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50. Helena Hauff – Funeral Morality ( Discreet Desires ) This tune, while alluding to something dark wave and goth sounding, has a very playful vibe hidden at its industrial core. It´s something you might expect from the clocktower levels in a Castlevania game turned into a dancefloor track. The keys jingle between mechanical noise and spring with energy, never turning into something dark or morbid as the title might suggest. Dive in to one the best forward thinking dance tracks this year. 49. Christine & The Queens – Jonathan feat. Perfume Genius ( Christine & The Queens ) You want heartbreak? Get into Perfume Genius! You want to double the feeling? Listen to this collaboration with Christine & The Queen. I missed the French release of her great Chaleur Humaine  and in retrospect it would have made the list of 2014 without question. There is a strange tenderness and power in both singers vocals performance. The song revolves around unre...

30. Old Man Gloom – The Ape Of God When thinking about doom metal, what comes to mind predominantly is the concrescence of downtrodden guttural vocal work, heavy instrumentation and the occasional feeling for ambient sound. Old Man Gloom however stretch that formula adding the hardcore elements of Converge and a good amount of eerie noise found in projects like Lotus Eaters. The Ape Of God might come close to recalling the experience of waterboarding. The instrumentals evoke drowning, although there is not even a stretched instrumental part present. It is drowning while standing in the dry, fully aware of the externally infused torture upon you. Hard hitting tracks like “Fist Of Fury” further this notion of torture through their unforgiving screeching and Aaron Turners voice stopping the progression of the track as if asking “had enough now?”. For the noise part, almost every lengthier song features a meditative section, that is, praying for the rashness to have finally st...