Chop's Top Fives

Happy Christmas everyone! Whatever you do I hope you have a lovely day. This is my song of the year. It was the first of three tunes relea...

For those of you who've been with me from day 1 this is the final part of the Lindsay Corstorphine trilogy. Sauna Youth were the first o...

I'm writing these a few days in advance so I'm not sure if I've published my Top 5 Albums of 2015 yet but I can certainly say th...

Most of the tunes in my Top 25 are from albums that I've also enjoyed but this is a song that caught my attention in isolation. The tall...

Into my top 5 songs of the year now. The Wave Pictures have been pushing out great tunes at a rate of knots for some time now but this yea...

I got into Sleater-Kinney just after they went on hiatus, the best part of 10 years ago, so was particularly excited by their return to reco...

This came a little out of the blue, after a gap of some five years since triple album Have One on Me . It almost sounded too good to be true...

Ezra Furman has had an amazing year, playing bigger & bigger venues and releasing an album, Perpetual Motion People , that seems to have...

Things have gone stratospheric for Courtney Barnett this year, seems crazy to think she was playing pub sized venues less than 18 months ago...

Part 2 of the Lindsay Corstorphine trilogy. Monotony are Sauna Youth playing different instruments. I forget now which band I heard first bu...

Something a little more melodic after Sleaford Mods. This is considerably more easy going than my normal fair but I absolutely love it. One ...

It took me a while to give Sleaford Mods a proper listen despite the fact I almost saw them live in 2009 (before Andrew Fearns joined). The ...

I really liked the previous tunes I'd heard by Samantha Crain, she's played regularly by Marc Riley, but I absolutely loved the 6mus...

Low have become one of my very favourite bands over the last few years. Their latest album, Ones and Sixes , continued a fantastic run of al...

I got to see Thee Oh Sees live less than a fortnight ago and they blew my mind. A band I'd been meaning to get into for a while but hadn...

Wreckless Eric is best known for his time on Stiff Records, and his 1977 single (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World . He's been a regular ...

Another band that originated as a solo project. Sadie Dupuis began recording her own material while teaching songwriting at a summer camp. T...

This is simply astonishing. A lovely sparse arrangement with Kathryn's piano to the fore. Vocally reminiscent of Joanna Newsom but this ...

The first of three entries for bands featuring Lindsay Corstorphine, a musician who seems to be so prolific he's almost formed his own g...

Chalk & cheese. This couldn't be further in style from yesterday's pop pick. I'm still getting to grips with the album but P...