1. Wild Flag - Future Crimes
Pardon my life this time.
The desperation and urgency that make rock and roll. Sleater-Kinney had it and now Wild Flag have it.
2. The Weeknd - Wicked Games (explicit)
I left my girl back home.
The voice sells it. Party 'til you weep.
3. Fountains of Wayne - Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart
All we want to do is go home.
You can hire the actor who fits the part, or you can just hire the best actor.
4. Sloan - Unkind
You haven't got a clue.
They do such a clean job of it.
5. St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger
My kingdom for a cup of coffee.
It's never easy.
6. Terius Nash - Form of Flattery (explicit)
Stop acting like a freshman.
Better to skulk away than to apologize.
7. Emmy the Great - Paper Forest
You're not unlucky, no, you're just not very smart.
All in staccato. We can say the song is high-strung.
8. Adam and the Amethysts - Dreaming
We waded through up to our waists.
A fantasy, I guess. Someone spent a lot of time on this one.
9. The Good Natured - Skeleton
Never speak of this.
A pile of thrills.
10. Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know
Now and then I think of when we were together.
Storytelling, I think. The xylophone is infectious.
Some HM's that maybe should have made it
Austra - The Beat and the Pulse
Azealia Banks - 212
Bon Iver - Holocene
Class Actress - Weekend
DJ Khaled ft. Drake, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross - I'm On One
Drake ft. Rihanna - Take Care
Ronnie Dunn - Cost of Livin'
Kathleen Edwards - Change the Sheets
Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me
Florrie - I Took a Little Something
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
Frank Ocean - Novacane
David Guetta ft. Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj - Where Them Girls At
Heems - New York City Cops
Icona Pop - Manners
Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Laura Marling - Sophia
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak
Purity Ring - Ungirthed
Release the Sunbird - Outlook's Anonymous
tUnE-yArDs - Powa
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
Kanye West and Jay-Z - N****s in Paris
Wye Oak - Civilian