Uncut Magazine - Albums of the Year

1. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN

4. The Weather Station - The Weather Station

5. Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley

6. Richard Dawson - Peasant

7. The National - Sleep Well Beast

8. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice

9. St. Vincent - Masseducation

10. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator

11. Slowdive - Slowdive

12. Peter Perrett - How the West was Won

13. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

14. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness

15. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultanality

16. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology

17. Juana Molina - Halo

18. Lorde - Melodrama

19. The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

20. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

21. Laura Marling - Semper Femina

22. Ty Segall - Ty Segall

23. Chuck Johnson - Balsams

24. Margo Price - All American Made

25. Robert Plant - Carry Fire

26. Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway

27. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow

28. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

29. Michael Chapman - 50

30. Susanne Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble

31. Gas - Narkopop

32. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas

33. Oh Sees - Orc

34. Saint Etienne - Home Counties

35. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

36. Four Tet - New Energy

37. Ride - Weather Diaries

38. Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock

39. Arca - Arca

40. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

41. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

42. Thundercat - Drunk

43. Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan

44. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World

45. Spoon - Hot Thoughts

46. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder

47. Pond - The Weather

48. Lindstrom - It's All Right Between Us As It Is

49. Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - Adios Senor Pussycat

50. The xx - I See You

Eight were on my list. Several more might have been: Broken Social Scene, Mount Eerie, Rhiannon Giddens and The Clientele all missed my cut narrowly. There are some things on here and several other countdowns this year that mystify me slightly. LCD Soundsystem most of all which seems to have impressed so many but I find aspirational, forced and irritating, (despite having previously liked much of their stuff). The same goes for War on Drugs, Father John Misty and Fleet Foxes. But this is generally a decent list which reflects the nature of the magazine well.