Artist: PJ Harvey

Album: ‘Let England Shake’

Label: Island

Released: February 11

Spotify // Buy

I’m not trying to be contrary by not putting this in my top 20. ‘Let England Shake’ is a brilliant, accomplished album – probably much more so than several of the albums in my list – but I never find myself wanting to listen to it. It doesn’t do anything for me in the way that albums I love usually do (though the song above is the exception).

Artist: A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Album: ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’

Label: Kranky/Erased Tapes

Released: September 12

Spotify // Buy

I just came to this too late to put it in my list. The first time I heard it was on the Eurostar to Paris at the end of October, when it made me fall asleep and have such horrendous nightmares that I’m about 95% sure I was trying to scream in my sleep on a train full of families making half-term trips to Euro Disney. In spite of that, I listened to it a lot afterwards – particularly when going to bed in our noisy house – and really adore it.

Artist: Low

Album: ‘C’mon’

Label: Sub Pop

Released: April 11

Spotify // Buy

I love Low, so I must have been having a serious mental blip to have forgotten this when making the list. See also: Mogwai’s ‘Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will’.

Artist: Julianna Barwick

Album: ‘The Magic Place’

Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Released: February 23

Spotify // Buy

Again, I came to this too late, because I am an idiot.

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