Album Rankings for 2015

Another year, another list of albums with hyperlinks to ones I bothered to write about and ones that I listened to, rated and then either had no intention of reviewing or lost momentum to.

The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It Review

It feels like ages ago when The Maccabees returned with third album Given to the Wild, which surprised and enriched me with a loud and immense experience which, even years later, I can still enjoy as much as I did before.

The Maccabees - Given to the Wild Review

Whilst 2011’s major theme was hype, 2012 looks set to continue the trend. We have Lady Gaga already in the middle of writing a no-doubt major selling follow-up to the long, tiresome Born This Way. Muse have again promised a radical change for their sixth album and with The Killers, Bloc Party and Animal Collective marking the year their returns; it looks set to be another year of huge, heavily hyped releases and the usual batch of mediocre rubbish.

So, where does 2012’s really start? It already has kids and it’s a somewhat surprising source.