Right, I'm going to be quite indulgent here and post a whole load of music. Feel free to skip or ignore
Here in Australia it's a yearly December ritual for the young and hip (or the embarrassingly old desperately trying to convince themselves they are still young and hip) to select their ten favourite songs of the year and vote in the Triple J Hottest 100. As one of the latter group, I have spent the last couple of weeks considering the music of 2015, and have come up with an objective* list of the 10 most best songs of the year. So I figured why not post them here and inflict my execrable musical taste on you all?
So in no particularly important order, here we go (with nice text links to avoid lengthening the page by about a billion percent)...
Bassically - Te Shi - A bit of a slow burner, but when it kicks in, wow!
Long Loud Hours - Urthboy featuring Bertie Blackman - I posted this one before. Aussie hip hop.
Flesh without Blood - Grimes - Grimes being all arty, the only copy of this on YouTube is a mini film featuring two different songs. Oh well.
Pedestrian at Best - Courtney Barnett - A bit like Dylan. A bit. Warning! Video clip contains clowns!
shudderThe Love Within - Bloc Party - WUB WUB WUB WUB Wub Wub wub wub...
All the Day - Haerts - I love the rhythms in this! Also the band members met in Iceland, so you know it must be good!
Get Down - Jess Kent - Possibly the catchiest song of the year. Emoji overdrive!
Scud Books - Hudson Mohawke - For some reason the version on YouTube sounds like it's being played through a phone
Something to Tell You - Tom Lark - The video is the most hipster thing you'll ever see, but the song is great.
Love me Badder - Elliphant - Kind of like soul. Or something. Maybe.
So there you go. Enjoy! Or not as the case may be!
(*Subjective.
Extremely subjective.)