40 Songs You’ve Lost in 2014

Kiesza
Hideaway

The UK response to that typical US dance pop movement, with an extra pop vibe.

Seinabo Sey
Hard Time

An anthem for strong women taking the power in their own hands.

Jessie Ware
Say You Love Me

The song co-written by Ed Sheeran: hazy acoustic guitars surfaces soft beats.

Ben Khan
Youth

Electronic production and lift music meet breathy vocals that can steam car windows.

Chet Faker
Talk Is Cheap

Sax and soupy vocals overlap on electroacoustic burbling with beat chopping.

CHVRCHES
The Mother We Share

Intro’s intimidating, gothic synth and a central lyric delivered with melodic extroversion.

Josef Salvat
Hustler

A bold, energetic, almost dramatic pop song with that pounding drum in the chorus.

SOHN
Artifice

Stargazing synths being backed up by faux drums and perfectly tweaked bleeps.

BROODS
Bridges

Working with Joel Little (Lorde), the duo balances light and dark pop.

iamamiwhoami
fountain

Youtube’s favorite mystery is back. The track is the typical electronic pop from Sweden.

BANKS
This Is What If Feels Like

Banks seduces the darkness in this Lil’ Silva and Jamie Woon produced cut.

Erik Hassle
Talk About It

Erik is taking a step back from cheerful pop only to rebrand himself as a pop mastermind.

Le Youth feat Dominique Young Unique
Dance With Me

The perfect mix of TLC’s single “No Scrubs” and Dupri feat Usher “The Party Continues”.

Phillip Philipps
Raging Fire

Ex American Idol 1 grow up creating a perfect fast-tempo song with pop-rock-folk sound.

CHVRCHES
We Sink

A fusion of emotive theatrics, hook-loaded songwriting, and forward-thinking sonics.

Syron feat Horror Stories
Three Dreams

Breezy R&B mixed with some elements of garage, plenty of hit-potential not so generic.

BANKS
Beggin For Thread

Electronics and melancholics, with a fierce voice that stand up to sophisticated music.

Rae Morris feat Fryars
Cold

Rae Morris and Fryars offer the most depressed but beautiful love song of the year.

Josef Salvat
Open Season

Declaring the season open, Josef just put his pop-guns on his shoulder, ready to rumble.

MOKO
Your Love

An energic and sensual-as-usual thing of hot, steaming r&b-infused soul.

MNEK
Wrote A Song About You

Plastic funk, with a vocoder rubbing up against springy synths and pulsating bass.

Ed Sheeran
Photograph

Sheeran tiptoes forward with some restrained crooning before the arena drums kick in.

Kate Boy
Self Control

The song perfectly aligns with stomping electronic pop, and sped up the tempo again.

Hozier
Take Me To Church

His raw but refined sound is something anyone on the world can connect with easily.

Troye Sivan
Happy Little Pill

A YouTuber create the perfect ambient piece of slow-burning and electronic pop.

Seinabo Sey
Younger

It’s very much under-the-skin pop, with a build-up to a climax that never really comes.

Tove Lo
Habits (Stay High)

A nifty and infectious “je m’en fou” pop tune with that sweet Swedish vibe.

La Roux
Let Me Down Gently

A ballad with the typical ’80s synths swirling up the song to that pop grandeur from La Roux.

Say Lou Lou
Everything We Touch

A song about “life’s guilty pleasures”: swirling soundscapes, above-the-clouds harmonies.

NONONO
Pumpin Blood

The song moves from a two-note intro into a chorus that wants so badly to be joyful.

FKA Twings
Pendulum

The underlying sense of heartbreak, with its mantra “So lonely trying to be yours.”

Florrie
Little White Lies

The chorus is big, the beats are nasty with those guitar twitches, and the lyrics are quite simple.

Ingrid Michaelson
Girls Chase Boys

Pop with heavier drum line, piano chords and a sweet and soaring vocal in the lead.

TIAAN
Oh My

An ageless Aaliyah x Sade vibe to the floor. It all feels a bit like really fine sex.

Arthur Beatrice
Late

The lead vocal with a head-nodding drum beat drift on the AB universe.

Ji Nilsson & Marlene
Love You Anyway

A song about female friendship, in celebration of International Women’s Day.

Laura Welsh
Cold Front

A cold r&b-hinting solid pop track with production coming from Rhye.

MO
Dance On My Own

90s are back. And girl bands are back with pop song choking on RnB references.

Gorgon City feat Jennifer Hudson
Go All Night

Soothing vocals combine with the funky bassline to produce a 90s house sound.

Katy B
Crying For No Reason

A ballad that threatens to blossom into a disco song but never does. To die for.