1) Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Bolder, bigger, sweeter.

2) Sepalcure - Sepalcure

Innovative bass music.

3) Tearjerker - Rare

Wonderful hazy hugeness.

4) Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On

Intricate darkness.

5) Peaking Lights - 936

Psychedelic dub weirdness. 

6) Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only A Noise

Piano-led, crackling house.

7) The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

Epic, echoing folk.

8) Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

Hardcore rock-opera. Boisterous.

9) Emperor X - Western Teleport

Beams of strangeness from somewhere wonderful.

10) Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder

Elegant bliss-out music.

11) Alexander - Alexander

Unique individual updates nostalgic sounds.

12) LV - Routes

The sound of London, 2011.

13) Suuns - Zeroes QC

Prog-punk noise. Rowdy but tuneful.

14) Sulley - Carrier

Garage 2011 style.

15) Spanish Prisoners - Gold Fools

Meandering album of peculiar genius.

16) Zomby - Dedication

Sad, deep and fucking heavy.

17) Radiohead - King Of Limbs

The boys are back.

18) Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen

Can do no wrong round these parts. Monumentally sad record about love and addiction.

19) Gauntlet Hair - Gauntlet Hair

Great drums; noisy bastards: brilliant.

20) Burial - Street Halo

EP of new Burial material. Enough said.

Honourable mentions to Youth Lagoon, Blawan, Byetone, Charles Bradley, Damu, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, FaltyDL, The Horrors, Pangaea, SBTRKT, White Denim and Untold.