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, perhaps even equally but ordered arbitrarily 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 beyond the top 10 or so (though we have, again, probably unwisely, listed them in numerical order…)

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. Lonely Tourist – Takes A Lot Of Beating (Tourist Info)

2. Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore (Rock Action)

3. Broken Chanter – Chorus Of Doubt (Chemikal Underground)

4. Adam Ross – Littoral Zone (Fika)

5. Jewel Scheme – Jewel Scheme (Gargleblast)

6. Jill Lorean – Peace Cult (Monohands)

7. Immigrant – Catch A Hail Mary (Immigrant Music)

8. Slovenly Hooks – Make Or Mar (Baba Yaga)

9. Wojtek The Bear – Shaking Hands With The NME (Last Night From Glasgow)

10. Afterlands – We Are the Animals in the Night (Lost Map)

11. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand (So)

12. Withered Hand / Kathryn Williams– Willson Williams (OLI)

13. BMX Bandits – Dreamers On The Run (Tapete)

14. Port Sulphur – Meta Guru (Creeping Bent)

15. Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)

16. The Martial Arts – In There Like Swimwear (WIAIWYA)

17. Philip Joseph Rae – A Marvellous Work and A Wonder (KFM)

18. ÜLV– Revenant (Tiny)

19. Neutrals – New Town Dream (Slumberland)

20. Gillian Fleetwood– Together With Yourself At Sea Level (download)

21. Gates of Light – Gates of Light II (LNFG)

22. Dominic Waxing Lyrical – Diminuet (Innis Orr)

23. A Sudden Burst of Colour – Galvanize (download)

24. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Daylight (Plastique Recordings)

25. Adam Stafford – Daylight Slavings (Gerry Loves)

26. Gurry Wurry – Happy For Now (download)

27. Dragged Up – High On Ripple (DU)

28. How To Swim – Bars’n’Loners (download)

29. Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)

30. Ex- – Forewarned Is Forearmed (download)

31. Snowgoose> – Descendant (Violette)

32. The Cathode Ray – Advance Retreat (Stereogram)

33. Beerjacket – Hourglass (download)

34. Neu Gestalt – Dreaming Serpents (Alex Tronic)

35. Redolent – Dinny Greet (Post Electric)

36. The Muldoons – We Saw The View (The Beautiful Music)

37. Erland Cooper – Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence (Mercury)

38. Crysanths – Leave No Shadow (Chemikal Underground)

39. The Kaisers – More From The Kaisers (download)

40. Outblinker – Outblinker (GoldMold)

41. Scoorieboy – On Scald Law (2506780 DK)

42. Kilgour – How To Put Your Hat On (LNFG)

43. Scorpio Leisure – Scorpio Leisure (LNFG)

44. Bunkhouse – My Reptile Brain (download)

45. Hamish Brown – Barsini Red (download)

46. Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On (Clay Pipe)

47. Autumn 1904 – Tales of Innocence (LNFG)

48. Man of Moon – Machinism (download)

49. Walt Disco – The Warping (Lucky Number)

50. Dead Pony – Ignore This (Lab Records)

*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.