When it comes to music, 2016 has been quite a turbulent year with both productive and destructive aspects. Here is a genre-less set of 30 alternative (thus no mainstream), ear-grabbing new songs born this year, in purely chronological order. I hope you enjoy it.

1 Jacob Faurholt - Floating In Space, from album “Super Glue” (released January 22)

2 Tindersticks - We Are Dreamers, from album “The Waiting Room” (released January 22)

3 Hexvessel - Mirror Boy, from album “When We Are Death” (released January 29)

4 EXEC - The Explanatory Gap, from album “The Limber Real” (released February 12)

5 The Renderers - Sea Worthy, from album “In The Sodium Light” (released February 26)

6 Flora Cash - Down On Your Knees, from album “Can Summer Love Last Forever?” (released March 18)

7 2L8 - Underwater, from album “The Answer” (released March 20)

8 Radical Face - The Road to Nowhere, from album “The Family Tree: The Leaves” (released March 25)

9 Andrew Bird - Left Handed Kisses (ft. Fiona Apple), from album “Are You Serious” (released April 1)

10 Clara Engel - Uneasy Spirit, from album “Visitors Are Allowed One Kiss” (released April 4)

11 Stranded Horse - Refondre les hémisphères, from album “Luxe” (released April 5)

12 Tom Rosenthal - It’s OK, from album “The Pleasant Trees (Volumes 1, 2 & 3)” (released May 13)

13 Christine Ott - Sexy Moon, from album “Only Silence Remains” (released May 20)

14 William Ryan Fritch - Entirety, from album “New Words For Old Wounds” (released May 20)

15 Muscle and Marrow - My Fear, from album “Love” (released May 27)

16 Minor Victories - A Hundred Ropes, from album “A Hundred Ropes” (released June 3)

17 T E Morris - The Sea Of Tranquility, from album “Newfoundland” (released June 24)

18 Porcelain Raft - That’s What I See When I See You, from album “Pressed Flowers” (released June 30)

19 Sophie Hutchings - Dream Gate, from album “Wide Asleep” (released July 22)

20 Sam Moore & The Bad Palace - Dark Clouds, from album “The Devil’s Fire” (released August 14)

21 bakers at dawn - can’t understand it, from album “6 songs” (released August 16)

22 Lisa Hannigan - We The Drowned, from album “At Swim” (released August 19)

23 King Creosote - You Just Want, from album “Astronaut Meets Appleman” (released September 2)

24 pg.lost - Deserter, from album “Versus” (released September 16)

25 Gravitysays_i - More Than A Matter Of Instict, from album “Quantum Unknown” (released September 16)

26 Jóhann Jóhannsson - By the Roes, and by the Hinds of the Field, from album “Orphée” (released September 16)

27 House of Wolves - Darkness, from album “House of Wolves” (released September 30)

28 Agnes Obel - Familiar, from album “Citizen Of Glass” (released October 21)

29 Noiserv - QUINZE, from album “00​:​00​:​00​:​00” (released October 28)

30 Givan Lötz - Watchtower, from album “MAW” (released October 28)