Right, here we have it. The full list of our favourite 100 LPs (and a few EPs) of 2016.
It’s impossible to rank them in any order, so here they are as an A-Z.
My personal top 5 records would be (and this would change every time you asked, and again in no real order)
- Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
- Steve Mason Meet The Humans
- D.D Dumbo Utopia Defeated
- David Bowie Blackstar
- Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony
As for beer, this is equally as tricky, we had so many ace beers in cask, keg and bottle, but here you go…
- Chorlton Sour Blend One
- Lost Industry Mojito Sour
- Buxton Ice Cream Lemon Meringue Pie
- North Riding Mini Mosaic
- Wild Beer Millionaire
The Record Café 2016 Top 100 albums
- Allah-Las Calico Review
- American Football American Football (LP2)
- Baltic Fleet The Dear One
- Band Of Skulls By Default
- Beth Orton Kidsticks
- Bloc Party HYMNS
- Blood Orange Freetown Sound
- Bloody Knives I Will Cut Your Heart out for This
- Blossoms Blossoms
- Blues Pills Lady in Gold
- Bob Mould Patch The Sky
- Bon Iver 22 A Million
- Boys Forever Boys Forever
- Bruce Foxton Smash the Clock
- C Duncan The Midnight Sun
- Charles Bradley Changes
- D.D Dumbo Utopia Defeated
- David Bowie Blackstar
- De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody…
- DIIV Is the Is Are
- Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
- Ed Harcourt Furnaces
- Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death
- Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers
- Few Bits Big Sparks
- Field Music Commontime
- Flamingods Majesty
- Goat Requiem
- Hooton Tennis Club Big Box of Chocolates
- Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression
- Itasca Open to Chance
- Jack White Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998 – 2016
- Jagwar Ma Every Now & Then
- James Girl At The End of The World
- James Leg Blood On The Keys
- Jamie Lidell Building a Beginning
- Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp
- Joan As Police Woman Benjamin Lazar Davis Let It Be You
- King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman
- Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
- Lush Blind Spot
- Martha Wainwright Goodnight City
- Massive Attack Ritual Spirit
- Massive Attack The Spoils
- Metronomy Summer 08
- Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
- Nick Ellis Daylight Ghosts
- Nicolas Jaar Sirens
- Night Beats Who Sold My Generation
- Paul Draper EP ONE
- Pavo Pavo Young Narrator in the Breakers
- Peter Doherty Hamburg Demonstrations
- Pixies Head Carrier
- PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Placebo Life’s What You Make It
- Primal Scream Chaosmosis
- Public Service Broadcasting The Race for Space (Remixes)
- Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
- Richard Ashcroft These People
- Savages Adore Life
- School Of Seven Bells SVIIB
- Scott & Charlene’s Wedding Mid Thirties Single Scene
- Seasick Steve Keepin’ The Horse Between Me And The Ground
- Seth Lakeman Ballads Of The Broken Few
- Seth Lakeman Wildwood Kin Ballads Of The Broken Few
- Simple Minds Acoustic
- Simple Minds KT Tunstall Acoustic
- Steve Mason Meet The Humans
- Suede Night Thoughts
- Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony
- Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series
- Teeneage Fanclub Here
- The Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre Third World Pyramid
- The Coral Distance Inbetween
- The Dandy Warhols Distortland
- The Divine Comedy Foreverland
- The Duke Spirit KIN
- The High Violets Heroes and Halos
- The Lemon Twigs Do Hollywood
- The Raconteurs Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998 – 2016
- The Ramona Flowers Part Time Spies
- The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome
- The Sun Days Album
- The Temperance Movement White Bear
- The Wytches All Your Happy Life
- TOY Clear Shot
- Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow (Deluxe Edition)
- Ultimate Painting Dusk
- Underworld Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
- Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything
- Votaries Psychometry
- Warpaint Heads Up
- White Denim Stiff
- White Lies Friends
- Wilco Schmilco
- Wild Beasts Boy King
- Wolf People Ruins
- WOMPS Our Fertile Forever
Have a great Christmas and a happy new year, from all here!
