Another great year for music and one in which I probably haven't heard or reviewed as much as I would like to have done. Some amazing acts - some old, some new, some rediscovered - have provided some quite brilliant sounds. I've met some of them and, must meet many more of them in the coming year.
Social media has provided a comfort and a friend, and also a constant stream of enjoyment. Long may it continue.
A few very busy artists appear in the list more than once as I found it difficult to pick one release over the other.
So, as usual, a Top 20 proved impossible. As did a Top 30. In the end I whittled it own to a Top 38, which are listed below in no particular order aside from the top three which have stuck out as works of incredible quality from the very first listens. Please take time to scroll down the list and maybe find something you think is amazing, click on the titles to read the reviews.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Vukovar - Puritan
Johanna Glaza – Wind Sculptures
Ashley Reaks – Track Marks
Coldcut x On-U Sound – Outside The Echo Chamber
Jeb Loy Nichols - Country Hustle
Dub Syndicate – Ambience In Dub 1982-1985
John Foxx And The Maths – The Machine
Johnno Casson aka Snippet – Human Good
Fader - First Light
Vaarwell – Homebound 456
Benbo – Everything Is Fine
Chow Mwng – ULOT CA
Helen McCookerybook – The Sea
Sherwood And Pinch – Man vs Sofa
Alka – The Colour Of Terrible Crystal
Equinox - It's Hard To Be Happy When Your Head Is Full Of Sin
Various: Terraforming In Analogue Space (IRL Remixes 2000-2015)
Blancmange – Unfurnished Rooms
We Are Quasars - Resistance
Vukovar – Fornication
I Speak Machine – Zombies 1985
Pele – Fireworks
Various – 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1
Johnno Casson aka Snippet – Future Melancholy Pop Music
Baba Zula – XX
Blancmange - The Blanc Tapes (Happy Families, Mange Toute, Believe You Me)
Rosie Bans – Identify Yourself
Vok - Figure
The Bordellos - Love, Life & Billy Fury
Nouvelle Vague – I Could Be Happy
Sparks - Hippopotamus
Erasure – World Be Gone
MIS+RESS – MIS+RESS
Thomas Lang - Scallywag Jaz (30th Anniversary Edition)
Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
Alison Moyet – Other
Ashley Reaks – Track Marks
Coldcut x On-U Sound – Outside The Echo Chamber
Jeb Loy Nichols - Country Hustle
Dub Syndicate – Ambience In Dub 1982-1985
John Foxx And The Maths – The Machine
Johnno Casson aka Snippet – Human Good
Fader - First Light
Vaarwell – Homebound 456
Benbo – Everything Is Fine
Chow Mwng – ULOT CA
Helen McCookerybook – The Sea
Sherwood And Pinch – Man vs Sofa
Alka – The Colour Of Terrible Crystal
Equinox - It's Hard To Be Happy When Your Head Is Full Of Sin
Various: Terraforming In Analogue Space (IRL Remixes 2000-2015)
Blancmange – Unfurnished Rooms
We Are Quasars - Resistance
Vukovar – Fornication
I Speak Machine – Zombies 1985
Pele – Fireworks
Various – 80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 1
Johnno Casson aka Snippet – Future Melancholy Pop Music
Baba Zula – XX
Blancmange - The Blanc Tapes (Happy Families, Mange Toute, Believe You Me)
Rosie Bans – Identify Yourself
Vok - Figure
The Bordellos - Love, Life & Billy Fury
Nouvelle Vague – I Could Be Happy
Sparks - Hippopotamus
Erasure – World Be Gone
MIS+RESS – MIS+RESS
Thomas Lang - Scallywag Jaz (30th Anniversary Edition)
Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
Alison Moyet – Other
So, that's it folks, unless something incredible drops through my letterbox over the next few days (it probably will and I'll have to change the list).
I already have a very serious contender for an Album Of The Year 2018 so it promises to be an other amazing year.
Until then, Adios my friends.
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