![]() And it’s probably the best song on Miguel’s latest. “Coffee” is my favourite Miguel song to date. “I built a constellation lair, out of the moles that hovered there, a fever billowed in the wind, and I bade the sky therein…” is one of my favourite lyrics of the year. This is electronic music drawn on a hip-hop canvas and doused with an angelic aura. The thought held true, and “push pull” remains an obsession. I remember hearing this song in January and knowing right away that it’d be one of my favourite songs of the year. The clinging of the strings, the singing shaped like wings, and the body finds a soul to squeeze. After it spoke, it sung, and clung to the strings of the beating organ in my chest. But day after day, week after week, it spoke to me. That I have “Drag” this high is a surprise in a sense. More than anything else, they care about the quality of a song, an eternally endearing quality if there ever was one. Without a shadow of a doubt, Metric have cemented their place as one of Canada’s best bands of all-time. It still shines bright enough to light up a galaxy, but “The Shade” is its equal. When I first heard “Gimme Sympathy”, I thought that’d be their pinnacle. Six albums in, Metric keeps getting better. I don’t think there’s a better pop-music-making group around.Īlthough Metric might have something to say about that. Chvrches are well on their way to headlining duties as one of the biggest bands on the planet. The staggering thing is, “Never Ending Circles” is just as good. They couldn’t have come up with a better lead single. Chvrches dropped hit after hit on their debut, and apparently they felt like continuity was the best way forward, as their second LP moves along with nary an off-point blip on the radar. Chvrches – Leave A Trace/Never Ending Circlesīlissful, bombastic pop made by a group without peer. As it happens, today, this is how I’ve ranked them…Ĩ. Extremely impressive work from the bro-sis Notts.ĭepending on the day, each of the following songs could be my number one song of the year, such is how I value them. All three tracks are sensational pop songs, and I could’ve linked a few more from Broods’ first LP/EP. Slept like a baby on these tracks last year, but made up for it early in 2015 with copious plays. (The video is too.)īonus: Broods – Superstar/Sleep Baby Sleep/L.A.F. Glass Animals, with only one album under their belts, are a band to be reckoned with. Eventually, I heard the simple truth that became obvious: “Sedona” is one of the best songs of 2015. Each time I heard “Sedona”, I liked it more. I went nuts singing and air-drumming this slinky, sexy, sunny-day-at-the-beach anthem last year.Ī grower. “Feeling OK”: propulsive, energetic, incessant. “California Nights”: tempered, pensive, exploratory. Best Coast – California Nights/Feeling OK “Is it pleasure, is it pain, did you pray for rain?”ġ2. “Pray For Rain” is a hazy, sultry, foot-stomper and snare-pop romper. One of the very best pop songs of the year. “I’m A Ruin” was a staple song for me throughout the year, and it’s among the very best that Marina Diamandis has ever released. Bruno is also a star at crafting interesting vocal harmonies this is ever-apparent on the succulent “I Am”.įar and away my favourite song on her latest LP. “Hollow Moon” is a delicious slice of modern alt-pop, the type of song that appeals to the masses and gives classes in hook construction. AWOLNATION – Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)/I AmĪaron Bruno and company are masters at Shizo-pop. They remain one of my most treasured bands.ġ6. Time always seems to stand still when I listen to the best of The Helio Sequence. “Battle Lines” is a giant exhale, a sanctuary of serenity. Summers and Weikel have a preternatural ability to infuse emotion in their (always melodic and gorgeous) songs. My favourite song from The Helio Sequence’s latest, eponymous record. “Stressed Out” and “Ride” are absurdly catchy. Schizo-pop has the ability to cross over if done well, and this duo does it exceedingly so. ![]() I’m not surprised Twenty One Pilots have become as big as they are. Where was I when this came out three years ago? I’ve no answer for that, and I’m ashamed I missed this beast for so long.ġ8. Musically sparse, emotionally monumental.īonus: Twenty One Pilots – Holding On To You Only came to my ears in December, but it was immediately compelling. Regretfully, it’s been criminally underappreciated/underheard. I played this tune a lllllllot in the spring months. I’ve an unwavering adoration for every song that follows.
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