Category: Albums Of The Year

1Lankum
False Lankum

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1Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow

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1Low
Double Negative

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1Rose Elinor Dougall
Stellular

2St. Vincent
Masseduction

3Algiers
The Underside Of Power

4Richard Dawson
Peasant

5Nadine Shah
Holiday Destination

6Filthy Friends
Invitation

7LCD Soundsystem
american dream

8Mark Lanegan
Gargoyle

9Moses Sumney
Aromanticism

10Lorde
Melodrama

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1Wussy
Forever Sounds

2Angel Olsen
MY WOMAN

3Lambchop
FLOTUS

4Lou Rhodes
theyesandeye

5case/lang/veirs
case/lang/veirs

6Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker

7Hannah Peel
Awake But Always Dreaming

8Drive-By Truckers
American Band

9Heron Oblivion
Heron Oblivion

10Mitski
Puberty 2

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1Low
Ones And Sixes

2Julia Holter
Have You In My Wilderness

3Susanne Sundfør
Ten Love Songs

4Sleater-Kinney
No Cities To Love

5Drenge
Undertow

6Torres
Sprinter

7LoneLady
Hinterland

8Gwenno
Y Dydd Olaf

9My Morning Jacket
The Waterfall

10Gaz Coombes
Matador

11Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

12The Decemberists
What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World

13Farao
Till It’s All Forgotten

14Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Multi-Love

15John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

16New Order
Music Complete

17Ought
Sun Coming Down

18Wolf Alice
My Love Is Cool

19Patty Griffin
Servant Of Love

20The Unthanks
Mount The Air

This year I found it very hard to choose between the top three choices – they are all SO good. In the end took the easy option I went with the order of most listens on last.fm.
Choosing albums to go on the list beyond the top dozen on so was also quite difficult. I added 1771 tracks to my iTunes library in 2015 and giving all that music the attention it deserved to make album of the year choices was basically impossible. I’m happy with the list as it stands but it took a concerted effort in the last few weeks of the year to be able to make my choices.

I think I only attended a couple of gigs this year. The Ex were great at Summerhall, but I had to leave early due to toothache. Low were similarly great at the Glasgow School of Art but it was spoiled by the guy who talked non-stop through the first half of the gig.

My favourite new-to-me track of the year was Kamikaze by Susanne Sundfør.
My most listened to track was Lies by Low