Songs of the month: January 2016
My favourite songs of the past month. Get the majority of them as a continuous playlists below on Spotify and Soundcloud.
The top songs of the month
- Fatima Yamaha – ‘Sooty Shearwater, King of Migration’
- David Bowie –’Dollar Days’
- Katharine Philippa – ‘Bieber’
- Anderson .Paak – ‘Put Me Thru’
- Toby Kaar – ‘Snapdragon’
- Hyphen Hyphen – ‘Just Need Your Love’
- Designer + Four Tet – Mothers
- Jessy Lanza – ‘It Means I Love You’
- Kendrick Lamar – ‘Untitled 2’
- Låpsley – ‘Love Is Blind’
- Cian Nugent – ‘Lost Your Way’
- DJDS – ‘I Don’t Love You’
- The Gloaming – ‘Fáinleog (Wanderer)’
- XO – ‘Divine Disaster’
- Kelly Lee Owens – ‘More Than A Woman’ (Aaliyah cover)
- Bad Bones – ‘Beg’
- Savages – ‘Adore’
- Kanye West – ‘Real Friends’ / Erykah Badu – ‘Trill Friends’
- PJ Harvey – ‘The Wheel’
- Katy B, Four Tet & Floating Points – Calm Down
- MMoths – ‘Eva’
- Quilt – ‘Roller’
- Porches – ‘Be Apart’
- Fort Romeau – ‘Secrets & Lies’
- Bibio – ‘Feeling’
- Flume – Smoke And Retribution feat. Vince Staples & Kučka
- Miike Snow – Genghis Khan
- Sjowgren – Seventeen
- Massive Attack – Take It There (feat. Tricky & 3D)
- Hinds – ‘Fat Calmed Kiddos’
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