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Top 89 Staff Picks: Leah Garaas, Digital & Marketing

by Leah Garaas

December 02, 2013

Top 89
Our annual poll, the Top 89 (of each year) collects of our audience's favorite songs.
MPR Graphic / Tracy Kompelien

Albums


Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Jagjaguwar)
Polica - Shulamith (Mom + Pop)
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (Matador)
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Deerhunter - Monomania (4AD)

Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
Arctic Monkeys - AM (Domino)
Washed Out - Paracosm (Sub Pop)
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (RCA)
of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)

Songs


Marnie Stern - "Year of the Glad" off The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)

King Kahn and the Shrines - "Born to Die" off Idle No More (Merge)
Pixies - "Bagboy" (Single)
FIDLAR - "Stoked and Broke" off FIDLAR (Mom + Pop)

Laura Marling - "Master Hunter" off Once I Was an Eagle (Virgin)

Kanye West - "Black Skinhead" off Yeezus (Roc-a-Fella)

Waxahatchee - "Coast to Coast" off Cerulean Salt (Don Diovanni)

My Bloody Valentine - "New You" off m b v (m b v)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "We Know Who U R" off Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
Phantogram - "Black Out Days" off Phantogram (Barsuk)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)" off II (Jagjaguwar)