Best of 2015 91-100

2015 saw a lot of great new music, despite what Now 92 would have you believe.  It was hard to leave out tracks by the following bands (listed alphabetically) from my 'top 100': 8:58, A Place To Bury Strangers, Aiden Penner, BC Camplight, BEAK, Baby Strange, Battles, Blanck Mass, Blancmange, Bop English, Brand New, C Duncan, Chromatics, Cruising, D-MAS, Dan Friel, Death and Vanilla, Deerhunter, Drenge, Dungen, Erfolg, Farao, Fight Like Apes, Free Weed, GZA, Garden of Elks, Ghostface Killah, Guerilla Toss, HEALTH, Happyness, Hills, Hinds, I Ludicrous, Idlewild, Indridi, Job Kidder, Joanna Gruesome, Kero Kero Bonito, Kerrier District, Kitchen's Floor, Krafty Kuts, Le Thug, Lee Fields, MIA, Marriage, Matthew Melton, Michal Menert,Molly Nilsson, Nap Eyes, Neil Young, New Candys, No Ditching, Nobody, Open Mike Eagle, Owiny Sigoma Band,  Palehound, Palmbomen II, Pete Astor, Pleasure Beach, Polyversal Souls, Prinzhorn Dance School, Protomartyr, Queen Kwong, Ratatat, Royal Headache, Saul Williams, Shopping, Slim Twig, Soko, Son Lux, Sonic Jesus, TORRES, TV Girl, Tech N9ne, Tei Shi, The Big Moon, The Horn The Hunt, The Iain Duncan Smiths, The Mountain Goats, The Prodigy, The Singles, The Very Best, Thee Oh Sees, Tigercats, Twerps, Virginia Wing, Wet Blankets, Whyte Horses, Wire, Yak, Young Fathers and many many more.  But a list can only be so long.  And here it is:

91.  FRED THOMAS - Bad Blood


92.  COCOROSIE - Lost Girls


93.  DE LUX - L.A. Threshold


94.  U.S. GIRLS - Window Shades


95.  AESOP ROCK & HOMEBOY SANDMAN - So Strange Here


96.  FIRST AID KIT - Silver Lining


97.  ALEXANDRE FRANCISCO DIAPHRA - Transfer


98.  FFS - Piss Off


99.  !!! (CHK CHK CHK) - Freedom '15


100. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - FloriDada

Best of 2014 1-10

1.  JUNGLE - Time / Busy Earnin'




2.  YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - One


3.  FKA TWIGS - Two Weeks


4.  WILD PROMISES - Ballymore


5.  FAT WHITE FAMILY - Touch The Leather (Redux) / I Am Mark E Smith




6.  FUMACA PRETA - Vou Me Libertar


7.  SAVAGES - Fuckers


8.  WILD BEASTS - Mecca (SOHN Remix)


9.  HINDS - Bamboo


10.  TOM VEK - Broke

Best of 2014 11-20

11.  ARCADE FIRE - We Exist


12.  MUSEUM OF LOVE - In Infancy


13.  SINKANE - Hold Tight


14.  KING CREOSOTE - For One Night Only


15.  FUTURE ISLANDS - Seasons (Waiting On You)


16.  JAMES - Moving On


17.  BIPOLAR SUNSHINE - Love More Worry Less


18.  LAIBACH - The Whistleblowers


19.  RAFTER - No Fucking Around


20.  AGES AND AGES - Divisionary (Do The Right Thing)

Best of 2014 21-30

21.  BLUEPRINT - Perspective


22.  SIZZY ROCKET - Girls


23.  KILL J - Bullet


24.  MICAH P. HINSON - Patience


25.  BENIN CITY - Bus


26.  PHANTOGRAM - Blackout Days


27.  WU-TANG CLAN - A Better Tomorrow


28.  MOGWAI - Teenage Exorcists


29.  HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT - The Unfortunate Gwatkin


30.  LINDA PERHACS - Intensity

Best of 2014 31-40

31.  SUN KIL MOON - War On Drugs Suck My Cock


32.  MOON DUO - Animal


33.  KATE TEMPEST - Lonely Daze


34.  BROKEN BELLS - Holding On For Life


35.  SYLVAN ESSO - Coffee


36.  ZHALA - Prophet (Grammis Version) [feat. Robyn]


37.  CRUISING - You Made Me Do That


38.  VEYU - Running


39.  KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Hot Wax


40.  CEREMONY - The Sunglass Girl

Best of 2014 41-50

41.  THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - Beautiful You


42.  MO KOLOURS - Little Brown Dog


43.  MAZES - Salford


44.  FLYTE - We Are The Rain


45.  THE AMAZING SNAKEHEADS - Here It Comes Again


46.  THE JUAN MACLEAN - A Place Called Space


47.  LIARS - Mess On A Mission


48.  THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL - Maxine's Dream


49.  DROWNERS - Unzip Your Harrington


50.  EAGULLS - Footsteps

Best of 2014 51-60

51.  CROSS  MY HEART HOPE TO DIE - Two Shots


52.  LE VASCO - Chill


53.  KIKAGAKU MOYO - Streets of Calcutta


54.  TEARS FOR FEARS - Ready To Start (Arcade Fire Cover)


55.  PINK MOUNTAINTOPS - Ambulance City


56.  THE HIDDEN CAMERAS - Doom


57.  THE ORWELLS - Dirty Sheets


58.  THE BUDOS BAND - Burnt Offering


59.  SPRAY PAINT - Drive By Feeling


60.  SISYPHUS - Rhythm of Devotion

Best of 2014 61-70

61.  LANA DEL REY - Fucked My Way Up To The Top


62.  MORRISSEY - Istanbul


63.  MARTHA - 1967, I Miss You, I'm Lonely


64.  TRANCE FARMERS - White Out


65.  TACOCAT - Crimson Wave


66.  INTERPOL - All The Rage Back Home


67.  ARTHUR BEATRICE - Late


68.  OUGHT - More Than Any Other Day


69.  MY NEIGHBOUR IS - Running of the Bulls


70.  MINT ROYALE - Ring (feat. Willem Dafoe)

Best of 2014 71-80

71.  THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Vad Hände Med Dem?   /  What You Isn't




72.  RAVIOLI ME AWAY - Cat Call


73.  BISHOP ALLEN - Start Again


74.  ANIMALI - The Alchemists


75.  SLEAFORD MODS - Jobseeker


76.  MAGIC BRONSON - Shivers


77.  INSPIRAL CARPETS ft. JOHN COOPER CLARKE - Let You Down


78.   BEN KHAN - Savage


79.  ALT-J - Left Hand Free


80.  THE DEREVOLUTIONS - Pascualita

Best of 2014 81-90

81.  ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE - Danzig Queen


82.  TOBACCO - Eruption (Gonna Get My Hair Cut At The End Of The Summer)


83.  PROTOMARTYR - Come & See


84.  LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE - What's Holding You?


85.  BUTTON EYES X MIKILL PANE - Simple Days Remix


86.  ALI MUHAREB - Don't Bother Me


87.  U.S. ROYALTY - Blue Sunshine


88.  SMALL WONDER - Lost At Highway


89.  CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH -  Coming Down


90.  YUCK - Athena





 

Best of 2014 91-100

91.  THE FAINT - Damage Control


92.   CHUCK E. WEISS - Boston Blackie


93.  FRANKO FRAIZE - Underdog


94.  THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT - Here Comes The Rain


95.  EVIL ARROWS - Little Stars


96.  TERROR PIGEON - Girl!


97.  TWIN SHADOW - To The Top


98.  SHIT ROBOT Ft. NANCY WHANG - Do That Dance


99.  TV GIRL - Birds Don't Sing / Pantyhose




100. GIRLPOOL - Slutmouth
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