17 Seconds Top 50 albums of the year
1. Delorean Subiza
2. Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
3. Broken Records Let Me Come Home
4. Mogwai Special Moves
5. Kid Canaveral Shouting At Wildlife
6. Scottish Enlightenment St. Thomas
7. These New Puritans Hidden
8. Meursault All Creatures Will Make Merry
9. For A Minor Reflection Höldum í átt að óreiðu
10. Aberfeldy Somewhere To Jump From
11. Cold In Berlin Give Me Walls
12. LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening
13. Cee-Lo Green The Ladykiller
14. Neil Young Le Noise
15. d_r_radio Parts
16. Mitchell Museum The Peters Port Memorial Service
17. Yazoo Reconnected Live
18. The Fall Your Future, Our Clutter
19. Bruce Springsteen The Promise
20. Edwyn Collins Losing Sleep
21. MIA /\/\ /\ Y /\
22. The Drums The Drums
23. Panico Kick
24. iLikeTrains He Who Saw The Deep
25. Foals Total Life Forever
26. Elf Power Elf Power
27. Konono N°1 Assume Crash Position
28. The Savings & Loan Today I Need Light
29. John Legend & The Roots Wake Up!
30. Phantom Band The Wants
31. Yusuf Azak Turn On The Long Wire
32. Unwinding Hours The Unwinding Hours
33. Cold Seeds Cold Seeds
34. Seafieldroad There Are No Maps For This Part Of the City
35. Inspector Tapehead Duress Code
36. The Burns Unit Side Show
37. Antony & the Johnsons Swanlights
38. Felt Tips Living and Growing
39. Emma Pollock The Law Of Large Numbers
40. Vaselines Sex With An X
41. Futureheads The Chaos
42. Sparrow and the Workshop Crystals Fall
43. Charlotte Gainsbourg RM
44. Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
45. How To Swim Retina (or More Fun Than A Vat Of Love)
46. Super Adventure Club Avoid Zombies
47. Stanley Odd Oddio
48. Zephyrs Fool Of Regrets
49. Ariel Pink’s Haunted GraffitiBefore Today
50. Twin Shadow Forget
More commentary from me later on, and some mp3s, but digest this for now…
Quite a list, Ed. Gosh have you got all of these? I’m going to struggle to keep up!
You must have really loved The Chaos, you list it twice…they sure do deserve it!
I miss Senior (Röyksopp) in that list.
Ken - I have these either on CD, download, vinyl or something; I get sent lots these days. I certainly could not afford to buy them all!
Mwillard -thanks for pointing that out; now resolved!
Enaldo - wasn’t blown away by Junior, so it fell some way down my list of stuff to check out.
Nice to see that Springsteen made it this year! Where’s Tom Jones tho?
Jonesy was okay, but this is what i thought was best out of 250 or so albums!
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