A little bit late but hey - 2013 is proving to be the year of the album with 50 really decent offerings listed below.
Pretty much all of the below could have been Mercury Music Prize contenders!
Click on the links for the full review (where available). Will these excellent efforts survive in this chart until the end of the year? Will any walk away with any awards?
Pretty bloody likely....
1 - Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2 - Section 25 - Dark Light
3 - David Bowie - The Next Day - Mercury nominated
4 - Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
5 - Edwyn Collins - Understated
6 - Karl Bartos - Off The Record
7 - OMD - English Electric
8 - British Sea Power - Machineries Of Joy
9 - Mogwai - Les Revenants
10 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity - Mercury nominated
11 - These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds
12 - Pet Shop Boys - Electric
13 - John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
14 - Emily Baker - All At Sea
15 - Robyn Hitchcock - Love From London
16 - Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
17 - Electric Soft Parade - Idiots
18 - Stornoway - Tales From Terra Firma
19 - Lloyd Cole - Standards
20 - Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost
21 - Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods
22 - Wire - Change Becomes Us
23 - Ultramarine - This Time Last Time
24 - Transept - Buff As Fuck
25 - Gold Panda - Half Of Where You Live
26 - Eat Lights Become Lights - Modular Living
27 - Karl Hyde - Edgeland
28 - Autechre - Exai
29 - Lloyd Cole/Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol 1
30 - Ruts DC - Rhythm Collision 2
31 - Editors - The Weight Of Your Love
32 - James Blake - Overgrown - Mercury nominated
33 - Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries
34 - Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
35 - Kevin Tihista - Modern Standards
36 - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
37 - Space Dimension Controller - Welcome To Mikrosector-50
38 - Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
39 - Atoms For Peace - Amok
40 - Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
41 - PJP Band - And So It Goes
42 - Zomby - With Love
43 - Crayola Lectern - The Fall And Rise Of...
44 - Solyst - Lead
45 - Pieter Nooten - Haven
46 - Daughter - If You Leave
47 - Marnie - Crystal World
48 - Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
49 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
50 - Qluster - Lauschen
Factory Floor were a little too late to be considered for this run-down but on the strength of a few tracks from the new album, they'll be ousting a few out of their positions....
Here are those Mercury nominations in full:
Arctic Monkeys – AM
David Bowie – Next Day
Disclosure – Settle
Foals – Holy Fire
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
James Blake – Overgrown
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
Rudimental – Home
Savages – Silence Yourself
Villagers – Awayland
I'm rooting for Bowie and Hopkins, myself....
Pretty much all of the below could have been Mercury Music Prize contenders!
Click on the links for the full review (where available). Will these excellent efforts survive in this chart until the end of the year? Will any walk away with any awards?
Pretty bloody likely....
1 - Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2 - Section 25 - Dark Light
3 - David Bowie - The Next Day - Mercury nominated
4 - Public Service Broadcasting - Inform Educate Entertain
5 - Edwyn Collins - Understated
6 - Karl Bartos - Off The Record
7 - OMD - English Electric
8 - British Sea Power - Machineries Of Joy
9 - Mogwai - Les Revenants
10 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity - Mercury nominated
11 - These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds
12 - Pet Shop Boys - Electric
13 - John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
14 - Emily Baker - All At Sea
15 - Robyn Hitchcock - Love From London
16 - Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
17 - Electric Soft Parade - Idiots
18 - Stornoway - Tales From Terra Firma
19 - Lloyd Cole - Standards
20 - Iron and Wine - Ghost on Ghost
21 - Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods
22 - Wire - Change Becomes Us
23 - Ultramarine - This Time Last Time
24 - Transept - Buff As Fuck
25 - Gold Panda - Half Of Where You Live
26 - Eat Lights Become Lights - Modular Living
27 - Karl Hyde - Edgeland
28 - Autechre - Exai
29 - Lloyd Cole/Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol 1
30 - Ruts DC - Rhythm Collision 2
31 - Editors - The Weight Of Your Love
32 - James Blake - Overgrown - Mercury nominated
33 - Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries
34 - Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
35 - Kevin Tihista - Modern Standards
36 - The National - Trouble Will Find Me
37 - Space Dimension Controller - Welcome To Mikrosector-50
38 - Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
39 - Atoms For Peace - Amok
40 - Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
41 - PJP Band - And So It Goes
42 - Zomby - With Love
43 - Crayola Lectern - The Fall And Rise Of...
44 - Solyst - Lead
45 - Pieter Nooten - Haven
46 - Daughter - If You Leave
47 - Marnie - Crystal World
48 - Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
49 - Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
50 - Qluster - Lauschen
Factory Floor were a little too late to be considered for this run-down but on the strength of a few tracks from the new album, they'll be ousting a few out of their positions....
Here are those Mercury nominations in full:
Arctic Monkeys – AM
David Bowie – Next Day
Disclosure – Settle
Foals – Holy Fire
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
James Blake – Overgrown
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
Rudimental – Home
Savages – Silence Yourself
Villagers – Awayland
I'm rooting for Bowie and Hopkins, myself....