1. Grimes ‘Visions.’
2. Bill Fay ‘Life Is People.’
3. Frank Ocean ‘Channel Orange.’
4. Trapped Mice ‘Winter Sun.’
5. Viv Albertine ‘Vermilion Border.’
6. Bobby Womack ‘The Bravest Man In The Universe.’
7. Death Grips ‘The Money Store.’
8. Jack White ‘Blunderbuss.’
9. Steve Adey ‘The Tower Of Silence.’
10. Meursault ‘Something For The Weakened.’
11. Sonic Youth ‘Smart Bar Chicago 1985.’
12. Gallops ‘Yours Sincerely, Dr. Hardcore.’
13. Twilight Sad ‘No One Can Ever Know.’
14. Django Django ‘Django Django.’
15. Cat Power ‘Sun.’
16. Spiritualized ‘Sweet Heart Sweet Light.’
17. Public Image Ltd. ‘This Is PIL.’
18. Jesus H. Foxx ‘Endless Knocking.’
19. Dead Can Dance ‘Anastasis.’
20. Snide Rhythms ‘Snide Rhythms.’
21. First Aid Kit ‘The Lion’s Roar.’
22. De La Soul’s ‘Plug 1 & 2 First Serve.’
23. RM Hubbert ‘Thirteen Lost and Found.’
24. Mark Lanegan Band ‘Blues Funeral.’
25. Liars ‘WIXIW.’
26. Cancel The Astronauts ‘Animal Love Match.’
27. Antony and the Johnsons ‘Cut The World.’
28. Cornershop ‘Urban Turban.’
29. Flying Lotus ‘Until The Quiet Comes.’
30. Scott Walker ‘Bish Bosch.’
31. Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament ‘The Violence.’
32. Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose.’
33. Leg ‘An Eagle To Saturn.’
34. Metz ‘Metz.’
35. Grinderman ‘Grinderman 2 RMX.’
36. Mogwai ‘A Wrenched Virile Lore.’
37. Piano Magic ‘Life Hasn’t Finished With Me Yet.’
38. Stumbleine ‘Spiderwebbed.’
39. Soap&Skin ‘Narrow.’
40. Very Best ‘MTMTMK.’
41. Laura J Martin ‘The Hangman’s Tree.’
42. Chris Devotion and the Expectations ‘Amalgamation and Capital’
43. Paul Buchanan ‘Mid Air.’
44. We Are the Physics ‘Your Friend, The Atom.’
45. Princess Chelsea ‘Lil Golden Book.’
46. The Sea & Cake ‘Runner.’
47. Easter ‘Innocence Man.’
48. Divorce ‘Divorce.’
49. Dirty Projectors ‘Swing Lo Magallan.’
50. Yusuf Azak ‘Go Native.’

This year I have heard an unbelievable amount of music. The Grimes album stood out for me, and was clear to me quite early on that it was probably going to be my album of the year, but while for the first time ever my track and album of the year are by the same artist, there’s much less overlap with the tracks of the year.

At times I have toyed with the idea of not doing a list -trying to rank the albums of the year when you have heard over 400 of them is not easy! – but this is what the list looks like. The Top Ten were definitely the strongest (er, obviously) but there’s probably not so much of a gap between no.11 and no.50.

Due to the fact that despite they are free but not meant to be rehosted (???) enjoy these, messily laid out though they doubtless appear to be…

Jesus H. Foxx -‘So Much Water.’ mp3

The Leg -‘Beat Yourself Silly.’ mp3

Cat Power -‘Ruin.’ mp3

Mogwai -‘George Square Thatcher Death Party (Justin K Broadrick remix).’ mp3

Metz -‘Headache.’ mp3

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…