Favourite songs of 2014

My top thirty tracks of the year. Starts with my top ten, the rest are ordered by (Spotify) track length.

Spotify playlist
YouTube playlist

“I’m wearing Win Butler’s hair
There’s a scalpless singer of a Montreal rock band somewhere
And he’s all right”

1. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Do I Have The Time
2. Röyksopp & Robyn – Monument (The Inevitable End Version)
3. Happyness – Montreal Rock Band Somewhere
4. St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse
5. La Roux – Kiss And Not Tell
6. Bombay Bicycle Club – Luna
7. Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me
8. Eleanor Dunlop – Disguise
9. The Preatures – Better Than It Ever Could Be
10. Bertie Blackman – War Of One

• Bad//Dreems – Dumb Ideas
• The Bohicas – XXX
• SBTRKT – NEW DORP. NEW YORK
• Broods – Mother & Father
• East – Your Ghost
• St. Vincent – Digital Witness
• The Griswolds – Beware The Dog
• The Preatures – Somebody’s Talking
• Highasakite – Darth Vader
• Ecca Vandal – White Flag
• Kimbra – 90s Music
• First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
• Jack White – Lazaretto
• CHVRCHES – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
• The Babe Rainbow – Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest
• Superfood – Right On Satellite
• Interpol – All The Rage Back Home
• City Calm Down – Pavement
• Glass Animals – Pools
• Lana Del Rey – Shades Of Cool

Honourable mention:

My top thirty are those I can play over and over again, and although this one doesn’t qualify on that count it’s the most entertaining song of 2014. And it did us a favour by allowing us to listen to the catchy tune of the original without being subjected to its lyrics.