Really nice to listen to and I like some of the lyrics at lot.
27. Grizzly Bear - "Sleeping Ute"
The opening track to their new album Shields really caught my attention. I still have yet to hear the album in full but I'm sure I'll like it better than their previous effort.
26. DIIV - "Doused"
This is an album that I've heard a couple of people talking about but I never bothered to listen to it since it seems like all the songs sound the same.
However, I really like "Doused". The dark mood and the guitars on it are great.
25. Marina and the Diamonds - "Lonely Hearts Club"
Electra Heart was one of the few truly pop album that I enjoyed this year, but it did get old quickly.
"Lonely Hearts Club", like most of the bonus tracks, stood out as being one of the best tracks on the album. I wish it was longer, but I love the fast-paced feel of the song combined with the sad lyrics and heartbroken vocals.
40. Niki & The Dove - Somebody
37. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
36. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Only In My Dreams
35. Gossip - Perfect World
34. David Bryne & St. Vincent - Who
32. The xx - Chained
31. Ladyhawke - Sunday Drive
28. Bat For Lashes - Laura
27. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute
26. DIIV - Doused
10/16 Shields is a great album, you need to give it a listen!
Nice to see Only In My Dreams, Perfect World, Little Talks on your list!
I found out about their album on Spotify and I really feel in love with this track. It makes me feel sad, but in a good way.
23. Frank Ocean - "Pyramids"
Usually I don't like songs that are over seven minutes or so but this manages to keep me interested for all ten minutes. Definitely a standout from a really good album to begin with.
22. Chairlift - "Sidewalk Safari"
I admit it was difficult to choose just one song from their album to make my list but I keep going back to this one. The production on it is awesome.
21. No Doubt - "Push And Shove"
Truly a great pop song, Gwen's breakdown is amazing. I felt like their album delivered considering how many pop albums sucked last year. It wasn't great, but it was good enough.
Figured you would have put Who higher! I feel like everyone was kinda disappointed in their album but I didn't really think so! I mean it could have been better, but it was a good album imo.
Love that you put I Love It in. Actually not my favorite Icona Pop song but it's a fantastic one regardless. They're great.
Yeah why was it that Marina's bonus tracks were better than the standard tracklist? Strange. Glad to see that you have her on even though EH failed to live up to the greatness of her debut.
Push and Shove! Fantastic song, seriously. I wish that everyone knew it or at least all my friends so that we could all get drunk and do what they do in the video: just go wild and scream the song. AHHH. Love it so much. It was a pretty good album too, not as bad as others made it out to be (this happens more often than not with albums though).
I fully agree on Pyramids, when I saw how long it was I almost didn't listen to it because I usually don't have the patience for such long tracks. however, it captivated me quickly and in the end I didn't even notice that almost 10 minutes had passed. amazing song.
Push and Shove is great, and No Doubt's album was indeed better than a lot of pop releases last year. I wish more people had realized that. the title track is one of my favorites on the album.
I got into this song a bit late, and I am by no means an Usher fan, but this is seriously amazing.
16. Wild Nothing - "Shadow"
I sort of love everything about this - the guitar hook, the loss-of-hope lyrics, the overall depressed mood. Perfectly describes how I'm feeling on a bad day.