It’s that wonderful time of the year – when we can take a fond look back at 2016
Which seems pretty unlikely given all that happened last year, but despite the turmoil of the past 12 months, is this music?’s team of scribes have managed to find some good with some top-notch releases making for a chart with some great sounds.
1. Minor Victories – Minor Victories
2. Mt. Doubt – In Awe of Nothing
3. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
4. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
6. De Rosa – Weem
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
8. Adam Stafford – Taser Revelations
9. The Filthy Tongues – Jacob’s Ladder
10. Teenage Fanclub – Here
11. The Burning Hell – Public Library
12. DTHPDL – The Future
13. Teksti TV 666 – 1, 2, 3
14. Ela Orleans – Circles of Upper and Lower Hell
15. Yip Man – Braw Power
16. Book Group – The Great Outdoors
17. Plume of Feathers – Plume of Feathers
18. Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
19. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
20.Kid Canaveral – Faulty Inner Dialogue
21. Honeyblood – Babes Never Die
22. Bob Mould – Patch The Sky
23. The Handsome Family – Unseen
24. David Bowie – Blackstar
25. The Wedding Present – Going, Going
26. The Pictish Trail – Future Echoes
27. MJ Hibbett and the Validators – Still Valid
28. NZCA Lines – Infinite Summer
29. Anna Meredith – Varmints
30. Machines In Heaven – Phenomenology
Thanks to voting writers Betty Mayonnaise, Donald Bush, Stuart McHugh, Ed Jupp, Calum Craig, Miles O’Toole, Gus Ironside, Gary Marshall, Bernhard Bessing, Vosne LePro, Gavin Porter, Paul McVitie and David P Scott.
Oh, for a shamelessly Scottish-oriented chart, visit Jockock.org for their tartan-tinged picks of the past year.
And that’s about that. So, see you in 2018!