A few favorites you may have missed this year…
Spotify playlist
Gorgeous guitar and shuffling drums on this alt-folk ditty about seeing trash as treasure
Dreamy folksters turn up the volume for a raindrop rocker with a propulsive backbeat
A carefree vibe that seems to glisten across the summer sea
Vintage psychedelic pop punctuated by piano, strings, and vocals drenched in reverb
A neo-psychedelic journey full of breathy multilingual singing and an eclectic selection of aural ideas
The West Coast meets the American Heartland here on a golden era AM radio tune
A soulful sort of cowboy R&B that simmers up a tasty musical stew
A real rocker where fuzziness rides along with a locked-in rhythm section
Spacey grooves carry the listener through a starry sky of cosmic jazz-funk
A solid head-bobber from a self-aware musician who’s anything but obscure
A neo-disco number that dares you not to dance, a novel version of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”
A potent combination of darkness and light, foreboding heaviness and soulful levity
Schizophrenic flow over a vaguely dangerous bombastic beat
Dance music that sounds like it was written and performed by 80s era robots
Filthy funky neo-soul with a melody that gets so high, it floats off into the ether
Not only the video of the year, but a timely indictment of American race relations in 2018
Jazzy R&B with silky smooth vocals and a bouncy bassline that makes your heart bop
The slickest Thai-inflected funk around
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