There were a few enjoyable songs from 2016. Here are 100 of them. There are more (approx. 137 and counting) on a Spotify playlist, but these 100 are my favorites. You can check out the Spotify playlist HERE. I hope you enjoy finding some songs you might not have heard before, or finding a morbid fascination that our music tastes overlap slightly.
- Amnesia Scanner – “AS Crust”
- AMTHST – “Let It Go”
- Andy Shauf – “The Magician”
- Angel Olsen – “Shut Up Kiss Me”
- ANOHNI – “Drone Bomb Me”
- Ash Koosha – “Mudafossil”
- The Avalanches – “Subways”
- Baauer – “Temple (ft. M.I.A & G-DRAGON)”
- Black Marble – “Woods”
- Carly Rae Jepsen – “The One”
— - Chairlift – “Crying In Public”
- Chance The Rapper – “No Problem (ft. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)”
- Charlie Hilton – “Something For Us All”
- Chris Cohen – “In A Fable”
- Clams Casino – “Blast”
- Cole M.G.N. – “If U Let Me”
- Cross Record – “The Depths”
- Crying – “Wool In The Wash”
- D.R.A.M. – “Broccoli (ft. Lil Yachty)”
- Danny Brown – “When It Rain”
— - Danny L Harle – “Super Natural (ft. Carly Rae Jepsen)”
- David Bowie – “Lazarus”
- Death Grips – “Giving Bad People Good Ideas”
- Deerhoof – “The Devil And His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue”
- Drugdealer – “Suddenly”
- El Guincho – “Parte Virtual”
- Forth Wanderers – “Slop”
- Frank Ocean – “Nights”
- Frankie Cosmos – “Embody”
- Future – “Inside The Mattress”
— - Helado Negro – “It’s My Brown Skin”
- Holy Fuck – “Shivering”
- Holy Ghost! – “Compass Point”
- Hoops – “Gemini”
- How To Disappear Completely – “The Language Of Dreams”
- Huerco S. – “Promises Of Fertility”
- Hundred Waters – “Forgive Me For Giving Up”
- Ian Sweet – “2Soft2Chew”
- Ice Choir – “Windsurf”
- James Blake – “Radio Silence”
— - Japanese Breakfast – “The Woman That Loves You”
- Jay Som – “I Think You’re Alright”
- Jenny Hval – “Conceptual Romance”
- Jessy Lanza – “Going Somewhere”
- Joanna Newsom – “Make Hay”
- Julianna Barwick – “Nebula”
- Ka – “$”
- Kadhja Bonet – “Honeycomb”
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “When I Try, I’m Full”
- Kanye West – “Real Friends”
— - Kaytranada – “LITE SPOTS”
- Kedr Livanskiy – “Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)”
- Kelsey Lu – “Dreams”
- Kevin Morby – “Destroyer”
- Kornél Kovács – “BB”
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – “Stranger Things (Extended)”
- Leon Vynehall – “Blush”
- Let’s Eat Grandma – “Rapunzel”
- Lionlimb – “Tinman”
- LUH – “$ORO”
— - LVL UP – “Five Men On The Ridge”
- Mall Grab – “I Just Wanna”
- Maria Usbeck – “Uno De Tus Ojos”
- Merchandise – “Right Back To The Start”
- Mikael Seifu – “How To Save A Life (Vector Of Eternity)”
- Mitski – “Your Best American Girl”
- Mt. Si – “Baby You’re The Best”
- Negative Gemini – “Body Work”
- Nicolas Jaar – “No”
- Nite-Funk – “Let Me Be Me”
— - NOIA – “Nostalgia Del Futuro”
- NZCA Lines – “New Atmosphere”
- Omni – “Cold Vermouth”
- Porches – “Be Apart”
- PUP – “DVP”
- Pye Corner Audio – “Lost Ways”
- Radiohead – “Daydreaming”
- Rae Sremmurd – “Black Beatles (ft. Gucci Mane)”
- The Range – “Five Four”
- SALES – “thurs 6-25”
— - Sam Evian – “Dark Love”
- Sarah Neufeld – “Where The Light Comes In”
- serpentwithfeet – “four ethers”
- Sheer Mag – “Worth The Tears”
- Sturgill Simpson – “Breakers Roar”
- Sunflower Bean – “Wall Watcher”
- Thee Oh Sees – “Plastic Plant”
- Tiger & Woods – “Phoenix”
- Tim Hecker – “Music Of The Air”
- A Tribe Called Quest – “We The People….”
— - Troller – “Storm Maker”
- Ty Segall – “Diversion”
- Vesuvio Solo – “Mirror Held To The Flower”
- Weyes Blood – “Do You Need My Love”
- White Lung – “Dead Weight”
- Whitney – “Dave’s Song”
- Wild Nothing – “Reichpop”
- Young Thug – “Pick Up The Phone (ft. Quavo & Travis Scott)”
- Ytamo – “You Me”
- Yumi Zouma – “Short Truth”