Ahead of revealing our top twenty EPs of the year, we’re pleased to present the big one: our Top 30 Irish Albums of the Year. Was it a tricky to compile? Very. It’s never easy but it’s always a pleasure. We say it every year but it’s undeniable: the last twelve months have been nothing short of revelatory, and we fully believe the following list of LPs shine a beaming floodlight on what the island of Ireland has to offer, from transcendent traditional revivalism and world-beating hip-hop to obliterating noise and Motorik-driven kosmische worship.
30. Eoin Dolan – UBIQUE
29. Frankenstein Bolts – Aglow & Spark
28. Rory Nellis – There Are Enough Songs In The World
27. Talos – Wild Alee
26. Fionn Regan – The Meetings Of The Waters
25. Davy Kehoe – Short Passing Game
24. Come On Live Long – In The Still
23. Group Zero – Structures and Light
22. Alien She – Feeler
21. The Cyclist – Flourish
20. Joshua Burnside – Ephrata
19. Crevice – In Heart
18. Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home
17. Contour – Appropriation
16. Slow Place Like Home – When I See You… Ice Cream!
15. Guilty Optics – Colossal Velocity
14. Shrug Life – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
13. Bear Worship – WAS
12. Cat Palace – why don’t you // why don’t you, go off
11. Arvo Party – Arvo Party
10. Half Forward Line – The Back of Mass
9. Rejjie Snow – The Moon & You
8. Ships – Precession
7. Our Krypton Son – Fleas & Diamonds
6. And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering
5. New Jackson – From Night To Night
4. The Jimmy Cake – Tough Love
3. The Bonk – Seems To Be a Verb
2. Lankum – Between The Earth and Sky
1. Percolator – Sestra
