1.) Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
2.) Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps
3.) Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
4.) Kelela – Raven
5.) Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
6.) Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings
7.) Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (World War)
8.) Squid – O Monolith
9.) Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows
10.) Boygenius – The Record
11.) JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes
12.) Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy
13.) MF Tomlinson – We Are Still Wild Horses
14.) Wednesday – Rat Saw God
15.) Genesis Owusu – Struggler
16.) Anohni – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
17.) Empty Country – Empty Country II
18.) Water From Your Eyes – Everyone’s Crushed
19.) PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
20.) Parannoul – After the Magic
21.) Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling
22.) Fever Ray – Radical Romantics
23.) Wilco – Cousin
24.) Lankum – False Lankum
25.) Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
26.) Romy – Mid Air
27.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse
28.) Yeule – Softscars
29.) Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music
30.) Amaarae – Fountain Baby
31.) James Blake – Playing Robots into Heaven
32.) Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
33.) Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
34.) McKinley Dixon – Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
35.) Skrillex – Quest for Fire
36.) Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
37.) Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
38.) Will Haven – VII
39.) Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily – Love in Exile
40.) Pangaea – Changing Channels
41.) Cécile McLorin Salvant – Mélusine
42.) Paramore – This is Why
43.) André 3000 – New Blue Sun
44.) Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End
45.) L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog
46.) Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
47.) Olivia Rodrigo – Guts
48.) Fireworks – Higher Lonely Power
49.) Overmono – Good Lies
50.) Fires in the Distance – Air Not Meant For Us
Best Albums of 2022
1.) Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There
2.) Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3.) Kendrick Lamar – Mr Morale & the Big Steppers
4.) The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
5.)Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
6.) Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
7.) Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future 8.) Nilüfer Yanya – Painless
9.) Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
10.) Natalia Lafourcade – De Todas las Flores
11.) Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky 12.) Alex G – God Save the Animals
13.) Rosalía – Motomami 14.) Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island 15.) Just Mustard – Heart Under 16.) Black Midi – Hellfire 17.) Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems 18.) Special Interest – Endure 19.) Björk – Fossora 20.) The Comet Is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam 21.) Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow 22.) Cate Le Bon – Pompeii 23.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava; Laminated Denim; and Changes 24.) DOMi and JD Beck – NOT TiGHT 25.) Beach House – Once Twice Melody 26.) Wilco – Cruel Country 27.) Perfume Genius – Ugly Season 28.) Alvvays – Blue Rev 29.) JID – The Forever Story 30.) Angel Olsen – Big Time 31.) Elder – Innate Passage 32.) Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory 33.) Charlotte Adigéry – Topical Dancer 34.) Billy Woods – Aethiopes 35.) Viagra Boys – Cave World 36.) Daphni – Cherry 37.) Destroyer – Labyrinthitis 38.) Nova Twins – Supernova 39.) Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa 40.) Pusha T – It’s Almost Dry 41.) Odesza – The Last Goodbye 42.) Wet Leg – Wet Leg 43.) Animal Collective – Time Skiffs 44.) Yeule – Glitch Princess 45.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down 46.) Beyoncé – RENAISSANCE 47.) Yard Act – The Overload 48.) The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta 49.) Earl Sweatshirt – Sick! 50.) Hurray for the Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH
Best Albums of 2021
1.) Japanese Breakfast — Jubilee
2.) Black Country, New Road — For the First Time
3.) Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
4.) Turnstile — Glow On
5.) Arlo Parks — Collapsed in Sunbeams
6.) Black Midi — Cavalcade
7.) Wolf Alice — Blue Weekend
8.) Faye Webster — I Know I’m Funny Haha
9.) BadBadNotGood — Talk Memory
10.) Squid — Bright Green Field
11.) Lucy Dacus — Home Video
12.) Magdalena Bay — Mercurial World
13.) Snail Mail — Valentine
14.) Tyler, The Creator — Call Me If You Get Lost
15.) Modest Mouse — The Golden Casket
16.) Low — Hey What
17.) Mdou Moctar — Afrique Victime
18.) Bicep — Isles
19.) Ice Age — Seek Shelter
20.) Deafheaven — Infinite Granite
21.) Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine — A Beginner’s Mind
22.) Genesis Owusu — Smiling With No Teeth
23.)The Killers — Pressure Machine
24.)Weather Station — Ignorance
25.) Lord Huron — Long Lost
26.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — L.W.
27.) Spirit of the Beehive — Entertainment, Death
28.) St. Vincent — Daddy’s Home
29.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor — G_d’s Pee at State’s End!
30.) Grouper — Shade
31.) Hiatus Kaiyote — Mood Valiant
32.) Mogwai — As the Love Continues
33.) Parannoul — To See the Next Part of the Dream
34.) Genghis Tron — Dream Weapon
35.) Altin Gün — Yol
36.) Indigo De Souza — Any Shape You Take
37.) Floating Points, London Symphony Orchestra, and Pharoah Sanders— Promises 38.) The Armed — Ultrapop
39.) Nick Cave and Warren Ellis — Carnage
40.) Aaron Janik — Spectrum
41.) Manchester Orchestra — The Million Masks of God
42.) Illuminati Hotties — Let Me Do One More
43.) Silk Sonic — An Evening with Silk Sonic
44.) BackXWash — I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
45.) Billie Eilish — Happier Than Ever
46.) The Bug — Fire
47.) The War on Drugs — I Don’t Live Here Anymore
48.) Between the Buried and Me — Colors II
49.) Dry Cleaning — New Long Leg
50.) Injury Reserve — By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Best Albums of 2020
1.) Fiona Apple — Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2.) Perfume Genius — Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
3.) Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind
4.) Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure?
5.) Moses Sumney — Græ
6.) Deftones — Ohms
7.) Bright Eyes — Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
8.) Sufjan Stevens — The Ascension
9.) Run The Jewels — RTJ4
10.) Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher
11.) Caribou — Suddenly
12.) My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall II
13.) Grimes — Miss Anthropocene
14.) Code Orange — Underneath
15.) The Strokes — The New Abnormal
16.) Sault — Untitled (Rise)
17.) Adrianne Lenker — Songs
18.) Neil Young — Homegrown
19.) Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist — Alfredo
20.) Waxahatchee — Saint Cloud
21.) Working Men’s Club — Working Men’s Club
22.) Destroyer — Have We Met
23.) Against All Logic — 2017-2019
24.) Porridge Radio — Every Bad
25.) Crack Cloud — Pain Olympics
26.) Fontaines D.C. — A Hero’s Death
27.) The Flaming Lips — American Head
28.) Tame Impala — The Slow Rush
29.) Conway the Machine — From King to a God
30.) Ólafur Arnalds — Some Kind of Peace
31.) Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
32.) Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter
33.) Fleet Foxes — Shore
34.) Jadakiss — Ignatius
35.) Soccer Mommy — Color Theory
36.) The Avalanches — We Will Always Love You
37.) Empty Country — Empty Country
38.) Lomelda — Hannah
39.) Dan Deacon — Mystic Familiar
40.) Colorama — Chaos Wonderland
41.) Haim — Women in Music Pt. III
42.) Whethan — Fantasy
43.) BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff
44.) Minor Science — Second Language
45.) Disq — Collector
46.) Rico Nasty — Nightmare Vacation
47.) Róisín Murphy — Róisín Machine
48.) Angel Olsen — Whole New Mess
49.) Rose City Band — Summerlong
50.) Skinshape — Arrogance is the Death of Men
Best Albums of 2019
1.) FKA Twigs — MAGDALENE
2.) Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
3.) Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
4.) Bon Iver — i,i
5.) Thom Yorke — Anima
6.) Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
7.) Little Simz — GREY Area
8.) James Blake — Assume Form
9.) Big Thief — Two Hands
10.) (Sandy) Alex G — House of Sugar
11.) The Comet Is Coming — Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
12.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Fishing for Fishies 13.) Better Oblivion Community Center — Better Oblivion Community Center 14.) Tool — Fear Inoculum
15.) Faye Webster — Atlanta Millionaires Club
16.) The Chemical Brothers — No Geography
17.) Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell
18.) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
19.) Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
20.) Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
21.) Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
22.) Girlpool — What Chaos Is Imaginary
23.) Jenny Lewis — On the Line
24.) Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind
25.) Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
26.) Flying Lotus — Flamagra
27.) Jenny Hval — The Practice of Love
28.) American Football — American Football
29.) Tyler, the Creator — Igor
30.) Wilco — Ode to Joy
31.) Dave — Psychodrama
32.) Russian Circles — Blood Year
33.) Employed to Serve — Eternal Forward Motion
34.) Jamila Woods — Legacy! Legacy!
35.) Mac DeMarco — Here Comes the Cowboy
36.) Danny Brown — U Know What I’m Sayin?
37.) The Claypool Lennon Delirium — South of Reality
38.) Girl Ray — Girl
39.) The Twilight Sad — It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
40.) Cate Le Bon — Reward
41.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard — Infest the Rats’ Nest
42.) Michael Kiwanuku — Kiwanuku
43.) LSDream — RENEGADES OF LIGHT
44.) Cigarettes After Sex — Cry
45.) Bill Callahan — Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
46.) Post Malone — Hollywood’s Bleeding
47.) Stephen Malkmus — Groove Denied
48.) Brittany Howard — Jaime
49.) Kaytranada — BUBBA
50.) Karen O and Danger Mouse — Lux Prima
Best Albums of 2018
1.) Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
2.) Janelle Monae — Dirty Computer
3.) Mitski — Be the Cowboy
4.) Gogo Penguin — A Humdrum Star
5.) Kali Uchis — Isolation
6.) Beach House — 7
7.) Daughters — You Won’t Get What You Want
8.) Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
9.) Superorganism — Superorganism
10.) Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
11.) Jon Hopkins — Singularity
12.) Typhoon — Offerings
13.) Soccer Mommy — Clean
14.) Saba — Care For Me
15.) Thee Oh Sees — Smote Reverser
16.) Between the Buried and Me — Automata II
17.) Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
18.) Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
19.) Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
20.) The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
21.) Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
22.) Tash Sultana — Flow State
23.) mewithoutYou — [Untitled]
24.) Car Seat Headrest — Twin Fantasy
25.) This Will Destroy You — New Others Part Two
26.) Eminem — Kamikaze
27.) Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
28.) Brockhampton — iridescence
29.) Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks — Sparkle Hard
30.) Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
31.) Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
32.) Nils Frahm — All Melody
33.) Travis Scott — Astroworld
34.) Confidence Man — Confident Music for Confident People
35.) The Good, the Bad & the Queen — Merrie Land
36.) Anderson .Paak — Oxnard
37.) The Internet — Hive Mind
38.) Snail Mail — Lush
39.) Lotic — Power
40.) Behemoth — I Loved You at Your Darkest
41.) Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
42.) Parcels — Parcels
43.) Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
44.) Greta Van Fleet — Anthem of the Peaceful Army
45.) Neko Case — Hell-On
46.) Jeff Tweedy — Warm
47.) Lucy Dacus — Historian
48.) Vince Staples — FM!
49.) Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance.
50.) American Pleasure Club — A Whole Fucking Lifetime This
Best Albums of 2017
1.) Kendrick Lamar – Damn.
2.) Brand New – Science Fiction
3.) LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
4.) St Vincent – Masseduction
5.) Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
6.) (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket
7.) Slowdive – Slowdive
8.) Spoon – Hot Thoughts
9.) Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
10.) The XX – I See You
11.) Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
12.) Fever Ray – Plunge
13.) Grandaddy – Last Place
14.) Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
15.) Beach Fossils – Somersault
16.) Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
17.) Glassjaw – Material Control
18.) The National – Sleep Well Beast
19.) Conor Oberst – Salutations
20.) The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful
21.) Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
22.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizards – Sketches of Brunswick East
23.) Julien Baker – Turn out the Lights
24.) Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
25.) Perfume Genius – No Shape
26.) Lorde – Melodrama
27.) Vagabon – Infinite Worlds
28.) Laura Marling – Semper Femina
29.) The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
30.) The Horrors – V
31.) Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
32.) Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life
33.) Arca – Arca
34.) Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
35.) Converge – The Dusk inside Us Bjork – Utopia
36.) Bjork – Utopia
37.) Alvvays – Antisocialites
38.) Jamiroquai – Automaton
39.) Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet
40.) Thundercat – Drunk
41.) Mac Demarco – This Old Dog
42.) Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest
43.) James Holden – The Animal Spirits
44.) Fleet Foxes – Crack Up
45.) Chelsea Wolf – Hiss Spun
46.) King Krule – The OOZ
47.) Intervals – The Way Forward
48.) Xiu Xiu – Forgot
49.) Four Tet – New Energy
50.) EMA – Exile in the Outer Ring
Best Albums of 2016
1.) Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
2.) Frank Ocean – Blonde
3.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
4.) David Bowie – Blackstar
5.) Bon Iver – 22, A Million
6.) Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
7.) Anohni – Hopelessness
8.) Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
9.) Savages – Adore Life
10.) Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
11.) DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
12.) Mitski – Puberty 2
13.) Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
14.) ScHoolboy Q – Black Face
15.) Conor Oberst – Ruminations
16.) Chrystal Castles – Amnesty (I)
17.) Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
18.) Porches – Pool
19.) Whitney – Light Upon the Lake
20.) The Avalanches – Wildflower
21.) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizards – Nonagon Infinity
22.) Russian Circles – Guidance
23.) The Range – Potential
24.) Small Planet Radio – Anywhere At All
25.) The Murlocs – Young Blindness
26.) James Black – The Colour In Anything
27.) Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – PersonA
28.) Kaytranada – 99.9%
29.) A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service
30.) The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Monolith of Phobos
31.) Anderson Paak – Malibu
32.) Jim James – Eternally Even
33.) Angel Olsen – MY WOMEN
34.) Noname – Noname
35.) Wilco – Schmilco
36.) Okkervil River – Away
37.) Dungen – Haxan
38.) The Weeknd – Starboy
39.) Mothers – When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
40.) The Body – No One Deserves Happiness
41.) Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
42.) Deftones – Gore
43.) Chairlift – Moth
44.) Into It. Over It. – Standards
45.) Lambchop – Flouts
46.) M83 – Junk
47.) Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
48.) Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp
49.) Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love!
50.) Warpaint – Heads Up
Best Albums of 2015
1.) Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
2.) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
3.) Kendrick Lemar – To Pimp a Butterfly
4.) The Districts – A Flourish and a Spoil
5.) Dr. Dre – Compton
6.) Jamie XX – In Colour
7.) New Order – Music Complete
8.) Tame Impala – Currents
9.) FIDLAR – Too
10.) Defheaven – New Bermuda
11.) Bjork – Vulnicura
12.) Purity Ring – Another Eternity
13.) Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight
14.) Sleater Kinney – No Cities to Love
15.) Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves
16.) Wilco – Star Wars
17.) My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
18.) Desaparecidos – Payola
19.) Destroyer – Poison Season
20.) Ratatat – Magnifique
21.) Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
22.) The Dear Hunter – Rebirth In Reprise
23.) Ben Folds – So There
24.) Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic
25.) Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
26.) Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Going Down …
27.) The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness
28.) Beach House – Depression Cherry/Thank Your Lucky Stars
29.) Beirut – No No No
30.) Deer Hunter – Fading Frontier
31.) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
32.) Julia Kent – Asperities
33.) Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
34.) Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
35.) EL VY – Return to the Moon
36.) Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn
37.) Ducktails – St. Catherine
38.) Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
39.) CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
40.) Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
41.) Puscifer – Money Shot
42.) Belle & Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance
43.) Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
44.) The Tallest Man on the Earth – Dark Bird Is Home
45.) Floating Points – Marhaba
46.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
47.) David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock
48.) Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
49.) King Gizzard & Lizard Wizards – Quarters!
50.) Arca – Mutant
Best Albums of 2014
1.) Swans – To Be Kind
2.) Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain
3.) St. Vincent – St. Vincent
4.) Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In the End
5.) Mac Demarco – Salad Days
6.) Sun Kil Moon – Benji
7.) Broken Bells – After the Disco
8.) Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Moder Boxes
9.) Perfume Genius – Too Bright
10.) EMA – The Future’s Void
11.) Tod Terje – It’s Album Time
12.) Beck – Morning Phase
13.) Robert Plant – Lullaby and… the Ceaseless Roar
14.) Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
15.) Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
16.) Real Estate – Atlas
17.) Alt-J – This is All Yours
18.) Jack White – Lazaretto
19.) Jenny Lewis – Voyager
20.) Warpaint – Warpaint
21.) The Lights Beneath – All I Ever Wanted Was the Fire
22.) Spoon – They Want My Soul
23.) Alvvays – Alvvays
24.) The Antlers – Familiars
25.) Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
26.) Future Islands – Seasons
27.) FKA Twigs – LP1
28.) Interpol – El Pintor
29.) TV On the Radio – Seeds
30.) United Nations – The Next Four Years
31.) Ty Segall – Manipulator
32.) Animals As Leaders – The Joy of Motion
33.) The Drums – Encyclopedia
34.)Aphex Twin – Syro
35.) Antemasque – Antemasque
36.) Temples – Sun Structures
37.) Ariel Pink – Pom Pom
38.) Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
39.) Pink Floyd – The Endless River
40.) Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love
41.) Caribou – Our Love
42.) Rural Alberta Advantage – Mended With Gold
43.) Pharmakon – Bestial Burden
44.) Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
45.) The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
46.) Morrissey – World Peace is None of Your Business
47.) Circa Survive – Descensus
48.) Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts
49.) Manchester Orchestra – Cope
50.) Tweedy – Sukierae
Best Albums of 2013
1.) The National – Trouble Will Find Me
2,) Local Natives – Humming Bird
3.) Arcade Fire – Reflektor
4.) Darkside – Psychic
5.) Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
6.) James Blake – Overgrown
7.) Yuck – Glow and Behold
8.) Deafheaven – Sunbather
9.) Kanye West – Yeezus
10.) My Bloody Valentine – MBV
11.) Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
12.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
13.) Disclosure – Settle
14.) Flaming Lips – The Terror
15.) Atoms for Peace – AMOK
16.) Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound
17.) Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
18.) Sigur Ros – Kveikur
19.) Paul McCartney – New
20.) Deer Tick – Negativity
21.) Eminem – Marshal Mathers LP 2
22.) Mutual Benefit – Love’s Crushing Diamond
23.) Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
24.) Jake Bugg – Shangri La
25.) Queens of the Stone Age – … Like Clockwork