Hammerman Ikon’s favourite songs from the recent years.
2019
1. James Blake: Tell Them
2. Weyes Blood: Something to Believe
3. James Blake: Mile High
4. Chromatics: Light as a Feather
5. Big Thief: Betsy
6. Chance the Rapper: Found A Good One (Single No More)
7. Hot Chip: Melody of Love
8. Weyes Blood: Movies
9. Chromatics: You’re No Good
10. Sharon Van Etten: Jupiter 4
Big Thief: UFOF
Kanye West: Use This Gospel
FKA Twigs: Sad Day
2018
1. U.S. Girls: Pearly Gates
2. Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy
3. John Grant: Love is Magic
4. George Fitzgerald: Burns
5. Mitski: Nobody
6. Beach House: Black Car
7. Chvrches: My Enemy
8. Janelle Monáe: Crazy, Classic, Life
9. Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts
10. Low: Always Trying to Work It Out
Mitski: Two Slow Dancers
U.S. Girls: L-Over
Phosphorescent: Christmas Down Under
2017
1. Perfume Genius: Slip Away
2. The XX: Replica
3. Lana Del Rey: Lust for Life
4. The XX: Say Something Loving
5. Perfume Genius: Wreath
6. Dirty Projectors: I See You
7. LCD Soundsystem: How Do You Sleep?
8. Fever Ray: To the Moon and Back
9. The War on Drugs: You Don’t Have to Go
10. Lorde: Homemade Dynamite
Grizzly Bear: Mourning Sound
LCD Soundsystem: American Dream
Spoon: I Ain’t the One
St. Vincent: Los Ageless
2016
1. ANOHNI: 4 Degrees
2. Kanye West: Ultralight Beam
3. Christine and the Queens: Jonathan
4. ANOHNI: Drone Bomb Me
5. Blood Orange: E.V.P.
6. Anderson .Paak: Am I Wrong?
7. Radiohead: Burn the Witch
8. Chance the Rapper: Same Drugs
9. Todd Terje and the Olsens: La fête sauvage
10. James Blake: I Need a Forest Fire
Vitalic: Waiting for the Stars
Metronomy & Robyn: Hang Me Out to Dry
2015
1. Miguel: Waves
2. Sufjan Stevens: Fourth of July
3. Kendrick Lamar: Alright
4. Jamie XX: Loud Places
5. John Grant: Global Warming
6. Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta
7. Destroyer: Sun in the Sky
8. Chvrches: Keep You on My Side
9. Lana Del Ray: Art Deco
10. Beach House: Somewhere Tonight
Lana Del Ray: The Blackest Day
John Grant: Geraldine
Julia Holter: Sea Calls Me Home
Tame Impala: New Person, Same Old Mistakes
2014
1. FKA Twigs: Two Weeks
2. The War on Drugs: Under the Pressure
3. Todd Terje: Oh Joy
4. Sharon Van Etten: I Know
5. Sun Kil Moon: Carissa
6. Asgeir: Going Home
7. Todd Terje: Delorean Dynamite
8. Interpol: My Desire
9. The Black Keys: In Time
10. TV on the Radio: Careful You
Lykke Li: Heart of Steel
Asgeir: Higher
Perturbator: She Is Young, She Is Beautiful, She Is Next
Wild Beasts: Mecca
2013
1. John Grant: Ernest Borgnine
2. James Blake: Retrograde
3. Kanye West: Guilt Trip
4. James Blake: Overgrown
5. Chvrches: The Mother We Share
6. Kanye West: Blood on the Leaves
7. The Arcade Fire: Reflektor
8. John Grant: GMF
9. Atoms for Peace: Before Your Very Eyes
10. Queens of the Stone Age: I Appear Missing
The Arcade Fire: It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
Arctic Monkeys: One for the Road
Daft Punk: Contact
The Flaming Lips: Try to Explain
Fuck Buttons: Hidden Xs
Vampire Weekend: Ya Hey
Kanye West: I am a God
2012
1. Dirty Projectors: Dance for You
2. Chromatics: Lady
3. Spiritualized: Hey Jane
4. Rufus Wainwright: Jericho
5. Beach House: Myth
6. Frank Ocean: Thinkin Bout You
7. Grizzly Bear: Sun in Your Eyes
8. Rufus Wainwright: Rashida
9. The Bowerbirds: This Year
10. El-P: Request Denied
Animal Collective: New Town Burnout
Chromatics: Kill for Love
Chromatics: A Matter of Time
Dirty Projectors: Maybe That Was It
Passion Pit: Hideaway
Shearwater: You As You Were
2011
1. Bon Iver: Holocene
2. Destroyer: Kaputt
3. PJ Harvey: The Glorious Land
4. My Morning Jacket: Holdin’ on to Black Metal
5. Kanye West & Jay-Z: New Day
6. James Blake: The Wilhelm Stream
7. Justice: Horsepower
8. Beirut: The Rip Tide
9. St. Vincent: Dilettante
10. Elbow: The Birds
The Black Keys: Run Right Back
Bon Iver: Calgary
Cut Copy: Sun God
2010
1. Kanye West: Monster
2. The Arcade Fire: Sprawl II
3. LCD Soundsystem: All I Want
4. Kanye West: All of the Lights
5. Beach House: 10 Mile Stereo
6. I am Kloot: I Still Do
7. Massive Attack: Splitting the Atom
8. Twin Shadow: Tyrant Destroyed
9. Yeasayer: Ambling Alp
10. Midlake: Acts of Man
The Morning Benders: Hand Me Downs
Shearwater: Meridian
Vampire Weekend: Taxi Cab
2009
1. Animal Collective: Summer Clothes
2. Doves: Kingdom of Rust
3. The Antlers: Shiva
4. The Mummers: Wonderland
5. Dirty Projectors: Stillness Is the Move
6. The Flaming Lips: Powerless
7. Dan Auerbach: Goin’ Home
8. Grizzly Bear: Two Weeks
9. Patrick Wolf: Hard Times
10. The Decemberists: Won’t Want for Love
Julian Casablancas: 11th Dimension
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Pain
Fuck Buttons: Flight Of The Feathered Serpent
2008
1. Glasvegas: Geraldine
2. Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
3. Supergrass: Butterfly
4. Destroyer: Shooting Rockets (from the Desk of Night’s Ape)
5. Metronomy: The End of You Too
6. TV on the Radio: DLZ
7. Elbow: The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
8. Sigur Rós: Gobbledigook
9. Vampire Weekend: Bryn
10. Portishead: Magic Doors
Department of Eagles: Around the Bay
My Morning Jacket: Smokin’ from Shootin’
Secret Machines: The Walls Are Starting to Crack
Shearwater: The Snow Leopard
2007
1. LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
2. Of Montreal: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
3. Radiohead: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
4. Radiohead: All I Need
5. The National: Fake Empire
6. The Arcade Fire: Intervention
7. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
8. The Besnard Lakes: For Agent 13
9. Robert Plant And Alison Krauss: Nothin’
10. Arctic Monkeys: Fluorescent Adolescent
Andrew Bird: Simple X
Richard Hawley: The Sun Refused to Shine
Justice: Genesis
2006
1. Midlake: Roscoe
2. The Flaming Lips: Pompeii am Götterdämmerung
3. Gnarls Barkley: Crazy
4. Muse: Map of the Problematique
5. TV On The Radio: Wolf Like Me
6. Thom Yorke: And It Rained All Night
7. The Divine Comedy: To Die a Virgin
8. The Knife: Silent Shout
9. Midlake: Home
10. Mew: Apocalypso
Jarvis Cocker: Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time
Gnarls Barkley: Gone Daddy Gone
Secret Machines: Lightning Blue Eyes
2005
1. Sufjan Stevens: John Wayne Gacy, Jr
2. Fiona Apple: O’ Sailor
3. My Morning Jacket: What a Wonderful Man
4. Antony and the Johnsons: Hope There’s Someone
5. LCD Soundsystem: Yeah!
6. Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy
7. Elbow: Leaders of the Free World
8. Kanye West: Heard’em Say
9. Sigur Rós: Hoppipolla
10. Wolf Parade: I’ll Believe in Anything
The Decemberists: The Infanta
My Morning Jacket: Lay Low
Patrick Wolf: Teignmouth
2004
1. The Magnetic Fields: I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
2. The Arcade Fire: Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
3. Midlake: The Jungler
4. Tom Waits: Hoist That Rag
5. Kanye West: Jesus Walks
6. Mark Lanegan Band: Out of Nowhere
7. The Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies)
8. TV on the Radio: Staring at the Sun
9. Secret Machines: The Road Leads Where It’s Led
10. The Magnetic Fields: It’s Only Time
Björk: Where Is the Line?
The Magnetic Fields: I Looked All Over Town
Tom Waits: Make It Rain
2003
1. The Arcade Fire: No Cars Go
2. Radiohead: Where I End and You Begin
3. OutKast: Hey Ya!
4. Elbow: Fugitive Motel
5. Radiohead: There There
6. OutKast: She Lives in My Lap
7. Mew: Am I Wry? No
8. Beth Gibbons & Rustin’ Man: Mysteries
9. Radiohead: A Wolf at the Door
10. The Arcade Fire: Old Flame
Goldfrapp: Strict Machine
Mew: Snow Brigade
OutKast: Pink & Blue
2002
1. The Flaming Lips: Do You Realize?
2. Queens Of The Stone Age: God is in the Radio
3. DJ Shadow: You Can’t Go Home Again
4. Queens Of The Stone Age: First It Giveth
5. The Flaming Lips: One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21
6. Aimee Mann: Invisible Ink
7. Supergrass: Prophet 15
8. Moloko: Forever More
9. DJ Shadow: Six Days
10. Robbie Williams: Feel
The Flaming Lips: Fight Test
Norah Jones: Come Away with Me
Supergrass: Za
2001
1. Radiohead: Pyramid Song
2. Spiritualized: Out of Sight
3. The Avalanches: Since I Left You
4. Elbow: Any Day Now
5. Ash: Shining Light
6. Björk: Pagan Poetry
7. Radiohead: Like Spinning Plates
8. The Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist
9. Spiritualized: Anything More
10. Mark Lanegan: No Easy Action
Mercury Rev: Hercules
Radiohead: You and Whose Army?
Spiritualized: Don’t Just Do Something
2000
1. Radiohead: The National Anthem
2. Goldfrapp: Human
3. PJ Harvey: This Mess We’re In
4. David Gray: Please Forgive Me
5. Aimee Mann: Red Vines
6. Moloko: The Time Is Now
7. Queens of the Stone Age: In the Fade
8. Goldfrapp: Lovely Head
9. PJ Harvey: You Said Something
10. Björk: I’ve Seen It All
Goldfrapp: Paper Bag
Aimee Mann: Calling It Quits
Radiohead: Idioteque
1999
1. Mark Lanegan: Shanty Man’s Life
2. The Flaming Lips: Waitin’ for a Superman
3. Macy Gray: I Try
4. The Flaming Lips: Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
5. The Magnetic Fields: Papa Was a Rodeo
6. Masters of Reality: The Great Spelunker
7. Moby: South Side
8. Supergrass: Moving
9. Mark Lanegan: Carry Home
10. The Magnetic Fields: Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
Mark Lanegan: Consider Me
Masters of Reality: Boymilk Waltz
Moby: Natural Blues
1998
1. Massive Attack: Angel
2. The Divine Comedy: Commuter Love
3. Massive Attack: Inertia Creeps
4. The Divine Comedy: The Certainty of Chance
5. Massive Attack: Teardrop
6. Jeff Buckley: New Year’s Prayer
7. Mercury Rev: Opus 40
8. Pearl Jam: No Way
9. Mark Lanegan: Praying Ground
10. The Divine Comedy: National Express
Sheryl Crow: There Goes the Neighborhood
Garbage: You Look So Fine
Massive Attack: Man Next Door
1997
1. Björk: Bachelorette
2. Radiohead: Suterranean Homesick Alien
3. Faith No More: Ashes to Ashes
4. Radiohead: Let Down
5. Spiritualized: Broken Heart
6. Supergrass: Hollow Little Reign
7. Radiohead: No Surprises
8. Portishead: Only You
9. Ultra Bra: Sinä lähdit pois
10. Depeche Mode: Barrel of a Gun
Faith No More: She Loves Me Not
Portishead: All Mine
Verve: Sonnet
1996
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Where the Wild Roses Grow
2. The Divine Comedy: Something for the Weekend
3. Screaming Trees: Sworn and Broken
4. DJ Shadow: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
5. Manic Street Preachers: A Design for Life
6. Pearl Jam: Red Mosquito
7. The Divine Comedy: Songs of Love
8. Sheryl Crow: Redemption Day
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Henry Lee
10. DJ Shadow: The Number Song
Sheryl Crow: Home
The Divine Comedy: The Frog Princess
Screaming Trees: All I Know
1995
1. Radiohead: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2. Faith No More: Just a Man
3. Echobelly: Car Fiction
4. Garbage: Stupid Girl
5. Radiohead: Planet Telex
6. Björk: Army of Me
7. Echobelly: Great Things
8. Faith No More: Evidence
9. Björk: It’s Oh So Quiet
10. Garbage: Milk
Echobelly: King of the Kerb
Faith No More: King for a Day
Radiohead: Just
1994
1. Portishead: Glory Box
2. Jeff Buckley: Grace
3. Pearl Jam: Corduroy
4. Portishead: Roads
5. Jeff Buckley: Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
6. The Black Crowes: Ballad in Urgency
7. Massive Attack: Karmacoma
8. Tom Petty: It’s Good to Be King
9. Mark Lanegan: Carnival
10. Portishead: Sour Times
The Black Crowes: Cursed Diamond
Jeff Buckley: Last Goodbye
The Magnetic Fields: Swinging London
1993
1. Depeche Mode: Walking in My Shoes
2. Smashing Pumpkins: Hummer
3. Björk: Play Dead
4. Pearl Jam: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
5. Jellyfish: The Ghost at Number One
6. Sheryl Crow: Run, Baby, Run
7. Björk: Human Behaviour
8. Smashing Pumpkins: Today
9. Pearl Jam: Daughter
10. Depeche Mode: One Caress
Jellyfish: Joining a Fan Club
Radiohead: I Can’t
Smashing Pumpkins: Disarm
1992
1. Faith No More: RV
2. Sisters of Mercy: Temple of Love
3. Alice in Chains: Would?
4. Masters of Reality: She Got Me (When She Got Her Dress On)
5. Screaming Trees: Nearly Lost You
6. Faith No More: A Small Victory
7. The Black Crowes: Remedy
8. L7: Pretend We’re Dead
9. Sugar: Changes
10. Del Amitri: Just Like a Man
Alice in Chains: Rooster
Faith No More: Everything’s Ruined
Screaming Trees: No One Knows
1991
1. Massive Attack: Safe from Harm
2. Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy
3. Pearl Jam: Black
4. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
5. Temple of the Dog: Call Me a Dog
6. Fishbone: Those Days Are Gone
7. Lenny Kravitz: It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over
8. Metallica: The Unforgiven
9. Pearl Jam: Jeremy
10. Temple of the Dog: Reach Down
Fishbone: Fight the Youth
The Levellers: The Road
Nirvana: Come As You Are
1990
1. Sisters of Mercy: More
2. Maggie’s Dream: Human
3. Trouble: A Sinner’s Fame
4. Sisters of Mercy: I Was Wrong
5. Queensryche: Della Brown
6. Danzig: Her Black Wings
7. The Black Crowes: Sister Luck
8. Maggie’s Dream: Between Fear and Desire
9. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Over and Over
10. Steve Vai: Erotic Nightmares
Alice in Chains: Sea of Sorrow
Mother Love Bone: Stargazer
Wendy & Lisa: Crack in the Pavement