songs of the year

One the heels of our accurate Albums of 2023 list, we present our 50 favorite songs of the year: no one came close to touching LDR this year...

Presenting our 50 favorite songs of 2022, ranked:

Our annual rolling Best Songs of the Year (so far) playlist is back for 2022...

The songs that got us through 2020...

Presenting our favorite songs of 2019: As always, songs that we released on Luminelle were not considered for this list, but we dropped some bangers. A few other notes: "Mariners Apartment Complex" was probably my actual favorite song of the year, but it was released as a single in 2018, and made our list last year...

Presenting our favorite songs of 2018*...

We're not quite halfway through 2018, but here's our annual recap of the albums + songs of the first half of the year anyway. I’ve excluded any records that we’ve released on our new label Luminelle Recordings; otherwise, the stellar new ones from Helena Deland, Anemone, and Hana Vu would have all figured prominently into both of these lists. Also, I guess a few of these aren’t officially out yet.

2018 has been such a bountiful year for incredible new music from favorites new and old that it's been almost impossible to keep up, but I'm doing my best. In addition to all the posts here on the site, I've been consistently updating our running "Best Songs of 2018" Spotify playlist, featuring some of the essential 2018 jams that may or may not be on your radar yet, from the likes of Av

Before we even have time to second guess our albums of the year list, here are our favorite songs of 2017. While plenty of our old favorites are well repped -- including TOPS, Burial, Shabazz Palaces, SZA, Sufjan, Laurel Halo, et al. -- it was an exceptionally great year for exciting new artists, with Men I Trust, Yaeji, Playboi Carti, Kelly Lee Owens, Aldous Harding, Bernache, and so many more dr

Today we follow up our albums of 2016 list with the much more interesting list of our 101 favorite songs of the year. Featuring a couple of inventive flips of Shangaan Electro and Tropicália samples in the top 3, the powerful opening missive from A Tribe Called Quest's first album in nearly 20 years, an old Radiohead love song, multiple jams each from Frank Ocean, Danny Brown, and Carly Rae, unden