The first bracket contains my favorite singles, b-sides or one-off-purchased songs of the year. Worthwhile songs populate the second.
In Order
- “Empyrean Abattoir” » of Montreal
- “Drift” » Strange Relations
- “Ideal World” » Girlpool
- “Am I Dust” » Cold Beat
- “Shake & Tremble” » Django Django
- “Mainstream Kid” » Brandi Carlile
- “Goose Eggs” » Joanna Newsom
- “Sweet Annie” » Reina del Cid
- “Edo Method » The Bilinda Butchers
- “Say What” » My Brightest Diamond
- “Picture You” » The Amazing
- “Some Minds” » Flume
- “Jenny” » The Bird and the Bee
- “Men for Miles” » Ought
- “Take It As It Comes” » Wimps
- “Mother of Lies“ » JD McPherson
- “Gates of Gold” » Los Lobos
- “Los Angeles” » Phosphorescent
- “Raising the Skate” » Speedy Ortiz
- “Empty Nesters” » Toro y Moi
- “No Way Out” » Warpaint
- “Obnoxiously Sexual” » GusGus
- “Moving to Brussels” » Bhi Bhiman
- “Saint Joan” » Husky
Alphabetical
- “40 Oz on Repeat” » FIDLAR
- “Anonymous” » Fort Frances
- “Atoms Never Die” » Adam Levy
- “Be What You Are” » The Cairo Gang
- “Boys Life” » Small Black
- “Choreograph” » Gilligan Moss
- “Desire” » Dilly Dally
- “Drama” » 79rs Gang
- “Easy Way Out” » Other Lives
- “Fatal Flaw” » Titus Andronicus
- “Gates of Dawn” » Heartless Bastards
- “Half Right” » Zebra Hunt
- “IDK How” » angelic milk
- “Jaded” » Disclosure
- “Life Rips” » Mommy Long Legs
- “Patriarchaeth” » Gwenno
- “A Place We Can Go” » Seapony
- “Start Somewhere” » Sarah Bethe Nelson
- “They / Them / Theirs” » Worriers
- “To Me, To You (Instrumental)” » Prhyme
- “Trouble in Mind” » Asleep at the Wheel with Lyle Lovett
- “Word” » Your Old Droog