Hammerman Ikon’s favourite albums from the recent years.
2019
1. James Blake: Assume Form
2. Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising
3. Big Thief: U.F.O.F.
4. Angel Olsen: All Mirrors
5. Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love
6. Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka
7. Chromatics: : Closer to Grey
8. Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow
9. Elbow: Giants of All Sizes
10. Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild
2018
1. U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited
2. Low: Double Negative
3. Mitski: Be the Cowboy
4. George Fitzgerald: All That Must Be
5. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer
6. Beach House: 7
7. Blood Orange: Negro Swan
8. Robyn: Honey
9. Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts
10. Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy
Pusha T: Daytona
Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose
Phosphorescent: C’est La Vie
2017
1. The XX: I See You
2. Perfume Genius: No Shape
3. Lorde: Melodrama
4. Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors
5. LCD Soundsystem: American Dream
6. Broken Social Scene: Hug of Thunder
7. The War on Drugs: A Deeper Understanding
8. The Horrors: V
9. Kendrick Lamar: DAMN
10. Destroyer: ken
Fever Ray: Plunge
Four Tet: New Energy
Plaid: The Digging Remedy
Spoon: Hot Thoughts
St. Vincent: Masseduction
2016
1. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
2. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
3. Christine and the Queens: Chaleur Humaine
4. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
5. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
6. Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book
7. James Blake: The Colour in Anything
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
9. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
10. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
Angel Olsen: My Woman
Todd Terje and the Olsens: The Big Cover-Up
2015
1. Miguel: Wildheart
2. Low: Ones and Sixes
3. Jamie XX: In Colour
4. Empress Of: Me
5. Susanne Sundfør: Ten Love Songs
6. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
7. Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon
8. Beach House: Thank Your Lucky Stars
9. Beach House: Depression Cherry
10. Destroyer: Poison Season
Chvrches: Every Open Eye
Faith No More: Sol Invictus
John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Julia Holter: Have You in My Wilderness
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
Tame Impala: Currents
2014
1. Sun Kil Moon: Benji
2. Todd Terje: It’s Album Time
3. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream
4. Sharon Van Etten: Are We There?
5. Interpol: El Pintor
6. St. Vincent: St. Vincent
7. Wild Beasts: Present Tense
8. FKA Twigs: LP1
9. Perfume Genius: Too Bright
10. Caribou: Our Love
The Black Keys: Turn Blue
Elbow: The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Lykke Li: I Never Learn
2013
1. John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts
2. Kanye West: Yeezus
3. Chvrches: The Bones of What You Believe
4. James Blake: Overgrown
5. Arctic Monkeys: AM
6. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires in the City
7. Atoms for Peace: AMOK
8. Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus
9. The Flaming Lips: The Terror
10. Local Natives: Hummingbird
The Arcade Fire: Reflektor
Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe
Cut Copy: Free Your Mind
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
Janelle Monáe: The Electric Lady
The National: Trouble Will Find Me
Queens of the Stone Age: …Like Clockwork
Sigur Rós: Kveikur
65daysofstatic: White Light
Telekinesis: Dormarion
2012
1. Dirty Projectors: Sweet Lo Magellan
2. Rufus Wainwright: Out of the Game
3. Passion Pit: Gossamer
4. Chromatics: Kill for Love
5. Beach House: Bloom
6. Grizzly Bear: Shields
7. Spiritualized: Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
8. The Bowerbirds: The Clearing
9. Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky’s Edge
10. Animal Collective: Centipede Hz
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
El-P: Cancer for Cure
Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Shearwater: Animal Joy
Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
Jessie Ware: Devotion
2011
1. Bon Iver: Bon Iver
2. Destroyer: Kaputt
3. James Blake: James Blake
4. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
5. Kanye West & Jay-Z: Watch the Throne
6. St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
7. The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient
8. The Antlers: Burst Apart
9. Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes
10. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
The Black Keys: El Camino
British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall
Cut Copy: Zonoscope
Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys!
Feist: Metals
Justice: Audio, Video, Disco
My Morning Jacket: Circuital
TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light
Tom Waits: Bad as Me
2010
1. Beach House: Teen Dream
2. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Vampire Weekend: Contra
4. Yeasayer: Odd Blood
5. The National: High Violet
6. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
7. The Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
8. John Grant: Queen of Denmark
9. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
10. Four Tet: There Is Love in You
I am Kloot: Sky at Night
Local Natives: Gorilla Manor
Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid
Midlake: The Courage of Others
The Morning Benders: Big Echo
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelag
2009
1. The Antlers: Hospice
2. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
4. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
5. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
6. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
7. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
8. Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor
9. The Decemberists: Hazards Of Love
10. Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid
The Bowerbirds: Upper Air
Julian Casablancas: Phrazes for the Young
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night of the Soul
Doves: Kingdom Of Rust
Mew: No More Stories
The Mummers: Tale to Tell
DM Stith: Heavy Ghost
2008
1. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
2. Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
3. Portishead: Third
4. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
5. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
6. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Kanye West: 808s & Heartbreak
8. Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
9. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
10. Metronomy: Nights Out
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park
Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams
The Dodos: Visiter
Glasvegas: Glasvegas
Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
Shearwater: Rook
Supergrass: Diamond Hoo Ha
The Walkmen: You & Me
2007
1. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
2. The National: Boxer
3. Radiohead: In Rainbows
4. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
5. Miracle Fortress: Five Roses
6. The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
7. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
8. The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
9. Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
10. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
The Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur
The Earlies: The Enemy Chorus
Feist: The Reminder
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Richard Hawley: Lady’s Bridge
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2006
