The 20 best tracks of the month: August
The top 20 tracks that made my month in August, whether they were posted on the site, heard live, from an album or elsewhere…
- Baauer – ‘Harlem Shake’
- DENA – ‘Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools’
- Zebra Katz – ‘Imma Read’
- Todd Terje – ‘Inspector Norse’
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – ‘Stronger’
- Orquesta –‘Kokomo (ft. Jape, Kathi Burke & Katie Kim)’
- Mykki Blanco – ‘Wavvy’
- Forrests – ‘Tarifa’
- Alt-J – ‘Tessellate’
- Ryan Hemsworth – ‘Overthinking’ Supreme Cuts remix
- Chad Valley – ‘Fall 4 U’ (Feat. Glasser)
- Monto – ‘All Is Well‘
- Halls – ‘White Chalk’
- Kate Bush – ‘Running Up That Hill’ (2012 Remix)
- Funkineven & Fatima – ‘Phone Line’
- Mumblin’ Deaf Ro – ‘Cheer Up Charlie Brown’
- Why? – ‘A Sod In The Seed’
- AnimalZOO – ’1000 Spacecolours’
- David Byrne & St. Vincent – ‘Who’
- Grizzly Bear – ‘Yet Again’
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