Sunday, January 7, 2024

Best of 2023





Top Albums of 2023:

1. Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer
2. Bdrmm - I Don't Know
3. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
4. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
5. Coyle Girelli - Museum Day
6. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
7. The Hives - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
8. The Veils - ...And Out Of The Void Came Love 
9. Lana Del Ray - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.?
10. Zoon - Bekka Ma'iingan
11. Teleman - Good Time/Hard Time
12. The Coral - Sea of Mirrors/Holy Joe
13. DMA's - How Many Dreams?
14. Cathedral Bells - Everything At Once
15. Stephen Sanchez - Angel Face
16. Soft Kill - Metta World Peace
17. Alberta Cross - Sinking Ships
18. Metric - Formenta II
19. Tom Meighan - The Reckoning
20. Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine
21. CVC - Get Real
22. Type Two Error - Caught On The Raw
23. Daiistar - Good Time
24. Mother Tongues - Love In A Vicious Way
25. Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
26. Sparklehorse - Bird Machine
27. Daniel Land - Out Of Season
28. Temples - Exotico
29. Reverend and The Makers - Heatwave In The Cold North
30 .The National -  First Two Pages Of Frankenstein//Laugh Track
31. Night Beats - Rajan
32. Cloth - Secret Measures
33. Cherry Glazer - I Don't Want You Anymore
34. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
35. Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

Honourable Mentions:

Idle Garden - S/T
Free The Cynics - Bloodlines
Beach House - Become
Geese - 3D Country
Leila Moss - Internal Working Model
The Drums - Jonny
Secret Machines - The Moth, The Lizard, And The Secret Machines
Black Pumas - Chronicles Of A Diamond
Raised By Swans - Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man, Volume 2: Run With The Silent Wildfires
Metallica - 72 Seasons
DJ Shadow - Action Adventure
Royal Blood - Back To The Water Below
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
King Krule - Space Heavy
Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
cruush - Wishful Thinker
M83 - Fantasy
Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers
The Kills - God Games
HMLTD - The Worm
The KVB - Artefacts
Senses - Little Pictures Without Sound
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love You, Delete.
Teenage Wrist - Still Love
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
Ron Gallo - Foreground Music
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
Helicon - God Intentions
slowthai - Ugly
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
Trampolene - Rules Of Love & War
Mac Demarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs
The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past
Girl Ray - Prestige
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Be Your Own Pet - Mommy
The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
The Tubs - Dead Meat
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Dirty Honey - Can't Find The Brakes
Strange Ranger - Pure Music
Nation Of Language - Strange Disciple
Ladytron - Time's Arrow
Golf Alpha Bravo - Surf The Coffin (Bury Me With My Gat)
Deary - S/T
whenyoung - Paragon Songs
SZA - SOS
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
Algiers - Shook
PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying
Spector - Here Come The Early Nights
Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard
Dark Horses - While We Were Sleeping
superviolet - Infinite Spring
Kurt Vile - Back To Moon Beach
Tribes - Rabbit Head
Motorama - Sleep, And I Will Sing
The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
Truth Club - Running From The Chase
Bar Italia - Tracey Denim/The Twits
Goat - Medicine
Palehound - Eye On The Bat
Storm Franklin - Loneliness In The Modern World
Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
Icecoldbishop - Generational Curse
Blondshell - S/T
Home Front - Games Of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
Bloc Party - The High Life E.P.
Mandy, Indiana - I've Seen The Way
Wilco - Cousin
St . Paul & The Broken Bones - Angels In Science Fiction
Ratboys - The Window
Drop Nineteens - Hard Light
Nourished By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
Cold War Kids - S/T
The Waeve - S/T
Steve Mason - Brothers & Sisters
André 3000 - New Blue Sun
Kelela - Raven
Ghost Of Vroom - Ghost Of Vroom 3
Skinny Pelembe - Hardly The Same Snake
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
Sun Kill Moon - Quiet Beach House Nights
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
Film School - Field
Oliver Tree - Alone In A Crowd
Sweeping Promises - Good Living Is Coming For You
Parannoul - After The Magic
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere
Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion
shame - Food For Worms
Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
Feist - Multitudes
Sundara Karma - Better Luck Next Time
Wild Nothing - Hold
Laurel Halo - Atlas
Miles Kane - One Man Band
Bully - Lucky For You
Fidlar - That's Life 
southpacific - Radar Road
Vinyl Williams - Aeterna
L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog
Purelink - Signs
Blue Lake - Sun Arcs
Slow Pulp - Yard
JPEGMAFIA X Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
Ghost Woman - Hindsight Is 50/50
Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl
Squid - O Monolith
Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City
Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My
Sextile - Push
Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles
The Hold Steady - The Price Of Progress
Frankie and The Witch Fingers - Data Doom
Julian Winding, Peter Peter, Cliff Martinez - Copenhagen Cowboy Soundtrack
Kevin Drew - Aging
Olivia Rodriguez - Guts
The Nude Party - Ride On
Romy - Mid Air
James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Best Of 2022



Top Albums of 2022

1. The Smile - A Light For Gathering Attention
2. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
3. Suede - Autofiction
4. Beach House - Once, Twice, Melody
5. Coyle Girelli - Funland
6. Hatchie - Giving The World Away
7. Editors - EBM
8. Warpaint - Radiate Like Us
9. Liam Gallagher - C'mon You Know
10. The Haunted Youth - Dawn Of The Freak
11. Ryan Adams - Chris/FM
12. The Arctic Monkeys - The Car 
13 Deserta - Every Moment, Everything You Need
14. White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart
15. Crows - Beware Believers
16. Pete Yorn - Hawaii
17. Kula Shaker - 1st Congressional Church Of Eternal Love And Free Hugs
18. Kid Kapichi - Here's What You Could Of Won
19. Interpol - The Other Side Of Make-Believe
20. Muse - Will Of The People
21. Soft Kill - Canary Yellow
22. Cloth - Low Sun E.P.
23. Sunflower Bean - Headful Of Sugar
24. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
25. Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
26. Arcade Fire - We
27. Angel Olsen - Big Time
28. Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
29. Bobby Oroza - Get On The Otherside
30. Just Mustard - Heart Under

Honourable Mentions:

Coyle Girelli - Stripped
Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Horsegirl - Versions Of Modern Performance
Ryan Adams - Romeo and Juliet
Sasami - Squeeze
Yard Act - The Overload
Monophonics - Sage Motel
The Black Angels - Wilderness Of Mirrors
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Metric - Formentera 
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Metronomy - Small World
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Ryan Adams - Deceiver
The Laurels - Homecoming
No Sun - In The Interim
Miles Kane - Change The Show
The Wombats - Fix Yourself, Not The World
Zoon - Big Pharma
Santigold - Spirituals
The Chats - Get Fucked
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return Of The Dream Canteen
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadow
Foals - Life Is Yours
Built To Spill - When The Wind Forgets Your Name
Jockstrap - I Love You, Jennifer B
Little Simz - No Thank You
The Big Pink - The Love That's Ours
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Oliver Tree - Cowboy Tears
Bush - The Art Of Survival
Danger Mouse, Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Widowspeak - The Jacket
Golf Alpha Bravo - Heaven On Earth
Ryan Adams - Nebraska
Courting - Guitar Music
Hippo Campus - LP3
Ghost - IMPERA
Cold Showers - Strength In Numbers 
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fla
Zola Jesus - ARKHON
Alt-J - The Dream
Hot Chip - Freatout/Release
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Alvvays - Blue Rev
SZA - SOS
Weezer - SZNZ: Fall
Crack Cloud - Tough Baby
Wilco - Cruel Country
Stereophonics - Oochya!
Taken By Trees - Another Year
Kurt Vile - (watch my moves)
Ryan Adams - Blood On The Tracks
Pixies - Doggerel
Toro Y Moi - MAHAL
Sun's Signature - Sun's Signature
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain, I Believe In You
1990s - Nude Restaurant
Stars - From Capelton Hill
Earl Sweatshirt - SICK!
Tallies - Patina
A Place To Bury Strangers - See Through You
Working Men's Club - Fear Fear
Blood Red Shoes - Ghosts On Tape
Swim Deep - Familiarise Yourself With The Nearest Exit
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Bones And All
The Orielles - Tableau
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Moon
Greet Death - New Low
Blossoms - Ribbons Around The Bomb
Zoon - A Sterling Murmuration E.P.
Ghost Woman - Ghost Woman
Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Unkle - Ronin II
Tom Meighan - Put Your Foot Down
Orlando Weeks - Hop Up
Bloc Party - Alpha Games
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empire Of Light
Enumclaw - Save The Baby
Blushings - Possessions
King Buffalo - Regenerator
Winter - What Kind Of Blue Are You?
The Black Lips - Apocalypse Love 
Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
Bob Moses - The Silence In Between
Lee Fields - Sentimental Fool
Gentle Sinners - The Actions Cannot Be Undone
Vinyl Williams - Cosmopolis
Florence And The Machine - Dance Fever
Wand - Spiders In The Rain
Kongos - Interference
Breanna Barbara - Nothin' But Time
Two Door Cinema Club - Keep On Smiling
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
Automaic - Excess
Wallows - Tell Me That It's Over
Ty Segall - Hello, Hi
Bartees Strange - Farm To Table
White Hills - The Revenge Of Heads On Fire
Bjork - Fossora
Gently Tender - Take Hold Of Your Promise!
Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights
The Snuts - Burn The Empire
Fantastic Negrito - White Jesus Black Problems
SAULT - 11
SAULT - UNTITLED (GOD)
SAULT - Today & Tomorrow
SAULT - Earth
SAULT - AIIR
Weird Nightmare - Weird Nightmare
Collective Soul - Vibrating
Scalping - Void
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
Lushings - Lushings
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fire Doesn't Grow On Trees
Sorry - Anywhere But Here
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
Weezer - SZNZ: Summer
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear Our Heart
Silversun Pickups - Physical Thrills
Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Crosses - Permanent Radiant
black midi - Hellire
Special Interest - Endure
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
Preoccupations - Arrangements
Weezer - SZNZ: Winter
Spector - Now Or Whenever
Bambara - Love On My Mind
Newdad - Banshee
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - XI: Bleed Here Now
Belle And Sebastian - A Bit Of Previous
Weezer - SZNZ: Spring
Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive
Mark Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Alien Coast
The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie
Marcus King - Young Blood
El Ten Eleven - New Year's Eve
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
Marsden & Richardson - Marsden & Richardson
Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams 1-4
Methyl Ethyl - Are You Haunted?
Ruth Radelet - The Other Side
Broken Bells - Into The Blue
Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
Stabbing Westward - Chasing Ghosts

Monday, January 3, 2022

Best Of 2021

 



Top Albums:

1. Mogwai - As The Love Continues

2. Small Black - Cheap Dreams

3. New Candys - Vyvyd

4. The Coral - Coral Island

5. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

6. The Killers - Pressure Machine

7. Shannon and The Clams - Year of the Spider

8. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

9. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

10. Glasvegas - Godspeed

11. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

12. Iceage - Seek Shelter

13. Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight

14.  Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins

15.  The Fratellis - Half Drunk Under A Full Moon

16. Night Beats - Outlaw R&B

17. Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive

18. Lana Del Ray - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

19. The Snuts - W.L.

20. Geese - Projector


Honourable mentions:


Godspeed You Black Emperor - G d's Pee At States End!

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

Blankenberge - Everything

The Horrors - Lout

Thrice - Horizons/East

Low - Hey What

Ryan Adams - Big Colors

Leon Brideges - Gold-Diggers Sound

Still Corners - The Last Exit

The Horrors - Against The Blade

The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

Black Honey - Written & Directed

Garbage - No Gods No Masters

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

Twin Shadow - S/T

The Besnard Lakes - ...Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Notwist - Vertigo Days

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

Billie Eillish - Happier Than Ever

A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram

The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

Lana Del Ray - Blue Bannisters

Pond - 9

Jonsi - Obsidian 

Weezer - OK Human

The Flying Colours - Fantasy Country

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.

Ron Gallo - Peacemeal

Clinic - Fantasy Island

Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

The Blue Stones - Hidden Gems

La Femme - Paradigmes

Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space

Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade

Black Midi - Cavalcade

Django Django - Glowing In The Dark

The Underground Youth - The Falling

The KLF - Come Down Dawn

The Flaming Sideburns - Silver Flames

The War On Drugs - I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore

Hand Habits - Dirt

The Black Keys - Delta Kream

Fruit Bats - Siamese Dream

Vampire Weekend - 4042

John Carpenter - Lost Themes: Alive After Death

Tindersticks - Distractions

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

Kele - The Waves Pt. 1

Hand Habits - Fun House

Royal Blood - Typhoons

Film School - We Weren't Here

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert

Deap Vally - Digital Dream

Johnny Marr - Fever Dream Pt. 1 & 2

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy The View

Elbow - Flying Dream 1

Real Estate - Half A Human

Sault - Nine

Flying Lotus - Yasuke

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising The Roof

Weezer - Van Weezer

Car Seat Headrest - MADLO: Influences

Kings Of Leon - When You See Yourself

Psychedlic Porn Crumpets - Shyga: The Sunlight Mound

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

Middle Kids - Today We're The Greatest

Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This

Parcels - Day/Night

Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

Squid - Bright Green Fields

DMA's - I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You

Julia Stone - Sixty Summers

Lucid Express - S/T

Unkle - Ronin I

Cathedral Bells - Ether

Kings Of Convenience - Peace Or Love

Teleman - Sweet Morning E.P.

Du Blonde - Homecoming

Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate

Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

Kaleo - Surface Sounds

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

Beachy Head - S/T

Motorama - Before The Road

Girl In Red - If I Could Make It Go Quiet

Rag N' Bone Man - Life By Misadventure

Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Darkside - Spiral

The KVB - Unity

Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole

The Vaccines - Back In Love City

Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange

Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers

Wolfmother - Rock Out

Diangonal - S/T

Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket

Deap Vally - Marriage

Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Clairo - Sling

Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic

Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed

Kid Kapichi - This Time Next Year

Ty Segall - Harmonizer

Desperate Journalists - Maximum Sorrow!

Angel Olsen - Aisles

Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

Chvrches - Screen Violence

Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

Possum - Lunar Gardens

Tricky - Lonely Guest

Big Red Machines - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

Suuns - The Witness

Neov - Picture Of A Good Life

Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

Tashaki Miyaki - Castaway

Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

White Flowers - Day By Day

Sneaker Pimps - Squaring The Circle

Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul

Sunstinger - Beyond The Frame

Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekko 

Jarvis Cocker - Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top

Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure 

Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue

Adele - 30

Raised By Swans - Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man Volume 1

Newdad - Waves E.P.

Mt. Mountain - Centre

Cold Cave - Fate In Seven Lessons

James Walsh - Small Illusions

Friday, January 1, 2021

Best of 2020

Top Albums 2020
1. Humanist - Humanist 
2. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 
3. DMA's - The Glow 
4. Doves - The Universal Want 
5. Tom Sanders - Only Magic 
6. The Killers - Imploding The Mirage 
7. Nothing - The Great Dismal
8. Everything Everything - RE-ANIMATOR 
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Cyr 
10. Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos 
11. Deftones - Ohms 
12. Pearl Jam - Gigaton 
13. Jarv Is - Beyond The Pale 
14. Future Islands - As Long As You Are 
15. Molchat Doma - Monument 
16. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison 
17. The Strokes - The New Abnormal 
18. Morrissey - I Am Not A Dog On A Chain 
19. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI:Locusts/Ghosts V:Together 
20. Free The Cynics - Diogenes 

 Honourable Mentions: 

Secret Machines - Awake In The Brain Chamber
 Muzz - Muzz
Algiers - There Is No Year
 Eels - Earth To Dora 
Jónsi - Shiver 
The Nude Party - Midnight Manor
Thundercat - It Is What It Is 
Denimachine - Denimachine 
Metz - Vending 
Shopping - All Or Nothing 
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
EOB - Earth 
Soft Kill - Dead Kids R.I.P. City 
Puscifer - Existential Reckoning 
Andy Bell - The View From Halfway Down
Oliver Tree - Ugly Is Beautiful
Run the Jewels - RTJ4 
The Flaming Lips - American Head 
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess 
Greg Dulli - Random Desire
Cub Sport - Live Nirvava 
Bush - The Kingdom
The Cribs - Night Network
Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
Gorillaz - Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez 
Khruangbin - Mordechai 
Moses Sumney - Grae
Tricky - Fal To Pieces 
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death 
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X:The Godless Void And Other Stories 
The Chats High Risk Behaviour 
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You 
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today 
Bambara - I Stray
Crown Lands - Wayward Flyers Vol. 1
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G. 
Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong 
The Courteneers - More.Again.Forever 
Pottery - Welcome to Bobby's Motel
Myrkur - Folkesange
The Legends - The Legends
Travis - 10 Songs 
Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King 
Hum - Inlet
The Jaded Hearts Club - You've Always Been Here
Deserta - Black Aura, My Sun
Zoongideewin - Bleached Waves
Osees - Protean Threat 
Cabbage - Amanita Pantherina
Jehnny Beth - To Love Is to Live 
Green Day - Father Of All Motherfuckers 
King Krule - Man Alive 
Glass Animals - Dreamland 
Tim Burgess - I Love The New Sky 
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Mystery Jets - A Billion Heartbeats 
Wolf Parade - Thin Mind Cults - Host 
The Naked and Famous - Recover 
Childish Gambino - 3.15.20
L.A. Witch - Play With Fire
Porridge Radio - Every Bad 
Cut Copy - Freeze, Melt 
The Wytches - Three Mile Ditch
White Denim - World as a Waiting Room 
Nada Surf - Never Not Together 
Caribou - Suddenly
Young Knives - Barbarians
The Struts - Strange Days 
Fleet Foxes - Shore 
The Streets - None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive 
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways To New Italy 
Austra - Hirudin
White Hills - Splintered Metal Sky
Paul Weller - On Sunset 
The Network - Money Money 2020 Pt II We Told Ya So 
Real Estate - The Main Thing 
The Psychedelic Furs - Made Of Rain 
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Blue Moon Rising 
Phantogram - Ceremony 
My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Best of 2019



Top Albums Of 2019

1. Thom Yorke - Anima
2. White Lies - Five
3. Swim Deep - Emerald Classics
4. Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell
5. Gary Clark Jr. - This Land
6. Black Pumas - S/T
7. Karen O and Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
8. Liam Gallagher - Why Me? Why Not.
9. Tool - Fear Inoculum
10. Finn Andrews - One Piece At A Time

11. Reignwolf - Hear Me Out
12. King Nun - Mass
13. Brittany Howard - Jamie
14. Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride
15. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
16. Coldplay - Everyday Life
17. The National - I Am Easy To Find
18. Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls
19. Chromatics - Closer To Grey
20. DIIV - Deceiver


Honourable Mentions:

*indicates some lesser known artists that might have slipped under the radar that deserve some extra attention


Kongos - 1929 Pt. 1
Billie Eillish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Interpol - A Fine Mess
Sunflower Bean - King Of The Dudes
Beck - Hyperspace
The Drums - Brutalism
Tamaryn - Dreaming In The Dark
Fat White Family - Serfs Up!*
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace
Morrissey - California Son
Lost Under Heaven - Love Hates What You Become*
The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
William Patrick Corgan - Cotillions
Blood Red Shoes - Get Tragic*
Piroshka - Brickbat
Two Door Cinema Club - False Alarm
black midi - schlagenheim
Hot Chip - A Bathtub Full Of Ecstasy
Refused - War Music
Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds
M83 - DSVII
Yak - Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Watchmen Vol. 1
Jenny Lewis - On The Line
DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age
Hatchie - Keepsake*
Tim Presley's White Fence - I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Stormzy - Heavy Is The Head
The Mystery Lights - Too Much Tension!*
Mark Lanegan - Somebody's Knocking
The Cranberries - In The End
Temples - Hot Motion
Mac Demarco - Here Comes The Cowboy
Feet - What's Inside Is More Than Just Ham
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger
Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt. 1
Friendly Fires - Inflorescent
Mono - Nowhere Now Here
Cub Sport - S/T
The Soft Cavalry - S/T
Ian Brown - Ripples
Richard Hawley - Further
Keane - Cause and Effect
Black Mountain - Destroyer
The Futureheads - Powers
Earl Sweatshirt - Feet Of Clay
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Watchmen Vol. 2
Cigarettes After Sex - Cry
Metronomy - Metronomy Forever
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
LCD Soundsystem - Electric Lady Sessions
Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt. 2
Weezer - S/T (Teal)
Barns Courtney - 404*
Kevin Morby - Oh My God
Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
Catfish and The Bottlemen - The Balance*
Band Of Skulls - Love Is All You Love
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
Methyl Ethyl - Triage*
The Flaming Lips - King's Mouth
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
The Dandy Warhols - Why You So Crazy?
Better Oblivion Community Center - S/T
Ladytron - S/T
Belle and Sebastian - Days of the Bagnold Summer
Flying Lotus - Flamagra
Drahla - Useless Coordinates*
Kaiser Chiefs - Duck
Elbow - Giants Of All Sizes
TOY - Songs Of Consumption
The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
Automatic - Signal*
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Watchmen Vol. 3
Weezer - S/T (Black)
Tyler, The Creator - Igor
Bon Iver - I,I
On The Bones - S/T
Free Nationals - S/T
Pond - Tasmania
Sudan Archives - Athena*
Wilco - Ode to Joy
The Tea Party - Black River E.P.
Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance
The Twilight Sad - It Won/T Be Like This All the Time
Peter Doherty - Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishes
Longwave - If We Ever Live Forever
Caroline Polachek - Pang
Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
Whitney - Forever Turned Around
Mini Mansions - Guy Walks Into A Bar...
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops*
Kit Sebastian - Mantra Moderne*
Froth - Duress*

The S.L.P. - THE S.L.P.
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - De Facto*
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears*

Allah-Las - LAHS
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls
Sasami - S/T*
Big Thief - Two
Kaytranada - BUBBA
Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
Vanishing Twin - The Age Of Immunology*
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real*
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
The Black Keys - Lets Rock
TOY - Happy in the Hollow
Yeasayer - Erotic Reruns
Dope Lemon - Big Smooth Cat
Oh Sees - Face Stabber
Cayucas - Real Life
Swervedriver - Future Ruins
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rat's Nest
Stereophonics - Kind
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
The Desert Sessions - Volumes 11 & 12
Lower Dens - The Competition*
Mercury Rev – Bobby Gentry’s The Delta Suite Revisited
Cherry Glazer - Stuffed and Ready

Friday, December 28, 2018

Top Albums Of 2018

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino
2. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
4. DMA'S - For Now
5. Mastersystem - Dance Music
6. Coyle Girelli - Love Kills
7. Suede - The Blue Hour
8. Leon Bridges - Good Thing
9. Teleman - Family Of Aliens
10. Parcels - S/T

11. 77:78 - Jellies
12. Interpol - Marauder
13. Editors - Violence
14. Preoccupations - New Material
15. Snow Patrol - Wilderness
16. Beach House - 7
17. Spiritualized - And Then Nothing Hurt
18. The Coral - Move Through The Dawn
19. Muse - Simulation Theory
20. The Daysleepers - Creation

Honourable Mentions:

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
Low - Double Negative
Mazzy Star - Still EP
Bass Drum Of Death - Just Business
Desert Mountain Tribe - Om Parvat Mystery
The Vryll Society - Course Of The Satellites
Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo In Blue
Devotchka - This Night Falls Forever
The Presets - Hi Viz
Twin Shadow - Caer
Richard Ashcroft - Natural Rebel
The Breeders - All Nerve
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
Blossoms - Cool Like You
The Vaccines - Combat Sports
Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems
Hinds - I Don't Run
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Frankie Cosmos - Vessels
Razorlight - Olympus Sleeping
Rat Boy - Civil Disorder
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Bob Moses - Battle Lines
Devon Welsh - Dream Songs
Public Access T.V. - Street Safari
David Byrne - American Utopia
No Joy/Sonic Boom - S/T E.P.
The Prodigy - No Tourists
Motorama - Many Nights
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Shame - Songs Of Praise
Birth Of Joy - Hyper Focus
Ride - Tomorrows Shore
Hippo Campus - Bambi
Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood - Mescalito
Colin Stetson - Hereditary Soundtrack
Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending
Porcelain Raft - Chimera
Metric - Art Of Doubt
Iceage - Beyondless
Midlife - Phase
Big Red Machine - S/T
Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
The Internet - Hive Mind
Gorillaz - The Now Now
Mogwai - Kin Soundtrack
The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
Cabbage - Nihilistic Glamour Shots
Shannon And The Clams - Onion
Mount Eerie - Now Only
The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment
Charles Bradley - Black Velvet
Mark Peters - Innerland
Beak> - >>>
MGMT - The Dark Age
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land
Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther The Album
Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!
Two Door Cinema Club - Four Words To Stand On
Thom Yorke - Suspiria Soundtrack
Sloan - 12
Florence and The Machine - High As Hope
The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
The Voidz - Virtue
The Vines - In Miracle Land
Eels - The Deconstruction
Mumford & Sons - Delta
Thrice - Palms
The Soft Moon - Criminal
The Longcut - Arrows
Johnny Marr- Call The Comet
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-01 Hanoi
The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl
Still Corners - Slow Air
Twin Peaks - Sweet '17 Singles
Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
Mien - S/T
The Boxer Rebellion - Ghost Alive
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
The KVB - Only Now Forever
Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - S/T
Greta Van Fleet - Anthem Of The Peaceful Army
Spector - Ex-Directory
Eminem - Kamikaze
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Film School - Bright To Death
Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
Ty Segall - Fudge Sandwich
The Nude Party - S/T
Leila Moss - Your Name Is Safe In My Mouth
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Ghost Stories For Christmas
Ex:Re - Ex:Re
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
Cold Cave - You & Me & Infinity
Drinks - Hippo Lite
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
Mammoth Grove - Slow Burn
Miles Kane - Coup de Grâce
Warm - Warm Pt. 2
Jeff Tweedy - Warm
Pinkshinyultrablast - Miserable Miracles
Dorothy - 28 Days In The Valley
Windhand - Eternal Return
All Hands On Jane - Animal Worship
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death In Meatspace
Ty Segall & White Fence - Joy
The Fratellis - In Your Own Sweet Time
Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake!
Chvrches - Love Is Dead
We Were Promised Jetpacks - The More I Sleep, The Less I Dream
Dr. Octagon - Moosebumps: An Exploration In Modern Day Horripilation
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Boygenius - S/T
Khruangbin- Con Todo El Mundo
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
Legend Of The Seagullmen - S/T
A Place To Bury Strangers - Unpinned
Nothing - Dance On The Blacktop
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Flowshine - Gets Me Going
Peace - Kindness Is The New Rock And Roll
Shadowparty - S/T
Suuns - Felt
Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
White Denim - Performance
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Girls Names - Stains On Silence
Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
Soft Kill - Savior
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Apart
Go-Kart Mozart - On The Hot Dog Streets
Wand - Perfume
Hookworms - Microshift
Albert Hammond Jr. - Francis Trouble
Dead Meadow - The Nothing They Need
Django Django - Marble Skies
Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Top Albums Of 2017


Top 20 of 2017

1. Arcade Fire - Everything Now
2. Washed Out - Mister Mellow
3. Slowdive - S/T
4. Childhood - Universal High
5. The Horrors - V
6. Nine Inch Nails - ADD VIOLENCE
7. Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud
8. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
9. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
10. Ryan Adams - The Prisoner
11. Liam Gallagher - As You Were
12. Death Of Lovers - The Acrobat
13. Morrissey - Low In High School
14. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
15. King Krule - The Ooz
16. Algiers - The Underside Of Power
17. Grandaddy - Last Place
18. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
19. The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
20. Starsailor - All This Life

Honourable Mentions:

Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Beck - Colors
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?
Ratboy - SCUM
Angel Olsen - Phases
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
Mr Jukes - God First
U2 - Songs Of Experience
William Patrick Corgan - Ogilala
Bjork - Utopia
Future Islands - The Far Field
Cigarettes After Sex - S/T
St. Vincent - Masseducation
Gord Downie - Introduce Yerself
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sound
Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyles
British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution
Fever Ray - Plunge
Weezer - Pacific Daydream
Stars - There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light
Portugal. The Man - Woodstock
The Cribs - 24-7 Rock Star Shit
Foster The People - Sacred Hearts Club
The Raveonettes - 2016 Atomized
Beach House - B-Sides and Rarities
Feist - Pleasure
Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
Unkle - The Road Pt. 1
Brand New - Science Fiction
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Temples - Volcano
Incubus - 8
Coldplay - Kaleidoscope
Bush - Black and White Rainbows
At The Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a
Various Artists - Baby Driver Soundtrack
Real Estate - In Mind
Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder
Lorde - Melodrama
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising
Free The Cynics - Post-Iconica
BNQT - Volume 1
Mew - Visuals
Alt-J - Relaxer
Gorillaz - Humanz
The Cranberries - Something Else
Circa Waves - Different Creatures
Fleet Foxes - Crack-up
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Ride - Weather Diaries
The Charlatans - Different Days
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
The xx - I See You
Alice Glass - S/T
Zola Jesus - Okovi
The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings
Sundara Karma - Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Restrospect
David Bowie - No Plan
Tori Amos - Native Invaders
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
Oh Sees - Orc
Resistance Radio:The Man In The High Castle Album
Austra - Future Politics
Pond - The Weather
Thundercat - Drunk
Ty Segall - S/T
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Shake The Shudder
Cold War kids - L.A. Divine
The Shins - Heartworms
Cut Copy - Haiku from Zero
Elbow - Little Fictions
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Surfer Blood - Snowdonia
Hippo Campus - Landmark
Rag "N' Bone Man - Human
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup