Well, it’s fair to say things have been somewhat quiet around Jockrock Towers lately, but there’s always room for a top 30 end of year chart.

So, once again, a look at (some of) the year’s top music from Scotland. It’s worth saying that while the top 5 or so are the albums we enjoyed these these past 12 months, after that it becomes more of a list of some of the good stuff we’ve come across, descending into an unseemly random selection by the time we get towards #30 (though we have, perhaps unwisely, numbered them…)

So, without further ado, here’s some of what what you hopefully already know from the past 12 months. And if not, have a listen…

1. Lichen Slow – Rest Lurks (Rock Action)

2. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)

3. Sun’s Signature – Suns’s Signature (Extended) (Bella Union)

4. Spare Snare – The Brutal (Chute)

5. King Creosote – I DES (Domino)

6. Slow_The_Tape – a quiet remainder of the day (Autoclave)

7. Hamish Hawk – Angel Numbers (Fire)

8. Meursault – Meursault (Common Grounds)

9. HiFi Sean & David McAlmont – Happy Ending (Plastique / Last Night From Glasgow)

10. Mull Historical Society – In My Mind There’s A Room (Xtra Mile)

11. Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers (Rough Trade)

12. There Will Be Fireworks – Summer Moon (the imaginary kind)

13. Paper Machine Music – The Bare Bones (Much Better)

14. Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters (Domino)

15. Sweeney Straddles The Sun– Advert For The Deprived (Boffo Bear)

16. Sulka– Distractions (Lost Map)

17. Weird Wave– Lost Map Presents… (Lost Map)

18. Raveloe – Exit Light (Olive Grove)

19. Popup – Promise (Last Night From Glasgow)

20. Silver Moth – Black Bay (Rock Action)

21. Post Coal Prom Queen – Music for First Contact (PCPQ)

22. Withered Hand – How To Love (Reveal)

23. Erland Cooper – Folded Landscapes (Bella Union)

24. Owen McAulay – Music in Darkness (Sans Culottes)

25. Broken Records – The Dreamless Sleep Of The 1990s (J Sharp)

26. The Bucky Rage – Living In A Cult (Bucky Rage)

27. Fiona Soe Paing – Sand Silt Flint (FSP)

28. Carla J Easton – Sugar Honey (Olive Grove)

29. Conscious Route – Belterz (True Hold)

= 30. Roy Moller – Songs From Be My Baby (The Beautiful Music)

= 30. Sensory Illusions – Sensory Illusions II (Karaoke Kalk)

*Usual E&OE. We’re bound to have forgotten some album or other, so if your favourite is missing then best just assume that rather than it being (IMO) rubbish, it simply got overlooked, perhaps by just being so good everyone was dazzled by its brilliance or it had become so much a part of our lives that it was hiding in plain sight.