We’ve picked our top 5s, and that’s meant we’ve had to leave out some incredible records. So, in case you’re wondering. These are our favourite new albums from the last 12 months.

They’re not in order of preference, that would be too hard, they’re in the order they were released. From The Memory Band in January, to Nick Ellis in December

  • The Memory Band A Fair Field
  • Foxygen Hang
  • Mick Harvey Intoxicated Women
  • The Proper Ornaments Foxhole
  • Menace Beach Lemon Memory
  • Horse Thief Trials & Truths
  • SACRED PAWS Strike A Match
  • Michael Chapman 50
  • Jawbones High And Low And Low And High
  • Cigarettes After Sex I.
  • Communions Blue
  • Ron Gallo Heavy Meta
  • Ten Fé Hit The Light
  • Elephant Stone Ship of Fools
  • Elbow Little Fictions
  • Fufanu Sports
  • Tall Tall Trees Freedays
  • Novella Change of State
  • Julie’s Haircut Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin
  • The Courtneys The Courtneys II
  • The Paperhead Chew
  • Dutch Uncles Big Balloon
  • Jens Lekman Life Will See You Now
  • Ryan Adams Prisoner
  • Entrance Book Of Changes
  • Froth Outside (Briefly)
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre Don’t Get Lost
  • Alice Jemima Alice Jemima
  • Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains Solide Mirage
  • JUPITER-C 1
  • Temples Volcano
  • Grandaddy Last Place
  • Paul Weller Jawbone (Music From The Film)
  • Chicano Batman Freedom is Free
  • The Shins Heartworms
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Tourist
  • Shadow Band Wilderness of Love
  • Laura Marling Semper Femina
  • Chilly Gonzales Jarvis Cocker Room 29
  • Depeche Mode Spirit (Deluxe)
  • Real Estate In Mind
  • Spiral Stairs Doris & The Daggers
  • The Moonlandingz Interplanetary Class Classics
  • Boss Hog Brood X
  • Craig Finn We All Want The Same Things
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain Damage and Joy
  • Goldfrapp Silver Eye
  • British Sea Power Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
  • Future Islands The Far Field
  • Father John Misty Pure Comedy
  • Aimee Mann Mental Illness
  • Edgar Jones The Song of Day and Night
  • Texas Jump on Board
  • Maximo Park Risk to Exist
  • The Raveonettes 2016 Atomized
  • Overcoats YOUNG
  • Sundowners Cut the Master
  • Ray Davies Americana
  • David Bowie No Plan – EP
  • The War On Drugs Thinking Of A Place
  • Mark Lanegan Gargoyle
  • Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles Police Department
  • BNQT Volume 1.
  • Thurston Moore Rock N Roll Consciousness
  • The Afghan Whigs In Spades
  • Slowdive Slowdive
  • Blondie Pollinator
  • Cast Kicking Up The Dust
  • Paul Weller A Kind Revolution (Deluxe)
  • Sean Rowe New Lore (Deluxe Edition)
  • Girlpool Powerplant
  • Thurston Moore Rock N Roll Consciousness
  • The Charlatans Different Days
  • Ben Ottewell A Man Apart
  • Crescent Resin Pockets
  • Justin Townes Earle Kids in the Street
  • alt-J RELAXER
  • Pixx The Age of Anxiety
  • DBFC Jenks
  • Saint Etienne Home Counties
  • Benjamin Booker Witness
  • House and Land House and Land
  • Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
  • The Drums Abysmal Thoughts
  • Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark?
  • Ride Weather Diaries
  • Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
  • London Grammar Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Deluxe)
  • Public Service Broadcasting Every Valley
  • Dauwd Theory of Colours
  • Emma Ruth Rundle / Jaye Jayle The Time Between Us – Split
  • Arcade Fire Everything Now
  • Warm Digits Wireless World
  • Paul Heaton Jacqui Abbott Crooked Calypso (Deluxe)
  • Mick Jagger Gotta Get A Grip / England Lost
  • Steve Pilgrim Morning Skies
  • Black Grape Pop Voodoo
  • Foster The People Sacred Hearts Club
  • Trailer Trash Tracys Althaea
  • Ghostpoet Dark Days + Canapés
  • Judy Dyble Andy Lewis Summer Dancing
  • Everything Everything A Fever Dream
  • The Sherlocks Live for the Moment
  • Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins
  • Nadine Shah Holiday Destination
  • Iron & Wine Beast Epic
  • The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding
  • LCD Soundsystem american dream
  • Mogwai Every Country’s Sun
  • Mary Epworth Elytral
  • Sparks Hippopotamus
  • The National Sleep Well Beast
  • Alvvays Antisocialites
  • Mount Kimbie Love What Survives
  • HAIM Something to Tell You
  • Queens of the Stone Age Villains
  • Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold
  • Magnus Lindgren Stockholm Underground
  • The Horrors V
  • The Killers Wonderful Wonderful
  • Marc Almond Shadows and Reflections
  • TORRES Three Futures
  • David Crosby Sky Trails
  • Van Morrison Roll With The Punches
  • Liam Gallagher As You Were (Deluxe Edition)
  • Courtney Barnett Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice
  • Robert Plant Carry Fire
  • Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band Adiós Señor Pussycat
  • Beck Colors
  • Paul Draper Spooky Action
  • St. Vincent MASSEDUCTION
  • Billy Corgan Ogilala
  • CCFX 2Tru b/w 2Tru (Foreign Interior Dub Mix)
  • CCFX Ode b/w Ode (Extended Comfort Anthem Mix)
  • Destroyer ken (Deluxe Version)
  • Tori Amos Native Invader
  • Jake Bugg Hearts That Strain
  • Baxter Dury Prince of Tears
  • EERA Reflection of Youth
  • James Holden The Animal Spirits The Animal Spirits
  • The Cornshed Sisters Honey & Tar
  • The The Volume 4: The End of the Day
  • Shed Seven Instant Pleasures
  • Spinning Coin Permo
  • Angel Olsen Phases
  • Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built The Moon?
  • Morrissey Low in High School
  • The County Liners Mary Jane Dunphe & Chris McDonnell in the County Liners
  • Alien Stadium Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
  • Belle & Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems (Part 1)
  • Neil Finn Out Of Silence
  • Thundercat Drunk
  • Serpent Power Electric Looneyland
  • Nick Ellis Adult Fiction
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