Kurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs of 2025
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Writer Kurt Duvel shares his top five songs of 2025 that span hope, heartbreak, and healing, featuring My Morning Jacket, Haim, Linkin Park, Tunde Adebimpe, and Suede.
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Kurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs of 2024
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Writer Kurt Duvel shares his top five songs of 2024—where cosmic-country ballads meet soaring indie anthems—with thoughts on Green Day, Kacey Musgraves, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Wishy, and Kings of Leon.
Read MoreSpotify Wrapped 2023 - Kurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs
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It’s #SpotifyWrapped season, so here’s writer Kurt Duvel’s top five songs of 2023 and some thoughts about Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters, The Tubs, Mammoth WVH, and Fall Out Boy.
Read MoreKurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs of 2022
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2022 was a hectic year. Writer Kurt Duvel highlights five songs from this year that hooked him in through the haze of stress and kept him happy. Let’s discover your next favourite thing.
Read More10 Album Covers. 10 Days. Some Story.
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Writer Kurt Duvel was recently tagged in a Facebook ‘challenge’ called "10 album covers. 10 days. No story." Here’s the story that he was instructed to leave out as he posted pictures of album covers for nearly a fortnight, now finally getting to go behind the artwork and talk about the music.
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