#23
  1. LCD Soundsystem- American Dream
  2. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
  3. Arca - Arca
  4. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
  5. St Vincent - Masseduction

Great year, sorry to have to miss out Baxter Dury, Protomartyr, Sparks, Kelly Lee Owens, The Clientele, Colin Stetson and Richard Dawson amongst many others.

The Bjork album may well end up being one of my favourites but it’s an album that’s going to take time to fully unfold itself.

At least 20 very fine records this year.

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#24
  1. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
  2. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
  3. Meat Wave - The Incessant
  4. The Horrors - V
  5. Run The Jewels - RTJ3
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#25
  1. IDLES - Brutalism
  2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
  3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  4. Forest Swords - Compassion
  5. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
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#26
  1. ORB - Naturality
  2. St Vincent - Massedution
  3. Methyl Ethel - Everything is Forgotten
  4. Elder - Reflections on a Floating World
  5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
#27
  1. Paramore - After Laughter
  2. Slowdive - Slowdive
  3. Marnie - Strange Words and Weird Wars
  4. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  5. Lorde - Melodrama

PS: Debut album of the year: Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens.

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#28
  1. Wand - Plum
  2. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
  3. Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
  4. Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
  5. Slowdive - S/T
#29
  1. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
  2. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
  3. Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
  4. Out Lines - Conflats
  5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
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#30
  1. Valerie June - The Order Of Time
  2. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
  3. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
  4. Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
  5. Shilpa Ray - Door Girl
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#31

Best year for a while.

  1. British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
  2. The National - Sleep Well Beast
  3. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
  4. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
    5= Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
    5= Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm

Mentions: LCD Soundsystem, Out Lines, Grandaddy, A.Savage, Jens Lekman, Peter Silberman, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Alvvays, St Vincent.

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#32
  1. Everything Everything - Fever Dream
  2. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
  3. Deafcult - Auras
  4. Hotel Neon - Context
  5. Bola - D.E.G.

Great year.

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#33
  1. Menzingers - After The Party
  2. Converge - The Dusk In Us
  3. Metz - Strange Peace
  4. Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
  5. Slowdive - Slowdive
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#34

How are you going to handle this @Prob500?

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#35
  1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
  2. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
  3. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at me
  4. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
  5. Kehlani - sweet Sexy Savage

Not really a definitive list, I find it really hard to actually rank music.
Feels off putting Mount Eerie in with those mind.

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#36

agh forgot about Charli XCX!

#37
  1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
  2. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
  3. LCD Soundystem - American Dream
  4. Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
  5. Brockhampton - Saturation

Dishonourable mention to Brand New - Science Fiction which I can’t pretend I didn’t completely fall in love with and am devastated that I can’t imagine myself ever listening to it again.

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#38

I wanted to mention it too but words weren’t forthcoming. This covers my feelings on it perfectly

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#39

oddly i’ve spent most of this year listening to stuff from 2013-16 so had to scratch my head to draw out a top five

  1. Tyler, the Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy
  2. J Hus - Common Sense
  3. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
  4. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
  5. Lower Slaughter - What Big Eyes
#40
  1. The National - Sleep Well Beast
  2. Grandaddy - Last Place
  3. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
  4. Run The Jewels - RTJ3
  5. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes

If I went onwards then there would be The Flaming Lips, St Vincent and IDLES very very close behind.

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#41
  1. Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One
  2. Julie Bryne - Not Even Happiness
  3. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
  4. The National - Sleep Well Beast
  5. This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze
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#42
  1. Jasmine Guffond - Traced
  2. Colleen - A Flame My Love, A Frequency
  3. Bjork - Utopia
  4. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run
  5. Kelly Lee Owens - S/T

Lots of great records this year - almost overwhelming actually tbh. Discovered loads from these boards as well as the site so cheers to everyone for all the great contributions.

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