NPR Music 100 Favorite Songs of 2013

After the albums, here we have NPR picks on best songs of 2013. Again, not ranked. And again, with a good equilibrium between rock favourites of everyone (Get Lucky, Song For Zula, White Noise, Where Are We Now?, GMF, Do I Wanna Know?), pop hits (Pusher Love Girl, Blurred Lines), obscure (to me) world acts and unusual choices (Lorde without Royals!). On NPR Music site you find a quick description of each track and direct links to their own playlists (Spotify and Rdio).

Enjoy.

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NPR MUSIC 100 FAVORITE SONGS OF 2013

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Strikethrough tracks (5/100) are not available on Spotify. Some tracks may not be available in all countries.

The 1975 - Chocolate
2 Chainz - Feds Watching
A$AP Ferg feat. A$AP Rocky - Shabba
Alice Smith - Shot
Anna von Hausswolff - Funeral For My Future Children
Aoife O'Donovan - Red & White & Blue & Gold
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
Ariana Grande - Honeymoon Avenue
Ashley Monroe - Used
Ballake Sissoko - Maimouna
Beck - Gimme
Billband - Sparkle
The Blow - Make It Up
Boards of Canada - Cold Earth
Bonobo - Cirrus
Bosnian Rainbows - Torn Maps
Bunji Garlin - Differentology
Caitlin Rose - Only a Clown
Cecille McLorin Salvant - You Bring Out the Savage in Me
Chelsea Wolfe - The Warden
Christian Gerhaher, Mahler - Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommeen
Chucho Valdes - Tabu
Chvrches - Recover
Ciara - Body Party
Claire Chase, Edgar Varese - Density 21.5
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Daniel Wohl - Corpus
Danny Brown - Dip
Daughter - Youth
David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
Disclosure Feat. AlunaGeorge - White Noise
Drake - Hold On We're Going Home
Earl Sweatshirt - Chum
FKA Twigs - Water Me
Foxygen - San Francisco
The Front Bottoms - Twin Size Mattress
Fuck Buttons - The Red Wing
Gary Allan - It Ain't the Whiskey
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Gray Reverend - My Hands
Hilary Hahn, Somei Satoh - Bifu
Holly Williams - Giving Up
Irene Diaz - I Love You Madly
J. Cole Feat. Miguel - Power Trip
Jagwar Ma - Uncertainty
Jaheim - Age Ain't a Factor
Jaimeo Brown - Power of God
James Blake - Retrograde
Jay Z - Picasso Baby
John Grant - GMF
Josh Ritter - Joy To You, Baby
Jucifer - Shame
Justin Timberlake - Pusher Love Girl
Kyle Hall a.k.a. KMFH - Crushed
Lemuria - Brilliant Dancer
Linda Thompson - Love's for Babies and Fools
Lorde - Tennis Court
Machel Montano - The Fog
Mala Rodriguez - 33
Meridian Brothers - Coplas Para Cantar Al Atardecer
Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vanska, Sibelius - Symphony No. 4. IV. Allegro
My Blood Valentine - In Another Way
The National - Don't Swallow the Cap
The Necks - Open
Neko Case - Man
Night Beds - Even If We Try
North Mississippi All Stars - Turn Up Satan
Omar Souleyman - Warni Warni
Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
Patty Griffin - Ohio
Pelican - Deny the Absolute
Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
Pinata Protest - Volver Volver
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Prodigy & Alchemist - Breeze
Pusha T - Numbers on the Board
Rapsody Feat. Chance the Rapper and Big K.R.I.T. - Lonely Thoughts
Rhye - Open
Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Rokia Traore - Melancolie
Royal Highness - Fiesta Columbiana
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Waiting Is Forbidden
RVIVR - Paper Thin
Sam Amidon - My Old Friend
Sarah Cahill - Be Kind to One Another
Son Lux - Easy
Stromae - Papaoute
Suede - For The Strangers
The-Dream - Too Early
Thundercat - Oh Sheit, It's X
Timo Andres - Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno
Todd Terje - Strandbar (Samba Version)
Tom Harrell - Night Life
Typhoon - Young Fathers
White Mandingos - My First White Girl
William Tyler - Country of Illusion
Willis Earl Beal - Coming Through
Yo La Tengo - Ohm