Transmission's Top Tracks of 2015
by Jake Rudh
December 31, 2015
Transmission's roots are in the worlds of punk, post-punk, new wave, synth, power and dream pop, shoegaze, psych, mod, space and Krautrock. Here are songs released in 2015 that fit that mold — listed in no particular order with a very simple description of genre or feel.
Top Songs
Here are the rest of the best. Click the title to view and listen to a song's music video, which opens in a new window.
Deerhunter "Breaker" (indie)
Baio "Sister of Pearl" (80s influence)
Star Horse "Slower Now" (Shoegaze)
Alex Lilly "Paranoid Times" (Synthpop)
Flyying Colours "Running Late" (Dreampop)
The Morelings "Less" (Dreampop)
Hideous Towns "Heart Attack" (Dreampop/Shoegaze)
Diiv "Dopamine" (Dreampop)
Duran Duran "You Kill Me With Silence"
Craft Spells "Twirl" (indie)
The Soft Moon "Far" (Darkwave)
Protomartyr "I Forgive You" (post-punk)
Hibou "Dissolve" (Dreampop)
Japan Suicide "A Mood Apart" (post-punk)
Melted Mirror "Subway Moonlight" (Darkwave)
Still Corners "Horses at Night" (Synth)
Haunt "Youth" (Synth/Dreampop)
Ariel Pink "One Summer Night" (Psych)
The Death of Pop "Gardens" (Psych)
Lusts "Waves" (Psych)
A Place To Bury Strangers "Supermaster" (Noise/Psych)
Drape "Round and Around" (Psych)
Mumrunner "Bond" (Dreampop)
Wire "Shifting" (post-punk)
Cheetahs "Sunne" (Shoegaze)
Django Django "Beginning To Fade" (psych)
Beach House "Space Song" (Dreampop)
Gliss "Time" (Dreampop/Indie)
BORNS "Electric Love" (Glam Rock)
ABC "High and Dry" (classic new wave artists ABC impressively cover classic Radiohead)
Blood Sound "A Fever" (psychedelic post-punk)
Shopping "Take It Outside" (post-punk)
Savages "The Answer" (post-punk)
Moon Dice "Eye 2 Eye" (Dreampop)
Thud "Blank" (Dreampop)
Dress "About the Sea" (Shoegaze/Dreampop)
Lupo "It's Another Day" (Psych)
Tamaryn "Softcore" (Psych/Dreampop/80s Underground)
Ducktails "Headbanging In the Mirror" (Dreampop)
Fazerdaze "Reel" (indie)
Dead Mellotron "Sleepover" (Shoegaze)
Viet Cong "Silhouettes" (post-punk)
Ought "Beautiful Blue Sky" (post-punk)
Wolf Alice "Freazy" (indie)
Sleaford Mods "Tarantula Deadly Cargo" (post-punk)
Cold Beat "Broken Lines" (post-punk)
No Joy "Hollywood Teeth" (Indie/Shoegaze)
Colleen "I'm Kin" (experimental/art pop)
Steve Hauschildt "Anesthesia" (electronic/ambient)
Sarah Cracknell "Nothing Left to Talk About" (Vocalist of Saint Etienne)
Ghost Culture "Mouth" (Synth/Electro)
Hot Chip "Need You Now" (Synth/Dance)
Martin Courtney "Foto" (Melodic Jangle/Indie pop)
Moscow Club "Celine" ('80s influence)
Toro Y Moi "Lilly" (Dreampop/Chillwave)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi "Double Talk" (indie pop)
Kid Wave "Honey" (indie)
Snow In Mexico "Juno Beach" (Synth/Dreampop)
Splashh "Pure Blue" (Synth/Dreampop)
Telekinesis "In a Future World" (Synthpop)
Mild High Club "Windowpane" (Psych/Indie)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Hell" (Indie pop)
Death and Vanilla "California Owls" (Dreampop)
Wildfront "January" (synth/New Wave)
Top Local Songs
Flavor Crystals "Diamond Mine"
Gramma's Boyfriend "Forget the Stones"
The Stress of Her Regard "Class Warfare"
