Albums of the Year
This is hugely late, as I’ve been distracted with the selling of flats and other real life things, but finally here’s my top 50 albums of the year:
- Neil Young – Le Noise
- Philip Selway – Familial
- Broken Bells – Broken Bells
- John Grant – Queen Of Denmark
- Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
- National, The – High Violet
- Imagined Village, The – Empire & Love
- Spoon – Transference
- Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
- Burns Unit – Side Show
The others aren’t ranked:
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Best Coast – Crazy For You
- The Black Heart Procession – Six
- Broken Records – Let Me Come Home
- The Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years
- Deer Tick – The Black Dirt Sessions
- Eliza Carthy – Gift
- Ellie Goulding – Lights
- Emma Pollock – The Law Of Large Numbers
- Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
- Grinderman – Grinderman 2
- The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever
- I Am Kloot – Sky At Night
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
- Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues
- Kristin Hersh – Crooked
- Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present KORT – Invariable Heartache
- Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
- Laura Veirs – July Flame
- Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring
- Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
- Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
- Micah P Hinson – And The Pioneer Saboteurs
- The New Pornographers – Together
- New Young Pony Club – The Optimist
- Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
- Retribution Gospel Choir – 2
- Richard Thompson – Dream Attic
- Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
- Rose Elinor Dougall – Without Why
- Rumer – Seasons Of My Soul
- School of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire
- Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill
- The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
- Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
- The Unwinding Hours – The Unwinding Hours
- Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
- Warpaint – The Fool
- The Watson Twins – Talking To You, Talking To Me
- Yeasayer – Odd Blood