Here’s the full list of our top 20 tracks of the year – speak to you again in 2019!

1 Field Music – Count It Up
2 Bodega – How Did It Happen?
3 Idles – Danny Nedelko
4 Goat Girl – The Man
5 Sleaford Mods – Stick In a Five And Go
6 Darwin Deez – The World’s Best Kisser
7 The DMAs – For Now
8 Team Picture – (I Want Your) Life Hack
9 Ezra Furman – Suck The Blood From My Wound
10 Parquet Courts – Almost Started a Fight / In and Out of Patience
11 Alice Boman – Heartbeat
12 No Age – Soft Collar Fad
13 Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – Feast to Famine
14 Car Seat Headrest – Bodys
15 Angelo Palladino featuring Chris Matthews – Gone
16 Fatoumata Diawara – Nterini
17 Courtney Barnett – Charity
18 Engine – And I Say
19 Everything Is Recorded – Carry Me
20 The Breeders – All Nerve

Happy New Year – and here’s our 2017 Christmas Countdown in full (our favourite tracks of the last 12 months):

1 Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
2 Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
3 The XX – Say Something Loving
4 This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
5 Idles – Well Done
6 Oumou Sangare – Mogoya
7 Elbow – Magnificent (She Says)
8 Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time?
9 Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation – Rushing Through My Mind
10 Chastity Belt – Caught In a Lie
11 Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song
12 Morrissey – Spent The Day In Bed
13 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Holy Mountain
14 Moonlandingz – Black Hanz
15 Carseat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl
16 The Tiny Minds – Jealous Sea
17 Furr – Another Fable
18 Alt-J – 3WW
19 Daughter – Burn it Down
20 Team Picture – Back To Bay Six

So now we can reveal our top 5 favourite tracks of 2017.

Here’s the full list of what we played on our festival special edition:

Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry out of Christmas?
The Tragically Hip – We’ll Go Too
Iron and Wine – About A Bruise
Wind-Up Birds – Working Christmas Day

Christmas Countdown Top 5
5 Idles – Well Done
4 This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
3 The XX – Say Something Loving
2 Kate Tempest – Tunnel Vision
1 Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now

Alt-J – Pleader
The Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
Asian Dub Foundation – Taa Deem

You can listen again here – and we’ll also be repeating the show from 8pm to 9pm on Thursday 28 December

Now we’re into the Top 10 in the Christmas Countdown – our favourite 20 tracks of the year.

Team Picture – Back To Bay Six
Billy Bragg – World Turned Upside Down
Terrorvision – Celebrity Hit List
British Sea Power – Bad Bohemian

Christmas Countdown

10 Chastity Belt – Caught In a Lie
9 Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation – Rushing Through My Mind
8 Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time?
7 Elbow – Magnificent (She Says)
6 Oumou Sangare – Mogoya

Young Cub – Fragile
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Duke Spirit – Serenade
The Breeders – Wait In The Car
Reef – Place Your Hands

You can listen again here >

We’re halfway through our favourite tracks of the year.

Here’s the full list of what we played on our latest show:

Skeletal Family – I Have Changed
Tune-Yards – Look At Your Hands
Felt – Primitive Painters

Christmas Countdown:

15 Carseat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl
14 Moonlandingz – Black Hanz
13 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Holy Mountain
12 Morrissey – Spent The Day In Bed
11 Glass Mountain – Cowboy Song

The National – Turtleneck
Magic Mountain – Zodiac
Alt-J – Pleader (Mr Jukes remix)
Young Cub – Avalanche
Circa Waves – Young Chasers

On Thursday 14 December from 8pm to 9pm we’ll be starting on the top 10

You can listen again here >

We’ve unveiled the final part of this year’s Christmas Countdown – and here’s the full list of what we played on our festive special show, which will be repeated on Thursday 29 December from 8pm – 9pm.

Western Dance – What Does It Take?
handmadehands – Over The Edge
Neil Young – Big Box

Christmas Countdown
5. Parquet Courts – Dust
4. Animal Collective – Floridada
3. Sleaford Mods – TCR
2. Field Music – The Noisy Days Are Over
1. Glass Mountain – Glacial

Frank Turner – Get Better
Half Man Half Biscuit – Irk The Purists
Broken Bells – The High Road
Deadwall – The Talk

You can listen again here >

We’re into the second part of the Christmas Countdown – our top 20 tracks of the year:

Western Dance – Here From Nowhere
Chutzpah – Eyes
Savages – Evil
MC5 – I Can Only Give You Everything
Mick Mathers – Looking For Love
Nikka Costa – Everybody Got Their Something

Christmas Countdown part 2 –

15 Blackalicious – The Blow Up
14 Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
13 Fat White Family – The Whitest Boy on the Beach
12 Iggy Pop – Gardenia
11 Kate Tempest – Don’t Fall In

Wilful Missing – Waiting For The snow
Kascarade – Stomp
Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales

You can listen again here >