Top 25 songs of the year
- Private, “My Secret Lover (Diplo Mix)”
- Phoenix, “Lisztomania”
- Passion Pit, “Sleepyhead (Wallpaper Mix)”
- Das Racist, “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)”
- St. Vincent, “Actor Out of Work”
- Dirty Projectors, “Stillness is the Move”
- The Very Best, “Ntende Uli”
- Sleigh Bells, “A/B Machines”
- Neon Indian, “Should Have Taken Acid With You”
- YACHT – “I’m in Love With a Ripper”
- Joy Oribson, “Hyph Mngo”
- Phoenix, “1901”
- Basement Jaxx, “Raindrops”
- Royksopp f/ Fever Ray, “This Must Be It”
- Carl Sagan f/ Stephen Hawking, “A Glorious Dawn”
- The Field, “Leave It”
- Gold Panda, “Quitter’s Ragga”
- Kid Cudi – “Made Her Say”
- Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck, “IRM”
- Major Lazer, “Hold the Line”
- Four Tet, “Love Cry”
- Animal Collective, “Daily Routine (Phaseone Mix)”
- Volcano Choir, “Island, IS”
- Vitalic, “Your Disco Song”
- Fuck Buttons, “Surf Solar”
Top 10 albums of the year
- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
- Fever Ray – Fever Ray
- Omar Souleyman - Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria
- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
- Taken By Trees - East of Eden
- Neon Indian - Physic Chasms
- Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
- RJD2 - The Tin Foil Hat EP
- Dan Deacon - Bromst
Thoughts, endnotes, and a bunch more after the jump.
