TOP 250 SONGS OF THE YEAR 2013

BEST 250 SONGS

250.    The Whore in Yourself / Chris Garneau

Jim James

249.    Anomaly / Doldrums
248.    #88 / Lo-Fang
247.    God is dead / Black Sabbath
246.    Anarchy in the UK / Scott Matthew
245.    Breakfast can wait / Prince
244.    New Life / Jim James
243.    The Sword by my Side / The Thermals
242.    Peng / Erdmöbel
241.    Stop the World / Turin Brakes


240.    Skin and Bones / The Avett Brothers

Caitlin Rose

239.    Pot of Gold / Deer Tick
238.    Waitin' / Caitlin Rose
237.    The Power / Fryars
236.    Wu-Tang forever / Drake
235.    Sirens / Pearl Jam
234.    Warm in the Winter / Glass Candy
233.    Join the Dots / Toy
232.    Lice / Loom
231.    You're the Best / Wet


230.    Ohio / Patty Griffin

The Julie Ruin

229.    Evangelion / Thundercat
228.    Oh Come On / The Julie Ruin
227.    Put your Collar Up / Magic Arm
226.    Stable / Heavenly Beat
225.    Homecoming Heroes / The Head and the Heart
224.    So leave / Polica
223.    Carnal Cruise / Albert Hammond Jr.
222.    Pulaski at Night / Andrew Bird
221.    2020 / Suuns

220.    Alien Days / MGMT

MGMT

219.    Moving / Travis
218.    You can't judge a Book by a Cover / The Strypes
217.    Nices Wölkchen / DJ Koze feat Apparat
216.    Soliloquy / Zombie
215.    Maschin / Bilderbuch
214.    All the time / The Strokes
213.    Light, Raking / Polvo
212.    Northern Lights / The Cave Singers
211.    Ratchet / Bloc Party

210.    You don't turn down / Marnie Stern

Vampire Weekend

209.    White Noise / Disclousure feat. AlunaGeorge
208.    Bitter Rivals / Sleigh Bells
207.    It's hard to be a Gentleman / Jamie Lenman
206.    Walk us Uptown / Elvis Costello & the Roots
205.    Hannah Hunt / Vampire Weekend
204.    High School Lover / Cayucas
203.    36 / Kwees
202.    Nightmares / Josh Ritter
201.    Your Life is a lie / MGMT

200.    The Best Jewel Thief in the World / Prefab Sprout

FIDLAR

199.    My God is the Sun / Queens of the Stone Age
198.    This Weight / Midlake
197.    The End / Cymbals
196.    Summer Painter / Bill Callahan
195.    Whore / FIDLAR
194.    Auf Dem Pfad Der Daemmerung / Tocotronic
193.    Nighttime Stopped Bleeding / Adam Green
192.    My Number / Foals
191.    Pale Green Ghosts / John Grant

190.    Bodies / Mazes

Darkside

189.    Half Angel Half Light / The Men
188.    Shaker Aamer / PJ Harvey
187.    Hate The Taste / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
186.    Demon Dance / Surfer Blood
185.    Recover / Chvrches
184.    Hurricane / MS MR
183.    Cold Molly / Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood
182.    Metatron / Darkside
181.    Mercy / TV on the Radio

180.    Damage Done / Moderat

Blitzen Trapper

179.    Local Girl / Neko Case
178.    Decade of Decay / Spector
177.    Megalomania / David Lemaitre
176.    Shine On / Blitzen Trapper
175.    Dust And Glass / Motorhead
174.    The Mariner / Christian Kjellvander
173.    Fucked Up Life / Shearwater
172.    Sometimes I Feel I'll Float Away / Suede
171.    I Ain't your Boy / Jamie Lenman

170.    Royal Quiet Deluxe / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

of Montreal

169.    To Love Somebody / Scott Matthew
168.    Bizarre / Perera Elsewhere
167.    Bornholmer / Concrete Knives
166.    Holy / Frightened Rabbit
165.    Triumph of Disintegration / of Montreal
164.    ICU / Lou Doillon
163.    Love and  Respect / When Saints Go Machine
162.    Follow / Telegram
161.    Anxiety's Door / Merchandise

160.    Sacrilege / Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bars of Gold

159.    You Need The Drugs / Westbam
158.    Connected / Bars of Gold
157.    River Of Pain / Primal Scream
156.    Demons to lean on / Wavves
155.    Line Of Fire / Junip
154.    Thoroughbred / Emily Jane White
153.    Age Limits / Francis Lung
152.    Glory And Gore / Lorde
151.    After you (Remix) / Pulp vs Soulwax

150.    See It My Way / Mikal Cronin

Waxahatchee

149.    Bloodflows / Sohn
148.    10am, Gare Du Nord / Keaton Henson
147.    Back to Land / Wooden Shjips
146.    The Throw / Jagwar Ma
145.    Lay Myself Down / Mazzy Star
144.    Keep Your Eyes Peeled / Queens Of The Stone Age
143.    Hey Kids / Bars of Gold
142.    Beach / Effi
141.    You're Demaged / Waxahatchee

140.    Gold / Jaws

Blue Hawaii

139.    Take a Little Pill / Brandy Clark
138.    Vicissitude / Maps
137.    Fazon / Jonathan Wilson
136.    Light Out / Javelin
135.    Daisy / Blue Hawaii
134.    Colored Emotions / Night Moves
133.    Funny / Mechanimal
132.    Delicious / Peace
131.    Farewell Appalachia / Stornoway

130.    Blue Eyes of a Millionaire / Belle and Sebastian

Monster Magnet

129.    These Days are Mine / I am Kloot
128.    Farmer's Daughter / Babyshambles
127.    Creep In A T-Shirt / Portugal.The Man
126.    Keep in the Dark / Temples
125.    Owl / The Child of Lov feat. DOOM
124.    (Everything is) Debatable / Hellogoodbye
123.    The Duke (of Supernature) / Monster Magnet
122.    Tall Tall Shadow / Basia Bulat
121.    My Lighthouse / Villagers

120.    Faces of You / Blitzen Trapper

Wolf Alice

119.    Fluffy / Wolf Alice
118.    All Is Dull / De Staat
117.    Pink-Slips / Okkervil River
116.    Her Destination / Nikki Hill
115.    Feet For Hands / Everything Everything
114.    She ain't speaking now / Of Montreal
113.    Awkward / San Cisco
112.    In the City / Caveman
111.    The Heat / Jungle

110.    Papi / Dean Blunt

Eels

109.    Even the Stars / I am Kloot
108.    Snap Out of It / Arctic Monkeys
107.    Higgs Boson Blues / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
106.    Thiskidsnotallright / Awolnation
105.    Howlin' At The Moon / Blåmann
104.    Manhattan (R. H. RMX) / Cat Power ft. Angel Haze
103.    Peach Blossom / Eels
102.    This Is How You Find the Way / Thea Gilmore
101.    Tempest / Lucius

100.    Neonlicht / Messer

Messer

99.     Nothing Arrived / Villagers
98.     How The Ranks Was Won / Brazos
97.     Ingrid / Local Natives
96.     Gefäße / Erdmöbel
95.     Bones / Josh Record
94.     Rewind The Film / Manic Street Preachers
93.     Run Boy Run / Woodkid
92.     Forever / Haim
91.     Bloodsports / Drenge

90.     Don't Swallow The Cap / The National

Night Beds

89.     Sweet Luise / The Soft Hills
88.     Your Life Your Call / Junip
87.     Modern Jesus / Portugal.The Man
86.     Die Liebe kennt den Weg / Eric Pfeil
85.     Are you satisfied? / Reignwolf
84.     22 / Night Beds
83.     If You're Looking For A Way Out / Tindersticks
82.     Right Action / Franz Ferdinand
81.     Where Are We Now? / David Bowie

80.     Entertainment / Phoenix

Matthew E. White

79.     Get Lucky / DAFt Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams)
78.     You're Golden / The Polyphonic Spree
77.     Big Love / Matthew E. White
76.     Retrograde / James Blake
75.     Giant Tortoise / Pond
74.     How To Live In A Bad Dream / The Brass Bed
73.     She Will / Savages
72.     Indie Cindy / Pixies
71.     Youth / Daughter

70.     The Dark, It Comes / Vanessa Paradis & Carl Barât

On and On

69.     Shuggie / Foxygen
68.     Ride On / Right On / Phosphorescent
67.     14 Hours / Society
66.     Juice / Chance The Rapper
65.     Sleepwalking / Deerhunter
64.     Why'd You Only Call Me When ... / Arctic Monkeys
63.     Union / Deptford Goth
62.     Like Clockwork / Queens Of The Stone Age
61.     War Is Gone / On An On

60.     Step up for the cool Cats / Palma Violets

Babyshambles

59.     I Don't Want To Bother You / Eleanor Friedberger
58.     Borrowed Time / Parquet Courts
57.     Luminol / Steven Wilson
56.     We've Been Found / Samantha Crain
55.     Stranger in my own Skin / Babyshambles
54.     Cough Cough / Everything Everything
53.     Man who lives forever / Lord Huron
52.     Open / Rhye
51.     Tonight, We Drink to Die / Lasse Matthiessen

50.     If / Edward Herda

King Krule

49.     Let them all in / I am Kloot
48.     You Will Find Me / The Thermals
47.     Easy Easy / King Krule
46.     Only Tomorrow / My Bloody Valentine
45.     There’s a Beast and We All Feed It / Jake Bugg
44.     Inhaler / Foals
43.     A Lot Of Love / Steve Mason
42.     Evil Friends / Portugal.The Man
41.     Heart / Darkside

40.     Javelin Unlanding / Bill Callahan

Moderat

39.     Byegone / Volcano Choir
38.     To The Last / James Blake
37.     Coastal Love / GRMLN
36.     Kentucky Farm of Chicken / Peter J. Birch
35.     Flowering Cherry (Alternative Mix) / Kevin Coyne
34.     Avant Gardener / Courtney Barnett
33.     Bad Kingdom / Moderat
32.     Psychosomnia / Chaos Mon Amour
31.     Smoking Gun / Indiana

30.     Funeral / To Kill A King

Parquet Courts

29.     Walk like a man / Ruen Brothers
28.     It Doesn't Matter To Him / John Grant
27.     That Life / Filthy Boy
26.     Do I Wanna Know? / Arctic Monkeys
25.     Fri-End? / Kate Nash
24.     Stoned and Starving / Parquet Courts
23.     Purple Yellow Red And Blue / Portugal.The Man
22.     Xanman / Pond
21.     Darkness / King Khan & the Shrines

20.     Windmühlen / Love A

To Kill a King

19.     You're on Fire / They Might Be Giants
18.     Diane Young / Vampire Weekend
17.     Swim and Sleep / Unknown Mortal Orchestra
16.     Never Going Back / Samantha Crain
15.     Caught In The Briars / Iron & Wine
14.     Fictional State / To Kill A King
13.     Knock Me On The Head / Stornoway
12.     Step / Vampire Weekend
11.     Questions And Answers / Lou Doillon

10.   GMF / John Grant
9.    You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional / The Lone Bellow
8.    San Francisco / Foxygen
7.    The Waves / Villagers
6.    Fight Them Back / Steve Mason
5.    In The Kingdom / Mazzy Star
4.    Secret Xtians / Unknown Mortal Orchestra
3.    Jubilee Street / Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
2.    Reflektor / Arcade Fire
1.    On Blue Mountain / Foxygen

TOP 100 RECORDS OF THE YEAR 2013

100 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN / The Third Eye Centre
99  WOODKID / The Golden Age
98  MONSTER MAGNET / Last Patrol
97  WAVVES / Afraid of Heights
96  ANNA CALVI / One Breath
95  EELS / Wonderful, Glorious
94  OKKERVIL RIVER / The Silver Gymnasium
93  LUCIUS / Wildewoman
92  HAIM / Days are gone
91  DRENGE / Drenge

90  THE SOFT HILLS / Chromatisms
89  THE BRASS BED / Secret will keep you
88  PHOSPORESCENT / Muchacho
87  DEERHUNTER / Monomania
86  JON HOPKINS / Immunity
85  ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER / Personal Record
84  DEPTFORD GOTH / Life after Defo
83  PALMA VIOLETS / 180
82  LORD HURON / Lonesome Dreams
81  DAUGHTER / If you leave

80  KEVIN COYNE / Case History
79  DEAN BLUNT / Redeemer
78  VOLCANO CHOIR / Repave
77  KATE NASH / Girl Talk
76  COURTNEY BARNETT / The Double EP: A Sea of ...
75  KING KHAN & THE SHRINES / Idle no more
74  TOCOTRONIC / Wie Wir Leben Wollen
73  KANYE WEST / Yeezus
72  HELLOGOODBYE / Everything Is Debatable
71  LOVE A / Irgendwie

70  IRON AND WINE / Ghost on Ghost
69  ERIC PFEIL / Ich hab mir noch nie viel aus dem Tag ...
68  NIKKI HILL / Here's Nikki Hill
67  JUNIP / Junip
66  TINDERSTICKS / Across Six Leap Years
65  JONATHAN WILSON / Fanfare
64  CONCRETE KNIVES / Be your own King
63  KEATON HENSON / Birthdays
62  WOODEN SHJIPS / Back to Land
61  ADAM GREEN & BINKI SHAPIRO / A. G. & B. S.

60  DAFT PUNK / Random Access Memories
59  BLUE HAWAII / Untogether
58  EFFI / Closer
57  MESSER / Die Unsichtbaren
56  BARS OF GOLD / Wheels
55  STEVEN WILSON / The Raven That Refused to Sing
54  MAPS / Vicissitude
53  PHOENIX / Bankrupt!
52  JAGWAR MA / Howlin
51  ON AND ON / Give in

50  WAXAHATCHE / Cerulean Salt
49  JAKE BUGG / Shangri La
48  BLITZEN TRAPPER / VII
47  DAVID BOWIE / The Next Day
46  LASSE MATHIESSEN / Carry me Down
45  EDWARD HERDA / The Wondrous Folly of Vaughn Frogg
44  ERDMÖBEL / Kung Fu Fighting
43  GRMLN / Empire
42  PETER J. BIRCH / When the Sun’s Risin’ Over the Town
41  THE CHILD OF LOV / The Child of Lov

40  MATTHEW E. WHITE / Big Inner
39  NIGHT BEDS / Country Sleep
38  LORDE / Pure Heroin
37  FRANZ FERDINAND / Right Thoughts, Right Words, ...
36  THE POLYPHONIC SPREE / Yes, it's True
35  THE NATIONAL / Trouble will find me
34  MY BLOODY VALENTINE / Mbv
33  FIDLAR / Fidlar
32  PEACE / In Love
31  PARQUET COURTS / Light up Gold

30

of Montreal
Lousy With Sylvianbriar

Beautifully bulky!

Skills: Creative songwriting across many genres, but always with one foot in the strawberry field.

Favourite Songs: Sirens Of Your Toxic Spirit, Triumph Of Disintegration, She Ain't Speakin' Now






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29

KING KRULE
6 Feet Beneath the Moon

The best HipHop record of the year, if you want to call it like that.

Skills: Prodigy with absolute beat control. Recently he still wore diapers and still sounds as if he was the older brother of Tricky.

Favourite Songs: Easy easy, Neptune Estate, Ocean Bed, Foreign 2




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28

DARKSIDE
Psychic

Like a shining star in the deepest darkest night.

Skills: Nicolas Jaar electronic engineers and guitarist Dave Harrington put their talents together.

Favourite Songs: Golden Arrow, Heart, Paper Trails, Metatron





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27

SAMANTHA CRAIN
Kid Face

More touching hand-made music is not possible. An album that gets under your skin.

Skills: Sprays authenticity and naturalness.

Favourite Songs: We've been found, Never going Back, For the Miner





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26

FOALS
Holy Fire

Since "Spanish Sahara" Yannis Philippakis became a shaman and with "Inhaler", the Prince-best number since years, and "My Number" he manifested his status.

Skills: Can  do intelligent rock and he got the funk!

Favourite Songs: Inhaler, My Number, Late Night, Stepson



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25

BABYSHAMBLES
Sequel to the Prequel

Pete, can do it still!

Skills: Excellent songwriting and unbroken credibility.

Favourite Songs: Farmer's Daughter, Maybeline, Stranger in my own skin







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24

MODERAT
II

Modeselektor and Apparat from Berlin are the most organic connection of electronic elements in the dancefloor sector.

Skills: Beats with melancholy note and still danceable until the early morning.

Favourite Songs: Bad Kingdom, Let in the Light, Gita, Damage Done





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23

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
... like Clockwork

StonerRock of class A with reminiscences of early heroes (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.)

Skills: Josh Homme is and will be the Messiah of the bone-dry DesertRock.

Favourite Songs: Keep your Eyes peeled, My God is the Sun, If I had a Tail, ... like Clockwork

If I Had A Tail von Queens Of The Stone Age | dooloop.tv

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22

RHYE
Woman

The sensual, yet supercooled pop reminiscent of Feist and Sade, but in real it is a male duo consisting of the American Mike Milosh and the Danish Robin Hannibal.

Skills: silky sexy voice and aesthetic sound design.

Favourite Songs: Open, The Fall, 3 Days, One of those Summer Days




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21

THE LONE BELLOW
The Lone Bellow

Country and even no Country. Soul striptease at the fireplace in the wide prairie.

Skills: Sensitive songwriting. Yearning and passionate.

Favourite Songs: Two Sides Of Lonely, You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional, Fire Red Horse






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20

I AM KLOOT
Let It All in

The real legitimate successor of the Beatles.

Skills: Excellent songwriting and melodies for eternity.

Favourite Songs: Let Them All In, Let Them All In, Shoeless, Even The Stars







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19

JAMES BLAKE
Overgrown

The next proof that electronic music can have soul in it.

Skills: Compositions by destruction and reconstruction. Gentle bass with tremendous force.

Favourite Songs: Overgrown, Retrograde, To the Last

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18

BILL CALLAHAN
Dream River

Sound painting applied with a rough brush. Like a tender embrace in the dark.

Skills: A deep voice full of warmth.

Favourite Songs: The Sing, Javelin Unlanding, Summer Painter






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17

TO KILL A KING
Cannibals with Cutlery

Intricate songs between folk and BritPop often with exhilarating dynamics

Skills: Excellent live band full of different characters.

Favourite Songs: Funeral, Choices, Fictional State, Howling






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16

STEVE MASON
Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time

Furious connection to pain, depression and darkness.

Skills: Great tunes with a grand gesture. Pathetic, but not embarrassing.

Favourite Songs: A Lot of Love, Seen It All Before, Fire!, Fight Them Back






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15

ARCTIC MONKEYS
AM

Highly decorated heroes of IndieRock in new ways.

Skills: Connects Rock Music with Groove and reinvent themselves again and again.

Favourite Songs: Do I Wanna Know?, Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?, Snap Out Of It




Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? from David Wilson on Vimeo.

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14

VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Modern Vampires of the City

Songs with unusual stories and sounds, but with a lot of romance, humor and warmth.

Skills: Create with ordinary ingredients very unusual songs

Favourite Songs: Step, Diane Young, Hannah Hunt, Everlasting Arms





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13
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
Arc

The savior of IndieRock. Bloc Party are dead long live Everything Everything.

Skills: Catchy grooves paired with rocking guitars and subtle beats.

Favourite Songs: Cough Cough, Kemosabe, Feet For Hands, Don't Try






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12

STORNOWAY
Tales from Terra Firma

Stories full of longing and passion that animate inevitably to sing along.

Skills: Kings of melody. Produce earwigs without end.

Favourite Songs: You Take Me As I Am, Farewell Appalachia, Knock Me On the Head







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11

POND
Hobo Rocket

Another furious psychedelic ride of the batty Australians through space and time.

Skills: Highly energetic and always keen to experiment.

Favourite Songs: Xanman, O Dharma, Giant Tortoise






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10

THERMALS
Desperate Ground

On the trail of the Ramones, but off the beaten track

Skills: loud. angry. honest. evil.

Favourite Songs: Born to Kill, You will be free, The Sunset, The Sowrd by my side, Where I stand








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09

PORTUGAL. THE MAN
Evil Friends

An album full of hits, digestible than usual, but not worse.

Skills: Create a clever balancing act between pop and rock without sounding boring. Composing songs which are catchy, but still miles away from the mainstream.

Favourite Songs: Creep in a T-Shirt, Evil Friends, Hip Hop Kids, Purple Yellow Red and Blue





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08

LOU DOILLON
Places

The daughter of the French director Jacques Doillon and the English actress and singer Jane Birkin venturing in the footsteps of her mother and it shows that the chanson may never perish.

Skills: looks good, can act, and also sing.

Favourite Songs: ICU, Devil od Angel, Same old Game, Questions and Answers





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07

MAZZY STAR
Season of your Day

No one can weave sound more dense and atmospheric. Let it flow!

Skills: David Roback and Hope Sandoval are wizards. They create soundscapes which float and float and float.

Favourite Songs: In the Kingdom, California, Lay myself down





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06

ARCADE FIRE
Reflektor

The uncrowned heads of the alternative sounds go to the disco to perish without it.

Skills: Creative. brave. clever.

Favourite Songs: Reflektor, Normal Person, Afterlife







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05

JOHN GRANT
Pale Green Ghosts

Like Arcade Fire, a border crosser between genres. Wonderful reckoning with life and death and love and hate.

Skills: Bears voice, bearish appearance, bears strong songs. A bear of a man!

Favourite Songs: Pale Green Ghosts, GMF, It Doesn't Matter To Him, I Hate This Town






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04

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
II

Wonderful kinky song with soemting
indefinable special.

Skills: Want surely not to produce any hits, but are absolutely capable to do it.

Favourite Songs: Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark), Secret Xtians, Monk, So good at being in Trouble





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03

VILLAGERS
{Awayland}

Singer-songwriter Conor J. O'Brien is with the Villagers a real band now and increases to the Champions League.

Skills: A voice that must be loved. Creates tunes you love forever.

Favourite Songs: My Lighthouse, The Waves, Nothing Arrived






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02

NICK CAVE
& THE BAD SEEDS
Push the Sky away

Mr. Cave has arrived in the Mount Olympus of rock gods.

Skills: Everything!

Favourite Songs: Jubilee Street, Mermaids, Higgs Boson Blues







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FOXYGEN
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors 

Loopy epic with interleaved melodies and creativity outbreaks without end.

Skills: Maybe too many. The future will show whether they can restrain themselves.

Favourite Songs: No Destruction, On Blue Mountain, San Francisco, Shuggie









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