Mid-Year Report // Best Songs
As much as I enjoy geeking out by building best-of album lists, song lists are infinity more interesting. A song is a high-wire act: one slip, one faulty step and you’ve got a mess on your hands. Albums, almost by their very nature, are more forgiving: great albums still have awful, awful songs. So a list of the best songs of a period tend to be more inclusive of different types of talent. Quite a few of these bands here don’t have enough of it to sustain an album (yet?), but they have enough to absolutely crush one. So, culled together with scraps of time over the past week and crafted with a fair amount of thought and consideration, I humbly submit 40 songs that have it pretty well locked down this year. Comments, omissions, counter-arguments all certainly welcome.
