THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2018

01. KANYE WEST, "Ye" 

01. KIDS SEE GHOSTS, "Kids See Ghosts" 

01. NAS, "Nasir" 

01. PUSHA T, "Daytona"

01. TEYANA TAYLOR, "K.T.S.E."

05. GAZ COOMBES, "World's Strongest Man" 

06. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS, "Look Now" 

07. JAMIE ISAAC, "(04:30) Idler" 

08. SPIRITUALIZED, "And Nothing Hurt" 

09. ARCTIC MONKEYS, "Tranquility Baste Hotel & Casino" 

10. JORJA SMITH, "Lost & Found"

11. MGMT, "Little Dark Age" 

12. DEAD CAN DANCE, "Dionysus" 

13. TIRZAH, "Devotion" 

14. KADHJA BONET, "Childqueen" 

15. ACHILLE LAURO, "Pour l'amour"

16. BEN HOWARD, "Noonday Dream" 

17. OKZHARP & MANTHE RIBANE, "Closer Apart"

18. NATALIE PRASS, "The Future and the Past" 

19. RICHARD RUSSEL, "Everything is Recorded" 

20. AMEN DUNES, "Freedom" 

21. THE 1975, "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"

22. VILLAGERS, "The Art of Pretending to Swim"

23. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, "Age Of" 

24. YOUNG FATHERS, "Cocoa Sugar" 

25. RICHARD SWIFT, "The Hex"

26. BLOOD ORANGE, "Negro Swan"

27. GABRIEL KAHANE, "Book of Travelers" 

28. TOM MISCH, "Geography" 

29. MUMFORD & SONS, "Delta"

30. COSMO, "Cosmotronic"

31. SONS OF KEMET, "Your Queen Is A Reptile" 

32. JONATHAN WILSON, "Rare Birds" 

33. MITSKI, "Be the Cowboy"

34. THE INTERNET, "Hive Mind" 

35. DIRTY PROJECTORS, "Lamp Lit Prose" 

36. DJ KHALAB, "Black Noise 2084"

37. RYLEY WALKER, "Deafman Glance"

38. FATHER JOHN MISTY, "God's Favorite Customer"

39. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, "Sex & Food"

40. THE CARTERS, "Everything is Love" 

41. NU GUINEA, "Nuova Napoli" 

42. ALLYSHA JOY, "Acadie:Raw" 

43. JANELLE MONÁE, "Dirty Computer" 

44. JUNGLE, "For Ever" 

45. JACK WHITE, "Boarding House Reach" 

46. JOHN PARISH, "Bird Dog Dante" 

47. U.S. GIRLS, "In A Poem Unlimited" 

48. CAOILFHIONN ROSE, "Awaken"

49. LUMP, "Lump"

50. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, "Sex & Food"

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2017

1. KING KRULE, The Ooz 
2. MOSES SUMNEY, Aromanticism 
3. NICK MULVEY, Wake Up Now
4. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, American Dream 
5. GRIZZLY BEAR, Painted Ruins
6. JESSIE WARE, Glasshouse
7. ARCADE FIRE, Everything Now 
8. KENDRICK LAMAR, Damn. 
9. ST. VINCENT, Masseduction 
10. MARC DE MARCO, This Old Dog
11. MILEY CYRUS, Younger Now
12. MARK EITZEL, Hey Mr. Ferryman 
13. EPHEMERALS, Egg Tooth 
14. MOUNT KIMBIE, Love What Surivives
15. SZA, Ctrl
16. ELBOW, Little Fictions 
17. LAURA MARLING, Semper Femina 
18. CORNELIUS, Mellow Waves
19. PHOENIX, Ti Amo
20. THE WAR ON DRUGS, A Deeper Understading
21. UNKLE, The Road pt. 1
22. LOYLE CARNER, Yesterday's Gone 
23. BRAXTON COOK, Somewhere in Between 
24. BRUNORI SAS, A Casa Tutto Bene 
25. JORDAN RAKEI, Wallflower
26. THE NATIONAL, Sleep Well Beast
27. THE XX, I See You
28. BECK, Colors 
29. U2, Songs of Experience
30. POPULOUS, Azulejos
31. LORDE, Melodrama
32. CALVIN HARRIS, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
33. CHOKER, Peak 
34. BECCA STEVENS, Regina 
35. BRUNO MAJOR, A Song For Every Moon
36. SAMPHA, Process 
37. RYAN ADAMS, Prisoner
38. ARCA, Arca
39. GABRIEL GARZON-MONTANO, Jardin
40. FATHER JOHN MISTY, Pure Comedy
41. GHOSTPOET, Dark Days + canapés
42. KAMASI WASHINGTON, Harmony Of Difference
43. CLAP! CLAP!, A Thousand Skies 
44. BLACK GRAPE, Pop Voodoo
45. SONDRE LERCHE, Pleasure 
46. FRANCES, Things I've Never Said 
47. NICK HAKIM, Green Twins
48. FUTURE ISLANDS, The Far Islands
49. MELANIE DE BIASIO, Lilies
50. CARL BRAVE x FRANCO 126, Polaroid 

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2016

01.    BJ THE CHICAGO KID, In My Mind

02.    ANDERSON PAAK, Malibu

03.    DAVID BOWIE, ★

04.    NICK CAVE, Skeleton Tree

05.    RADIOHEAD, A Moon Shaped Pool

06.    BLOOD ORANGE, Freetown Sound

07.    LADY GAGA, Joanne

08.    BON IVER, 22 A Million

09.    FRANK OCEAN, Blonde

10.    JORDAN RAKEI, Cloak

11.    MASSIVE ATTACK, Ritual Spirit EP + The Spoils EP

12.    TINDERSTICKS, The Waiting Room

13.    MACKLEMORE, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made

14.    MICHAEL KIWANUKA, Love & Hate

15.    BILLIE MARTEN, Writing Of Blues And Yellow

16.    SALMO, Hellvisback

17.    COSMO, L’Ultima Festa

18.    PRIMAL SCREAM, Chaosmosis

19.    SOLANGE, A Seat At The Table

20.    LEONARD COHEN, You Want It Darker

21.    NICOLAS JAAR, Sirens

22.    LAURA MVULA, The Dreaming Room

23.    CORINNE BAILEY RAE, The Heart Speaks In The Whispers

24.    RIHANNA, Anti

25.    ANOHNI, Hopelessness

26.    I CANI, Aurora

27.    ANGEL OLSEN, My Woman

28.    GREGORY PORTER, Take Me To The Alley

29.    JAMES BLAKE, The Colour In Anything

30.    BIBIO, A Mineral Love

31.    ROSIE LOWE, Control

32.    KENDRICK LAMAR, untiled unmastered.

33.    JMSN, It is

34.    ANDREW BIRD, Are You Serious?

35.    KAYTRANDA, 99.9%

36.    GOLD PANDA, Good Luck And Do Your Best

37.    GALLANT, Ology

38.    VINCE STAPLES, Prima Donna

39.    MAXWELL, blackSUMMERS’night

40.    MAC MILLER, The Divine Feminine

41.    YUSSEF KAMAL, Black Focus

42.    RYLEY WALKER, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

43.    UNDERWORLD, Barbara Barbara We Face A Shining Future

44.    FRANCESCO DI BELLA, Nuova Gianturco

45.    MODERAT, III

46.    LIMA,  ìì

47.    SHURA, Nothing’s Real

48.    MATT CORBY, Telluric

49.    MIIKE SNOW, iii

50.    MOTTA, La Fine Dei Vent’anni 

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2015

1.      KENDRICK LAMAR - To pimp a butterfly

2.        BJORK - Vulnicura

3.        JAMIE WOON - Making time

4.        IOSONOUNCANE - Die

5.        RYAN ADAMS - 1989

6.        DISCLOSURE - Caracal

7.        LAURA MARLING - Short movie

8.        BENJAMINE CLEMENTINE - At least for now

9.        DESTROYER - Poison Season

10.     BLUR - The Magic Whip

11.     BILAL - In another life

12.     IBEYI - Ibeyi

13.     ALABAMA SHAKES - Sound & Color

14.     MATTHEW E. WHITE - Fresh blood

15.     HOT CHIP - Why make sense?

16.     LUPE FIASCO - Testuo & Youth

17.     THE INTERNET - Ego Death

18.     TAME IMPALA - Currents

19.     LIANNE LE HAVAS - Blood

20.     MUMFORD & SONS - Wilder mind

21.     DORNIK - Dornik

22.     DRAKE - If you're reading this it's too late

23.     CHASSOL - Big Sun

24.     COURTNEY BARNETT - Sometimes I sit and think, and Sometimes I just sit

25.     SUFJAN STEVENS - Carrie & Lowell

26.     GHOSTPOET - Shedding skin

27.     KAMASI WASHINGTON - The epic

28.     MARK RONSON - Uptown special

29.     DAVE GAHAN - Angels & Ghosts

30.     JAMIE XX - In colour

31.     THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Born in the echoes

32.     KURT VILE - b'lieve I'm going down

33.     MARIKA HACKMAN - We slept at last 

34.     GHOSTFACE KILLAH - Sour soul

35.     A$AP ROCKY - At.long.last.a$ap

36.     TOM MISCH - Beat tape 2

37.     TYLER, THE CREATOR - Cherry bomb

38.     NEW ORDER - Music complete

39.     DAYMÉ ARCOCENA - Nueva Era

40.     HIATUS KAIYOTE - Choose your weapon

41.     SHAMIR - Ratchet

42.     FATIMA YAMAHA - A girl between two words

43.     SNOOP DOGG - Bush

44.     THUNDERCUT - The beyond/Where the giants roam

45.     ODDISEE - The good fight

46.     PATRICK WATSON - Love songs for robots

47.     BOB MOSES - Days gone by

48.     CHRISTIAN RICH - FW14

49.     LEFTFIELD - Alternative light source

50.     REAL LIES - Real life

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2014

1. DAMON ALBARN, Everyday Robots 
2. BEN HOWARD, I Forgot Where We Were 
3. FUTURE ISLANDS, Singles 
4. PAOLO NUTINI, Caustic Love 
5. CHET FAKER, Built On Glass 
6. SUN KIL MOON, Benji 
7. SINKANE, Mean Love
8. SBTRKT, Wonder Where We Land 
9. LEONARD COHEN, Popular Problems 
10. JESSE BOYKINS III, Love Apparatus 
11. CARIBOU, Our Love
12. JUNGLE, Jungle 
13. OWEN PALLET, In Conflict 
14. LEWIS BALOUE, L'Amour 
15. GRUFF RHYS, American Interior 
16. APHEX TWIN, Syro 
17. ENO ° HYDE, High Life 
18. SOMI, The Lagos Music Salon 
19. BECK, Morning Phase 
20. THE WAR ON DRUGS, Lost In The Dream 
21. HER NAME IS CALLA, Navigator 
22. SHABAZZ PALACES, Lese Majesty 
23. SAM SMITH, In The Lonely Hour 
24. METRONOMY, Love Letters
25. SHARON VAN ETTEN, Are We There 
26. ANUSHKA, Broken Circuit 
27. PERFUME GENIUS, Too Bright 
28. alt-J, This Is All Your 
29. St. VINCENT, St. Vincent 
30. PAOLO CONTE, Snob
31. DAMIEN RICE, My Favourite Faded Fantasy 
32. FLYING LOTUS, You're Dead 
33. HISS GOLDEN MESSANGER, Lateness Of Dancers
34. RUSTIE, Green Language 
35. JOSÉ JAMES, While You Were Sleeping 
36. COMMON, Nobody's Smiling 
37. TAYLOR McFERRIN, Early Riser
38. TRENT REZNOR, Gone Girl OST 
39. ED SHEERAN, X
40. MACHINEFABRIEK, Stillness Soundtracks 
41. U2, Songs Of Innocence 
42. MERCHANDISE, After The End
43. JACK WHITE, Lazaretto 
44. HOSPITALITY, Trouble 
45. DARK SKY, Imagin 
46. WILD BEASTS, Present Tense
47. RATKING, So It Goes
48. LITTLE DRAGON, Nabuma Rubberband 

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

MY BEST 40 ALBUMS OF THE 2013

01. Jay-z, "Magna Carta Holy Grail"
02. Daft Punk, "Random Access Memories"
03. David Bowie, "The Next Day"
04. Laura Marling, "Once I Was an Eagle"
05. Drake, "Nothing Was The Same"
06. Quadron, "Avalanche"
07. Rhye, "Woman"
08. Arctic Monkeys, "AM"
09. Gregory Porter, "Liquid Spirit"
10. James Black, "Overgrown"
11. Kanye West, "Yeezus"
12. King Krule, "Feet Beneath The Moon"
13. Arcade Fire, "Reflektor"
14. Justin Timberlake, "The 20/20 Experience"
15. Julia Holter, "Loud City Song"
16. Disclosure, "Settle"
17. The National, "Trouble Will Find Me"
18. Vampire Weekend, "Modern Vampires of the City"
19. Hiatus Kaiyote, "Tawk Tomahawk"
20. Prefab Sprout, "Crimson/Red"
21. Goldfrapp, "Tales of Us"
22. My Bloody Valentine, "m b v"
23. John Legend, "Love in the Future"
24. Phoenix, "Bankrupt!"
25. Earl Sweatshirt, "Doris"
26. Jonathan Wilson, "Fanfare"
27. Mulatu Astatke, "Sketches of Ethiopia"
28. Bilal, "A Love Surreal"
29. Elton John, "The Diving Board"
30. The Strokes, "Comedown Machine"
31. Janelle Monae, "The Electric Lady"
32. Ghostpoet, "Some Say I So I Say Light"
33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Mosquito"
34. Austra, "Olympia"
35. Junip, "Junip"
36. Paul McCartney, "New"
37. Kwes, "Ilp."
38. Eminem, "Marshall Mathers LP 2"
39. Various Artists, "Red Hot + Fela"
40. Darkside, "Psychic"

THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2012

1. Paul Buchanan - "Mid Air"
2. Frank Ocean - "Channel Orange"
3. Jack White – “Blunderbuss”
4. Kendrick Lamar - "Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City"
5. Flying Lotus - "Until The Quiet Comes"
6. Robert Glasper Experiment - "Black Radio"
7. Kanye West G.O.O.D Music - "Cruel Summer"
8. Lana del Rey - "Born To Die"
9. The XX – “Coexist”
10. Donald Fagen – “Sunken Condos”
11. Scissor Sisters - "Magic Hour"
12. Para One - "Passion"
13. Bobby Womack - "The Bravest Man In The Universe"
14. Laetitia Sadier - "Silencio"
15. Santigold - "Master Of My Make-Believe"
16. Jesse Ware - "Devotion"
17. Paul Weller - "Sonik Kicks"
18. Muse – “The 2nd Law”
19. Fiona Apple - "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser . . ."
20. Hot Chip - "In Our Heads"
21. Green Day - "¡Uno!" "Dos" "Tres"
22. Bob Dylan -  "Tempest"
23. Azealia Banks - ”1991”
24. The Weeknd - "Trilogy"
25. Bat For Lashes - "The Haunted Man"
26. Miguel - "Kaleidoscope Dream"
27. Richard Hawley - "Standing at the Sky’s Edge"
28. Breakbot - "By Your Side"
29. Lindstrøm - "Smalhans"
30. Lucas Santtana - "O Deus que devasta mas também cura"