Another year has evaporated and it is now 2016, and my 9th last.fm anniversary.

Last.fm’s implemented a whole load of changes most of which I don’t really like but the improved graphs are interesting – looking back on mine I can see I didn’t listen to as much music as I usually do this year. I missed a lot of the big releases and will no doubt get into them belatedly over the next few months, but in the meantime here’s what I enjoyed listening to the most in 2014.

A L B U M S

I find it kinda interesting that my top 3 albums this year came from female artists seeing as how I usually listen to way more more male artists than female for whatever reason…

Favourite albums:

• Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
• Grimes – Art Angels
• Coal – The Ruse

Others I enjoyed, in no particular order:

• Florence + the Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
• Glass Animals — ZABA
• Modest Mouse — Strangers to Ourselves
• Cannibal Ox — Blade of the Ronin
• Foals — What Went Down
• Sakawa Boys — V EP
• Viet Cong — Viet Cong
• Tape Hiss and Sparkle — The Winter Switch
• Wire – Wire
• Carly Rae Jepsen — Emotion
• Infanteria – Where Serpents Conquer

T R A C K S

Favourite track:

• Grimes – Kill V. Maim

Others I enjoyed, in no particular order:

• Susanne Sundfør – Accelerate
• Tiger Lou — Homecoming #2
• Aesop Rock — Cat Food
• Coal – Train
• Florence and the Machine – What Kind of Man
• Adele – Hello
• Grimes – Flesh without Blood
• Julian Redpath — Follow you down
• De Rosa — Spectres
• Calexico — Bullets & Rocks
• Sakawa Boys — Sakawa
• Viet Cong — Silhouettes
• The Jungle Giants — Every Kind Of Way
• Modest Mouse — Ansel
• Tape Hiss and Sparkle — Like Keys On a Kite String
• Glass Animals — Flip
• Will Butler — Anna
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown
• Carly Rae Jepsen — Run Away with Me
• Cannibal Ox — Gotham (Ox City)
• The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face

L I V E

Most enjoyable gigs I’ve attended this year:

Oppikoppi festival was unreal, and hands down my favourite musical experience of the year. Wow.

Paolo Nutini and Ben Howard also surprised me and I enjoyed their shows a lot.

The Hog Hoggidy Hog tribute at Rocking the Daisies was one of the most emotional performances I witnessed this year.

My favourite gig to photograph was probably One Eight Seven’s launch at Club Med, it was just insane. This year I also started shooting a lot more metal and really, really enjoyed the shows I attended. Standouts are Eluveitie, Protest the Hero and Infanteria‘s surreal and highly entertaining parking lot gig at Paul Bothner N1 City.

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Happy listening in 2016 :)