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Top 15 Albums of 2023

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Top 10 Albums 2021

1. Divide And Dissolve “Gas Lit”

2. Portico Quartet “Monument”

3. Dry Cleaning ‘New Long Leg”

4. Employed To Serve “Conquering”

5. Mogwai “As The Love Continues”

6. Leon Vynehall “Rare, Forever”

7. Daniel Avery “Together In Static”

8. Emma-Jean Thackray “Yellow”

9. Shame “Drunk Tank Pink”

10. Mdou Moctar “Afrique Victime’

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Top 11 Albums of 2020

1. END - ‘Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face’

2. Fontaines D.C. - ‘A Hero’s Death’

3. Working Men’s Club - ‘Working Men’s Club’

4. Holy Fuck - ‘Deleter’

5. Baxter Dury - ‘The Night Chancers’

6. Bodysnatcher - ‘This Heavy Void’

7. Moses Boyd - ‘Dark Matter’

8. Metz - ‘Atlas Vending’

9. Kelly Lee Owens - ‘Inner Song’

10. Daniel Avery - ‘Love + Light’

11. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter’

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Top 10 Albums Of 2019

1. Employed To Serve - “Eternal Forward Motion”

2. Little Simz - “Grey Area”

3. Drenge - “Strange Creatures”

4. The Fat White Family - “Serfs Up!”

5. Tourist - “Wild”

6. Kate Tempest - “The Book Of Traps And Lessons”

7. Life - “A Picture Of Good Health”

8. We Never Learned To Live - “The Sleepwalk Transmissions”

9. Foals - “Part 2 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost”

10. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - “End Of Suffering”

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Top 10 Albums 2018

1. Rolo Tomassi - ‘Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It’

2. Black Peaks - ‘All That Divides’

3. Young Fathers - ‘Cocoa Sugar’

4. Turnstile - ‘Time & Space’

5. Svalbard - ‘It’s Hard To Have Hope’

6. J.Cole - ‘KOD’

7. George FitzGerald - ‘All That Must Be’

8. Portrayal Of Guilt - ‘Let Pain Be Your Guide’

9. Rival Consoles - ‘Persona’

10. Jon Hopkins - ‘Singularity’

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My Glastonbury 2017

Thursday

MT. Wolf

Pumarosa

Skream

Friday

The Pretenders

Nothing But Thieves

First Aid Kit

Glass Animals

Kate Tempest*

The XX

Radiohead

Dizzee Rascal*

Saturday

Wild Beasts

Kaiser Chiefs

Loyle Carner*

Temples

The National

Foo Fighters*

Sunday

Laura Marling

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Blaenevon*

Marika Hackman

Biffy Clyro

London Grammar*

*HIGHLIGHT

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Oscar Best Picture 2017

Here’s my list for this years Oscar Best Picture

1. Manchester By The Sea

2. Fences

3. Lion

4. Moonlight

5. Hacksaw Ridge

6. La La Land

7. Hidden Figures

8. Hell Or High Water

9. Arrival

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Top 25 Albums Of 2016

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My Glastonbury 2016

Thursday

Kate Tempest

Friday

Blossoms

Two Door Cinema Club

The Editors

Foals

Underworld

Saturday

Cats Eyes

Fourtet

Wolf Alice

Kurt Vile

Tame Impala

New Order

Sunday

Gregory Porter

Mystery Jets

Jeff Lyn’s ELO

Beck

Coldplay

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Top 25 Albums of 2015

1. Defeater - Abandoned

2. Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin

3. Blacklisted - When People Grow, People Go

4. Kurt Vile - B’lieve I’m Going Down

5. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances

6. Petite Noir - La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful

7. Viet Cong - Viet Cong

8. Turbowolf - Two Hands

9. Foals - What Went Down

10. Jamie XX - In Colour

11. Tame Impala - Currents

12. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

13. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven

14. The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It

15. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossoms

16. Mo Kenney - In My Dreams

17. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

18. God Damn - Vultures

19. Pigs - Wronger

20. Svalbard - One Day All This Will End

21. Editors - In Dream

22. Maribou State - Portraits

23. Torres - Sprinter

24. Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

25. Marika Hackman - We Slept At Last

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My Glastonbury 2015

Friday

The Cribs

Everything Everything*

Wolf Alice

Jamie XX*

Saturday

Frank Turner*

Coasts

Slaves

Sleaford Mods

The Pop Group

Years And Years

The Maccabees*

Ben Howard

Kanye West

Jon Hopkins*

Sunday

Patti Smith

Lionel Ritchie*

Alt-J*

*HIGHLIGHT

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Top 25 Albums Of 2014

1. Architects - Lost Forever / Lost Together

2. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else

3. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker

4. Nick Mulvey - First Mind

5. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down

6. Jaws - Be Slowly

7. Thurston Moore - The Best Day

8. Jack White - Lazaretto

9. The 2 Bears - The Night Is Young

10. DZ Deathrays - Black Rat

11. Band Of Skulls - Himalayan

12. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours Of Static

13. The Haunted - Exit Wounds

14. At The Gates - At War With Reality

15. Eagulls - Eagulls

16. Mongol Horde - Mongol Horde

17. Clark - Clark

18. Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone

19. Death From Above 1979 - Cheap Talk

20. Trash Talk - No Peace

21. Tom Vek - Luck

22. Comeback Kid - Die Knowing

23. The Horrors - Luminous

24. I Killed The Prom Queen - Beloved

25. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

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MY GLASTONBURY 2014

Friday

Michael Kiwanuka

The Tuts

Paolo Nutini

Arcade Fire

Saturday

Lana del Rey

Robert Plant

Jack White

Metallica

Sunday

The Horrors

Bombay Bicycle Club

Kate Tempest

Ellie Goulding

Disclosure

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TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2013

OATHBREAKER - EROS/ANTEROS

FOALS - HOLY FIRE

COUNTERPARTS - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HELL AND HOME

TOUCHE AMORE - IS SURVIVED BY

BRING ME THE HORIZON - SEMPITERNAL

JON HOPKINS - IMMUNITY

65DAYSOFSTATIC - WILD LIGHT

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - …LIKE CLOCKWORK

TORRES - TORRES

DAUGHTER - IF YOU LEAVE

KEATON HENSON - BIRTHDAYS

KURT VILE - WAKIN ON A PRETTY DAZE

FALL CITY FALL - VICTUS

RUDIMENTAL - HOME

FIDLAR - FIDLAR

DISCLOSURE - SETTLE

NO CEREMONY - NO CEREMONY

DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP - REPENT REPLENISH REPEAT

CHILDISH GAMBINO - BECAUSE THE INTERNET

LONDON GRAMMAR - IF YOU WAIT

MAYA JANE COLES - COMFORT

HAIM - DAYS ARE GONE

FUTURE OF THE LEFT - HOW TO STOP YOUR BRAIN IN AN ACCIDENT

SAVAGES - SILENCE YOURSELF

JAMES BLAKE - OVERGROWN

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MY GLASTONBURY 2013

*Highlights

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FRIDAY

Jake Bugg

Enter Shikari

The Lumineers

Tame Impala*

Alt-J*

Foals*

Arctic Monkeys*

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SATURDAY

The 1975

Ms Mr

Ben Howard*

Elvis Costello

Alabama Shakes

Nas

Chase & Status*

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SUNDAY

Laura Mvula

Public Image Limited

Steve Mason*

Smashing Pumpkins*

The XX*

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Top 30 Albums of 2012

1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

2. Trash Talk - 119

3. Rolo Tomassi - Astraea

4. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Lost Songs

5. Tall Ships - Everything Touching

6. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

7. Egyptian Hip Hop - Good Don't Sleep

8. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

9. Crystal Castles - III

10. Desolated - Verse Of Judas

11. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar

12. Lucy Rose - Like I Used To

13. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

14. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense

15. DZ Deathrays - Bloodstream

16. Negative Pegasus - Looming

17. Beat Culture - Tokyo Dreamer

18. Gallows - Gallows

19. Blood Red Shoes - In Time To Voices

20. The XX - Coexist

21. Kyla La Grange - Ashes

22. Best Coast - The Only Place

23. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild

24. Grimes - Visions

25. Hysterical Injury - Dead Wolf Situation

26. Tame Impala - Lonerism

27. Two Wounded Birds - Two Wounded Birds

28. Whirr - Pipe Dreams

29. Holograms - Holograms

30. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp