We are now ready to announce our albums of the year - a democratically chosen staff selection! 

This year's winner is NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - one of our favourite groups of all time - with 'Ghosteen'.  In a sign of the times, its physical release hasn't even happened as I write, but the wait will finally be over on Friday 8th November, when we will be opening at 8 am for any  of you who want to drop by and pick your copy up on your way to work, college etc.   We will be playing Bad Seeds-related music for the whole of Friday morning - the new album, obviously, but also a few highlights from their amazing back catalogue.  Albums will include a postcard, and for shop-collects we will also have a free poster, while stocks last.

You can preorder 'Ghosteen' here:

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And here is this year's Top 20 countdown...

1.      NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS ‘GHOSTEEN’

2.      LAURENCE PIKE ‘HOLY SPRING’

3.      SHARON VAN ETTEN ‘REMIND ME TOMORROW’

4.      SARATHY KORWAR ‘MORE ARRIVING’

5.      GONG GONG GONG ‘PHANTOM RHYTHM’

6.      JULIA JACKLIN ‘CRUSHING’

7.      DEERHUNTER ‘WHY HASN’T EVERYTHING ALREADY DISAPPEARED?’

8.      KIM GORDON ‘NO HOME RECORD’

9.      ANGEL OLSEN ‘ALL MIRRORS'

10.  NATIONAL ‘I AM EASY TO FIND’

11.  GUIDED BY VOICES ‘WARP AND WOOF’

12.  MEGA BOG ‘DOLPHINE’

13.  FONTAINES DC ‘DOGREL’

14.  THOM YORKE ‘ANIMA’

15.  PANDA BEAR ‘BUOYS’

16.  RUSTIN MAN ‘DRIFT CODE’

17.  KEVIN MORBY ‘OH MY GOD’

18.  JANE WEAVER ‘LOOPS IN THE SECRET SOCIETY’

19.  TYLER THE CREATOR ‘IGOR’

20.  NATIVE HARROW ‘HAPPIER NOW’