Here’s a list of 20 albums I’ve really enjoyed this year, in alphabetical order. There were some tough choices, mainly because some of the most interesting bands out there (like Little Barrie or Blitzen Trapper) put out weaker albums compared to their usual standards and haven’t made it to the list as a consequence. But well, nothing to complain, here we go with my selection:

• Beachheads – Beachheads
• Blis. – No One Loves You
• Dead Cross – Dead Cross
• Dead Heavens – Whatever Witch You Are
• Foxygen – Hang
• Galactic Cowboys – Long Way Back to the Moon
• Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
• Hard Action – Hot Wired Beat
• Jamie Lenman – Devolver
• Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi – Das nullte Kapitel
• Kellermensch – Goliath
• The Loranes – 2nd
• Mutoid Man – War Moans
• Neo Noire – Element
• Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
• Quicksand – Interiors
• Royal Blood – How did we get so dark?
• Surfer Blood – Snowdonia
• Troubled Horse – Revolution on Repeat
• Val Sinistra – Unter Druck