Seems like I can’t keep away from here, especially when I hear a song that just gets me right away. “I Can Hardly Speak” by Bombay Bicycle Club is about struggling to express yourself in words and comes from the upcoming Jan 17th release of Everything Else Has Gone Wrong.
It’s been another great year for new music, 2014 did not disappoint at all. This post is always my favourite one to put together, the problem is always trying to keep the number of songs down. I settled on 50 tracks (listed here in playlist order, not a ranking) that rocked my year, take a look below and agree, disagree, discover of just hit play. As usual, I did my best to make these playlists on soundcloud, spotify, rdio, youtube and this year on Dropmark (which I use for saving videos). For those who like to watch your playlists, try out my collection.
1. The War On Drugs – “Red Eyes”
2. Jungle – “Busy Earnin'”
3. Saintseneca – “Happy Alone”
4. Ryn Weaver – “OctaHate”
5. Broods – “L.A.F”
6. Death From Above 1979 – “Trainwreck 1979”
7. Brolin – “Swim Deep”
8. Bastille vs Haim – “Bite Down”
9. Moscow Metro – “Future Fades”
10. Austin Basham – “All Is Well”
11. Alvvays – “Archie, Marry Me”
12. Sego – “Wicket Youth”
13. Ghost Beach – “Moon Over Japan”
14. Sucre – “Young And Free”
15. Strand Of Oaks – “Shut In”
16. Lowell – “The Bells”
17. Arkells – “Come To Light”
18. Nate Eiesland – “Drifting”
19. Future Islands – “Seasons (Waiting On You)”
20. Ben Khan – “Youth”
21. Prinze George – “Make Me”
22. Bombay Bicycle Club – “Luna”
23. Sylvan Esso – “Coffee”
24. Caribou – “Can’t Do Without You”
25. Fickle Friends – “Swim”
26. Snakadaktal – “The Sun II”
27. Old Man Canyon – “Wiser”
28. Chad VanGaalen – “Monster”
29. Cloud Nothings – “I’m Not Part Of Me”
30. Skaters – “Miss Teen Massachusetts”
31. Spoon – “Inside Out”
32. Haerts – “Giving Up”
33. Kevin Drew – “You In Your Were”
34. Wye Oak – “Glory”
35. SOHN – “Artifice”
36. Hey Rosetta! – “Kintsukuroi”
37. Wolf Saga – “You Only Live Once (Strokes Cover) feat. Lyon”
38. Seoul – “Stay With Us”
39. Panama Wedding – “All Of The People”
40. Magic Man – “It All Starts Here”
41. Phoria – “Atomic”
42. Vance Joy – “Mess Is Mine”
43. New Pornographers – “Brill Bruisers”
44. Tove Lo – “Habits (Stay High)”
45. Prides – “Messiah”
46. Operators – “True ”
47. Snowmine – “Tidal Wave”
48. Still Parade – “Beach”
49. Breakfast In Fur – “Shape”
50. Odesza – “Say My Name (feat. Zyra)”
BEST SONGS OF 2014 (RDIO PLAYLIST) / BEST SONGS OF 2014 (SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLIST) / BEST SONGS OF 2014 (SPOTIFY PLAYLIST) / BEST SONGS OF 2014 (YOUTUBE PLAYLIST) / BEST SONGS OF 2014 (DROPMARK VIDEO PLAYLIST)
I’ve got another contest to announce today, a chance to win tickets to see Bombay Bicycle Club in Toronto at The Opera House, Oct. 16th. After a successful and extensive sold out headlining tour throughout North America, including a stop at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall this past spring, Bombay Bicycle Club are back on the road with an upcoming stop in TO next month. They’re touring to support their album “So Long, See You Tomorrow“, an album described as “effortlessly diversifying and innovating at an astonishing rate with ethereal loops, offbeat rhythms, shimmering keys, Dutch techno blips, soaring strings and even Bollywood movie samples“.
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
WITH MILO GREENE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014
THE OPERA HOUSE – TORONTO
Doors: 7:00PM Show: 8:00PM
Tickets available at Rotate This and Soundscapes Call 1-855-985-5000 to charge by phone
Tickets (incl. HST) $30.00 (plus service charges) All Ages / General Admission
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I’m totally phoning this one in. As I write this, its wednesday, but when you’ll read this, its hopefully Friday and I’m somewhere in Virginia. I was thinking recently how I don’t put up enough remixes on the blog, so here’s one that caught my attention this week, Nicita’s take on Bombay Bicycle Club’s “Home By Now”.
“Feel” by Bombay Bicycle Club, off their most recent release, So Long, See You Tomorrow. The song is based around a sample from a famous snake-charming scene in the film, Nagin, which is still widely celebrated as one of the biggest Bollywood movies (1954). The video is appropriately set in Bollywood, filmed in Bollywood, with original Bollywood actors and an authentic Bollywood director/production company.