I've been writing down my favourite
albums of the year since 2011, so here's a little archive of all those lists
(from the time, not written afterwards). List mania!
2011
1. Labirinto: Anatema
2. Comet Gain: Howl of the Lonely Crowd
3. Grails: Deep Politics
4. Low: C'mon
5. David Lynch- Crazy Clown Time
6. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
7. Veronica Falls: S/T
8. Orienteers: S/T
9. Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
10. Aiden Moffat and Bill Wells: Everything's Getting Older
2012
Albums of 2012
1. Rangda - Formerly Extinct
2. Nope - Revision
3. Six Organs of Admittance - Ascent
4. Drcarlsonalbion - La Strega and the Cunning Man in the Smoke
5. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Singles of 2012
1. This Many Boyfriends - 'Starling'
2. Hookworms/Kogumaza - 'Form & Function/Ursids'
3. The Wind-Up Birds - 'The Mild Awards'
4. Cold Pumas - 'Sherry Island'
5. Shrag/Tunabunny - 'Tendons In the Night'/'Locusts'
2013
1. Hookworms- Pearl Mystic
2. Johnny Dowd- Do the Gargon
3. The Cosmic Dead- Inner Sanctum
4. SHABDA- the Electric Bodhisattva
5. Teeth of the Sea- Master
2014
1 Earth - Primitive & Deadly (Southern Lord)
2 Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts (Fortuna Pop!)
3 Hookworms - The Hum (Weird World)
4 The Wind Up Birds - Poor Music (Sturdy Records)
5 Ides of Gemini - Old World New Wave (Neurot Recordings)
6 Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Domino)
7 Current 93 - I am the Last of All, the Field that Fell: a Channel (The
Spheres)
8 Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Rock Action)
9 The Skull Defekts - Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown (Thrill
Jockey)
10 Swans - To Be Kind (Mute)
2015
1. The Membranes- Dark Matter/Dark Energy
2. Jenny Hval- Apocalypse, girl
3. Johnny Dowd - That’s Your Wife on the Back of My Horse
4. Sunn0))) - Kannon
5. Shit & Shine - 54 Synth Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
6. The Wave Pictures - Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
7. King Midas Sound/ Fennesz - Edition 1
8. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Most Important Place in the World
9. Grey Hairs - Colossal Downer
10. Darren Hayman - Chants for Socialists
2016
1. Future of the Left- The Peace &
Truce of Future of the Left
2. Jenny Hval- Blood Bitch
3. David Bowie- Blackstar
4. The Dwarfs of East Agouza- Bes
5. Anna Homler and Steve Moshier-
Breadwoman & Other Tales
6. Unstable Journey- Beast Market
7. Hypnopazuzu- Create Christ, Sailor
Boy
8. Radiohead- Moon Shaped Pool
9. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy &
Bitchin’ Bajas – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
10. Molars – Hypnic Jerk
2017
1. Pissed Jeans- Why Love Now
2. Piano Magic- Closure
3. The Fall – New Facts Emerge
4. Nadah El Shazly- Ahwar
5. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley- The Blow Volume 3
6. The Cribs- 24/7 Rock Star Shit
7. Colossloth- Heathen Needles
8. Crystal Fairy- Crystal Fairy
9. Sleaford Mods- English Tapas
10. Gnod- Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial
Death Machine
2018
1. Anna Burch - Quit the Curse
2. The Goon Sax – We’re Not Talking
3. The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland
4. She Makes War – Brace for Impact
5. ILL – We Are ILL
6. The Wind-Up Birds – Desire Paths
7. Thick Syrup - Living in Leeds
8. Evil Blizzard – The Worst Show On Earth
9. Current 93 – The Light is Leaving us All
10. Low – Double Negative
2019
Albums
1. Miranda Arieh – Ferine
2. Hilary and the Hate Crimes – Things
Can Only Get Worse
3. Purple Mountains – S/T
4. Billy Nomates – No
5. Leggy – Let Me Know Your Moon
6. Membranes – What Nature
Gives…Nature Takes Away
7. Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love
8. Comet Gain – Fireraisers Forever!
9. Stella Donnelly – Beware of the
Dogs
10. Regional Creeps – Never Gonna Happen
Gigs
1. Kendal Calling 2019
2. Miranda Arieh – HPBC
3. Lemonheads – stylus
4. Kontiki – Shipley Triangle
5. Lucy Rose – City Varieties
6. Flipper – Brude
7. Eva Eik – HPBC
8. Jeffrey Lewis – Brude
9. Spiral Stairs – HPBC
10. Membranes & Friends – 02 Ritz, Manchester
2020 Albums
1. Clara Engel – Hatching Under The Stars
2. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)
3. Billy Nomates – Billy Nomates
4. The Lovely Eggs – I Am Moron
5. Dream Nails – Dream Nails
6. The Wind-Up Birds – Summer Haunts
7. Primitive Knot - Lost Wisdom
8. Run the Jewels – RTJ4
9. Primitive Ignorant – Sikh Punk
10. Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
11. You’re a Face – Bold Glum
12. Steven Adams And The French Drops – Keep It Light
13. Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
14. Regional Creeps – No One Cares
15. Scanner – An Ascent
16. Babybird – Babybird’s Happy Songs
17. Memnon Sa – World Serpent
18. Neil Turpin – Doorbell Disconnected
19. Michelle Gurevich – Ecstasy In The Shadow Of Ecstasy
20. The Cribs – Night Network
2021 Albums
1. Deathretro – Deathretro
2. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
3. The Bug – Fire
4. Lump – Animal
5. The Lodger - Cul-De-Sac of Love
6. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
7. Hello Cosmos – Golden Dirt
8. Primitive Knot – A New Ontology Of Evil
9. Clara Engel – Dressed In Borrowed Light
10. David Christian & The Pinecone Orchestra – For Those We Met On The Way
11. Delilah Bon – Delilah Bon
12. Ox. Sanchez – Anxiety Dreams
13. AJA – Slug
14. Sault – Nine
15. Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
16. The State Of Georgia – This Time
17. Neil Turpin – Take Heart In The Dark
18. Hawthonn – Earth Mirror
19. Moor Mother – Black Encyclopaedia Of The Air
20. Hieronymus Dream – Nostos
Albums of 2022
1 TAngerinecAt - Glass
2 Clara Engel - Their Invisible Hands
3 Primitive Knot - Ur-Metal
4 Holodrum - Holodrum
5 The Vat Egg Imposition - Shop Tones
6 Johnny Dowd - Homemade Pie
7 Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
8 Neptunian Maximalism - Set Chaos To The Heart Of The Moon
9 Mayshe Mayshe – Indigo
10 Everson Poe - The Night Country
11 Scanner - The Homeland of Electricity
12 Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon
13 All Structures Align - Distance and Departure
14 Forming - The Water That We Swim In
15 Nervous Twitch - Some People Never Change
16 Richard Carlson Band – Mother’s Intuition
17 Thank – Thoughtless Cruelty
18 SAULT – Air
19 Ann Eysermans - For Trainspotters Only
20 Menace Ruine – Nekyia
Top 10 'other' releases of 2022
1. Mollie Coddled - I Wanna Go Home (EP)
2. Not a Minute of Silence (comp)
3. MEN (soundtrack)
4. Nightrax - Nightrax EP
5. Nape Neck - Look Alive (EP)
6. Senseless Optimism - It Gets Better (EP)
7. Loud Women Volume 5 (comp)
8. Care Home - Assisted Living (Part 1) (EP)
9. Magi Merlin - Gone Girl (EP)
10. Cold Comfort - Maximum Effort (EP)
Top 10 gigs of 2022
1. Benefits - Brudenell Social Club - 26th Nov 22
2. The Cure - First Direct Arena - 6th Dec 22
3. Pavement - 02 Academy, Leeds - Oct 17th 22
4. The Endless Hum #2 - AJA - 2nd July 22
5. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wharf Chambers - 20th March 22
6. Yama Warashi - Hyde Park Book Club - 15th June 22
7. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Belgrave Music Hall - 1st June 22
8. Mary Lattimore - The White Hotel, Salford - 2nd June 22
9. The Cribs - Brudenell Social Club - 30th July 22
10. Arab Strap - Brudenell Social Club - 21st Aug 22
Top 20 Albums of 2023
1. Everson Poe – The Tower
2. Benefits – Nails
3. Primitive Knot – Undying Lands
4. Saint Martyn – The Day God Died
5. Black Star – No Fear Of Time
6. Kontiki – Mangrove Big Head
7. Black Powder Merchants – Keep Your Powder Dry
8. Avi C. Engel – Sanguinaria
9. Forming – Everything’s Brilliant
10. Dream Nails – Doom Loop
11. Johnny Dowd - Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know
12. Marthe - Further In Evil
13. Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes
14. Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation Of Suffering
15. Yellow Eyes -Master’s Murmur
16. Pound Land – Violence
17. Temple Ov Saturn – Deep Tracks For A Journey Through Time
18. Billy Nomates – Cacti
19. Neil Turpin - Aspiration
20. Non Serviam – Death Ataraxia
EPs/ compilations/ reissues etc
1. Keep The Children Safe by Industrial Coast/ Various (comp)
2. Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox (comp)
3. The Woven Project – Let Beautiful In (EP)
4. Theory Of Ghosts EP1 (EP)
5. Volk Soup - Incompetent Hits: The Singles Vol.1 (comp)
6. The Wind-up Birds – “Pop.Thinking” (EP)
7. Hello Cosmos – Hard Dirt - Hello Cosmos Remixed (comp)
8. Wire Worms - THE GOLDEN BOUGH 2023 DEMO (demo)
9. Headcut – Sweet (EP)
10. Wandering Summer – Wandering Summer (EP)
TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2024
2. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
3. Chrystabell & David Lynch - Cellophane Memories
4. Avi C. Engel - Too Many Souls
5. Wire Worms - The First to Come In
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
7. Shellac - To All Trains
8. Coded Marking - Coded Marking
9. Michelle Gurevich - It Was The Moment
10. The Lovely Eggs – Eggsistentialism
11. Shit And Shine - Rum And Coke
12. Goat Girl - Below The Waste
13. Cowtown - Fear Of...
14. Objections - Optimistic Sizing
15. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
16. Primitive Knot - Revelation
17. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
18. Kathodos - Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus
19. Nappy Nina & Swarvy - Nothing Is My Favorite Thing
20. Einstürzende Neubauten - Rampen (apm: alien pop music)
Top 10 Other Releases of 2024 (EPs/ Compilations/ Other)
1. Various Artists - When I Survive (comp)
2. Chloe Slater - You Can't Put A Price On Fun (EP)
3. Tiger Island - Looka Looka Looka (EP)
4. Hang Linton - Demonstrations (EP)
5. Pound Land - Live At New River Studios/ Worried (live album)
6. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Eazy Peazy (EP)
7. Guruguru Brain - Guruguru Brain Wash 2 (comp)
8. The Great Park - Chapel (live album)
9. KRM & KMRU - Otherness (EP)
10. Beige Palace - Live For The Very Last Time (live album)
Top 10 Gigs of 2024
1. Pedro The Lion - Lakes - 18/09/24 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.
2. Alan Sparhawk - Game Program - 04/11/24 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.
3. Waxahatchee - Anna St Louis - 29/07/24 - Leeds Irish Centre.
4. Pissed Jeans - Jade Hairpins - 04/04/24 - Brudenell Social Club,
Leeds.
5. Cowtown - Irked - Lo Egin - 17/05/24 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.
6. Endless Spite All-Dayer - Cowtown - Eternal Vape - Machiavellian Art - The
Sex Maniacs - Ox Scapula - Tiger Island - Cellar Messiah - The Breedling -
7/12/24 - Kirkgate Centre, Shipley
7. Russell Crow's Indoor Garden Party - Kuill - Lorraine O’Reilly -
25/07/24 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
8. WITCH - Flat Moon - Hutch - 30/07/24 - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds.
9. The Research - Buen Chico - 14/01/24 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.
10. Man Woman Chainsaw - Kiosk - Bathing Suits - 13/09/24 - Brudenell
Social Club, Leeds.
