With my focus on vulnerability this year, I kind of gave up on keeping abreast of new new music. I listened to plenty of new old music, but not so many albums hot off the press. (Although both Damian Cowell and High Pass Filter released new retrospectives, so I am not sure what those albums constitute as.) I also listened to a lot of music while exercising, so that probably influenced some of my choices too.
Here then is my attempt at the songs that grabbed me:
- Theia — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- Foolish Thinking — Kimbra
- Blood and Butter — Caroline Polachek
- Free Yourself — Jessie Ware
- Moves to Make — Daði Freyr
- Live Again (feat. Halo Maud) — Chemical Brothers
- Will Anybody Ever Love Me? — Sufjan Stevens
- Syreen — Lindstrøm
- Night Is Not — L’Ecstasy
- I’ve Gone Hillsong — TISM
There was an option to vote for your favourite track, which for me was Blood and Butter. Caroline Polachek’s album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You was an oddity for me, it was one that took a few listens to settle, but when my ears adjusted, I felt that everything sounded different afterwards. For me, there is something sonically slick about Blood and Butter that lulls the ears in like venus fly trap.