1. Michael Kiwanuka - Follow Your Dreams [Small Changes]
2. Clairo - Juna [Charm]
3. The Cure - A Fragile Thing [Songs Of A Lost World]
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Conversion [Wild God]
5. Fontaines D.C. - Favourite [Romance]
6. Cindy Lee - If You Hear Me Crying [Diamond Jubilee]
7. Mk.gee - Are You Looking Up [Two Star & The Dream Police]
8. English Teacher - The World's Biggest Paving Slab [This Could Be Texas]
9. King Hannah - New York, Let's Do Nothing [Big Swimmer]
10.The Smile - Bodies Laughing [Cutouts]
Showing posts with label Best Of. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best Of. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 December 2024
Friday, 29 November 2024
Best of 2024 (UnCut, MOJO, The Guardian,...)
UnCut (UK, 8th Nov) 1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God 2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland 3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown 4. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign 5. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch 6. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future 7. The Smile – Wall of Eyes 8. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks 9. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee 10. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood |
MOJO (UK,13th Nov) 1. Jack White – No Name 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God 3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown 4. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland 5. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da 6. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More 7. Fontaines D.C. – Romance 8. The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know 9. Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle 10. Kim Gordon – The Collective |
Rough Trade (UK,19th Nov) 1. Sophie - Sophie 2. This Could Be Texas - English Teacher 3. Patterns in Repeat - Laura Marling 4. Cutouts - The Smile 5. Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party 6. Tangk - Idles 7. Cartoon Darkness - Amyl and The Sniffers 8. Brat - Charli XCX 9. Letter to Self - Sprints 10. Where's My Utopia? - Yard Act |
Sunday, 31 December 2023
Best of 2023
The Beatles - Now And Then
Bjork and Rosalía - Oral
Wilco - Levee [Cousin]
Jessie Ware - Pearls [That! Feels Good!]
Damien Jurado - Leopard Man [Motorcycle Madness]
The Clientele - Claire's Not Real [I Am Not There Anymore ]
Blur - The Ballad [The Ballad of Darren]
ANOHNI, Antony and the Johnsons - Rest [My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross]
PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old I Dying [I Inside the Old I Dying]
Sufjan Stevens - Will Anybody Ever Love Me? [Javelin]
Friday, 1 December 2023
Best of 2023 (MOJO, UnCut,...)
UnCut (UK, 11th Nov) 1. Lankum – False Lankum 2. Paul Simon – Seven Psalms 3. Wilco – Cousin 4. PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying 5. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World 6. Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 7. Lonnie Holley – Oh Me Oh My 8. The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein 9. Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings 10. John Cale – Mercy |
Rough Trade (UK, 14th Nov) 1. Nation of Language – ‘Strange Disciple’ 2. Sufjan Stevens – ‘Javelin’ 3. Caroline Polachek – ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ 4. Lankum – False Lankum 5. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy 6. Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music 7. Baxter Dury – I Thought I Was Better Than You 8. Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips 9.Overmono – Good Lies 10 Grian Chatten – Chaos For The Fly |
MOJO (UK,14th Nov) 1. Blur – The Ballad of Darren 2. PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying 3. Lankum – False Lankum 4. Robert Forster – The Candle and the Flame 5. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy 6. Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 7. jaimie branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) 8. Paul Simon – Seven Psalms 9. Everything But the Girl – Fuse 10. Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings |
Friday, 30 December 2022
Best of 2022
1. The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta Graveyard Love
2. Arctic Monkeys - The Car Big Ideas
3. Suede - Autofiction Personality Disorder
4. Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive Help Me Along
5. Nilufar Yanya - PAINLESS trouble
6. Destroyer - LABRERYNTHITIS June
7. The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie How Long
8. Wet Leg - Wet LegWet Dream
9. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty FiaI Love You
10. The Smile - A Light For Attracting AttentionSkrting On The Surface
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Best of 2022 (MOJO, UnCut, ...)
Uncut (UK, 11th Nov) 1. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention 2. Joan Shelley - The Spur 3. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott 4. Angel Olsen - Big Time 5. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You 6. Wilco - Cruel Country 7. Wet Leg - Wet Leg 8. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers 9. Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE 10. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Boy Named If |
Rough Trade (UK, 15th Nov) 1. Jack White - 'Fear of the Dawn / Entering Heaven Alive' 2. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention 3. Yard Act - The Overload 4. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia 5. Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl 6. Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There 7. yeule - Glitch Princess 8. black midi - Hellfire 9. Wet Leg - Wet Leg 10. The Lounge Society - Tired of Liberty | MOJO (UK,16th Nov) 1. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott 2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg 3. Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes 4. Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker 5. Arctic Monkeys - The Car 6. Suede - Autofiction 7. Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ 8. Jack White - Fear of the Dawn 9. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork 10. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia |
Thursday, 30 December 2021
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Best of 2021 (UnCut, MOJO...)
Uncut (UK, 12th Nov) 1. The Weather Station - Ignorance 2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises 3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE 4. Low - Hey What 5. SAULT - Nine 6. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince 7. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature 8. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore 9. Black Country, New Road - For the first time 10. Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki |
MOJO (UK,16th Nov) 1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises 2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home 3. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club 4. Low - Hey What 5. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE 6. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) 7. The Coral - Coral Island 8. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future 9. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof 10. Villagers - Fever Dreams |
Rough Trade (UK, 16th Nov) 1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg 2. Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams 3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 4. Black Country New Road - For The First Time 5. IDLES - Crawler 6. Squid - Bright Green Field 7. Jane Weaver - Flock 8. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend 9. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature 10. Madlib / Four Tet - Sound Ancestors |
Sunday, 20 December 2020
Best of 2020
1. Fleet Foxes - Shore Featherweight
2. The Strokes - The New Abnormal Eternal Summer
3. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Is Is True
4. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy Falling Thunder
5. Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline Changer
6. HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III I've Been Down
7. JARV IS... - Beyond the Pale Swanky Modes
8. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways My Own Version of You
9. Sault - Untitled (Black Is)Wildfires
10. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt CuttersHeavy Balloon
Monday, 14 December 2020
Best of 2020 (UnCut, SPIN, NME,...)
Rough Trade (UK, 10th Nov)
1 - Sault - Untitled (Black Is) 2 - Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 3 - Rina Sawayama - Sawayama 4 - Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter 5 - JARV IS - Beyond The Pale 6 - Dream Wife - So When You Gonna... 7 - Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals 8 - bdrmm - Bedroom 9 - Porridge Radio - Every Bad 10 - Rolling Blackouts - Sideways To New Italy |
UnCut (UK, 14th Nov)
1. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways 2. Fleet Foxes - Shore 3. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 4. Drive-By Truckers - The New OK 5. Thundercat - It Is What It Is 6. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 7. Bill Callahan - Gold Record 8. JARV IS... - Beyond the Pale 9. Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease 10. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter |
MOJO (UK, 17th Nov)
1. Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways 2. Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters 3. Fontaines D.C. — A Hero's Death 4. Bill Callahan — Gold Record 5. Fleet Foxes — Shore 6. Cornershop — England Is a Garden 7. JARV IS...Beyond the Pale 8. Run the Jewels — RTJ4 9. Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher 10.The Flaming Lips — American Head |
Friday, 20 December 2019
Best Of 2019
2. El Petit de Cal Eril - Energia Fosca (Sento)
3. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Summer)
4. Karen O - Lux Prima (Turn The Light)
5. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (Living In Denial)
6. Nilufer Yanya - Miss Universe (Paralysed)
7. Dylan LeBlanc - Renegade (Bang Bang Bang)
8. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South Of Reality (Blood and Rockets)
9. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (A Lot Is Gonna Change)
10. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (Malibu)
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Best of 2019 (Mondosonoro, Paste,...)
Rough Trade's (UK, 12th Nov) 1.- Fontaines D.C., Dogrel 2.- Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising 3.- Angel Olsen, All Mirrors 4.- Little Simz, Grey Area 5.- black midi, Schlagenheim 6.- Sleaford Mods, Eton Alive 7.- Cate Le Bon, Reward 8.- Vanishing Twin, The Age of Immunology 9-. Ex:Re, Ex:Re 10.- The Comet is Coming, Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystey | MOJO (UK, 27th Nov) 1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 2. Bill Callahan – Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest 3. Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars 4. The Comet Is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery 5. Aldous Harding – Designer 6. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel 7. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! 8. black midi – schlagenheim 9. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains 10. Lee “Scratch” Perry – Rainford | Uncut (UK,27th Nov) 1. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising 2. Nick Cave &Amp; The Bad Seeds : Ghosteen 3. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains 4. The Comet Is Coming – Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mistery 5. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell 6. Joan Shelley – Like The Rivers Loves The Sea 7. Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars 8. Bill Callahan – Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest 9. Big Thief – Ufof 10. Wilco – Ode To Joy |
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Best of 2018

and Casino
2.- MGMT - Little Dark Age (When You Die)
3.- Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever - Hopes Down (An Air Conditioned Man)
4.- Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man (Wounded Egos)
5.- Kurt Vile - Bottle It In (Rollin' With The Flow)
6.- Charles Bradley - Black Velvet (I'll Slip Away)
7.- Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer (Hangout At The Gallouts)
8.- Beach House - 7 (Drunk in L.A.)
9.- Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Lonesome Love)
10.- Kali Uchis - Isolation (Feel Like A Fool)
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Best Of 2018 (MOJO, UnCut, NME, Q Magazine,...)
Rough Trade (UK, 13th Nov) 1. Shame – Songs of Praise 2. Everything Is Recorded – Everything Is Recorded 3. Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance 4. Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo 5. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hopes Downs 6. Daniel Blumberg – Minus 7. Goat Girl – Goat Girl 8. Mark Peters – Innerland 9. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel 10. Oh Sees – Smote Reverser | UnCut (UK, 15th Nov) 1. Low – Double Negative 2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs 3. Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin 4. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt 5. Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On 6. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer 7. Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg 8. Beak> – >>> 9. Christine and the Queens – Chris 10. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile | MOJO (UK, 18th Nov) 1. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth 2. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs 4. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer 5. Christine and the Queens – Chris 6. Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance 7. Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance 8. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel 9. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt 10. The Breeders – All Nerve |
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Best of 2017

2. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains (Hideaway)
3. Destroyer - Ken (La Regle du Jeu)
4. Feist - Pleasure (I Wish I didn't Miss You)
5. The XX - I See You (Lips)
6. Spoon - Hot Thoughts (Hot Thoughts)
7. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins (Neighbors)
8. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (Pain)
9. Morrissey - Low in High School (I Wish You Lonely)
10. Fleet Foxes - The Crack-Up (On Another Ocean (January - June))
Friday, 1 December 2017
Best of 2017 (Rough Trade, MOJO, Uncut,...)
Rough Trade (UK, 14th Nov) 1. Aldous Harding – Party 2. Ryan Adams – Prisoner 3. Björk – Utopia 4. Big Thief – Capacity 5. Colter Wall – Colter Wall 6. Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex 7. The Big Moon – Love In The 4th Dimension 8. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology 9. Thundercat – Drunk 10. Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man | Q magazine (UK, 22nd Nov) 1. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. 2. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream 3. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life 4. Lorde – Melodrama 5. Gorillaz – Humanz 6. St. Vincent – Masseduction 7. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy 8. Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears 9. Queens of the Stone Age – Villains 10. The National – Sleep Well Beast | MOJO (UK, 22nd Nov) 1. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream 2. Nadia Reid – Preservation 3. Queens of the Stone Age – Villains 4. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… 5. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology 6. St. Vincent – Masseduction 7. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. 8. Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator 9. Sleaford Mods – English Tapas 10. Aldous Harding – Party |
Friday, 16 December 2016
Best of 2016
1. David Bowie - Blackstar [Blackstar]
2. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depresion [Sunday]
3. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate [Love & Hate]
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool [Glass Eyes]
5. PJ Harvey & The Bad Seeds - The Hope Six Demolition Project [The Community of Hope]
6. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree [I Need You]
7. Cass McCombs - Mangy Love[Run Sister Run]
8. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect [Miracle Aligner]
9. DIIV - Is This Is Are [Bent (Roi's Song)]
10. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker [Traveling Light]
2. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depresion [Sunday]
3. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate [Love & Hate]
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool [Glass Eyes]
5. PJ Harvey & The Bad Seeds - The Hope Six Demolition Project [The Community of Hope]
6. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree [I Need You]
7. Cass McCombs - Mangy Love[Run Sister Run]
8. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect [Miracle Aligner]
9. DIIV - Is This Is Are [Bent (Roi's Song)]
10. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker [Traveling Light]
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Best of 2016 (MOJO, Uncut, Q...)
Rough Trade (UK, 14th Nov) 1. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression 2. Anderson .Paak – Malibu 3. Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter 4. Mark Pritchard – Under the Sun 5. Charles Bradley – Changes 6. Anohni – Hopelessness 7. Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits 8. Angel Olsen – My Woman 9. Powell – Sport 10. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial | MOJO (UK, 22nd Nov) 1 David Bowie – Blackstar 2 Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate 3 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree 4 Lambchop – Flotus 5 Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker 6 Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression 7 Frank Ocean – Blonde 8 Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger 9 PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project 10 Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion | Uncut (UK, 22nd Nov) 1 David Bowie – Blackstar 2 Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool 3 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree 4 Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker 5 Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung 6 PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project 7 Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth 8 Anohni – Hopelessness 9 Teenage Fanclub – Here 10 Beyonce – Lemonade |
Monday, 14 December 2015
Best Of 2015
1. Tame Impala - Currents Eventually
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Should Have Known Better
3. Destroyer - Poison Season Archer On The Beach
4. Beach House - Thank You Lucky Star The Traveller
5. Laura Marling - Short Movie Divine
6. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Think And Sit... Depreston
7. Jamie XX - In Colours Seesaw
8. Saun & Starr - Look Closer Hot Shot
9. Beach House - Depression Cherry Space Song
10. Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You People Everywhere (Still Alive)
2. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Should Have Known Better
3. Destroyer - Poison Season Archer On The Beach
4. Beach House - Thank You Lucky Star The Traveller
5. Laura Marling - Short Movie Divine
6. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Think And Sit... Depreston
7. Jamie XX - In Colours Seesaw
8. Saun & Starr - Look Closer Hot Shot
9. Beach House - Depression Cherry Space Song
10. Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You People Everywhere (Still Alive)
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Best albums of 2015 (Q, Mondosonoro, SPIN...)
Rough Trade (UK, 17th Nov) 1) Bjork – Vulnicura 2) Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear 3) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit 4) Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People 5) Max Richter – From Sleep 6) Wolf Alice – My Love is Cool 7) Kamasi Washington – The Epic 8) Royal Headache – High 9) Romare – Projections 10) Jamie XX – In Colour | MOJO (UK, 25th Nov) 1.- Julia Holter – Have You in My Wilderness 2.- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly 3.- New Order – Music Complete 4.- Tame Impala – Currents 5.- Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs 6.- Bill Ryder-Jones – West Kirby Country Primary 7.- Songhoy Blues – Music in Exile 8.- Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa 9.- Sleaford Mods – Key Markets 10.- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell | Q Magazine (UK, 25th Nov) 1.- Tame Impala – Currents 2.- Julia Holter . Have You in My Wilderness 3.- jamie XX- In Colour 4.- Blur – The Magic Whip 5.- New Order – Music Complete 6.- Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think…. 7.- Kurt Vile – B’Lieve I’m Goin’ Down… 8.- Laura Marling – Short Movie 9.- Kendrick lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly 10.- Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful |
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