The last quarter of our best tracks of the year features the most significant hip-hop artist; one of whose songs has become an anthem for the new civil rights movement; two spectacular comebacks; a fox turned priest; the most covered song of 2015 and the best of those covers; a revelations and a well established act from down under and Obama’s choice.
And our favourite tracks of the year are:
25-THE WEEKND Can't Feel My Face (Insterscope) |
24-FUTURE March Madness (Self-Released) |
23-COURTNEY BARNETT Depreston (Milk Records) |
22-TAME IMPALA Cause I'm A Man (Modular) |
21-GRIMES Flesh Without Blood (4AD) |
20-D'ANGELO & THE VANGUARD Sugah Daddy (RCA) |
19-BJÖRK Stonemilker (One Little Indian) |
18-NEON INDIAN Slumlord (Transgressive) |
17-CARLY RAE JEPSEN Run Away With Me (Schoolboy) |
16-SLEATER-KINNEY Surface Envy (Sub Pop) |
15-DESTROYER Times Square (Dead Oceans) |
14-KENDRICK LAMAR King Kunta (Top Dawg) |
13-ERYKAH BADU FEAT. ANDRE 3000 Hello (Self-Released) |
12-SUFJAN STEVENS All Of Me Wants All Of You (Ashtmatic Kitty) |
11-TAME IMPALA Let It Happen (Modular) |
10-JULIA HOLTER Sea Calls Me Home (Domino) |
9-COURTNEY BARNETT Pedestrian At Best (Milk Record) |
8-FATHER JOHN MISTY I Love You, Honeybear (Bella Union) |
7-JOANNA NEWSOM Divers (Drag City) |
6-KENDRICK LAMAR Alright (Top Dawg) |
5-JAMIE XX FEAT. YOUNG THUG & POPCAAN I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) (Young Thug) |
4-DRAKE/ERYKAH BADU Hotline Bling/Cel U Lar Device (OVO Music/Self-Released) |
3-GRIMES Kill V. Maim (4AD) |
2-SUFJAN STEVENS Fourth Of July (Ashtmatic Kitty) |
1-KENDRICK LAMAR FEAT. JAMES FAUNTLEROY & RONALD ISLEY How Much A Dollar Cost (Top Dawg) |
And the rest of the Top 100:
TRACKS 50-26
TRACKS 75-51
TRACKS 100-76