50 great tracks of 2014 so far
What follows is a list of 50 songs released so far this year that are among the most listened to, most loved, most moving and most important (to me, personally). It could easily have been 100 but if you want more there’s always the monthly playlists to delve into – January / February / March / April / May / June. Looking for albums? Here’s my list of 2014 so far too.
In two flavours: Spotify and Soundcloud. Players below.
The list
- Future Islands – ‘Seasons (Waiting On You)’
- Jungle – ‘Busy Earnin’
- Ships – ‘Space Inside’
- Little Dragon – ‘Paris’
- Caribou – ‘Can’t Do Without You’
- Banks – ‘Drowning’
- Shamir – ‘If It Wasn’t True’
- SZA feat. Chance The Rapper – ‘Child’s Play’
- Hundred Waters – ‘Down From The Rafters’
- Todd Terje – ‘Delorean Dynamite’
- Glass Animals – ‘Gooey’
- Jamie xx – ‘Girl’
- Krystal Klear – ‘Squad‘
- Ratking – ‘Canal’
- Ben Khan – ‘Savage’
- James Vincent McMorrow – ‘Gold’
- Lykke Li – ‘No Rest For The Wicked’
- Fatima – ‘Family’
- Clipping. – ‘Work Work’ (Feat. Cocc Pistol Cree)
- The Gloaming – ‘Sailor’s Bonnet’ (live)
- Warpaint – ‘Keep It Healthy‘
- Girl Band – ‘Lawman’
- Sylvan Esso – ‘Coffee’
- Fatima Al Qadiri – ‘Shanghai Freeway’
- Le Galaxie – ‘Humanise’
- New Jackson – ‘Satisfaction’
- Arthur Beatrice – ‘Midland’
- Angel Olsen – ‘Forgiven/Forgotten’
- Metronomy – ‘Love Letters’ (Soulwax remix)
- Beck – ‘Blue Moon’
- Villagers – ‘Occupy Your Mind’
- Alt-J – ‘Hunger Of The Pine’
- Talos – ‘Tethered Bones’
- FKA Twigs – ‘Two Weeks’
- Andrew Ashong – ‘Love The Way’
- Twin Shadow – ‘To The Top’
- Future – ‘Move That Dope’
- A$AP Mob – Trillmatic (feat. A$AP Nast & Method Man)
- God Knows + mynameisjOhn – ‘Standard’
- Juce – ‘Call You Out’
- Blood Orange – ‘Uncle Ace’ (Kindness remix feat Robert Owens)
- Kelis – ‘Jerk Ribs’
- Hozier – ‘From Eden’
- Adultrock – ‘Chants’
- SOHN – ‘Artifice’
- How to Dress Well – ‘The Words I Don’t Remember’
- TALA – ‘Serbia’
- The Horrors – ‘So Now You Know’
- Jon Hopkins – ‘We Disappear’ feat. Lulu James
- Tomas Barfod – ‘Pulsing’ feat. Nina K.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.