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Humo Albums Of The Year 1983

Punch The Clock

1) Punch The Clock - Elvis Costello
2) Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads
3) Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
4) Synchronicity - The Police
5) Thriller - Michael Jackson
6) Riding With The King- John Hiatt
7) Mike's Murder - Joe Jackson
8) Mummer - XTC
9) Hearts And Bones - Paul Simon
Proof Through The Night - T-Bone Burnett



Humo Albums Of The Year 1984

1) Goodbye Cruel World - Elvis Costello
2) Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
3) Love Wars - Womack & Womack
4) Caribbean Sunset - John Cale
5) Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
6) Purple Rain - Prince
=) The Big Express - Xtc
8) Diamond Life - Sade
9) Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
10) Big Chill (Soundtrack)
Cover - Tom Verlaine
From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1985

1) Steve Mc Queen - Prefab Sprout
=) The Dream Of The Blue Turtles - Sting
=) Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
4) Live At The Harlem Square Club - Sam Cooke
5) Words Of The Shaman - David Sylvian
6) Love In Bright Landscapes - The Triffids
7) The Firstborn Is Dead - Nick Cave
=) Meat Is Murder - The Smiths
9) Little Creatures - Talking Heads
10) In The World - Microdisney
=) Let's Stay Together - Al Green




Humo Albums Of The Year 1986

King Of America

1) King Of America - The Costello Show
2) Graceland - Paul Simon
3) No Guru, No Method, No Teacher - Van Morrison
4) Your Funeral, My Trial - Nick Cave
5) The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
6) Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids
7) Baby, The Stars Shine Bright - Everything But The Girl
8) So - Peter Gabriel
9) Blood & Chocolate - Elvis Costello
10) Kicking Against The Pricks - Nick Cave

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1987

Sign O The Times

1) Sign Of The Times - Prince
2) Bring The Family - John Hiatt
3) Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths
4) Frank's Wild Years - Tom Waits
5) Poetic Champions Compose - Van Morrison
6) By The Light Of The Moon - Los Lobos
7) Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
8) Secrets Of The Beehive - David Sylvian
9) Tunnel Of Love - Bruce Springsteen
10) Nothing Like The Sun - Sting



Humo Albums Of The Year 1988

1) Rattle & Hum - U2
2) Lovesexy -Prince
3) Slow Turning - John Hiatt
=) Viva Hate - Morrissey
5) Tender Prey - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6) Temple Of Low Men - Crowded House
7) Naked - Talkings Heads
8) This Note's For You - Neil Young & The Blue Notes
9) Land Of Dreams - Randy Newman
=) Rank - The Smiths

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1989

01. Lou Reed - New York
02. Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
03. Pixies - Doolittle
04. XTC - Oranges & Lemons
05. Elvis Costello - Spike
06. Neil Young - Freedom
07. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
08. Tin Machine - Tin Machine
09. B-52's - Cosmic Thing
10. K.T. Oslin - This Woman
11. American Music Club - United Kingdom
12. De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
13. Wendy & Lisa - Fruit At The Bottom
14. Rodney Crowell - Collection
15. Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels




Humo Albums Of The Year 1990

01. Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For 'Drella'
02. Neil Young - Ragged Glory
03. Replacements - All Shook Down
04. Pixies - Bossanova
05. Morrissey - Bona Drag
06. Paul Mc Cartney - Tripping The Live Fantastic
07. Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
08. La's - La's
09. Prefab Sprout - Jordan, The Comeback
10. Green - White Soul
11. Los Lobos - In The Neighborhood
12. Wendy & Lisa -Eroica
13. Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
14. Blow Monkeys - Springtime For The World
15. Romans - Trigger Happy

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1991

01. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
02. U2 - Achtung Baby
03. Nirvana - Never Mind
04. Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
05. Prince - Small Club, Second Show (Live Bootleg)
06. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
07. Elvis Costello - Mighty Like A Rose
08. Ice T - O.G. - Original Gangster
09. Tin Machine - Tin Machine 2
10. Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
11. Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example
12. Alice Donut - Revenge Fantasies Of The Impotent
13. Nova Mob - The Last Days Of Pompei
14. Crowded House - Woodface
15. American Music Club - Everclear



Humo Albums Of The Year 1992

Copper Blue

01. Sugar - Copper Blue
02. Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
03. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
04. Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
05. John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
06. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
07. Elvis Presley - The Complete Fifties Masters
08. Galliano - In Pursuit Of The Thirteenth Note
09. Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline
10. Wallflowers - Wallflowers
11. B-52's - Good Stuff
12. Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Compagnon
13. Prince & The New Power Generation - Love Symbol
14. Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue
15. Los Lobos - Kiko

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1993

01. Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
02. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
03. John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
04. Nirvana - In Utero
05. Masters Of Reality - Sunrise Of The Sufferbus
06. David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day
07. Sugar - Beaster
08. Beatles - 1962-1966 & 1967-1970
09. David Bowie - Black Tie, White Noise
10. World Party - Bang!
11. Henry Rollins - The Boxed Life
12. Waterboys - Dream Harder
13. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
14. Lemonheads - Come On Feel
15. Cocteau Twins - Four Calender Cafe




Humo Albums Of The Year 1994

01. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
02. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
03. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
04. Soundgarden - Superunknown
05. Fatima Mansions - Lost In The Former West
06. Deus - Worst Case Scenario
07. Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
08. David Sylvian - Damage
09. Live - Throwing Copper
10. Tragically Hip - Day For Night
11. Shane Mac Gowan - The Snake
12. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
13. R.E.M. - Monster
14. Van Morrison - A Night In San Francisco
15. Sugar - File Under : Easy Listening

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1995

01. Scott Walker - Tilt
02. Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
03. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
04. Neil Young - Mirror Ball
05. Therapy? - Infernal Love
06. Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad
07. Catherine Wheel - Happy Days
08. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
09. The Symbol (Prince) - Hallowed By The Name (Bootleg - Vorst Nationaal)
10. Bjork - Post
11. The Symbol (Prince) - Paradiso (Bootleg - Amsterdam)
12. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
13. Radiohead - The Bends
14. The Symbol (Prince) - The Gold Experience
15. Passengers - Original Soundtracks 1




Humo Albums Of The Year 1996

01. Deus - In A Bar, Under The Sea
02. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
03. Eels - Beautiful Freak
04. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
05. Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites
06. Beck - Odelay
07. Pearl Jam - No Code
08. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wiskkah
09. T.A.F.K.A.Prince. - Emancipation
10. Beatles - Anthology 2
11. Me'shell Ndege'ocello - Peace Beyond Passion
12. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
13. Genius - Liquid Swords
14. Cocteau Twins - Milk And Kisses
15. Evil Superstars - Love Is Okay

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1997

OK Computer

01. Radiohead - Ok Computer
02. U2 - Pop
03. Ry Cooder - Buena Vista Social Club
04. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
05. Brad - Interiors
06. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
07. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
08. Primal Scream - Echo Dek
09. Jayhawks - Sound Of Lies
10. David Bowie - Earthling
11. Portishead - Portishead
12. Pieter-Jan De Smet - August
13. Various - The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers - A Tribute
14. Paul Weller - Heavy Soul
15. Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms




Humo Albums Of The Year 1998

01. R.E.M. - Up
02. Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
03. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Colombian
04. Portishead - Roseland Nyc Live
05. Pearl Jam - Yield
06. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
07. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Song
08. Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart, The Drunk
09. Madonna - Ray Of Light
10. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
11. The Artist - New Power Soul
12. Pearl Jam - Live On Two Legs
13. Joni Mitchell - Taming The Tiger
14. Beck - Mutations
15. Bob Dylan - Live 1966 : The Royal Albert Hall Concert

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Humo Albums Of The Year 1999

1. Deus - The Ideal Crash
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
3. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
4. Xtc - Apple Venus Vol. 1
5. Moby - Play
6. Randy Newman - Bad Love
7. Spain - She Haunts My Dreams
8. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
9. Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby
10. Blur - 13
11. Beck - Midnite Vultures
12. Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
13. Peter Wolf - Fool’s Parade
14. Ben Harper - Burn To Shine
15. Los Lobos - This Time




Humo Albums Of The Year 2000


1. Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
2. Pj Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
3. Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy
4. The Gourds - Bolsa De Agua
5. Johnny Dowd - Temporary Shelter
6. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
7. Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree
8. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
9. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
10. Eminem - The Marshall Masters Lp
11. David Poe - David Poe
12. Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody
13. Primal Scream - Exterminator
14. The Apples In Stereo - The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moon
15. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2001

1) No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave
2) Is This It - The Strokes
3) White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
4) It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse
5) All Is Dream - Mercury Rev
6) Souljacker - Eels
7) Love And Theft - Bob Dylan
=) Regeneration - Divine Comedy
=) Things We Lost In The Fire - Low
=) The Argument - Fugazi
=) No Such Place - Jim White




Humo Albums Of The Year 2002

1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
2) Sea Change - Beck
3) Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
4) Original Pirate Material - The Streets
5) Human Conditions - Richard Ashcroft
6) The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
7) Candy Comfort - Neeka
8) Have You Fed The Fish? - Badly Drawn Boy
9) The Eminem Show - Eminem
=) They Threw Us All In Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top - Liars
=) Travelogue - Joni Mitchell

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2003

Elephant

1) Elephant - The White Stripes
2) Room On Fire - The Strokes
3) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
4) Sumday - Grandaddy
5) Love Is Hell, Pt. 1 & 2 - Ryan Adams
=) Keep On Your Mean Side - The Kills
7) Boy In Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal
8) Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian
9) Admiral Freebee - Admiral Freebee
10) De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta



Humo Albums Of The Year 2004

1) A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
2) Bubblegum Mark - Lanegan Band
3) Abattoir Blues-The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4) A Grand Dont't Come For Free - The Streets
5) In De Fik - Flip Kowlier
6) How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
7) The Libertines - The Libertines
8) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
 =) Antics - Interpol
10) Real Gone - Tom Waits
 =) Perpetuum Mobile - Einstürzende Neubauten
 =) Morrissey, You Are The Quarry - Morrissey
 =) French Bazaar - Arno
 =) Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2005

1) Come On Feel The Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
2) 'Z' - My Morning Jacket
3) Funeral - Arcade Fire
4) I Am A Bird Now - Antony & The Johnsons
5) Lcd Soundsystem - Lcd Soundsystem
6) Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
7) Arular - M.I.A.
8) Ruby Blue - Roisin Murphy
9) You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
10) Songs - Admiral Freebee




Humo Albums Of The Year 2006

1) American V: A Hundred Highways - Johnny Cash
2) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
3) Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
4) Silent Shout - The Knife
5) Jarvis - Jarvis Cocker
6) So This Is Goodbye - Junior Boys
7) Modern Times - Bob Dylan
8) The Greatest - Cat Power
9) Let It Roll - Willard Grant Conspiracy
10) The Drift - Scott Walker
11) St. Elswhere - Gnarls Barkley
12) The Warning - Hot Chip
13) Wild Dreams Of New Beginnings - Admiral Freebee
14) Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
15) Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
16) Return To Cookie Mountain - Tv On The Radio
17) Orphans - Tom Waits
18) Sno Angel Like You - Howe Gelb
19) Derdang Derdang - Archie Bronson Outfit
20) Keys To The World - Richard Ashcroft

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2007

1) The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
2) Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
3) Kala - M.I.A.
4) 23 - Blonde Redhead
5) Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip
6) Icky Thump - The White Stripes
7) Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
8) Robbers & Cowards - Cold War Kids
9) Sound Of Silver - Lcd Soundsystem
10) Grinderman - Grinderman
11) In Rainbows - Radiohead
12) Pride - Phosphorescent
13) Untrue - Burial
14) Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age
15) Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
16) 360° - Mintzkov
17) Yes, U - Devastations
18) Overpowered - Roisin Murphy
19) Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
20) Comicopera - Robert Wyatt




Humo Albums Of The Year 2008

1) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2) Oracular Spectacular - Mgmt
3) The Age Of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
4) Santogold - Santogold
5) Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6) Jukebox - Cat Power
7) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
8) Third - Portishead
9) For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
10) Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
10) The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
10) Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
13) Antidotes - Foals
13) Forth - The Verve
13) Pilgrim Road - Willard Grant Conspiracy
13) Street Horrsing - Fuck Buttons
13) Brighter Than Creation's Dark - Drive-By Truckers
18) Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
18) Welcome To The Blue House - Tim Vanhamel
18) Dear Science - Tv On The Radio
18) Temporary People - Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
18) All We Could Do Was Sing - Port O' Brien
18) 'EP' - Crystal Antlers

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2009

The XX

1) 'XX ' - The XX
2) Oh My God, Charlie Darwin -The Low Anthem
3) Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
4) Grace-Wastelands - Peter Doherty
5) The Hickey Underworld -The Hickey Underworld
6) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
7) Fever Ray - Fever Ray
8) Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
8) It's Blitz! -Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10) Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle -Bill Callahan
11) Christmas In The Heart - Bob Dylan
12) Keep An Eye On The Sky (An Anthology) - Big Star
12) Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
12) Harry Patch (In Memory Of) -Radiohead
12) There Is An Ocean That Divides … - Scott Matthew
12) The Airing Of Grievances - Titus Andronicus
17) Glasvegas - Glasvegas
18) Gurrumul - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
19) The Crying Light - Antony And The Johnsons
19) Manafon - David Sylvian
19) Hold Time - M. Ward
19) Black Summer's Night - Maxwell

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2010

The Suburbs

1) The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
2) Learning - Perfume Genius
3) Brothers - The Black Keys
4) The Promise - Bruce Springsteen
5) Wake Up The Nation - Paul Weller
6) High Violet - The National
7) Queen Of Denmark - John Grant
8) Wilderness Heart - Black Mountain
9) Same Stars We Shared - Amatorski
10) Crooks & Lovers - Mount Kimbie
11) Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
12) Le Noise - Neil Young
13) Cmyk + Klavierwerke - James Blake
14) Black Noise - Pantha Du Prince
15) Band Of Joy - Robert Plant
16) True Love Cast Out All Evil - Roky Erickson
17) The Calcination Of Scout Niblett - Scout Niblett
18) Hidden - These New Puritans
19) Contra - Vampire Weekend
20) Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom


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Humo Albums Of The Year 2011

Let England Shake

1) Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
2) Last Of The Country Gentlemen - Josh T. Pearson
3) James Blake - James Blake
4) Black Up - Shabazz Palaces
5) Skying - The Horrors
6) Demolished Thoughts - Thurston Moore
7) Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
8) 'Bon Iver - Bon Iver
9) Bad As Me - Tom Waits
10) Whokill - Tune-Yards
11) With U EP - Holy Other
12) The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
13) TBC - Amatorski
14) Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 - Beastie Boys
15) Burst Apart - The Antlers
16) Passed Me By - Andy Stott
17) Smoke Ring For My Halo - Kurt Vile
18) Lioness - Amy Winehouse
19) A Solitary Man - Jonathan Jeremiah
20) Believers - A.A. Bondy

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2012

Alt-J

1) An Awesome Wave - Alt-J
2) Kill For Love - Chromatics
3) Locked Down - Dr. John
4) World Music - Goat
5) Fragrant World - Yeasayer
6) Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
7) Fin - John Talabot
8) Standing At The Sky's Edge - Richard Hawley
9) Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
10) Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
11) America Give Up - Howler
12) Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors
13) Blunderbuss - Jack White
14) Coexist - The Xx
15) Born To Sing: No Plan B - Van Morrison
16) Put Your Back N 2 - It Perfume Genius
17) Ekstasis - Julia Holter
18) The Light The Dead See - Soulsavers
19) Shields Grizzly Bear
20) Http://Www.Itstartshear.Com & These Walls Of Mine - Peter Broderick
21) Rats - Balthazar
22) R.I.P. - Actress
23) Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
24) Fence - Fence
25) Bloom - Beach House

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2013



1) Wakin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
2) Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
3) Reflektor - Arcade Fire
4) Am - Arctic Monkeys
5) Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave
6) Shaking The Habitual - The Knife
7) Trouble Will Find Me - The National
8) Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
9) The Terror - The Flaming Lips
10) Engravings - Forest Swords
11) Loud City Song - Julia Holter
12) Psychic - Darkside
13) Excavation - The Haxan Cloak
14) Tomorrow's Harvest - Boards Of Canada
15) Another Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
16) ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
17) Field Of Reeds - These New Puritans
18) One Breath - Anna Calvi
19) Amok - Atoms For Peace
20) Slow Focus - Fuck Buttons


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Humo Albums Of The Year 2014


Thwe War On Drugs


1. Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs
2. Heal - Strand Of Oaks
3. Our Love - Caribou
4. Jungle - Jungle
5. Benji - Sun Kil Moon
6. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
7. Love - Amen Dunes
8. Sunbathing Animal - Parquet Courts
9. The Physical World - Death From Above 1979
10. Rtj And Rtj2 - Run The Jewels
11. Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar - Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters
12. Salad Days - Mac Demarco
13. Croz - David Crosby
14. World Of Joy - Howler
15. A Taste Of Struggle - A/T/O/S
16. Ruins - Grouper
17. Faith In Strangers - Andy Stott
18. Divide And Exit - Sleaford Mods
19. From Clay To Figures - Amatorski
20. Neutral Village Massacre - Gruppo Di Pawlowski

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2015


Kendrik Lamar

1. To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
2. Carrie & Lowell - Suf Jan Stevens
3. Currents - Tame Impala
4. B’lieve I’m Goin Down… - Kurt Vile
5. Hollow Meadows - Richard Hawley
6. Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett
7. In Colour - Jamie Xx
8. Shadows In The Night - Bob Dylan
9. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
10. Thin Walls - Balthazar
11. No Cities To Love - Sleater-Kinney
12. Key Markets - Sleaford Mods
13. Garden Of Delete - Oneohtrix Point Never
14. Modern Blues - The Waterboys
15. Alone In The Universe - Jeff Lynne’s Elo
16. 1989 - Ryan Adams
17. Sauna - Mount Eerie
18. West Kirby County Primary - Bill Ryder-Jones
19. The Epic - Kamasi Washington
20. Rktkn#2 - Raketkanon

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2016

1. Teens Of Denial - Car Seat Headrest
    Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
3. Blackstar - David Bowie
4. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
5. Ruminations - Conor Oberst
6. 22, A Million - Bon Iver
7. You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
8. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
9. Blonde - Frank Ocean
10. Golden Sings That Have Been Sung - Ryley Walker
11. Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar
12. Malibu - Anderson.Paak
13. Adore Life - Savages
14. Schmilco - Wilco
15. Let Them Eat Chaos - Kate Tempest
     Front Row Seat To Earth - Weyes Blood
     Light Upon The Lake - Whitney

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2017

1. A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs
2. Damn. - Kendrick Lamar
3. Big Fish Theory - Vince Staples
4. A Crow Looked At Me - Mount Eerie
5. The Animal Spirits - James Holden
6. Drunk - Thundercat
7. American Dream - Lcd Soundsystem
8. Run The Jewels 3 - Run The Jewels
9. Sciencing - Millionaire
10. Melodrama - Lorde
     The Emancipation Procrastination - Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah


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Humo Albums Of The Year 2018

1. 7 - Beach House
2. Negative Capability - Marianne Faithfull
3. Double Negative - Low
4. Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album - John Coltrane
5. Heaven And Earth - Kamasi Washington
6. Room 25 - Noname
7. Bottle It In - Kurt Vile
8. Daytona - Pusha T
9. The Horizon Just Laughed - Damien Jurado
10. Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts
11. Freedom - Amen Dunes
12. True Meanings - Paul Weller
13. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
14. Singularity - Jon Hopkins
15. Beyondless - Iceage
16. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe
17. In The Cold Light Of Monday - Novastar
18. Now Only - Mount Eerie
19. Joy As An Act Of Resistance - Idles
20. Look Now - Elvis Costello


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Humo Albums Of The Year 2019



1. U.F.O.F. - Big Thief
2. Magdalene – FKA Twigs
3. Two Hands - Big Thief
4. Ghosteen - Nick Cave
5. Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood
6. No Home Record - Kim Gordon
7. Norman Fucking Rockwell! - Lana Del Rey
8. Deceiver - Diiv
9. Wie Is Guy? - Zwangere Guy
10. Schlagenheim - Black Midi
11. Dogrel - Fontaines D.C.
12. All Mirrors - Angel Olsen
13. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
14. I, I - Bon Iver
15. Further - Richard Hawley
16. Grey Area - Little Simz
17. Designer - Aldous Harding
18. Igor - Tyler, The Creator
19. Brutaal - Zwangere Guy
20. The Book Of Traps And Lessons - Kate Tempest

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2020


1) RTJ4 – Run The Jewels
2) Punisher – Phoebe Bridgers
3) Untitled (Black Is) + Untitled (Rise) – Sault
4) Fetch The Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
5) In Velvet – Nordmann
6) Ultra Mono – Idles
7) Set My Heart On Fire Immediately – Perfume Genius
8) Bitterzoet – Eefje De Visser
9) We Are Sent Here By History – Shabaka And The Ancestors
10) Rough And Rowdy Ways – Bob Dylan
11) Folklore – Taylor Swift
12) A Hero’s Death – Fontaines D.C.
13) Mordechai – Khruangbin
14) Gold Record – Bill Callahan
15) Source – Nubya Garcia
16) Letter To You – Bruce Springsteen
17) Kitchen Sink – Nadine Shah
18) On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment - Ambrose Akinmusire
19) On Sunset – Paul Weller
20) High Risk Behaviour – The Chats


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Humo Albums Of The Year 2021


1. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert – Little Simz
2. New Long Leg – Dry Cleaning
3. Hey What – Low
4. Promises – Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders
5. Julius – Meskerem Mees
6. Back to the Future – Sons of Kemet
7. Bright Green Field – Squid
8. Carnage – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
9. Familie Boven Alles – Stikstof
10. Spiral – Darkside
11. An Evening with Silk Sonic – Silk Sonic
12. Is Er Iets? – Madou
13. Collapsed in Sunbeams – Arlo Parks
14. Ignorance – The Weather Station
15. I Don’t Live Here Anymore – The War On Drugs
16. Raise the Roof – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
17. Holler and Shout – Novastar
18. Foundations – Deewee
19. Pray for Haiti – Mach-Hommy
20. Several Others – Whispering Sons
21. Crawler – Idles

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2022



1. Topical Dancer – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
2. Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C.
3. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers – Kendrick Lamar
4. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
5. Cheat Codes – Danger Mouse & Black Thought
6. Big Time – Angel Olsen
7. Marble Sounds – Marble Sounds
8. Melt My Eyez See Your Future – Denzel Curry
9. A Light For Attracting Attention – The Smile
10. Sahar – Tamino
11. Motomami – Rosalia
12. Dawn Of The Freak – The Haunted Youth
13. Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning
14. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow – Weyes Blood
15. Ants From Up There – Black Country, New Road
16. Everything Was Beautiful – Spiritualized
17. Aethiopes – Billy Woods
18. I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me – King Hannah
19. Gold – Alabaster Deplume
20. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You – Big Thief
21. I Love You Jennifer B – Jockstrap
22. Harry’s House – Harry Styles

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Humo Albums Of The Year 2023


HUMO 2023

1. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You – Caroline Polachek
2. Maps – Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
3. Javelin – Sufjan Stevens
4. The Record – Boygenius
5. Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd – Lana Del Rey
6. Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? – Kara Jackson
7. Prize – Rozi Plain
8. Guts – Olivia Rodrigo
9. I Inside The Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey
10. Heavy Heavy – Young Fathers
11. Hackney Diamonds – The Rolling Stones
12. Rat Saw God – Wednesday
13. Water Made Us – Jamila Woods
14. ‘Heaven’ & ‘Gold’ – Cleo Sol
15. Radical Romantics – Fever Ray
16. Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds. – Yves Tumor
17. Droomvoeding – Brihang
18. Angels & Queens Part II – Gabriels
19. Seven Psalms – Paul Simon
20. Scaring The Hoes – Jpegmafia & Danny Brown
21. Hit Parade – Róisín Murphy
22. The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We – Mitski
23. Secret Life – Fred Again.. & Brian Eno