The best songs of the month – May
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
- Metronomy – ‘Old Skool’
- Skepta – ‘Lyrics’
- Radiohead – ‘Daydreaming’
- Chance The Rapper – ‘No Problem’
- Marcus Marr – ‘Rocketship’
- Lyra – ‘Emerald’
- James Blake & Bon Iver – ‘I Need A Forest Fire’
- Kaytranada – ‘Lite Spots’
- FLUME – Say It feat Tove Lo
- BADBADNOTGOOD – Time Moves Slow (feat. Sam Herring)
- Jens Kuross – ‘Steadier’
- Planet Parade – ‘Face To Face’
- Factory Floor – ‘Dial Me In’
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – ‘First World Problem’
- NAO – ‘Girlfriend’
- Wild Beasts – ‘Get My Bang’
- Glass Animals – ‘Life Itself’
- Sampha – ‘Timmy’s Prayer’
- Alicia Keys – ‘In Common’
- Todd Terje & The Olsens – ‘Firecracker’
- Kauf – Through The Yard (Fort Romeau Remix)
- Ensemble Ériu – ‘The Tempest’
- Grace Lightman – ‘Faultless’
- Shura – ‘What’s It Gonna Be?’
- Paul McCartney, Wings, Timo Maas & James Teej – Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
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