We've never gone as far as a top 60 before, but that's how packed out with goodness the year was on an LP scale when even number 60 is something as instant and likeable as...
60 Autocamper - What Do You Do All Day?
Janglepop as she is spoke in the modern day, taking the influences of the Glasgow and Dunedin scenes into their own cohesive whole
59 Hannah Frances - Nested In Tangles
Fingerpicked folk with emotional and musical complexity, part-produced by Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen touching on avant-jazz and weird orchestrally influenced avenues
58 Geese - Getting Killed
The new black - idiosyncratic fragmentated shards of art-rock, Pavementish slacker and fifty years of Brooklyn cool
57 Florist - Jellywish
Emily Sprague and co's fifth album of sumptuously textured folk on the wonders of the existential world
56 Laundromat Chicks - Sometimes Possessed
Vienna's janglepop emissaries' third album feels like cramming a history of the genre into raggedly packaged small packages
55 Dancer - More Or Less
Slightly less slippery, slightly brighter and more approachable for newcomers, yet still within its own sphere of angular post-punk shapes
54 Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded
All of thirty minutes of ethereal dreampop wrapped in a neo-psych gossamer haze lifted by retro-seeming breakbeats
53 jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
Shapeshifting coming out, in more than one term, for Boygenius-produced close to the bone songwriting against a range from spare piano ballad to extravagant orchestration
52 Jeanines - How Long Can It Last
13 tracks in 22 minuted, efficiently filled with melody and hooks on nodding terms with C86 and those bands' own influences
51 Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
He didn't need to reform Sugar (though he did) to affirm that his command of fuzz pedaller power and meaningful charge is well into its latest wind
50 Neev - How Things Tie In Knots
Richly expanding plaintive indie-folk founded in the tension of expectation and release of acceptance, which could take on much more feted American contemporaries in her field
49 Breakup Haircut - No Worries If Not!
DIY punk-pop and power-pop joy, sharper and often speedier, digging its nails into itself
48 Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
As inquisitive with structure and vocal runs as her previous employer Dirty Projectors, refracted through restless psychedelia and art-pop
47 caroline - Caroline 2
Progressive in the best sense, experimental in the warmest sense, a suite of snippets, wild moments that gradually pull together and expansive post-rock plaintiveness
46 Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
Overshadowed by TV On The Radio's reformation, Tunde's solo debut bathes in insistent beats and electronics against that familiar holler
45 Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
The best of the new wave of dread-filled singer-songwriters brings a weird beauty in murk, both lyrically and in the distant Grouper-like wraith of her solo sketches
44 The Cords - The Cords
Scotland's newest exponents of The Jangle, still teens but who seem to have infused and reframed decades of forebears
43 Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
Cosmic jazz-funk with spiritual and oddball vibes, born from personal tragedy, sprawling into contemplative shapes trying to understand it all and move on into the mothership connection
42 Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
Subtle, textured, lyrically sweeping, the best album he's made for a while
41 Snooper - Worldwide
A frantic 28 minutes - short records are a real thing this year, huh, but don't worry, so will be long records - of their self-christened "egg punk" designed to repeatedly hurl itself into a brick wall
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