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A theme this year seems to be “I wasn’t into them before, but this is great.” This goes for Robyn more than it does for Royksopp.

Russian girl group, rubbish cheap music video. Obviously I like the song though, or it wouldn’t be here.

Not enough dance music on this list so far, so let’s rectify that.

Bit of a quandry here – my least favourite bit of the (very good) new Klaxons album is the first half of Atom to Atom, but my favourite bit is the second half of Atom to Atom. So I’m selecting the second half of it. It’s a cheat, I know, and I’ll cheat twice again, it’s my blog. Can someone make a whole LP that sounds like this, please?

Taylor Swift enters her imperial phase.

My choices seem a bit predictable at this point, but this had to be here really. Though ‘All Under One Roof Raving’ would’ve been much more interesting to talk about, this is still the obvious highlight of his two singles in 2014.

Someone on the internet called this “Dad music” – and you can sort of see what they mean, until you get to the instrumental break at 3.20.
Dailymotion link again for silly geographical rights reasons.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x273mau_flying-lotus-never-catch-me-ft-kendrick-lamar_music

Every time I listen to a new Sébastien Tellier song I have to get over it not being as good as La Ritournelle. They usually turn out to be pretty good in their own right, of course.

Trends this year:
* Band names with ‘Mr’
* Music videos with big trucks
* Awesome synths

Um, not much to say about this one. Love the sax solo two minutes in. Cheers again Duncan!