Favourite Songs of 2015 (Excluding Hamilton)
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My top thirty tracks of the year that aren’t on the Hamilton recording.
Spotify playlist
YouTube playlist
Starts with my top ten for Hottest 100 purposes, the rest are ordered by (Spotify) track length. This year I restricted myself to one track per artist in the top ten. Was itching to have more Courtney Barnett, Grimes, Torres.
- Pedestrian At Best - Courtney Barnett
- Sprinter - Torres
- California - Grimes
- Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
- Clearest Blue - CHVRCHES
- Electric Indigo - The Paper Kites
- Price Tag - Sleater-Kinney
- Huarache Lights - Hot Chip
- Automaton - Là-bas
- Puppet Theatre (feat. Peter, Bjorn and John) - Claptone
- Waste the Alphabet - Dick Diver
- Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party - Courtney Barnett
- Fading Out - Lurch & Chief
- Too Much Time Together - San Cisco
- Never Ending Circles - CHVRCHES
- Running With The Wolves - AURORA
- Hiding To Nothing - Bad//Dreems
- Distant Past - Everything Everything
- Born Again Teen - Lucius
- Cream On Chrome - Ratatat
- Leave A Trace - CHVRCHES
- A Heroine - Holy Holy
- Boys Latin - Panda Bear
- Flesh without Blood - Grimes
- Son, You Are No Island - Torres
- Into The Cave - Lonelady
- Poison Drum - Gang of Youths
- Evil Eyes - Róisín Murphy
- Let It Happen - Tame Impala
- Blackstar - David Bowie
Honourable Mentions:
The Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording is my album of the decade, hands-down. Nothing came close to topping it this year. But being a musical - and a good musical - most of its songs require the context of the others, so it’s difficult to name them in a list like this.
Since it’s primarily a hip-hop musical, Cabinet Battle #1 is the best example of the show. But if there was going to be a breakaway pop hit it would probably be Wait For It, sung by Leslie Odom Jr’s Aaron Burr.