2018: Top Songs

1. Tracey Thorn- Queen
2. The Good, The Bad & The Queen- Merrie Land
3. Underworld & Iggy Pop- Bells & Circles 
4. Trentemoller- Transformer Man
5. Prodigy- We Live Forever

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2017: Top Songs

1. Joe Goddard f/SLO- Music Is The Answer

2. LCD Soundsystem- Tonite

3. The Jesus & Mary Chain- Always Sad

4. Coasts- Come On Over

5. Katy Perry f/Skip Marley- Chained To The Rhythm 

6. Future Islands- Ran

7. The Golden Filter- Dust

8. The Killers- The Man

9. Cut Copy- Airborne

10. Moonlight Cove- For I Am You

Bonus: The XX- On Hold*

*(released in late 2016, it missed my top 10 last year, because I wasn't familiar enough with it but would have been in my top 3 this year if I didn't believe in rules)

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2016: Top Songs

1. Pet Shop Boys- The Pop Kids
2. Gwen Stefani- Make Me Like You
3. Steve Angello f/The Presets- Remember 
4. Shura- What's It Gonna Be?
5. The Weeknd f/Daft Punk- Starboy
6. Röyksopp f/Susanne Sundfør- Never Ever
7. Years & Years- King
8. DJ Snake f/George Maple- Talk
9. Clarke:Hartnoll- Better Have A Drink To Think
10. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve- Diagram Girl

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2015: Top Songs

1. Brandon Flowers- Lonely Town
2. Chemical Brothers- Go
3. Miami Horror- Real Slow
4. Grimes- Entropy
5. Hot Chip- Huarache Lights
6. Courtney Barnett- Dead Fox
7. Say Lou Lou- Games For Girls
8. Chvrches- Leave A Trace
9. Foxes- Body Talk
10. The Weeknd- I Can't Feel My Face

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2014: Top Songs

1. Temples- Shelter Song
2. La Roux- Uptight Downtown
3. Foster The People- Coming Of Age
4. Kelis- Friday Fish Fry
5. Todd Terje featuring Bryan Ferry- Johnny And Mary
6. Caro Emerald- Liquid Lunch
7. Röyksopp & Roybn- Do It Again
8. The Presets- No Fun
9. Shirobon- The Perfect Machine
10. Calvin Harris- Summer

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2013: Top Songs

1. Chvrches- Recover
2. Daft Punk- Get Lucky
3. Arcade Fire- Reflektor
4. Pet Shop Boys- Vocal
5. Lorde- Royals
6. Capital Cities- Safe And Sound
7. Zedd- Clarity
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark- Helen Of Troy
9. Disclosure- Control
10. Annie- Invisible

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Portishead Third Verdict

When Portishead's Third was released I promised to form an opinion within five years.  As it turned out it just wasn't my cup of tea.