Much as the year couldn’t be edited to make it any more palatable – in the end I couldn’t do the same with this year’s best of, clocking in for you here at three hours and twenty six minutes. But you get 51 musical landscapes to escape to and two Prince covers, so settle in. It was a good year for jazz, a terrible year for everything else.
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01: Glow In The Dark: Night Flowers
02: Town & Country: Bibio
03: We Will Never Wash Away: YoungerMe
04: Kumquat: Rene Schier
05: My Lar: Bullion
06: Pop Life: Neon Indian & Friends
07: Randy: Justice
08: An 8 Ball Affair: Flamingosis
09: Ain’t Gonna Last: Freakway
10: A Night In Shirley: Jaime Read
11: Eyes On Me (feat. Harriet Brown): Classixx
12: Floatational Device: E. Live
13: Cascades: Mark Barott
14: Tokyo Hustler: Liquid Pegasus
15: Space Between Us: Ekkah & Dam Funk
16: I Don’t Know Why (feat. Mayer Hawthorne): Kraak & Smaak
17: Closing Shot: Lindstrom
18: Bellyflop: Laxy Dazy
19: Don’t Leave Me In The Dark: Vesuvio Solo
20: Life of Pause: Wild Nothing
21: You Can Do It: Spike Wolters
22: Friend of a Friend: Teen Ravine
23: It’s Gonna Be Lonely: Mac DeMarco
24: Suddenly (feat. Weyes Blood): Drugdealer
25: Cry: Cass McCombs
26: Fleurs Laisses Dans Un Taxi: CFCF
27: Night Flight: Dave Douglas & High Risk
28: Helios Groove: Sorcerer
29: Erase All The Borders: Eye Endless
30: Gucci Tennis 84: Lo Life
31: Feel Me: et aliae & Cuushe
32: The One: Carly Rae Jepsen
33: The Extrovert City: Kaidi Tatham
34: Tharsis Montes: Krakatau
35: Speaking Gently: BADBADNOTGOOD
36: Migas: Joan Bibiloni
37: En Kansla: Det Lilla Extra
38: Pantone High: Jensen Sportag
39: Feel (Keep On): Pop Up!
40: Scared Money: NXWORRIES
41: The Greatest: King
42: FTP: Landings
43: On Retinae (West Version): Dip In The Pool
44: The Birds Rejoice: Nu Guinea
45: I Knew You: Seeing Hands
46: Poison In The Dart: Carter Tanton
47: Ya Son Dos Los Cielos: Suso Saiz
48: Cool 2: Hoops
49: Backseat Heart: Ablebody
50: The Magician: Andy Shauf
51: Just Another Angel In The Crowd: George Avramidis
Previous years’ mixes and a whole sorry mess of other things can be found here.
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