From a numerical perspective, we bid adieu to the 2010s with a modest selection of some of the defining songs from the decade about to pass. Though attempts were made to wedge in multiple previously unprofiled soundtracks, we'll focus mostly on one: Jonny Greenwood's score to the 2018 film You Were Never Really Here. 1. Robyn: Dancing on My Own (Body Talk Pt. 1, 2010) Konichiwa 2. Kalte: Vostok Station (Phages, 2019) self-released 3. Frank Ocean: Sweet Life (channel Orange, 2012) Island/Def Jam 4. Kendrick Lamar: Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (good kid, mAAd city, 2012) Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope 5. Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto: 0322 (Flumina, 2011) Touch 6. YG: FDT [w.Nipsey Hussle] (Still Brazy, 2016) 4Hunnid/CTE/Def Jam 7. Beyoncé: Formation (Lemonade, 2016) Parkwood/Columbia 8. Gabe Knox: The Tomorrow People (EP: B, 2017) Aumega 9. Marie Davidson: La Chambre Intérieure (Working Class Woman, 2018) Ninja Tune TEN! Tegan & Sara: Don't Believe the Things They Tell You [They Lie] (Hey, I'm Just Like You, 2019) Sire 11. DJ Spinn: Opioids (HyperSwim, 2019) Williams Street/Hyperdub 12. Burial: Subtemple (Tunes 2011-2019, 2017) Hyperdub 13. Fetty Wap: Trap Queen (Fetty Wap, 2015) RGF/300 14. Plains Apparition: Decade's Trace (Encrypt, 2019) self-released 15. Chromatics: Whispers in the Hall (Closer to Grey, 2019) Italians Do It Better 16. Blue Hawaii: Can We Go Back (Open Reduction Internal Fixation, 2019) Arbutus 17. Colin Stetson, Rebecca Foon & Amanda Lo: The End (The First OST: Volume 1, 2018) New Deal/Record Collection 18. Lana Del Rey: Venice Bitch (Norman Fucking Rockwell! 2019) Polydor/Interscope 19. Louise Burns: Cry (Portraits, 2019) Light Organ TWENTY! Anthony Genn & Martin Slattery: Ballad of Polly Grey (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 21. Nils Frahm: Says (Spaces, 2013) Erased Tapes 22. Kaytranada & Kali Uchis: 10% (Bubba, 2019) RCA 23. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Life on Mars? (Watchmen Volume 3: Music from the HBO Series, 2019) The Null Corporation 24. Jonny Greenwood: Nina Through Glass (You Were Never Really Here OST, 2018) Lakeshore 25. Jonny Greenwood: Dark Streets (You Were Never Really Here OST, 2018) Lakeshore 26. Jonny Greenwood: Joe's Drive (You Were Never Really Here OST, 2018) Lakeshore 27. Gagarin: Hogmanay [First Foot mix] (2019) XLR8R 28. Alain J Leroux: Auld Lang Syne (The Christmas Season 2, 1985) Parry Music 29. David Bowie: I Can't Give Everything Away (Blackstar/?, 2016) ISO/Columbia/RCA radiofreegak@gmail.com twitter.com/hundredaire www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies Prepare for those twenties to roar! -30-
