Our list of the top ten albums of 2016 is finally here. Simone was shocked by some of my selections as I was by hers and so we needed to expand the top albums once again to satisfy both of us. This time we thought we would list the top 30. So here they are…

1. David Bowie Blackstar
2. Polica United Crushers
3. RY X Dawn
4. Blood Orange Freetown Sound
5. Tindersticks The Waiting Room
6. Ben Watt Fever Dream
7. M.Craft Blood Moon
8. Bon Iver 22, A Million
9. Andy Shauf The Party
10. Jim James Eternally Even
11. Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate
12. Dylan Leblanc Cautionary Tale
13. Hope Sandoval Until The Hunter
14. Ray Lamontagne Ouroboros
15. Aiden Knight Each Other
16. Woodpigeon Trouble
17. Jamie Isaac Couch Baby
18. Maxwell blackSUMMERS’night
19. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
20. Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
21. Norah Jones Day Breaks
22. Lambchop Flotus
23. Porches Pool
24. Young Hysteria Young Hysteria
25. River Tiber Indigo
26. James Vincent McMorrow We Move
27. Lumineers Cleopatra
28. Dan San Shelter
29. Benjamin Francis Leftwich After The Rain
30. Matt Holubowski Solitudes

Another great year in new music (I know…I say this every year) and once again Simone and I wanted to share our favourite albums. Selecting our top ten in 2015 was a bit harder so we decided to grow the list to our top 20.  Here they are…

1. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
2. Villagers Darling Arithmetic
3. Aero Flynn Aero Flynn
4. Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon
5. Seoul I Become A Shade
6. Jose Gonzalez Vestiges & Claws
7. Bob Moses Days Gone By
8. Tame Impala Currents
9. Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
10. Beirut No No No
11. Laura Marling Short Movie
12. The Amazing Picture You
13. Richard Hawley Hollow Meadows
14. Kurt Vile B’lieve I’m Goin Down
15. Maribou State Portraits
16. Twin Danger Twin Danger
17. Destroyer Poison Season
18. Etiquette Reminisce
19. Majical Cloudz Are You Alone?
20. Half Moon Run Sun Leads Me On

Tons of great albums in 2014 and this year Simone and I had a hard time selecting the top ten. After days of bickering (bad idea to give her an iPod for Christmas) and playing our favourites over and over again we finally decided on these albums.

1. Chet Faker Built on Glass

2. Fink Hard Believer

3. Sharon Van Etten Are We There

4. Alt-J This Is All Yours

5. Ben Howard I Forgot Where We Were

6. Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy

7. Owls Of The Swamp Atlas

8. War On Drugs Lost In The Dream

9. Antlers Familiars

10. Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence

Another great year in music and once again I thought I would share my top 10 albums of 2013. Simone helped out once again, giving the paws up or down for the 100 plus albums I bought this year as she narrowed her own top picks for the year. Without further ado…

1. Junip Junip

2. Volcano Choir Repave

3. Arcade Fire Reflektor

4. Mark Kozelek Perils From The Sea

5. Bill Callahan Dream River

6. Andrew Belle Black Bear

7. Laura Marling Once I Was An Eagle

8. Nick Cave Push The Sky Away

9. James Blake Overgrown

10. Tricky False Idols

I picked up lots of great music this year and thought I would share my favourite 10 new albums from 2012. Like selecting your top ten photographs for a portfolio, you know how difficult this can be. Regardless, I had Simone help me out with the selections.  Without further ado…

1. Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls

2. Lambchop Mr. M

3. Tindersticks The Something Rain

4. Sharon Van Etten Tramp

5. Grizzly Bear Shields

6. Cat Power Sun

7. Damien Jurado Maraqopa

8. Calexico Algiers

9. Chromatics Kill For Love

10. Of Monsters And Men My Head Is An Animal