Albums of the year

There's never enough time to hear everything you'd like to... even when you're working in a record store. But there are always MORE than enough albums that flow through the ears and stick in the old brain each year.  Here are the stickiest ones from this one.


This year's 50 favourites in alphabetical order:

1. Alvvays – S/T (Royal Mountain)
2. Amen Dunes - Love (Sacred Bones)
3. Sam Amidon - Lily-O (Nonesuch)
4. Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp)
5. Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche - Zubberdust! (Constellation)
6. Badbadnotgood - III (Innovative Leisure)
7. Budos Band - Burnt Offerings (Daptone)
8. The Bug - Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
9. Evan Caminiti – Coiling (Dust Editions)
10. Cassegrain – Centres of Distraction (Prologue)
11. Douglas Dare – Whelm (Erased Tapes)
12. Daughters of the Sun - Ride to Die (Not Not Fun)
13. Death Vessel - Island Intervals (Sub Pop)
14. Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita (Polyvinyl)
15. Fennesz - Becs (editions Mego)
16. Michael Feuerstack and Associates - Singer Songer (Forward)
17. Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (Last Gang)
18. Hookworms - The Hum (Weird World)
19. Goat - Commune (Sub Pop)
20. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Hydra Head)
21. Grouper - Ruins (Kranky)
22. How to Dress Well - "What is this heart?" (Weird World)
23. Inventions - S/T (Temporary Residence)
24. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian)
25. Kiasmos -S/T (Erased Tapes)
26. Last Ex – S/T (Constellation)
27. Liars - Mess (Mute)
28. New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Last Gang)
29. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
30. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
31. Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
32. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
33. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
34. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
35. Radian/Howe Gelb – Radian vs. Howe Gelb (Radian Releases)
36. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
37. Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
38. A Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
39. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
40. Sunn O))) / Ulver - Terrestrials (Southern Lord)
41. Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
42. Torn Hawk – Let’s Cry and Do Pushups at the Same Time (Mexican Summer)
43. Scott Walker / Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)
44. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
45. Bry Webb - Free Will (Idee Fixe)
46. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
47. WIFE - What's Between (Tri-angle)
48. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos (Kranky)
49. Christopher Willits - OPENING (Ghostly International)
50. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestite (Southern Lord)