It’s that time of year again. Time to review the tunes gracing the studio jukebox over the last twelve months. Hastily cobbled together… rejoice! It’s the Barnbrook team’s top albums of 2011.

In Alphabetical order by surname:

Abbott:
1. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
2. Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
3. Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX – We’re New Here
4. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
5. Little Dragon – Ritual Union
6. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
7. Modeselektor – Monkeytown
8. SBTRKT – SBTRKT
9. Martyn – Ghost People
10. Machinedrum – Room(s)

Barnbrook:
1. Silvio Berlusconi – True Love
2. John Foxx & The Maths – Interplay
3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
4. Massive Attack – Occupy London Mix
5. Various – The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1
6. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
7. Deliah Derbyshire – A Retrospective
8. RJDJ – Music Generation app.
9. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
10. Wolfgang Riechmann – Wunderbar

Streat:
1. Nicolas Jaar – Space is Only Noise
2. Radiohead – King of Limbs
3. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
4. James Blake – James Blake
5. tUnE-YarDs – W H O K I L L
6. Little Dragon – Ritual Union
7. Zomby – Dedication
8. Grouper – A I A
9. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
10. Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go

It's that time of year again – all the polls have been released except this very one; with bated breath you await the result. Yes! It's the Barnbrook team's top albums of 2010.

In Alphabetical order by surname:

Abbott
1. Scuba – Triangulation
2. Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
3. Breakage – Foundation
4. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
5. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
6. Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz
7. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
8. Caribou – Swim
9. Das Racist – Sit Down, Man
10. Four Tet – There Is Love In You

Barnbrook
1. The Tone Generation podcast
2. John Foxx – Metatronic
3. Rare Frequency podcast
4. Max Romeo – War Ina Babylon
5. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
6. Iggy Pop – The Idiot
7. Bill Hicks – Dark Poet
8. Suicide – Suicide
9. An Electric Storm – White Noise (featuring Delia Derbyshire)
10. Bvdub – The Art of Dying Alone

Streat
1. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
2. Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
3. Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer
4. James Blake – Klavierwerke EP
5. Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
6. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
7. Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers
8. Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here
9. Das Rascist – Sit Down
10. Serfina Steer – Change is Good, Change is Good

If you want to know what our top albums of 2009 were, check out this blog post.

You’re bored of looking at the Pitchfork polls, you’ve been though Drowned in Sound, now it’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Hurrah! It’s the Barnbrook team’s top albums of 2009.

We’ve agonised over it for hours and we’re still not quite sure it’s right, but still, here goes…
In Alphabetical order by surname:

Abbott:
1. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
4. The XX – The XX
5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
6. Ben Frost – By The Throat
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
8. Martyn – Great Lengths
9. Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
10. Broken Note – Terminal Static

Barnbrook:
1. John Foxx – The Quiet Man
2. Rhythm & Sound – The Versions
3. Neu! – Neu!
4. Samuel Beckett – Krapps Last Tape (Audiobook)
5. TheThe – Infected
6. Crystal Castles – Thrash/Thrash/Thrash
7. The XX – The XX
8. La Monte Young Marian Zazeela, The Theatre of Eternal Music – Dream House 78′ 17″
9. Zbigniew Preisner – La Double Vie De Veronique (Soundtrack of film directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski)
10. A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos Complete Original Score

Streat:
1. Micachu – Jewelry
2. The XX – The XX
3. Alela Diane – To Be Still
4. King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
6. Hyperdub 5 : 5
7. Girls – Album
8. Ben Frost – By The Throat
9. St. Vincent – Actor
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion