Albums
5. Green Language - Rustie
It's inconsistent, and lacks the titillating, razor-sharp ferocity of Glass Swords, but Green Language has more than its fair share of bangers to compensate. Some of the best bass-drops from electronic music in ages.
4. Bill Bruisers - The New Pornographers
A Pop group famous for their elaborate-yet-catchy tunes, Bill Bruisers just happens to be the gang's best album since 2005's Twin Cinema. It's loud, brash, and dissonant, but it's also very cool.
3. LOSE - Cymbals Eat Guitars
One of the best Indie-Rock records of the year, LOSE isn't a massive step forward for CEG; they're still as frenetic, complex, flawed and ingenius as ever. But, it's possibly their most focussed, and most personal (a moving eulogy for a dear friend).
2. They Want My Soul - Spoon
Spoon are admittedly one of my favourite bands, their Indie-Pop compositional wizardry matched only by their pervasive, laidback sense of fun. They Want My Soul shows them at their most serious and urgent, yet it works. It... it just works. They're great.
1. LP1 - FKA Twigs
Yeh, it's the cop-out choice as album of the month. Yeh, it's a major contender for AOTY for almost every single music criticism institution. So, it's hardly an original choice. But yeh, it's also an incredible journal of sexual neuroses and intimacies and deserves (nearly) every superlative tossed its way.
Songs
10. Manipulator - Ty Segall
9. Champions of Red Wine - The New Pornographers
8. Figure It Out - Royal Blood
7. New York Kiss - Spoon
6. Video Girl - FKA Twigs
5. Problem - Ariana Grande
4. Jackson - Cymbals Eat Guitars
3. Tuesday - Makonnen
2. Attak - Rustie
1. Two Weeks - FKA Twigs
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