Favourite Albums of 2014

The year draws to a close and the world needs another best of 2014 list. Fortunately, I am in a position to provide one - my favourite albums of the year. 

Get yourselves down to a record shop and buy these:

This is all Yours by Alt-J

Built on Glass by Chet Faker

Warpaint by Warpaint 

Everyday Robots by Damon Albarn

Zaba by Glass Animals

Total Strife Forever by East India Youth

Present Tense by Wild Beasts

St Vincent by St Vincent 

Romantic Works by Keaton Henson

Lost in a Dream by War on Drugs

In a Dream by Juan Maclean

The Take off and Landing of Everything by Elbow

Love Letters by Metronomy

Favourite Albums of 2013

Forgive me for this anorak type behaviour, but I see it as my solemn duty to compile a list of my favourite albums from the last twelve months to assist those who may have missed out.

So, in no particular order....

1) Immunity by Jon Hopkins

2) Tell Where I Lie by Fossil Collective

3) Light Up Gold by Parquet Courts

4) Inform - Educate - Entertain by Public Service Broadcasting

5) Holy Fire by Foals

6) The Shadow of Heaven by MONEY

7) Arc by Everything Everything

8) Amok by Atoms for Peace

9) AM by Arctic Monkeys

10) Overgrown by James Blake


... also, Glass Animals have no album out yet, but their three EP's are jolly good.

If you want, you can see what I liked this time last year...

Favourite Albums of 2012

Each Christmas, I like to compile a list of my favourite albums of the last year and this year shall be no different.

So, in no particular order:

1) An Awesome Wave by Alt-J

2) Standing At The Sky's Edge by Richard Hawley

3) The Light The Dead See by Soulsavers

4) Four by Bloc Party

5) The Shallows by I Like Trains

6) Given To The Wild by The Maccabees

7) Put Your Back N 2 It by Perfume Genius

8) REWORK_ by Philip Glass

9) Django Django by Django Django

10) Wixiw by Liars

A very honourable mention should go to Public Service Broadcasting who have not yet released an album (it's due next year) but whose EPs deserve a prominent place on this list.

I would also like to add that Kill For Love by Chromatics, Ark by Halls, Trouble by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Tramp by Sharon Von Etten could well have made this list had I bought them earlier in the year. However, they were only bought recently as a result of numerous recommendations in the top albums of 2013 lists that appeared elsewhere.

Albums of the Year 2011

Here is the list that many of you may have been waiting for ... my favourite albums of the year:

1) Build a Rocket Boys by Elbow

2) The English Riviera by Metronomy

3) Skying by The Horrors

4) The King of Limbs by Radiohead

5) Let England Shake by P J Harvey

6) Euphoric /// Heartrbreak by Glasvegas

7) The Cold Still by Boxer Rebellion

8) Destroyed by Moby

9) Smother by Wild Beasts

10) A Different Kind of Fix by Bombay Bicycle Club

Wishing you a happy 2012!