2016 – L.P.s (11-40)

So here’s the first batch of MPT’s favourite albums of the year. Included below are some very fine records indeed that 5 years ago would have been comfortably in the Top 10. There’s also a number that are probably underappreciated due to a lack of airtime. On with the show … 11. Sophia – As…

2016 – E.P.s

Meursault photo by Andy Catlin If 2016 brought me an uncharacteristic number of singles then the opposite was true of E.P.s. With previous E.P. stalwarts such as Book Group and the Paranoid Style concentrating instead on albums, it was something of a fallow year for E.P.s. But I’ve still put together a short list of…

2016 – Top 20 Singles

For some reason I seem to have got a lot more singles, in one form or another, than normal this year. I’ll concede that the definition of ‘single’ is more flexible than in the days of 7″s and albums but think the following list makes a pretty diverse (and great) playlist for 2016. Often I’m…

2016 – Live

Hell – that was some year for gigs. And there were a good few that I managed to miss for one reason or another. Live band of the year? A tough one but it’s difficult to look past the Triffids and Friends even, if like last year, it’s on the basis of just the one…

My Favourite Albums of 2016 by Andy Wood

Ela Orleans photo: Alkistis Terzi Years don’t have much more than an arbitrary feel to them yet 2016 has taken something of a beating as the scapegoat for a number of events out with its control. Still, despite that, I’ve been handed the unenviable task of putting together a list of my favourite albums of…

2016 – Boxset of the Year

Spare Snare’s limited edition ‘Dundee Church for the Deaf’ takes the first of MPT’s 2016 honours. A very limited edition release (still a few left here) this 3 CD set covers Spare Snare demos from the time of the band’s first 3 albums. A mixture of different takes, originals and covers, it’s the sort of…