Let It Happen
- Bicep – Just
- Jape – Ribbon Ribbon Ribbon
- Jamie xx feat. Young Thug & Popcaan, I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
- Hot Chip – Dancing In The Dark
- Para One – Elevation
- Shamir – Call It Off
- !!! – Freedom 15
- Erykah Badu – Hotline Bling / Cell U Lar Device
- PG Goes Dance – ‘Kontrol’ (Fort Romeau)
- Major Lazer & DJ Snake – Lean On (feat. MØ)
- Murli / Rusangano Family – Both Sides
- Jamie xx – Loud Places
- Sufjan Stevens – Should Have Known Better
- Nao – Inhale/Exhale
- Julio Bashmore – Holding On
- All Tvvins – Too Young To Live
- Chvrches – Leave A Trace (Four Tet remix)
- Courtney Barnett – Depreston
- Shura – White Light
- Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta
- Tame Impala – Let It Happen (Soulwax remix)
- Saint Sister – Blood Moon
- Percussions – Digital Arpeggios
- Soft Lit – I Can’t Help It
- Girl Band – Paul
- Mark Ronson feat. Kevin Parker – Daffodils
- Talos – ‘In Time’
- Haelos – ‘Earth Not Above’
- Alabama Shakes – Don’t Want to Fight
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Sunday Candy
- Shit Robot – Where It’s At (feat. Reggie Watts)
- Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
- Ghostface Killah & Badbadnotgood – Gunshowers
- Action Bronson feat. Chance The Rapper – Baby Blue
- Hot Chip – Huarache Lights
- Kelela – Rewind
- Villagers – Hot Scary Summer
- La Priest – Learning To Love
- Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip – Go
- Wet – ‘Deadwater’
- Fort Romeau – Not A Word (with New Jackson)
- Roisin Murphy – Evil Eyes
- Emmanuelle – Free Hifi Internet
- Empress Of – How Do You Do It
- Girl Pool – ‘Chinatown’ (single version)
- Joanna Newsom – Leaving the City
- Alessia Cara – Here
- Neon Indian – Annie
- New Order – Tutti Frutti
- Cashmere Cat – Adore feat. Ariana Grande
- FaltyDL – Visceral
- Jungle – Julia (Soulwax remix)
- Bibio – Petals
- Jaakko Eino Kalevi feat. Farao – ‘Everything Nice’ (Popcaan cover)
- Hudson Mohawke – ‘Very First Breath’
- Joy Orbison & Boddika – ‘TMTT’
- Majical Cloudz – Silver Car Crash
- Le Galaxie – Put The Chain On
- Father John Misty – The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment
- Kanye West / Paul McCartney – ‘Only One’
- Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best
- All We Are – I Wear You
- Lapsley – Hurt Me
- Jack J – ‘Thirstin’
- Jape – Séance Of Light
- Jamie xx – Gosh
- Madlib & Samuel T. Herring – Trouble Knows Me
- Made In Heights – Panther
- Anderson – ‘Cecila’s Sister’
- Roosevelt – Night Moves
- Shamir – Hot Mess
- Kendrick Lamar – These Walls
- Jessica Pratt – Jacquelyn In The Background
- EMBRZ – ‘Lights’ ft. pennybirdrabbit
- Sophie – ‘Just Like We Never Said Goodbye’
- Kwamie Liv – Pleasure This Pain feat. Angel Haze
- Skepta – Shutdown
- Kanye West – All Day [ft. Allan Kingdom, Theophilus London, and Paul McCartney]
- Lianne La Havas – ‘Unstoppable’
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The River
- Mr Mendel – Who Do You Love
- Mac Demarco – The Way You’d Love Her
- Lindstrom and Grace Hall – Home Tonight
- Oh Wonder – Livewire
- Tei Shi – ‘Go Slow’
- Tobias Jesso Jr – How Could You Babe?
- Girl Band – Pears For Lunch
- Bitch Falcon – ‘TMJ’
- Owiny Sigoma Band – I Made You / You Made Me
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
- Braids – Miniskirt
- Yumi Zouma – A Song for Zoe & Gwen
- Missy Elliott – ‘WTF (Where They From?)’ feat. Pharrell
- Chet Faker & Banks – 1998
- Jack U – Where Are Ü Now (feat. Justin Bieber)
- Jamie Woon – Movement
- Vök – Waterfall
- Ben Khan – 1000
- Boot & Tax – Dancin’
- Fierce Mild – Small Talk
- Wax Stag – Sparkling River
- Anna B Savage – I
- Jack Garratt – Weathered
- Young Fathers – Rain Or Shine
- Augustus & John – There Goes My Train
- Beach House – Space Song
- C Duncan – For
- Foals – Mountain At My Gates
- Daithi – Mary Keane’s Introduction
- FKA Twigs – Glass & Patron
- Chance The Rapper – Somewhere in Paradise
- Kaytranada – ‘Drive Me Crazy’ featuring Vic Mensa
- Wiley & Zomby – Step 2001
- Joey Bada$$ feat. Kiesza – Teach Me How to Dance
- Pleasure Beach – ‘Go’
- Sauce81 – Natural Thing
- Planet Parade – ‘Blue Sky’
- Rusangano Family – Heathrow
- Portico – 101 feat. Joe Newman
- Roots Manuva – Facety 2:11
- Ciaran Lavery and Ryan Vail as Sea Legs – The Colour Blue
- Paradise 100 – Heat.WAV
- Gallant – Weight In Gold
- Thundercat – Them Changes
- Ibeyi – Ghosts
- Nozinja Feat. Mumdance, Micachu and Tirzah – Thinking Of You
- Statik Selektah feat. Joey Bada$$ & Action Bronson – ‘Beautiful Life’
- Seven Davis Jr / Julio Bashmore – ‘Good Vibes’
- Reykjavíkurdætur – ‘DRUSLA’
- St. Vincent – Teenage Talk
- The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face
- The Galleria – ‘Calling Card’
- Little xs for eyes – Logical Love
- Tirzah – Make It Up
- Leon Bridges – Coming Home
- Martyn – Falling For You
- Bicep & Hammer – ‘Dahlia’
- Torres – Cowboy Guilt
- Towkio – Reflection (Kaytranada production)
- Girls Names – Zero Triptych
- Villagers – ‘Courage’
- Florence + The Machine – What Kind Of Man
- Eaves – Pylons
- Jake Houlsby – ‘Yannina’
- Bob Moses – ‘First To Cry’
- George FitzGerald – ‘Call It Love (If You Want To)'[Feat. Lawrence Hart]
- Daphni – Vikram
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Slip Slide
