Yeah, I know it’s a bit late, but here’s my regular overview of my favourite tracks from the last year, in a single easily-digestible post this time.

MP3 download (1-19)
MP3 download (20-41)
MP3 download (42-60)
MP3 download (61-75)
Spotify playlist (missing 11 tracks)
Youtube playlist (missing 1 track)

1 – Missy Elliott Ft. Pharrell Williams – WTF (Where They From)
2 – Daphne & Celeste – You & I Alone
3 – Julia Holter – Vasquez
4 – Machinedrum – SeeSea (DJ Rashad & Taso Remix)
5 – Floating Points – Silhouettes (I, II & III)
6 – Etherwood – For A Time I Was You
7 – Shura – 2shy
8 – Susanne Sundfor – Delirious
9 – Sleepy Tom Feat. Anna Lunoe – Pusher
10 – Kendrick Lamar – Alright
11 – Death Grips – Inanimate Sensation
12 – Kero Kero Bonito – Picture This
13 – Dawn Richard – Calypso
14 – Julia Holter – Feel You
15 – Joy – Ingen Hejd
16 – Liz – When I Rule The World
17 – Jamie XX – The Rest Is Noise
18 – Pinkshinyultrablast – Holy Forest
19 – Girl Band – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
20 – Shamir – Call It Off
21 – Aminata – Love Injected
22 – Le1f – Koi
23 – Dua Lipa – Be The One
24 – Sophie – Vyzee
25 – Bjork – Stonemilker
26 – Camp Claude – Blow
27 – Jlin – Expand (Featuring Holly Herndon)
28 – Round – Glass
29 – Ka (Dr. Yen Lo) – Day 13
30 – Royalston – Give Me The Word (feat. Hannah Joy)
31 – Lula – ห่างไม่ไกล
32 – Bonnie Mckee – Bombastic
33 – DJ Paypal – Slim Trak
34 – LSB – About Tonight
35 – Carly Rae Jepsen – E·mo·tion
36 – 2814 – 遠くの愛好家
37 – DJ Spinn – Dubby (Feat. Dj Rashad & Danny Brown)
38 – Kaitlyn Airelia Smith – Bobbing Beams Of Light
39 – The Mountain Goats – Heel Turn 2
40 – 555 – The Hierophant
41 – Noisia & The Upbeats – Omnivore
42 – Janelle Monae And Wondaland Records – Hell You Talmbout
43 – Dr. Dre – Genocide (Feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay)
44 – DJ Rashad – CCP2 (Feat. DJ Spinn)
45 – Carla Morrison – Un Beso
46 – FFS – Police Encounters
47 – Lightning Bolt – Snow White (& The 7 Dwarves Fans)
48 – East India Youth – Carousel
49 – Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best
50 – Bomba Estereo – Mar (Lo Que Siento)
51 – Tkay Maidza – Switch Lanes (Feat. Paces)
52 – Rockwell – Itsok2behapp-e (Ft. Sam Binga & Hyroglifics)
53 – Pep & Rash – Rumors
54 – Laura Marling – Strange
55 – Thundercat – Them Changes
56 – Kero Kero Bonito – Chicken
57 – Jamie xx – Gosh
58 – Lim Kim – Awoo
59 – Blur – Thought I Was A Spaceman
60 – Ibeyi – River
61 – Mbongwana Star – Malukayi
62 – Ane Brun – Directions
63 – Natalia Lafourcade – Hasta La Raiz
64 – Algo – Sewer Run
65 – Ghostface Killah & Badbadnotgood – Ray Gun (Feat. Doom)
66 – Joanna Newsom – Anecdotes
67 – Skepta – Shutdown
68 – Dengue Fever – No Sudden Moves
69 – Zhu – Automatic (Featuring Alunageorge)
70 – Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Siran Fen
71 – Jazmine Sullivan – Stupid Girl
72 – f(x) – 4 Walls
73 – Memtrix & Spor – Super Trace
74 – Rangleklods – Lost U
75 – Ngaiire – Once

So, why did I make this?

For a few reasons – I need it for a project I’m working on, I like to participate in a few online music communities which have reader polls, a few people might be interested in listening to the tracks, but, if I’m being honest, mainly out of sheer force of habit.

Why no blurbs this year?

I have limited time for writing, and it’s better spent elsewhere

Why 75 tracks? Why not 100 or 50 or 20?

I edited a couple of thousand tracks down to “just the ones I love” – that’s what we have here.

Why are they ranked?

I planned not to rank them, but it proved easier to edit them this way – and I needed to submit ranked lists for a couple of polls.

No Blackstar?

Saving that for next year