This year we couldn’t decide on our top ten/top five/top fifty albums of the year, so below are an array of records that stood out from the rest. There are indeed thirty albums below, but that’s purely coincedental, we promise!

We’re suckers for a good album cover so we haven’t attempted a ham fisted approach to expressing verbal recommendations, instead giving you the album cover and a single song from each album to whet your appetite!

Active Child – You Are All I See

‘Hanging On’

tUnE -yArDs – W H O K I L L 

‘My Country’

CANT – Dreams Come True

‘Too Late Too Far’

Bon Iver – Bon Iver

‘Michicant’

Youth Lagoon -The Year of Hibernation

‘Daydream’

Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On

‘Bad Ritual’

The Black Keys – El Camino

‘Run Right Back’

Bruce Peninsula – Open Flames

 

‘Pull Me Under’

Other Lives – Tamer Animals

‘Landforms’

Washed Out – Within and Without

 

‘Echoes’

A.A Bondy – Believers

‘The Heart is Willing’

Beirut -The Rip Tide

‘The Rip Tide’

Feist – Metals

‘Caught a Long Wind’

Panda Bear – Tomboy

‘Afterburner’

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

‘Summas Bliss’

Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes to Town

‘Quail and Dumplings’

Craft Spells – Idle Labour

‘After the Moment’

Little Dragon – Ritual Union

‘Summertearz’

SBTRKT – SBTRKT

 

‘Pharoahs ft. Roses Gabor’

Azari & III – Azari & III

 

‘Reckless (With Your Love)’

Austra - Feel It Break

 

‘The Villain’

Ganglians – Still Living

 

‘Things to Know’

Bibio – Mind Bokeh

‘Wake Up!’

Peaking Lights - 936

‘All the Sun That Shines’

Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen

‘Thou Art Loosened’

Rob Bravery – The Elusive Crux

 

‘Hedonistic Graveyard’

The Stepkids -The Stepkids

 

‘Suburban Dream’

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Uknown Mortal Orchestra

‘FFunny FFrends’

Soft Metals – Soft Metals

‘Voices’

Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home

‘Keep On Trying’

Pure X – Pleasure

‘Twisted Mirror’