I mentioned on Facebook the other day that I had a really, really long playlist this year. I've been doing annual playlists for a very long time, and never have I had one that included 45 songs. Last year it was only 20. It was an exceptionally good year for music that I like, including a lot of songs that were probably one-hit wonders, but also a lot of good albums. There were some new favorites and some new efforts by previous favorites.
My favorite album this year was undoubtedly In Rolling Waves by The Naked and Famous. Second albums have a bad reputation, but this one is a total winner.
For the curious, here's what that list looks like.
- At Home, Crystal Fighters
- Default, Django Django
- Skies Over Cairo, Django Django
- Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood
- High School Lover, Cayucas
- Where The Kids Are, Blondfire
- Safe and Sound, Capital Cities
- Radioactive, Imagine Dragons
- Take A Walk, Passion Pit
- Ho Hey, The Lumineers
- Wild, Royal Teeth
- Global Concepts, Robert DeLong
- Change, Churchill
- Cut It Out, Kitten
- Sacrilege, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Entertainment, Phoenix
- S.O.S. in Bel Air, Phoenix
- Waves, Blondfire
- Believer, American Authors
- Diane Young, Vampire Weekend
- Up In The Air, Thirty Seconds To Mars
- Because the Night, Garbage and Screaming Females
- Skyfall (The Voice Performance), Amber Carrington
- Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone"), Anna Kendrick
- Hurricane, MS MR
- Doin' it Right, Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear
- Get Lucky, Daft Punk feat. Pharrell
- Royals, Lorde
- Wake Me Up, Avicii
- Best Day Of My Life, American Authors
- Pumpin Blood, Nonono
- Came Back Haunted, Nine Inch Nails
- Ways To Go, Grouplove
- A Stillness, The Naked And Famous
- Hearts Like Ours, The Naked And Famous
- Rolling Waves, The Naked And Famous
- Team, Lorde
- Pompeii, Bastille
- A Light That Never Comes, Linkin Park X Steve Aoki
- Mind Your Manners, Pearl Jam
- Sirens, Pearl Jam
- Yellow Moon, Pearl Jam
- Bitter Rivals, Sleigh Bells
- 24, Sleigh Bells
- The Walker, Fitz & The Tantrums