I’ll begin by saying this blog about my favourite releases of the year isn’t in order of preference, the numbers are there just to make it more readable .  It’s certainly going  to appeal to those who like lists though as it’s a record of my favourite releases of the year, many of which you will have heard on the Quiet Revolution through 2017. Some have appeared in this year end list but I may not, yet, have played a track on the show. This is either because I’ve come to the record some time after release or it’s just been released very recently.

As with any year end list there will inevitably be the 2 or 3 albums that are released just after the blog has been published. C’est la vie!

I’d also recommend checking out my songs of the year blog where you can hear many of the songs from these albums that have especially resonated with me.

1. Neil McSweeney – A coat worth wearing
2. Edgelarks – Edgelarks
3. Jeremy Tuplin – I dreamed I was an astronaut
4. Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest life
5. Reg Meuross – Faraway People
6. David Ramirez – We’re not going anywhere
7. Caroline Spence – Spades and Roses
8. Billy Bragg – Bridges not walls EP
9. Jon Boden – Afterglow
10. Kacy and Clayton – The Siren’s Song
11. This is the Kit – Moonshine Freeze
12. Adam Holmes and the Embers – Midnight Milk
13. Kris Delmhorst – The Wild
14. Jim White – Waffles, Triangles and Jesus
15. Kenneth J Nash – Luna
16. Charlie Dore – Dark Matter
17. Randy Newman – Dark Matter
18. Anna Tivel – Small believer
19. The Weather Station – The Weather Station
20. Jeffrey Martin – One go around
21. Findlay Napier – Glasgow
22. Martha Tilston – Nomad
23. Peter James Millson – Mobile
24. David Rawlings – Poor David’s Almanac
25. Anna Coogan – The lonely cry of space and time
26. Ned Roberts – Outside my mind
27. The Harmed Brothers – The Harmed Brothers
28. The Barr Brothers – Queens of the breakers
29. Norrie McCullough – Bare branches
30. The Worry Dolls – Endless Road
31. Julie Byrne – Not even happiness
32. Martin Simpson – Trails and tribulations
33. The August List – Ramshackle Tabernacle
34. Daria Kulesh – Long Lost Home
35. Luke Tuchsherer – Always be true
36. The Small Glories – Wondrous Traveller
37. Otis Gibbs – Mount Renraw
38. Rose Cousins – Grace
39. Jennifer Crook – The year, she turns
40. John Smith – Headlong
41. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator
42. The Little Unsaid – Imagined hymns and changing mantras
43. Joana Serratt – Dipping springs
44. Police Dog Hogan – Wild by the side of the road
45. Aimee Mann – Mental Illness
46. Benjamin Folke Thomas – Copenhagen
47. Rachel Baiman – Shame
48. Ian Felice – In the kingdom of dreams
49. Kate Ellis – Carve me out
50. Jack Harris – The Wide Afternoon
51. Boo Hewerdine – Swimming in mercury
52. David Hosking – Butterfly net
53. Shake the Chains – Shake the chains
54. Hiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah anyhow
55. Amelia Curran – Watershed
56. Romantica – Let the light go through you
57. Josh Ritter – The Gathering
58. Sophia Marshall – Bye bye
59. Heather Lynne Horton – Don’t mess with Mrs Murphy
60. William the Conqueror – Proud disturber of the peace
61. Emily Mae Winters – Siren Serenade
62. Penguin Cafe – The Imperfect Sea
63. Bedouine – Bedouine
64. Emma Langford – Quiet giant
65. Zervas and Pepper – Leave no trace
66. Chip Taylor – A song I can live with
67. Devon Sproule – The Gold String
68. Paul McClure and the Local Heroes – Paul McClure and the Local Heroes EP
69. Chris Tye – Stronger in numbers
70. Luke Daniels – Singing ways to feel more junior
71. Robert Vincent – I’ll make the most of my sins
72. Chris Wood – So much to defend
73. Dan Clews – While Middle England mows its lawn
74. Nathan Bell – Love and fear (24 hours in traitor land)
75. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
76. Daniel Gadd – As if in a dream I drifted at sea
77. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
78. Will Stratton – Rosewood Almanac
79. Terra Lightfoot – New Mistakes
80. Offa Rex – Queen of hearts
81. Iron and Wine – Beast epic
82. Ags Connolly – Nothin’ Unexpected
83. Ryan Driver – Careless thoughts
84. Roving Crows – Bury me naked
85. Ocotillo – Songs from the City and the desert
86. Steph Cameron – Daybreak over Jackson Street
87. Danny and the Champions of the World – Brilliant light
88. Co-Pilgrim – Moon Lagoon
89. Charlie Fink – Cover my tracks
90. Simone White – Genuine fake
91. Alice Howe – You’ve been away so long EP
92. Gareth Davies-Jones – The beauty and the trouble
93. Bella Hardy – Hey Sammy
94. Hans Chew – Open sea
95. Chuck Johnson – Balsams
96. Yvonne Lyon – Metanoia
97. Ange Hardy – Bring back home
98. Peter Oren – Anthropocene
99. Daisy Chapman – Good luck songs
100. Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy – A pocket of wind resistance
101. The Bara Bara Band – The seeds inside (the grapes upon the vine)
102. The Winterlings – American son
103. Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards – California Calling
104. Adrian Crowley – Dark eyed messenger
105. Sumie – Lost in light
106. Anthony Toner – Ink
107. Dan Michaelson – First light
108. Fran Taylor – Pipedream
109. Adrian Nation – Anarchy and love
110. Robb Johnson – Songs from the last seven years
111. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker – The Birds EP
112. Julien Baker – Turn out the lights
113. Saskia Griffiths Moore – Night and day
114. The Deep Dark Woods – Yarrow
115. The Penny Black Remedy – Maintaining dignity in awkward situations
116. Richard Warren – Disentangled
117. Blue Rose Code – The water of Leith