2017 end of year lists

20. Lil B - Black Ken
This is a pretty long album but I love it. Gritty sound, retro synths and some very unconventional delivery styles. There's a couple of absolutely huge tracks here.


19. Dope Knife - NineteenEightyFour
Got into this one thanks to Old Man Mahoney. Very retro sounding with boom bap beats that are just too good. Production is also pretty sweet
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18. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
I got into some metal stuff quite a bit last year so I was a big fan of this. I think it was Baz who first suggested this? It's just so ferocious and visceral with some sweet hooks underneath all that hell.


17. Kandrick Lamar - DAMN
I'd say this is Kendrick's most accessible and commercially-friendly record in terms of the sound. The rhymes tackle some tough subjects but sonically, it's very friendly. That's not a bad thing for me, and I like the album a lot - I just prefer his previous 2 efforts.


16. Bastien Keb - 22.02.85
One of the most interesting albums of the years for me. Knew absolutely nothing about this kid. It's just a really colourful, textured and very well layered album that I think I could stick on and enjoy no matter what my mood or activity.


15. Liam Gallagher - As You Were
Surprise of 2018 right here. My expectations were very low so when I first heard the whole thing I was speechless. As others have mentioned, it has great staying power, too! There isn't a single album track I don't enjoy in some capacity.


14. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Really love how spacious and effortless this feels. It feels like a very unpredictable album in that almost all of the tracks change direction and throws you off a bit, even after you've heard the album 20 times. Love her voice too
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13. Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness
Has Thurston Moore done much solo stuff? This sounds like a slightly more straightforward Sonic Youth. It's a lot more direct. Sonically (pardon the pun) it's fantastic IMO
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12. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Damage & Joy
Exactly what you want from a Jesus & Mary Chain comeback record. I see lots of mentions of a lot of the songs being around for a while but for me it was pretty much the first time I was hearing them. This grew on me a lot after being left cold the first time I heard it.

11. Vince Staples - Big Fish
Hadn't heard much Vince Staples before this so didn't know what to expect. It's got some real big club vibes while also flirting with the sort of sounds Burial was knocking out on his 2 albums (the only Burial albums I heard)

10. The Horrors - V
I never got into The Horrors as much as some in here. There's no denying they're a great band, and I thought Skying was fantastic, but never spent as much time with Primary Colours. This grabbed me right away and might be my favorite Horrors album to date,

9. Grandaddy - Last Place
What a lolvely record. I've chipped away at the Grandaddy back catalogue slowly over the years. Some of their albums have taken a while to get into but this was an instant classic to me.

8. Tyler, The Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy
A very well sequenced album, with fantatic production. It's mostly a soulful and laidback affair and I love the instrumentation
.  There also some pretty atmospheric moments spread throughout

7. Perfume Genius - No Shape The first time I'd listened to Perfume Genius. First listen or 2 this didn't really grab me but with repeated listens I can to really adore this album. The voice, the arrangements, the production - it's got everything.

6. Kevin Morby - City Music
Listened to this a lot in San Francisco. It absolutely sounds like a long lost classic from the 60s or 70s. I prefer Morby's lazy type drawling over Kurt Ville's. Morby has really found his stride here and sounds very comfortable and laid back

5. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East
My favourite Gizzard album from the year. It pretty much soundtracked my trip to San Francisco, and did so perfectly. It's a record just full of joy and happiness and the arrangements are just perfect. I can imagine it accompanying something (film or TV) American in the 70s,.

4. The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
Moments 60s influenced surf-rock, especially the 2 instrumentals.  There's Doors-esque psych-rock, bluesy chuggers and sometimes there's a laid back soul/blues things going on.  There's also sweet fret work going on throughout.  Such a good album

3. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
I also listend to this a lot in San Francisco, and it was actually on that trip that it really clicked when I took a long wall one night with this on. It got less dancier moments and more things that sound like indie/rock songs but with very dancy production, which is fine with me. "How Do You Sleep" is one of my favourites from the year.

2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
I had to include this album as close to the top of list as I possibly could.  I've never been so floored and heartbroken by an album as I was this.  And actually, I use the term "album" loosely.  It's pretty much an audio diary of pain backed by some very simplistic and lo-fi music, which fits the sentiment of what is being said.

I went into this "album" not knowing what to expect.  I didn't know anything about Mount Eerie, and I didn't know this was an "album" from a bloke dealing with unimaginable pain and grief.  First listen, I was at work, and it was pretty much just background noise so I didn't pick up on what it actually was.  I decided to give it another listen on the train home from work that day, and fuck me, I was not prepared.  It had me on the verge of tears, it legitimately broke my heart and destroyed my soul.  I think part of the reason for that was the fact that I have a daughter of a similar age so I could relate to it a but.  I kept putting myself in his shoes - how would I feel if this was me?

It's so candid and honest that it's almost voyeuristic.  He really does lay his wrecked soul out for everyone to see - nothing is hidden.  I'm not sure I'll ever experience what I experienced with this with any other "album" ever again.


And now, my #1 album of 2017....





















































1. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
Natrually, I've saved my longest and most detailed write-up for my Album of The Year...

It took me a while to get round to listening to this. I'd seen it mentioned a lot, ad=nd get a lot of praise, but, for whatever reason, I just didn't bother until about 6 or 7 weeks ago. Since then, I've listened to it so much and man, what an album.

At first, I found it a jarring just how much the singer sounded like Nick Cave. In some places, the 2 are basically indisguishable from one another. That jarring feeling went away with repeated listens as the album started to receive its self more and more.

There's an eerines about this album and an underlying sense of anxiety.  They sound like a band panicking about the state of the world we live in, and not just lyrically - it totally comes through in the music, too.

I'd find it hard to choose a favourite track from this. There are genuinely things I love about every single track. I love the marching but off-kilter drums in the verses in the verse of A Private Understanding, and how the song goes from sounding paranoid and viscious to huge and rousing. The vocal delivery in Here is A Thing is absolutely flawless. It's almost like he's just spitting out a concious stream of thought. Another track I really, really love is Windsor Hum. It's visceral and fucking scary sounding and could be a track in a horror movie.

It's a bleak and mostly gloomy album, but despite that, it's still a thing of real fucking beauty.

Someone post baz's list and i can post the results next week...

Baz's List.....

20. Fin — Syd



Turns out Isa’s sister and mum are new converts to the Church of Syd. Life is beautiful.

Slinkiness meets total confidence, often knowing precisely when to whisper sultry invitations beyond the impression of ice-cool command. Syd gently re-tools 90s R’n’B with minimum fuss over the course of a remarkably assured debut that Aaliyah could have released in something approaching her all-too-short prime. Praise rarely arrives higher.



19. Pretty Girls Like Trap Music — 2 Chainz



Horizontal Reign.

2 Chanz is somehow realising the full extents of his remarkable second wind on easily his best album so far and only really he could drop a line like “Used to drive a Porsche till I found out it was made by Volkswagen” and make it perfectly describe his own existence. Such braggy lushness rarely fits a near-40 year old well but Tity Boi is plenty smart and wise enough to know exactly how and when to sound dumb. The most laid-back, yet somehow equally rigorous, cruise through the short, glorious history of trap music.



18. Infinite Worlds — Vagabon



Reaching oot.

Everything feels quietly new on Infinite Worlds, as the divine Lætitia Tamko gently beats a new path for indie, one that is both open-hearted and arrow-direct. Stretching from the crunchy DIY aesthetic of the New York scene she flowered from, through to the elegiac cobwebs she spins through a voice that can seemingly handle anything required of it, Cameroon-born Tamko utilises French and English language in a series of fascinating songs questioning what exactly we need to do to get where we want to be. The year has not seen many a better song than ‘Mal à L’aise’, one of many unexpected delights on an album that feels somehow innately important.



17. Plunge — Fever Ray



I shall call you…Stitchface.

Karin Dreijer likes to re-energise between projects, spacing those still-thrilling Knife classics, Silent Shout and Shaking The Habitual, over seven years whilst also leaving 8 between her solo debut and Plunge. Somehow she comes back even more jagged and bowel-jerkingly vital each time, with Plunge scratching the bones of desire through your never-more-alive skin. A strident, mesmeric alien fuck you to everything that threatens to enslave us. “ Destroy boring” indeed.



16. Black Origami — Jlin



Best artwork.

Footwork dukes it out with juke to create the most rhythmically enchanting album of the year. Jlin acts as introverted mythical goddess who sprouts humanity from 90s drum machines, whilst remaining as cool-headed and strategic as a seasoned military commander. Beats skitter; they pop, dance, quiver; they bend and push and pull creating a somehow-soothing blanket of intensity. A technical masterpiece.



15. Aromanticism — Moses Sumney



I mean, just say you love him to keep the D game sweet and chill, yeah? Sheesh…

Moses Sumney is a lost soul, a dyed-in-cashmere pessimist afraid to open himself up to the possibility of reciprocating love in this belching, tortuous world. He has delicately plumbed this nihilistic streak to come out the other side with songs of plucked, spare beauty that offer little in the way of hope but plenty of the sweet-smelling balm of solitude. Not one to affect every mood, Aromanticism drifts across you like a shipwrecked dream for those times you can scarcely bear it.



14. Ash — Ibeyi



Never trust crackheads.

It is near-impossible to talk about Ibeyi without mentioning their background, informed as it is by endless struggle and rich history. Rich, not in the financial sense but that which stems from French-Cuban twins who sing gorgeously in English, French, Spanish and Yoruba — a Nigerian ancestral language used prior to being brought to Cuba by the Spanish to be made slaves in the 1700s — across spaciously jazzy planes bolstered by timelessly-insistent West African rhythms that know that true culture can never be extinguished. A triumphant listen that defies dull categorisation, but mostly just defies.



13. Black Ken — Lil B



Bester artwork.

There is just so much of the most influential rapper in recent memory, that the ridiculously high points, the points that feel like they predicted everything that happened in hip hop over the last decade, often get lost in the endless churn of Lil Bs peerless mythmaking. Thank fuck, then, for Black Ken. An entirely self-produced sprawl through hip-hop from a star student of the game, it’s hard to imagine another album being quite so much deliriously consistent fun. Lil B raps because he is, discovering life-charging sparks everywhere he goes.



12. Without Warning — 21 Savage, Metro Boomin, Offset



Horror, cor.

Yes, it’s an essentially throwaway Halloween mixtape. No, there is nothing new mumbledhere. Yes, the tracks kind of sound the same. But the spine-burring thrill of Without Warning comes from two sources; the nihilistic monotone of 21 Savage’s menacing delivery being balanced expertly by the Migo’s Offset (surely now in the most upper echelon of contemporary rappers) and the predictably genius-level production by Metro Boomin, a producer who could create pathos from a queef. Listening to this album is to lose yourself fronting in a schlocky horrorcore hip hop musical where all the good guys die, because fuck you and you’re welcome.



11. Culture — Migos



skkrt bloop, fikfikik, jippy zoo

There is something of the miraculous about Migos. An album with one and a half dozen producers has little right to contain and consistently contextualise the talents of a trio, let alone a trio that indulge in a choppy sea of triplet flows honed and refined from nonsensical rhythmic doggerel into an alluring soundscape of the world they’ll thankfully never fully escape. However, Culture manages royally with panache to spare, turning glorious ad-libs and calling cards into an ever-shifting art form as the genre mutates further into itself courtesy of a supremely talented trio of intersecting Atlantans.



Just realised that he only ever posted part one of his list. Last he said was 'part two tomorrow' - 31/12/17

And then he died

If we only get 20-11 it'll be worth the wait.

This is among the finest work ever posted on the soapbox.

I really hope we get the rest though.

baz appears to have gone for a joint number one looking at facebook. not sure how barny is going to cope with this in his point scoring system. big decisions barny.

Cab you tell him to come into my office?

Part 2


10. Power Trip — Nightmare Logic





Choppy waters.

I can’t confess to knowing shit about metal. It is a genre I listen to rarely but have derived much pleasure from occasional toe-dips into into its dramatically goofy tropes. Power Trip rattle through their second LP which a feverish gusto that seems as far removed from pretension as it could possibly be, heroic chunks of riffs careering wildly out of the rock-steady rhythmic base, with frontman Riley Gale biting huge, bloody out of the scenery. A compact yet expansive 8 tracks bludgeon all the metal a fairweather fan needs deeply into them, leaving only a sea of slowly unclenching fists and pep talks still ringing through the tinnitus. Outrageous fun.



09. Arca — Arca





Tinder bio forthcoming.

Alejandro Ghersi inhabits an impatient purgatory just beyond our fingertips, hinting at the clattering chaos beyond. Using his creeping, cracking vocal febrility more than ever, alongside technically perfect structures that can catch you gasping, these astounding siren songs shine shafts of light in the most unsettling of corners of your mind, identifying all those moments you thought you’d left behind. Put simply, a trip to a universe scarcely invented.



08. Slowdive — Slowdive





That’ll dae it.

The most surprising album of the year. Not because I doubted Slowdive had the chops, you understand. They’ve been demonstrating almost-flawless songcraft from the start. However, over two decades have passed since their last album and it started to feel impossible that they could make something relevant in 2017 in a genre as self-congratulatory and of its time than shoegaze. This stunning eponymous fourth album somehow more elevated and weightless still, slipping the bonds of expectation to be their barely-believable best work yet. Somewhere, the Stone Roses should be weeping uncontrollably. That’s how you do comebacks, boys.



07. More Life — Drake





Playlist, schmaylist.

Let’s get it out of the way; Drake is rarely the reason I’d listen to a Drake album. His explicitly-heard contributions anyway. And with his last looooooong player, the frequently execrable Views, pretty much we all heard was Drake fostering insular attitudes he lacks both the skill and charm to make work. However, on More Life he corrects the course with a deftness of a curator who knows exactly who he is within the game, and how other he can line up other talent (the heavenly vocals of Jorja Smith, two scene-stealing turns from Young Thug and the Anglophilic grounding of Giggs and Skepta particularly stand out, with productions such as Passionfruit and Madiba Riddim making it feel like you are skipping in clouds) to make twenty-fucking-two songs fairly fly by on a colourful breeze of afrobeat, grime and dancehall. Just when I thought he was out, he got a bunch of others to pull him back in.



06. Nothing Feels Natural — Priests





Crank it up.

A sensationally punky debut such as this could be released an eternity from now (say, 5 years) and still have a timeless righteousness about the lonely confusion of this voyeuristic dopamine-guzzling technology shitstorm we are further living in. Nothing Feels Natural rattles expansivesness urgently through a wood chipper created from stabbing guitar and basslines that can elevate songs to new levels with importantly-childlike ease. The stars that push this superb multi-pronged statement over the top, however, are the propulsively thrilling drumming of Daniele Daniele and the compellingly virtuous frontwomanship of Katie Alice Greer. Best gig of the year too. Bravo.



05. Big Fish Theory — Vince Staples





Boom-bap repellent.

Vince Staples is a triumph of outwardly-looking introspection. The often genuinely thrilling Big Fish Theory plunders the past (mostly Detroit Techno and House) and smoothes it to a lustrous groove that Staples rides so adeptly, it sounds just at home in a museum as it would do cruising through LA or two-and-a-half pingers deep on a shuddering dancefloor. The most exciting aspect of Vince Staple’s work so far is his thirst for gradual, wide-eyed progression in sound whilst losing none of his whip-smart lyrical intricacy, indeed using his burgeoning confidence to bring social and personal issues to the surface with a sleek ease. So much of this album uses so much of what has gone before to make something that sounds new and vital, courtesy of bold, vibrant production from Zack Sekoff, SOPHIE, Flume and a bubbling cast of other scene-searing beatmakers. Despite his live game being a little one-note, it it’s probably only a matter of time before this fiercely-intelligent prodigy figures it out and takes us somewhere else we need to go to.



04. DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar





Unforgivable kerning tho.

Pointedly glib as it is, Kendrick Lamar is the Lionel Messi of music. In the sense that the debate about his place in the pantheon of the all-time greats is no longer in debate at all, and he has run the risk of making the miraculous mundane, such is his ever-improving mastery of the artform. DAMN. is another exciting chapter of expansive storytelling, rattling and sashaying without friction over high-end beats that paint any picture he desires. This isn’t a perfect run of songs (there are a handful of fairly insignificant sags in the centre) but somehow his lyricism has become yet more fluid and punchy, leading to several of those moments when you catch yourself thinking how it was possible that an artist could lead you to the brink of saviour, despite featuring leeches such as U2 on one of the record’s most ambitious songs (the superb XXX). The greatest recording artist in contemporary music can do what he wants, it seems.



03. The OOZ — King Krule





Krule to be King.

The greasy, black universe of the increasingly-astounding Archy Marshall’s second album under the King Krule moniker is there for all to see. Floorboard rattling bass, jazzy scrawls and stabs and detuned horns punctuate anxiety and release into the lushest of ambient loneliness. Marshall strolls right through this universe of his own creation, barking frequently-transluscent incantations that refer the restlessness in fevered dreams of half men, half sharks and shattered delusions of still having “dreams of being Gianfranco Zola”. Through the most gorgeously plangent waves and choppy waters (indeed, no album this year sounds better), the message is clear; you can’t save him but he can find solace through iron will, and so can you.



02. Scum Fuck Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator





Oh be nice.

Trying to find his own inimitable voice through clumsy shock tactics, perfectly-pitched collaboration and a keen eye for the aesthetic, Tyler, The Creator has always been many steps ahead of and behind his detractors. A genius at progressing the conversation, Tyler truly hits his cohesive stride on the the deliciously heady Scum Fuck Flower Boy and makes the first wholly excellent album of his career. Awestruck and truly non-judgemental in taste, the album casually flirts with sexuality and offence and invites the listener to give more of a fuck than its fearless, disconnected writer used to. More and more, he is becoming the singular, refined artist he likely always was in the centre of his head, starting to step out of the static of his previously scattered thoughts and ideas through truly gorgeous sunshine songs of unpredictable structure and the sort of genuinely disarming production flourishes he has started to really make his own. A generously, elegant kaleidoscope of an album with none of the bloat and overwrought ideas of old, Scum Fuck Flower Boy finds Tyler, The Creator as an artist in the truest sense of the word.



01. No Shape — Perfume Genius





No shape, all the style and substance.

The greatest artists create their own world, but for the first half of Mike Hadreas’s extraordinary fourth album, No Shape, he transcends his own limited earthly self through nostril-flaringly defiant songs that shimmer like stardust and settle like beautiful sighs, as witnessed by unimpeachable fireworks of dynamism and poise such as the salvo of Otherside, Slip Away and Just Like Love; songs triumphant and clear-eyed in the knowledge that love really will save and the acquisition and nurturing of this love is the greatest humanity can ever aspire to. Genre-agnostic balladry with the lithe, sexual spirit to dissolve mountain ranges of anguish lead to a second half that pulls the rug away somewhat, with the quivering dream state of Every Night, the ghosts pulsing to get out within Choir, the whole of Die 4 You which leaves the body helpless to the stoic trap of goosepimpled skin and unendingly vast sensual growth and the decay that makes everything yo ucould want fleetingly possible. Devoted to the eternal escape offered by love, No Shape excavates the soul root-and-branch-and-fluttering-leaf to make you truly understand how good we can have it.



A Crow Looked At Me — Mount Eerie





Phil Elverum lost his 35 year old wife, the Quebec artist Geneviève Castrée, to pancreatic cancer in 2016. This barely-music album was conceived and bled out in the immediate aftermath. The staggering details focus on the little moments that you expected to still happen but are glaringly absent in life’s ongoing churn. It didn’t feel right to assign it a ranking, and it’s not an album I will revisit often, but it felt remiss not to mention it. I urge anyone beating themselves up for no reason to tune into this devastatingly spare work to understand to hold on to every cherished morsel we have been given with all we have.

hhahaha thanks Dan! Don't include Mount Eeerie in the ratings Barny, no dead wives fucking up the buzz kthxpls xxx

your response made the relative silence on facebook to it worth it xxx

Irritating isn't it,

An original piece of opinion based writing and gateway into your musical soul (with artworks) that takes 6 hours to write - 5 likes
A cat based meme that I didn't even make - 20 likes

The general public are shit. 

Dat cat thu

I’ve no sympathy for those that decided to go in for personal glory and post their lists on social media before their spiritual home.

Nobody keeps barny waiting

Not sure how I avoided Perfume Genius up to this point, but have listened through his new record three times today. It's bastard marvellous.

Position - Artist - Record - Points - Votes

100 .- 21 Savage, Metro Boomin, Offset - Without Warning - 19 - 1
101 .- ALT-J - Relaxer - 19 - 1
102 .- Arcade Fire - Everything Now - 19 - 1
103 .- The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics - 19 - 1
104 .- Elbow - Little Fictions - 18 - 1
105 .- QTY - QTY - 18 - 1
106 .- Rips - Rips - 18 - 1
107 .- The Raveonettes - 2016 Atomized - 18 - 1
108 .- Action Bronson - Blue Chips 7000 - 17 - 1
109 .- Bonobo - Migration - 17 - 1
110 .- Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold - 17 - 1
111 .- Ibeyi - Ash - 17 - 1
112 .- Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now - 17 - 1
113 .- Guided by Voices - August by Cake - 16 - 1
114 .- Howie Payne - Mountain - 16 - 1
115 .- Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville sound - 16 - 1
116 .- Michael Nau - Some Twist - 16 - 1
117 .- OCS - Memory of a Cut off Head - 16 - 1
118 .- Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark? - 16 - 1
119 .- The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings - 16 - 1
120 .- Beck - Colors - 15 - 1
121 .- Giggs - Wamp 2 Dem - 15 - 1
122 .- Jlin - Black Origami - 15 - 1
123 .- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana - 15 - 1
124 .- Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley - 15 - 1
125 .- DUDS - Of a Nature or Degree - 14 - 1
126 .- Fever Ray - Plunge - 14 - 1
127 .- Future Islands - The Far Field - 14 - 1
128 .- Los Straightjackets - What's So Funny About Peace Love and Los Straightjackets? - 14 - 1
129 .- Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle - 14 - 1
130 .- Blanck Mass - World Eater - 13 - 1
131 .- Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - MILANO - 13 - 1
132 .- Power Trip - Nightmare Logic - 13 - 1
133 .- 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music - 12 - 1
134 .- Fazerdaze - Morningside - 12 - 1
135 .- James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits - 12 - 1
136 .- Lowest of the Low - Do the Right Now - 12 - 1
137 .- Mujeres - Un Sentimiento Importante - 12 - 1
138 .- Björk - Utopia - 11 - 1
139 .- Dhani Harrison - In///Parallel - 11 - 1
140 .- Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 3D - 11 - 1
141 .- Syd - Fin - 11 - 1
142 .- The Cribs - 24-7 Rock Star Shit - 11 - 2
143 .- The Shins - Heartworms - 11 - 1
144 .- Alex Cameron - Forced Witness - 10 - 1
145 .- Lea Porcelain - Hymns To The Night - 10 - 1
146 .- Conor Oberst - Salutations - 9 - 1
147 .- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid - 9 - 1
148 .- Stone Foundation - Street Rituals - 9 - 2
149 .- Temples - Volcano - 9 - 1
150 .- The Courtneys - The Courtneys II - 9 - 1
151 .- Marika Hackman - I’m not your man - 8 - 1
152 .- Phoenix - Ti amo - 8 - 1
153 .- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press - 8 - 1
154 .- Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder - 7 - 1
155 .- Meatbodies - Alice - 7 - 1
156 .- Mogwai - Every Country's Sun - 7 - 1
157 .- Sundays & Cybele - Systems & Chaos - 7 - 1
158 .- This is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze - 7 - 1
159 .- Aimee Mann - Mental Illness - 6 - 1
160 .- Childhood - Universal High - 6 - 1
161 .- Jeremy Pelt - Make Noise! - 6 - 1
162 .- Skyway Man - Seen Comin' From A Mighty Eye - 6 - 1
163 .- The Big Moon - Love in the 4th Dimension - 6 - 1
164 .- Blondie - Pollinator - 5 - 1
165 .- British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party - 5 - 1
166 .- Hills - Uncollected Sound - 5 - 1
167 .- King Magnetic - Everything Happens 4 a Reason - 5 - 1
168 .- Omni - Multi-Task - 5 - 1
169 .- A Giant Dog - Toy - 4 - 1
170 .- Don Leisure - Shaboo - 4 - 1
171 .- Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins - 4 - 1
172 .- Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm - 4 - 1
173 .- Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick - 3 - 1
174 .- Hard Proof - Stinger - 3 - 1
175 .- Robert Sotelo - Cusp - 3 - 1
176 .- Abdominal & DJ Format - Still Hungry - 2 - 1
177 .- Gorillaz - Humanz - 2 - 1
178 .- Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights - 2 - 1
179 .- Rat Columns - Candle Power - 2 - 1
180 .- together PANGEA - Bulls & Rosters - 2 - 1
181 .- Torres - Three Futures - 2 - 1
182 .- Cyanide Pills - Sliced & Diced - 1 - 1
183 .- Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe - 1 - 1
184 .- Renaldo & Clara - Els afores - 1 - 1

Great work as ever, barn.

I just wanted to point out that Power Trip - Nightmare Logic actually got 2 votes as did Skyway Man - Seen Comin' From A Mighty Eye.  Unless I am just a complete idiot and don't understanding the system, in which case, I'd be sorry.

It might be an error or it might be on position >30 on someone's list. I've had some "I'd swear this was already added" but thought it would be from reading people's list from their lowest positions. If more than one people did put it onto their 30picks, please say hi.