January - Phantogram - 10,000 Claps
February - Robyn - Fembot
March - Moderat - Sick With It
April - Discovery - Slang Tang
May - Bell - It's Oh So Quiet (Bjork cover)
June - Great Dane - Alpha Dog
July - Moderat - Porc 1
August - DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
September - Unkle - Restless
October - Dan Deacon - Meme Generator
November - Philip Selway - Coming Up For Air
December - Miracle Fortress - Raw Spectacle
The honorable mentions in very particular order. The higher up, the closer to the final cut.
Chvrches - Strong Hand
Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
The Cure - Close To Me
Kanye West - Waves
This was a year that was supposed to be a statement of capabilities that flamed out midway and became a statement of resilience. If you want to find the honorable mentions, they are out there in the woods with their own little fires to gather 'round, each one with different mothmen circling just outside their fire's light. If you want to talk to them, you can find them. A little place where we keep half ideas. Things we fear. Say it three times and they'll appear. The body you thought stayed buried is floating behind your ear at the edge of peripheral vision. Next time, do not wear sunglasses at night. You can sense them by the flex of ember light.
I cannot remember the last time I saw every detail of a year coming before it happened. This past year was close until I realized my map was flat and the Earth was a sphere. With the year end look and this, the bookend to 2016, the only thing to do is look ahead to two thousand oh one and seven.
///the year is written. let it go. thank you for loving me. thank you for being there. one of these days we may be eating at the same table. in the meantime, you know you have a place at mine where the reeds are just high enough and the shade just thick enough for no one to notice we're there by a fire together.
February - Robyn - Fembot
March - Moderat - Sick With It
April - Discovery - Slang Tang
May - Bell - It's Oh So Quiet (Bjork cover)
June - Great Dane - Alpha Dog
July - Moderat - Porc 1
August - DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
September - Unkle - Restless
October - Dan Deacon - Meme Generator
November - Philip Selway - Coming Up For Air
December - Miracle Fortress - Raw Spectacle
The honorable mentions in very particular order. The higher up, the closer to the final cut.
Chvrches - Strong Hand
Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
The Cure - Close To Me
Kanye West - Waves
This was a year that was supposed to be a statement of capabilities that flamed out midway and became a statement of resilience. If you want to find the honorable mentions, they are out there in the woods with their own little fires to gather 'round, each one with different mothmen circling just outside their fire's light. If you want to talk to them, you can find them. A little place where we keep half ideas. Things we fear. Say it three times and they'll appear. The body you thought stayed buried is floating behind your ear at the edge of peripheral vision. Next time, do not wear sunglasses at night. You can sense them by the flex of ember light.
I cannot remember the last time I saw every detail of a year coming before it happened. This past year was close until I realized my map was flat and the Earth was a sphere. With the year end look and this, the bookend to 2016, the only thing to do is look ahead to two thousand oh one and seven.
///the year is written. let it go. thank you for loving me. thank you for being there. one of these days we may be eating at the same table. in the meantime, you know you have a place at mine where the reeds are just high enough and the shade just thick enough for no one to notice we're there by a fire together.
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