75-51
75 DRUGDEALER
Hiding In Plain Sight
MEXICAN SUMMER
74 CHRIS FORSYTH
Evolution Here We Come
NO QUARTER
73 AOIFE NESSA FRANCES
Protector
PARTISAN
72 ŠIROM The Liquefied Throne Of Simplicity
TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT
71 ANGELINE MORRISON
The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs Of The Black British
Experience)
TOPIC
70 TOMMY McLAIN
I Ran Down Every Dream
YEP ROCK
69 JACK WHITE
Entering Heaven Alive
THIRD MAN
68 KATHRYN JOSEPH
For You Who Are Wronged
ROCK ACTION
67 JAKE BLOUNT
The New Faith
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
66 THE UNTHANKS
Sorrows Away
RABBLE ROUSER
65 BEACH HOUSE
Once Twice Melody
BELLA UNION
64 GHOST POWER
Ghost Power
DUOPHONIC SUPER 45S
63 ROBYN HITCHOCK
Shufflemania!
TINY GHOST
62 JENNY HVAL
Classic Objects
4AD
61 YARD ACT
The Overload
ZEN F.C. /ISLAND
60 SARAH DAVACHI
Two Sisters
LATE MUSIC
59 THE BLACK KEYS
Dropout Boogie
NONESUCH
58 PYE CORNER AUDIO
Let’s Emerge!
SONIC CATHEDRAL
57 OREN AMBARCHI/JOHAN BERTHLING/ANDREAS WERLIIN
Ghosted
DRAG CITY
56 FATHER JOHN MISTY
Chloë And The Next 20th Century
BELLA UNION
55 AMANDA SHIRES
Take It Like A Man
ATO
54 SUEDE
Autofiction
BMG
53 BEYONCÉ
Renaissance
PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENT/COLUMBIA
52 TIM BERNARDES
Mil Coisas Invisíveis
PSYCHIC HOTLINE
51 JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Good And Green Again
PARADISE OF BACHELORS
50 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
Welcome 2 Club XIII ATO
Making a sharp detour from the band’s last two records, which were steeped in politics and protest, the Truckers’ 14th was named after an insalubrious Muscle Shoals bar where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their break. What followed was a vivid acclamation of their 37 years together, from dive bars in nowhere towns, to drives through the South’s empty backroads, sung over characteristically walloping Southern rock.
49 BILL CALLAHAN
DRAG CITY
This album’s cast of boll weevils, coyotes and dead horses may have appeased Smog fans who’ve felt Bill’s been a bit too upbeat in recent years. But the likes of “First Bird” and “Natural Information” were still infused with a homely bliss, lifted by horns and harmonies; Callahan was just sagely pointing out that reality – or
– is a business of extremes, for which his songs ensure we’re all better prepared.
48 CARSON McHONE
Still Life LOOSE
A vivid presence on the Austin music scene for nearly a decade, McHone’s ambitious third album felt like a widening of her acoustic roots. Adding swishy R&B, some Southern soul, rockier moments and even strings to the mix, McHone’s unsentimental tales of emotional attachment and release proved remarkably resilient to the colourful embellishments she and producer (and now husband) Daniel Romano brought to them.
47 RICH RUTH
I Survived, It’s Over THIRD MAN
A versatile Nashville player, Michael Rich Ruth can make Fripped-out ambience
