How I made this list: these 25 songs are the five-star songs in my iTunes library that I listened to most in 2013. You’ll see a few repeated on my Christmas mix — spoiler alert! — but not most of them. Stream them below via Spotify (tracks not available on Spotify are linked individually), and tell me what your favorite song of 2013 is.

1. Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
2. Frank Turner – Recovery
3. Ha Ha Tonka – Rewrite Our Lives
4. Josh Ritter – Hopeful
5. Mason Jennings – Patti & Robert
6. Camera Obscura – Troublemaker
7. Dorado – Molotovs
8. Elin Ruth – F Off
9. Bad Bad Hats – Super America
10. Jason Isbell – Stockholm
11. The National – I Should Live In Salt
12. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Back When We Were Beautiful
13. The Front Bottoms – Au Revoir (Adios)
14. Giant Drag – Garbage Hearts
15. Gross Ghost – Howlin
16. Josh Ritter – Joy To You Baby
17. Leif Vollebekk – Photographer Friend
18. Mount Moriah – Connecticut to Carolina
19. Neko Case – Man
20. Tedo Stone – Good Go Bad
21. Wooden Wand – Southern Colorado Song
22. Kinglsey Flood – Waitin’ On The River To Rise
23. The Julie Ruin – Just My Kind
24. The Head and the Heart – Shake
25. Frank Turner – Tattoos