I have realised to my horror that I’ve missed some fantastic albums off my list of best albums of the year. The first of these is Beirut – The Rip Tide, a fantastic album albeit far too short for my liking, I want more Beirut, more! The stand out track on the album is the closing one, Port of Call, it is brilliant, there is also East Harlem which is pretty damn good and Goshen which is on a fair few playlists I’ve made this year.
The next is Low – C’Mon, I properly cannot believe I forgot about this one, it is probably one of my favourite albums of the year, up there next to Bon Iver. Especially Me is my favourite track on the album, also worth a listen is Try to Sleep and Nightingale.
Another album worth a mention is Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My Face, I only bought it the other day and have listened to it tons, the best tracks are the first three, Dead Against Smoking, Squealing Pigs and Subbuteo. I first heard of Admiral Fallow stumbling across them at the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury and I loved them then, but since I forgot about them, I think I was probably overwhelmed by the rest of the festival, it was so so good, I had the most amazing festival time ever! Anyway I saw the album in Fopp the other day and thought I’d get it, remembering how good their live show was and really this album doesn’t disappoint, Frightened Rabbit-esque but a little more jaunty and little more falling into noisy guitar. Go get it, it was only a fiver!
Other great albums from this year include Elbow’s Build a Rocket, Boys, and Josh T.Pearson, Last of the Country Gentlemen, the latter album is pretty special, Rough Trade’s album of the year so if you visit the shop there’s a hell of a lot of stuff about it there.
Right, Christmas presents need to be wrapped, mulled wine to be made and mince pies to be eaten. Till next year then! Cheerio.
