Sometimes I think we’re just too damn good to you at The Counterfit. Essays, social life and personal sanity be damned, we’ll plunge ahead with our end of year compendiums regardless. Not content with spoon-feeding our adoring public the best tracks of the year, this time we’ve even gone to the trouble of collating them all together in one handy Spotify playlist. Don’t click yet though, you wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise…

Carry on…

Go on, don’t deny you hadn’t been waiting for it. Fervently holding back that spare tenner in your wallet for the record you so glaringly overlooked. Well you can release your breath of anticipation and break out the world’s smallest horn section to begin the pomp and ceremony of our very own end of year list.

Carry on…

“Oh momma, I wanna go surfin’ /Oh momma, I don’t care about nothing”. Sounding like a classic idiomatic chorus from your new favourite band or another moronic calling card from New York’s long line of hapless hipsters? Either way you can expect The Drums to be unavoidable in 2010.

Carry on…

Once every millennium, hell’s thermostat drops into the negative Celsius range, the Sus domestica (or ‘pig’) family take to the skies, and Pitchfork and NME actually find an album they both love. But whilst the small players in the musical media might be drooling over the most Google-allergic album/artist combination of all time, you’ll only actually buy it if we tell you to, right?

Carry on…