If you were anywhere near me this year you'd have heard these songs coming from my room, car, headphones or - if you were really unlucky - my singing along. Trends? Patterns? Foibles? Maybe - knock yourselves out if you want and let me know if these tell you anything about me or 2015. But more likely they are just songs which tripped me up and held my attention. Repeatedly. And I didn't even include older songs that came into, or back into, my life this year like the 752 vers

Total Control – Typical System Jenny Lewis – The Voyager Jason Isbell – Southeastern Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone Chromeo – White Women Laura Jean – Laura Jean HTRK – Psychic 9-5 Club Buried In Verona – Faceless Joelistics – Blue Volume Wild Beasts – Present Tense Eno+Hyde – High Life #1 Dads – About Face FKA twigs – LP 1 Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems Chet Faker – Built On Glass Peep Tempel – Tales Caribou – Our Love The Acid – Liminal Courtney B