2014 Songs of the Year: Part One - 60 through 51

It's that time of year and as always I'm a little late out of the gate (blame the fact that advertising, my day job, doesn't make compiling this sort of list in December particularly easy!)

I didn't do a songs list last year but as I've focused more on posting one off tracks in 2014 it felt much more relevant. I'm going with a top 60 format and will be posting ten every day or so, then I will look to cover the top ten albums of the year.

I won't comment on these early ones (I just don't have the time sadly!) but where possible I've included a free streaming link or video, otherwise I expect a Spotify player.

Finally before we dive in, I wanted to call out four songs that very nearly made it but just missed out. Stills by Panes, Restless by Oyinda (big hopes for 2015!), Levitation by Marz Léon and Everything We Touch by Say Lou Lou. And with that, on to the list...

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60. Mess On A Mission - Liars

For the 17th installment of the UO Music Video series, experimental noise-pop band Liars team up with wunderkind director Luis Cerveró on the song "Mess on a Mission" off Liars' new album Mess. Band member Angus Andrews and Cervero talked to us about the making of the video in an exclusive interview here: http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/liars.

59. Hold Me - JJ

JJ All White Everything V - 2014 Indie Pop, Swedish.

58. Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) - Run The Jewels feat. Zack De La Rocha

Pre-order the Album & Get this track: http://found.ee/rtjitunespreorder "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" picks up right where first RTJ2 single "Blockbuster Night Pt. 1" left off -- with El-P and Killer Mike, two of the best rappers currently doing it, ferociously proving they can out-rap anyone else in their field.

57. Summer Jorts (Some Cats Still Do) - Lockah

Download: http://ks.kud.li/dky015 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/donkypitch Official stream from donky pitch. Distributed by Kudos Records. On iTunes: http://it.kud.li/dky015 On Amazon: http://az.kud.li/dky015 More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/donkypitch Album: Yahoo or the Highway [ALBUM] Track: 8 of 13 Title: Summer Jorts (Some Cats Still Do) Artist: Lockah Label: donky pitch Cat#: DKY015 Formats: Digital Digital Release: 14th April 2014 About This Release: On April 14th Donky Pitch will release the debut album from Lockah.

56. Origins - Max Cooper

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track! My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible. The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly. The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow. If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

55. Let Me Down Gently - La Roux

54. Heroine - The Night VI

Heroine directed by Toby Ross-Southall, director of photography: Ralph Fuller, Art direction and concept by Anna Pesquidous & THE NIGHT VI.

53. Johnny and Mary - Todd Terje

TODD TERJE Debut Album - http://smarturl.it/TTitsalbumtime Order Now... Bryan Ferry sings and plays Suzuki Omnichord and ES4 piano Oliver Thompson plays guitar Cherisse Ofuso-Osei plays drums Hanne Hukkelberg sings too

52. Getaway - EBY feat. IIRIS

Like my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/AirwaveMusicTVOfficial EBY feat.

51. Oasis - Alpines

From the album 'Oasis', out now on iTunes: http://bitly.com/1hAUCNP Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/alpines/oasis http://alpinesmusic.com Directed by Tom Beard

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