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Albums of the Year, 2017

1 Tori Amos Native Invader

2 Fever Ray Plunge

3 Lana Del Rey Lust for Life

4 Lorde Melodrama

5 SZA CTRL

6 Pumarosa The Witch

7 Bjork Utopia

8 Laura Marling Semper Femina

9 Goldfrapp Silver Eye

10 Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest

11 Susanne Sundfør Music for People in Trouble

12 Ryan Adams Prisoner

13 Nadine Shah Holiday Destination

14 Marika Hackman I’m Not Your Man

15 Aldous Harding Party

16 Alt-J Relaxer

17 Feist Pleasure

18 Yasmine Hamdan Al Jamilat

19 Angus and Julia Stone Snow

20 Chelsea Wolf Hiss Spun

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25 Albums of the Year 2016

The top 10 albums here all had incredible visuals to accompany their singles so I’ve linked the first 10 to my favourite videos.  

Quite a varied year for my tastes:

David Bowie - ★ 

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Daughter - Not to Disappear

PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

Tove Lo - Lady Wood

Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree

Lisa Hannigan - At Swim

Rihanna - ANTI

Savages - Adore Life

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

The Pretenders - Alone

DIIV - Is The Is Are

Lissie - My Wild West

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

Shura - Nothing’s Real

Banks - The Altar

Låpsley - Long Way Home

Niki & The Dove - Everybody’s Heart Is Broken Now

MIA - AIM

Solange - A Seat At the Table

Mitski - Puberty 2

Santigold - 99 Cents

Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death

Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life

Honourable Mentions:

The honourable mentions are here because 2 of them were my most anticipated albums of the year (Tori Amos / Kate Bush) but I wanted to keep my main list to all new full length studio releases.

case/lang/viers only makes an honourable due to not having enough time with it yet but I’m liking what I hear so far.

case/lang/viers - case/lang/viers

Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (Remastered)

Kate Bush - Before The Dawn (Live)

LP - Death Valley (EP)

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Top 15 Albums of the Year 2015

Each of my top 5 albums are vastly different in production and vocal stylings but all struck a chord with me emotionally and stuck with me since their release leading to many repeated listens.  All of my top 5 had fantastic videos to go with at least one of the tracks, I’ve linked my favourites below. Check ‘em out!

Albums 6-10 were much harder to choose, sometimes these end up in my top 5 depending on my mood, but although they have some phenomenal tracks, they’re slightly less consistent than 1-5.

Albums 11-15 are all albums I’ve enjoyed immensely since their release but maybe with a less emotional connection (yes, I know...considering Sufjan’s is supposedly one of the most heartbreaking albums this year...) and fewer repeated listens.

Oh and no, Carly Rae Jepson does not make my list...Sorry!

1 - Joanna Newsom - Divers

Highlights: Sapokanikan, Divers, A Pin-Light Bent, Time, As A Symptom.

2 - Björk - Vulnicura

Highlights: Black Lake, Family, Lionsong

3 - Laura Marling - Short Movie

Highlights: Walk Alone, Strange, I Feel Your Love

4 - Torres - Sprinter

Highlights: Strange Hellos, Sprinter, A Proper Polish Welcome

5 - Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs

Highlights: Accelerate, Fade Away, Delirious

6 - Beach House - Depression Cherry Highlights: Space Song, Bluebird, Levitation 7 - Jewel - Picking up The Pieces Highlights: Love Used To Be, A Boy Needs A Bike, Carnivore 8 - Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon Highlights: The Blackest Day, Terrence Loves You, Art Deco 9 - Ane Brun - When I’m Free Highlights: Still Waters, All We Want Is Love, Shape Of A Heart 10 - Grimes - Art Angels Highlights: REALiTi, Flesh without Blood, World Princess Pt. II 11 - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell Highlights: Drawn To The Blood, Should’ve Known Better, No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross. 12 - Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Highlights: What Kind of Man, Long & Lost, Various Storms & Saints 13 - Vanbot - Perfect Storm Highlights: Watching You Sleep, Trooper, Shake 14 - Nadine Shah - Fast Food Highlights: Stealing Cars, Fool, Matador 15 - Ryan Adams - 1989 Highlights: All You Had To Do Was Stay, Out of the Woods, Blank Space

Honourable Mention: Nina K - On Ice

Haven't had enough time with this album yet to decide where it should be in the ranking.  Seriously beautiful voice though.

Highlights: Impossible, Apples, U Don’t Owe.

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Final MA Project Image

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Final MA Project Image

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Chines, my MA project work, showing in the MA show (Sine Nomine) at Arts University Bournemouth from 28th August 2014 - 12 September 2014.

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Boscombe Chine

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Urban Nature

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Urban Nature

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Urban Nature