THE YEAR AS VOTED BY YOU:
January
- David Bowie - Blackstar
- Suede - Night Thoughts
- Daughter - Not To Disappear
- Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
- Savages - Adore Life
- Roly Porter - Third Law
=7. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
Money - Suicide Songs - Chairlift - Moth
=10. Eleanor Friedberger - New View
Mystery Jets - Curve Of The Earth
February
- Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
- The School Of Seven Bells - SVIIB
- Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
- Animal Collective - Painting With
- Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
=6. Field Music - Common Time
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge
Steve Mason - Meet The Humans
=9. Brood Ma - Daze
Cavern Of Antimatter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
Ian William Craig - Zugzwang for Fostex
March
- Anna Meredith - Varmints
=2. The Drones - Feelin’ Kinda Free
Underworld - Barbara Barbara… - Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
- Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
- Department M - Deep Control
- Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
=8. Albums by Gold Rabbit, Liima, The Range and The Thermals
April
- Tim Hecker - Love Streams
- Deftones - Gore
- Future Of The Left - The Peace & Truce Of
- PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
=6. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Parquet Courts - Human Performance - Deakin - Sleep Cycle
- Moderat - III
- Hammock - Everything and Nothing
May
- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
=2. Anhoni - Hopelessness
Julianna Barwick - Will
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
=5. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Marissa Nadler- Strangers - Yak - Alas Salvation
=8. Adia Victoria - Beyond The Bloodhounds
Autechre - Elseq
Kate Jackson - British Road Movies
White Lung - Paradise
June
- Minor Victories - Minor Victories
- Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
- Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House
=4. The Kills - Ash and Ice
Mitski - Puberty 2
=6. Band of Horses - Why Are You OK?
Swans - The Glowing Man
=8. Albums by: Abul Mogard, Anxiety, Evans The Death, Kayo Dot, PAWS, Raime and VHS
July
- The Avalanches - Wildflower
- Ian William Craig - Centers
- Bat For Lashes – The Bride
- Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
- Wreck and Reference - Indifferent Rivers Romance End
- The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset
=7. Albums by Metronomy, Michael Kiwanuka and Nonkeen
=10. Albums by BadbadNotGood, Departures, DM Stith, Ela Orleans, Hey Geronimo and Stephen Steinbrink
August
- Dinosaur Jr - Get A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
- Russian Circles - Guidance
- 65daysofstatic - No Man’s Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe 10 points.
=4. Exploded View - S/T
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Stranger Things - OST - Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
=8. Ka - Honour Killed the Samurai
Wild Beasts - Boy King
=10. Glass Animals - How To Be a Human Being
The Album Leaf - Between Waves
September
- Angel Olsen - My Woman
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
- Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
- Preoccupations - Preoccupations
- Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
- Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine…
- Touché Amoré - Stage Four
- Christian Fitness - This Taco Is Not Correct
- Eluvium - False Reading
- Albums by Beach Slang, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Petrels and Wrekmeister Harmonies
October
1.The Radio Dept - Running Out Of Love
2.Goat - Requiem
= 3. American Football - American Football
Dead Light - Dead Light
5.Leonard Cohen -You Want It Darker
6.Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It’s Like
=7. Joyce Manor - Cody
The Electric Six - Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres
The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
=10.Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Katie Gately - Color
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
November
- A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here
- Lambchop - Flotus
- Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today
- This Becomes Us - s/t
=5. Honeyblood - Babes Never Die
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Until The Hunter
Sleigh Bells - Jessica Rabbit - Tape Loop Orchestra - The Invisibles
=9. Ten albums on three points. Basically they’re the top choices from various voters but no one else has added to that choice.