Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and that your party is continuing until at least tomorrow. With the spirit of the holidays in mind, I thought I would post my second annual best music of the year list (you can find my 2012 list here). Now I have a rather diverse set of songs here, covering a multitude of genres. There is some experimental electronic music, some dance, trance, and other forms of club music, some hip hop, and all sorts of pop and rock music. Pretty much the only thing that is missing is country. Sorry country fans, it has just never spoken to me (with the exception of Taylor Swift – I have a tee-shirt that says “Taylor Swift or Die!” afterall)

So without further ado, here are my 50 favourite songs of 2013. This is not in any order of worst to best. It is merely there in alphabetical. You can agree or disagree with anything I put up there because that is the beauty of opinions. This reflects my tastes, and probably not yours. You can find the entire playlist on Grooveshark here: http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Best+Of+2013/93526048

1. Aluna George – Your Drums, Your Love

2. Arcade Fire – Reflektor

3. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?

4. A$AP Rocky – Fuckin’ Problems

5. Atoms for Peace – Ingenue

6. Bastille – Pompeii

7. Big Sean – Control

8. Broken Bells – Holding On For Life

9. Charli XCX – You (Ha Ha Ha)

10. Childish Gambino – 3005

11. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share

12. Cloud Cult – Good Friend

13. Daft Punk – Get Lucky

14. Danny Brown – Kush Coma

15. Deafheaven – Dream House

16. Deerhunter – Monomania

17. Drake – Hold On, We’re Going Home

18. Frightened Rabbit – The Woodpile

19. Fuck Buttons – Brainfreeze

20. Future – Karate Chop

21. Glass Candy – Warm in the Winter

22. HAIM – Falling

23. Hannah Georgas – Somebody

24. Heathers – Lions, Tigers, Bears

25. Hollerado – So It Goes

26. July Talk – Guns & Ammunition

27. Justin Timberlake – Suit & Tie

28. Kanye West – Black Skinhead

29. Lorde – Royals

30. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End

31. MS MR – Hurricane

32. My Bloody Valentine – Only Tomorrow

33. Neko Cass – Man

34. Nine Inch Nails – Copy of A

35. Parquet Courts – Stoned and Starving

36. Pearl Jam – Sirens

37. Queens of the Stoneage – My God Is the Sun

38. Said the Whale – I Love You

39. Savages –  She Will

40. Son Lux – Lost it to Trying

41. The Mowgli’s – San Francisco

42. The National – Sea of Love

43. The Preatures – Is This How You Feel?

44. The Range – Metal Swing

45. Vampire Weekend – Hannah Hunt

46. Waxahatchee – Swan Dive

47. Wildlife – Lightning Tent

48. Young Galaxy – Pretty Boy

49. Youth Lagoon – Mute

50. Zedd – Clarity