The 2017 Playlist: Tracks of the Year

Amidst all the strife of 2017 we always have music to turn to.

Chunks of life and artistic expression to take three or four minutes at a time.

Some able to articulate the sadness of everything going on around them, some able to allow you to forget and just dance or jump for joy.

Music is always here and here’s the 40 best nuggets of the year:

NB. Only songs released on albums or as singles in 2017 counted here (no singles from 2016 albums.)

40. Royal Blood - She's Creeping

39. alt-J - In Cold Blood

38. Liam Gallagher - For What It's Worth

37. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do

36. U2 - Blackout

35. Bleachers - Everybody Lost Somebody

34. Black Honey - Dig

33. Lana Del Rey - Love

32. The Amazons - In My Mind

31. Yonaka - Heavy

30. Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like The Piano

29. Jax Jones - You Don't Know Me (feat. Raye)

28. Sundara Karma - Explore

27. Jain - Makeba

26. Kendrick Lamar - Loyalty (feat. Rihanna)

25. Nilufer Yanya - Baby Luv

24. Boniface - I Will Not Return As A Tourist

23. The Big Moon - Formidable

22. St. Vincent - New York

21. Lorde - Green Light

20. Wolf Alice - Beautifully Unconventional

19. Yonaka - Bubblegum

18. Foo Fighters - The Sky Is A Neighbourhood

17. The Horrors - Something To Remember Me By

16. Cameron Avery - Wasted On Fidelity

15. Beck - Up All Night

14. alt-J - 3WW

13. Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral

12. Paramore - Hard Times

11. Pale Waves - New Year's Eve

10. Royal Blood - Lights Out

9. Mura Masa - One Night (feat. Charli XCX)

8. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You

7. Jaded - In The Morning

6. The Killers - The Man

5. Kasabian - Ill Ray (The King)

4. K.Flay - Blood In The Cut

3. Queens Of The Stone Age - The Way You Used To Do

2. Liam Gallagher - Wall Of Glass

1. LCD Soundsystem - how do you sleep?