Jan 1, 2023 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs From 2022: Asunojokei, LN, Ronnie Martin, Steve Roach, Sally Shapiro & More This year brought blackgaze, somber dream-pop, sacred synth-pop, ambient masterworks, italo disco, and so much more.
Jan 1, 2022 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2021: Daygraves, Deafheaven, Japanese Breakfast, Low, Lycia, Angel Olsen & more 28 songs that helped get me through the year that was 2021.
Jan 1, 2021 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2020: epic45, Fine China, Khruangbin, Makeup and Vanity Set, Spectres, Unleash the Archers & More 26 songs that provided me with moments of beauty, serenity, hope — and yes, maybe even a little fun.
Jan 1, 2020 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2019: American Football, City Girl, ISON, Pedro the Lion, Robert Rich, Starflyer 59 & more I listened to a lot of music this year; these 25 songs were the ones that stuck with me throughout the last 12 months.
Jan 1, 2019 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2018: Fine China, Damien Jurado, Khruangbin, Low, The Mary Onettes, Ride, Silk Demon & more I listened to a lot of music this year; these 21 tracks were the ones I kept coming back to with each passing month.
Jan 1, 2018 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2017, Featuring Cloakroom, Grails, Lingua Ignota, Mount Eerie, Slowdive & more This mix is a collection of songs that helped me get through the year — that encouraged, uplifted, challenged, and yes, moved me.
Dec 31, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2016 2016 sucked in many ways. But there was beautiful music to be heard in the midst of the year’s ugliness.
Jan 5, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 5: Honorable Mentions These songs may not have been in my top picks but they still deserve notice in their own right.
Jan 4, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 4: Noah, Pure Bathing Culture, RAIJ, The Soft Moon, Sufjan Stevens & U.S. Girls Sleepy trip-hop, atmospheric indie-electronic, religious experimental folk, harrowing post-punk/EBM, mournful folk & experimental electronic rock.
Jan 3, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 3: Kendrick Lamar, Lightning Bug, Luxury, Makeup & Vanity Set, mewithoutYou & Native Lights Incendiary hip-hop, soaring shoegaze, aggressive indie-rock, poignant synth-wave, thought-provoking emo & atmospheric rock.
Jan 2, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 2: Eons D, Carlos Forster, The Green Kingdom, Grimes, Holly Herndon & In Gowan Ring Soulful hip-hop, lo-fi psychedelia, ambient dub, soaring electronic pop, abstract electronica, and otherworldly neo-folk.
Jan 1, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 1: Alphaxone, Blackalicious, CFCF, Rob Clouth, Cold Showers & The Declining Winter Ominous ambience, funky hip-hop, pan-global instrumentals, crushing electronica, elegant post-punk, and forlorn post-rock.
Jan 3, 2015 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2014, Part 3: Sun Kil Moon, Todd Terje, Temples, Wovenhand, “Weird Al” & More Post-punk shoegaze, confessional ballads, solo piano, psychedelic pop, and more. Oh, and Weird Al as well.
Jan 2, 2015 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2014, Part 2: Grouper, The Hotelier, Damien Jurado, Remedy Drive, The Roots & More Acoustic folk, emo done right, soulful electronic pop, twee, ’80s synth ballads, hip-hop, and more.
Jan 1, 2015 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2014, Part 1: 2:54, The Choir, Chromeo, Desiderii Marginis, Flying Lotus, Ben Frost & More Swirling shoegaze, Christian psych-rock, dark ambient and industrial, ’80s-style disco pop, and more.
Dec 15, 2014 Music My Favorite Songs of 2014: A Preview (Sort Of…) None of these songs are actually on my year-end list, but they easily could’ve been.
Jan 3, 2014 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2013, Honorable Mentions: Lockets, Jensen Sportag, Savages & more Soaring ’80s pop, charming modern classical, brooding indie-rock, atmospheric sludge metal, dreamy R&B, and more.
Jan 2, 2014 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2013, Part 2: Club 8, Sigur Rós, Infinity Shred, Makeup and Vanity Set, and more Tropical dub from Sweden, blistering post-rock, contemplative ambient jazz, emotional drones, an electronic journey through space, and more.
Jan 1, 2014 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2013, Part 1: Arcade Fire, Mary Onettes, My Bloody Valentine, Daft Punk & more Featuring gloriously mopey ’80s pop, robotic heartbreak, shimmering dreampop, late night ambience, and the return of a music legend.
Jan 1, 2013 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2012 This year’s list spans from apocalyptic post-rock to black metal to EBM to psych-pop to synthpop.