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Just listening to the Poliça album 'United Crushers' and I reckon it should probably have featured in my list somewhere and I'm very surprised by its absence from those record shop top 100s.

I've been revisiting the Warhaus album 'We f*cked a flame into being' and I'm a little sad I didn't give this more attention when I first got hold of it. It's a mix of Bad Seeds and Alabama 3 and a few other sounds and surprisingly they're Belgian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9A9Vqv6ojo

Released at around the same time was another album by Kompakt mainstay 'Michael Mayer' called '&'. I think though this is on !K7 Records but it is still very, very Kompakt Records in its vibe. Mayer curated the Immer series of albums for Kompakt and if you haven't heard them they are well worth...

For me, I found this album quite cathartic as a Nick Cave fan. I felt the same way as HT and others about Nick Cave's perviness/mid-life crisis and the way it was shaping his albums and how boring all this was. Unlike many though, I thought Push The Sky Away was more of the same. I also think he...

You're spot on. It captures the mood of the book brilliantly. Track 2 (also called The Road) is sublime. Reminds me of Silver Mt Zion/Godspeed You Black Emperor in a lot of ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gT6AnrDwew I do have a big soft spot for the Proposition too. There's a couple of...

I'll second that. Just avoid the Lawless soundtrack. It tries to be another O Brother Where Art Thou but fails. I'd especially recommend The Road, Proposition, White Lunar and Loins Des Hommes as their best soundtrack work to date.

Is The 1975 number 1 or number 50? I'm not sure with their numbering!

That's a good shout with Cate Le Bon. I'd completely forgotten about her. BadBadNotGood, Whitney, Mass Gothic, Blood Orange and Regina Spektor are on my list of albums that I need to re-listen to, having not even considered them when compiling my little list and now I feel guilty about that.

Likewise, a lot of new stuff that I'd not heard of. Definitely a list I'm going to enjoy exploring.

Good point about the editing. There's something like 15 songs on the album. I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to cut it down to 8 or 9 and then release an EP a bit later with the rest.

There's a few tracks on there especially 'Noisy Days Are Over' that are just brilliant but I thought the album tailed off quite rapidly after the first 4 or 5. I do like that Fopp list though, whoever compiled it is into the same music as me although I'm surprised to see Bat For Lashes and...

I forget who, might have been David Quantick, but they described the new Bon Iver album as him being let loose in the studio and asking "what does this button do? Can we put that in?" I'm not sure what the last album was supposed to be but it was a bloody mess. Even the 'Witch House' style song...

And here's Piccadilly Records' top 100 http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/576-piccadilly-records-top-100-albums-of-2016/2 It will be interesting to see what Norman Records has for their list.

Ha! I have the same fear. There's an album or two in that thread that I raved about for all of 5 minutes describing it as my album of the year only for me to forget about it a few months down the line. No surprises that Resident's top 100 list veers more to the folky and one that I'm probably...

This 2016 album is the first of theirs that I've heard so can't comment on their earlier output but I'm a big fan of their, as you say, sleazy rock. It's also got a fair bit of oomph to it too, I bet they're a great live act.

Good spot. You've got me bang to rights! Enjoy the Spain albums. 'Carolina' is a peach.

Very much so. How good is this song from the album? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltysFpbQ0eg

One of my favourite threads but it's very difficult narrowing down into a manageable list. I failed to get it down to 10, I just couldn't do it but I did just about manage to get it down to 21 and that meant being very ruthless in my selection so no room for Leonard Cohen, Bat For Lashes...