Another year, another 100 albums. Some familiar names, some new discoveries. So much brilliant music.
I can’t remember another year when my favourite kept changing so much (at one stage or another each album in the top ten below all held number one spot I think).
Here goes...
1) Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up (live review)
2) Elbow - Little Fictions
3) Oddfellow's Casino - Oh, Sealand
4) Grandbrothers - Open (album review)
5) HAIM - Something To Tell You
6) Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
7) The Charlatans - Different Days (live review)
8) Slowdive - Slowdive (live review)
9) Amadou & Mariam - La Confusion
10) Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
11) Ariel Pink - Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
12) James Holden - The Animal Spirits
13) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
14) Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
15) Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea (live review)
16) Forest Swords - Compassion
17) Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
18) Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
19) Balmorhea - Clear Language
20) Grandaddy - Last Place
21) Ed Dowie - The Uncle Sold
22) Les Amazones d'Afrique - Republique Amazone
23) Bing & Ruth - No Home Of The Mind (live review)
24) The Weather Station - The Weather Station
25) Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya
26) Ifriqiyya Electrique - Rûwâhîne
27) BNQT - Volume 1.
28) Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive
29) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
30) Gareth Sager - 88 Tuned Dreams
31) This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
32) Girl Ray - Earl Grey (live review)
33) Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency
34) Fizzarum - Frisson
35) From The Mouth Of The Sun - Hymn Binding
36) I, Ludicrous - Songs From The Sides Of Lorries
37) The Bug v Earth - Concrete Desert
38) Eluvium - Shuffle Drones
39) Björk - Utopia
40) Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI
41) Justin Walter - Unseen Forces
42) Martin Glass - The Pacific Visions Of Martin Glass
43) Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
44) The Necks - Unfold
45) Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Adiós Señor Pussycat
46) Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
47) Yasmine Hamdan - Al Jamilat
48) William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
49) Martyn Heyne - Electric Intervals
50) Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister - Planetarium
51) Euros Childs - House Arrest
52) The Shins - Heartworms
53) David Crosby - Sky Trails
54) Fiium Shaarrk - We Are Astonishingly Lifelike
55) Poppy Ackroyd - Sketches
56) State Broadcasters - A Different Past
57) Ride - Weather Diaries (live review)
58) High Plains - Cinderland
59) Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
60) Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
61) Iron & Wine - Beast Epic (album review)
62) Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
63) Natasha Barrett - Puzzle Wood
64) Moon Diagrams - Lifetime Of Love
65) Richard Dawson - Peasant
66) Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas 5
67) Högni - Two Trains (album review)
68) Human Pyramids - Home
69) Jessica Moss - Pools Of Light
70) Gwyneth Glyn - Tro
71) GAS - Narkopop
72) Esmerine - Mechanics of Dominion
73) Ex Eye - Ex Eye
74) Giulio Aldinucci - Borders And Ruins
75) Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
76) Hidden Orchestra - Dawn Chorus
77) Gaussian Curve - The Distance
78) Msafiri Zawose - Uhamiaji
79) Lung Dart - Some Other Hunger
80) Bola - D.E.G
81) Masaki Uchida - Xenolinguistics
82) Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali - Ladilikan
83) Loney Dear - Loney Dear
84) Ellen Arkbro - For Organ And Brass
85) Nadia Reid - Preservation
86) Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
87) Laura Marling - Semper Femina
88) Saltland - A Common Truth
89) Mark McGuire - Ideas Of Begnnings
90) Clocolan - Nothing Left To Abandon
91) Hammock - Mysterium
92) Blanck Mass - World Eater
93) Snow Palms - Origin And Echo
94) Dustin Wong - Are Euphoria
95) Children Of Alice - Children Of Alice
96) Maya Youssef - Syrian Dreams
97) Ben Gibbard - Bandwagonesque
98) Flying Saucer Attack – In Search Of Spaces
99) Andrea Belfi - Ore
100) Sampha - Process