Songs can do so much. They can evoke, evolve, emerge when you least expect it. Bury themselves. Make you shimmy, make you shake. Make you write. Create. Be still. Be wild. Allow you to connect to something real without knowing what it is that you connect to. Songs to sing and make the world go round. Here’s some stonkers from 2013. They are in no particular order and they don’t feature on any of my albums or eps of the year which you can check out here.
Best Tracks of 2013
Sam Smith – Nirvana (Two Inch Punch Promised Land Remix)
Elephant – Skyscraper
Jerusalem in My Heart – 3andalib Al-Furat
Illum Sphere – ‘Sleeprunner’ (Illum Sphere’s Re-run)
Koreless – Last Remnants
How To Dress Well – Teenage Spaceship
Sampha – Too Much
Parquet Courts – You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now
Major Lazer feat. Ezra Koenig – Jessica
Nudy Bronque – Allsorts
R. Seiliog – The Peroxide (Islet remix)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – So Good at Being In Trouble feat Killer Mike (Black Noi$e Remix)
Ofei – Tomorrow
John Grant – Black Belt
Earl Sweatshirt – Chum
MVSCLES – Somethin’
James Blake and Chance the Rapper – Life Round Here
Omar Souleyman – Ya Yumma
Beta Blocker and the Body Click – Trudy Part 2
Youth Lagoon – Dropla
Thee Oh Sees – Toe Cutter – thumb Buster
Vessels – Blue Clouds
The National – Don’t Swallow The Cap
Blood Orange – Clipped On
