My CDs of the year 2025

COSPLAY by Sorry

• Rarely Do I Dream by Youth Lagoon
• Saya by Saya Gray
• Bleeds by Wednesday
• Twilight Override by Jeff Tweedy
• Swirl by Flora Hibberd
• Fairyland Codex by Tropical Fuck Storm
• New Threats from the Soul by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
• Allbarone by Baxter Dury
• Begging The Night To Take Hold by Emma Pollock
• Blight by The Antlers
• Nuées ardentes by Birds On A Wire
• A Study Of Losses by Beirut
• Plan 75 (EP) by The Orchestra(For Now)
• Ekko by Tara Nome Doyle
• Snocaps by Snocaps
• More by Pulp

Live albums:
• Pieces Of Heaven: Live at the Centre Pompidou by Porridge Radio
• Wilco Live (orange) by Wilco
• Live At Zebulon (Los Angeles, April 2nd 2025) by Beak>
• Memento Mori: Mexico City by Depeche Mode
• Live Im Elfenbeinturm by Die Nerven

My CDs of the Year 2024

This Could Be Texas by English Teacher

• Real Deal by Honeyglaze
• Haus by Nichtseattle
• Patterns In Repeat by Laura Marling
• Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons
• Iechyd Da by Bill Ryder-Jones
• Doppeldenk by Gewalt
• Letter to Self by Sprints
• A Soft Seduction Daily by Malva
• NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28-340 DEAD by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me by Porridge Radio
• Ensoulment by The The
• News Of The Universe by La Luz
• Underdressed at the Symphony by Faye Webster
• Nothing, Interesting (EP) by Library Card
• Bright Future by Adrianne Lenker
• Cartoon Darkness by Amyl And The Sniffers
• Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
• Nobody Loves You More by Kim Deal
• The Night the Zombies Came by Pixies
• Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free by Bonny Light Horseman
• >>>> by Beak>
• Romance by Fontaines DC
• Wir waren hier by Die Nerven
• Below The Waste by Goat Girl
• I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore by Arab Strap
• Big Sigh by Marika Hackman
• Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee
• Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild by Merce Lemon
• 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips by Xiu Xiu

Live albums:
• Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard by Tropical Fuck Storm
• Rome by The National
• Live in Zürich and Bern by Black Sea Dahu

My CDs Of The Year 2023

Witchy Activities And The Maple Death by Monika Roscher Bigband

• everything is alive by Slowdive
• schade kaputt by Paula Paula
• Rat Saw God by Wednesday
• Le Cri du Caire by Le Cri du Caire
• I Am The River, The River Is Me by Jen Cloher
• "i/o" by Peter Gabriel
• In der fernsten der Fernen - Mascha Kaléko 2 by Dota Kehr
• Alles ist nur Übergang by All diese Gewalt
• The Orchestra In The Sky (Kobe Recordings & Tokyo Recordings) by Hochzeitskapelle
• Will Butler + Sister Squares by Will Butler + Sister Squares
• Those Are Not Songs by Kiki Bohemia
• Chaos For The Fly by Grian Chatten
• My Soft Machine by Arlo Parks
• Heaven Is A Junkyard by Youth Lagoon
• This Stupid World by Yo La Tengo
• False Lankum by Lankum
• Euphoric Recall by Braids
• Submersive Behaviour by Tropical Fuck Storm
• Multitudes by Feist
• Selva by Marta Del Grandi
• Manzanita by Shana Cleveland
• My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross by Anohni and the Johnsons
• the record by boygenius
• Silver by Say She She
• Hit Parade by Róisín Murphy
• Live At Bush Hall by Black Country, New Road
• Es schmeckt nicht by kapa tult

My CDs of the year 2022

Kommunistenlibido by Nichtseattle

• Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky by Porridge Radio
• Painless by Nilüfer Yanya
• As The Moon Rests by A.A. Williams
• Bei aller Liebe by Muff Potter
• I Am My Mother by Black Sea Dahu
• "musik" by Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen
• Nie wieder Krieg by Tocotronic
• Duo Duo by The Düsseldorf Düsterboys
• Heart Under by Just Mustard
• XI: Bleed Here Now by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief
• A Light for Attracting Attention by The Smile
• I Love You Jennifer B by Jockstrap
• Quitters by Christian Lee Hutson
• Værmin by Tara Nome Doyle
• Cruel Country by Wilco
• Live On The Internet by All Them Witches
• Inside Problems by Andrew Bird
• Wilderness of Mirrors by The Black Angels
• Cool It Down by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Marble Sounds by Marble Sounds
• The Dream by alt-J
• The Funhouse (EP) by Francis of Delirium
• Harlequin by Sofie Royer
• El Bueno Y El Malo by Hermanos Gutiérrez
• Weathering by Lucas Laufen
• Looking Glass by Alela Diane

My CDs of the year 2021

• As Days Get Dark by Arab Strap
• Vertigo Days by The Notwist
• Julius by Meskerem Mees
• Wir rufen dich, Galaktika by Dota Kehr
• Astro Tough by audiobooks
• Woanders by Masha Qrella
• Chemtrails Over The Country Club by Lana Del Rey
• Hey What by Low
• The Watchful Eye Of The Stars by Adrian Crowley
• Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra
• The Abominable EP by El Michels Affair
• Yeti Season by El Michels Affair
• Peace Or Love by Kings Of Convenience
• As The Love Continues by Mogwai
• Collapsed In Sunbeams by Arlo Parks
• For The First Time by Black Country, New Road
• B-Sides & Rarities (Part II) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Home Video by Lucy Dacus
• Distractions by Tindersticks
• I Know I’m Funny Haha by Faye Webster

My CDs of the year 2020

• Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin by Eartheater
• The Neon Skyline by Andy Shauf
• Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was by Bright Eyes
• Album by Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen
• Ich liebe dich by Dino Brandão, Faber, Sophie Hunger
• 2 by Karina
• Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
• Alles in Allem by Einstürzende Neubauten
• Beginners by Christian Lee Hutson
• A Hero‘s Death by Fontaines D.C.
• House Of Hummingbird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Matija Strniša
• Hannah by Lomelda
• Off Off On by This Is The Kit
• 925 by Sorry
• Covers by Marika Hackman
• Trip by Lambchop
• Put The Shine On by CocoRosie
• K.G. by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr
• Odin‘s Raven Magic by Sigur Ros (with composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and chanters Steindór Andersen and María Huld Markan Sidfúsdóttir)
• Every Bad by Porridge Radio
• Roísín Machine by Roísín Murphy
• some kind of peace by Ólafur Arnalds
• Positive Mental Health Music by Tiña
• Blush by Maya Hawke
• Welcome to Bobby's Motel by Pottery
• U kin B the Sun by Frazey Ford
• On&On by Daniel Blumberg
• Ground Aswim by Sinai Vessel
• Highlights zum Einschlafen by Pauls Jets
• Bonny Light Horseman by Bonny Light Horseman

Special mention: The Microphones In 2020 (video clip) by The Microphones

My CDs of the year 2019

Putzlicht by Niels Frevert
Two Hands by Big Thief

• Braindrops by Tropical Fuck Storm
• The book of traps and lessons by Kate Tempest
• Designer by Aldous Harding
• Kinship by She Keeps Bees
• Birth of violence by Chelsea Wolfe
• Stuffed & ready by Cherry Glazerr
• Norman fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey
• les failles by Pomme
• Was passiert ist by Die Heiterkeit
• Lux Prima by Karen O, Danger Mouse
• Free by Iggy Pop
• My finest work yet by Andrew Bird
• U.F.O.F. by Big Thief
• Better Oblivion Community Center by Better Oblivion Community Center
• Remind me tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten
• Crushing by Julia Jacklin
• Dogrel by Fontaines D.C.
• Wave by Patrick Watson
• South Of Reality by The Claypool Lennon Delirium

My CDs of the year 2018

Fake by DIE NERVEN

• Die besten Jahre by International Music
• God's Favorite Customer by Father John Misty
• Wanderer by Cat Power
• Landfall by Laurie Anderson
• Schafe, Monster und Mäuse by Element Of Crime
• From Gas to Solid/You Are My Friend by Soap & Skin
• High as hope by Florence & The Machine
• Among Horses III (EP) by Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
• Negative Capability by Marianne Faithfull
• Hunter by Anna Calvi
• Aviary by Julia Holter
• Molecules by Sophie Hunger
• En amont by Alain Bashung

My CDs of the year 2017

Kind by DILLON

• I See You by The XX
• Luciferian Towers by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Live by Heisskalt
• Every Country's Sun by Mogwai
• Modern Kosmology by Jane Weaver
• Jen Cloher by Jen Cloher
• Flotus by Lambchop
• Semper Femina by Laura Marling
• Preservation by Nadia Reid
• Amor Fati by Bertrand Cantat
• Cigarettes After Sex by Cigarettes After Sex
• Party by Aldous Harding
• I'm Not Your Man by Marika Hackman
• Every Valley by Public Service Broadcasting
• Science Fiction by Brand New
• Pleasure by Feist
• Dark Matter by Randy Newman
• Cluster by An Pierlé

My CDs of the year 2016

Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

• Blackstar by David BOWIE
• The Party by Andy SHAUF
• Not to Disappear by DAUGHTER
• Masterpiece by BIG THIEF
• The Wilderness by EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
• 22, A Million by BON IVER
• The Hope Six Demolition Project by PJ HARVEY
• Superheroes, Ghost-Villains & Stuff by The NOTWIST
• Puberty 2 by MITSKI
• A Moon Shaped Pool by RADIOHEAD
• Going, Going... by The WEDDING PRESENT
• Empire Builder by Laura GIBSON
• Schmilco by WILCO
• Renaud by RENAUD
• Dream Darling by The SLOW SHOW
• Guidance by RUSSIAN CIRCLES
• Heads Up by WARPAINT
• Bronze by CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX

My CDs of the year 2015

Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan STEVENS

• Ones and Sixes by LOW
• Love Songs for Robots by Patrick WATSON
• Beings by LANTERNS ON THE LAKE
• Live at the Music Hall by PHOSPHORESCENT
• The Race for Space by PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
• Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney BARNETT
• Marks To Prove by THE MACCABEES
• Edge of the Sun by CALEXICO
• Red & Black Light by Ibrahim MAALOUF
• White Water by THE SLOW SHOW
• I Love You,Honeybear by Father John MISTY
• Have You in My Wilderness by Julia HOLTER
• Grey Tickles Black Pressure by John GRANT

My CDs of the year 2013

If You Leave by DAUGHTER

• Push The Sky Away by Nick CAVE And The Bad Seeds
• Trouble Will Find Me by The NATIONAL
• Wild Light by 65DAYSOFSTATIC
• We're Not The Ones We Thought We Were by ALIN COEN BAND
• The Rules of Fire by Sophie HUNGER
• Memorial by RUSSIAN CIRCLES
• Silence Yourself by SAVAGES
• Aventine by Agnes OBEL
• Rivonia by DEAR READER
• Kveikur by SIGUR RÓS
• All Your Life - A Tribute To The Beatles by Al DI MEOLA
• Stabat Mater by MADENSUYU
• Let Your Hands Be My Guide by Chantal ACDA

My CDs of the year 2012

Narrow by SOAP&SKIN

• The Lion's Roar by FIRST AID KIT
• Algiers (& Bonus Live-CD Spiritoso) by CALEXICO
• The Light The Dead See by SOULSAVERS
• (Mankind) the Crafty Ape by CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX
• An Awesome Wave by ALT-J
• The Danger Of Light by Sophie HUNGER
• Sweet Sour by BAND OF SKULLS
• Sun by CAT POWER
• With Us Until You're Dead by ARCHIVE
• Banga by Patti SMITH
• The Scarlet Beast O' Seven Heads by GET WELL SOON

My songs of the year 2011

• Civilian by WYE OAK

• Knots by Lisa HANNIGAN
• Home by Lisa HANNIGAN
• Andere Hände by ALIN COEN BAND
• Riverside by Agnes OBEL
• Beat, Beat, My Heart by VANDAVEER
• Fox (Take Your Chances) by DEAR READER
• MONKEY (Go Home Now) by DEAR READER
• Butterfly Effect by LAMB
• One Sunday Morning by WILCO
• Claire by Baxter DURY
• Future Starts Slow by The KILLS
• The Last Goodbye by The KILLS
• The Glorious Land by PJ HARVEY
• First we kiss by Anna CALVI
• Belsch Plaasch by Serge TONNAR & LEGOTRIP
• Destroying to Save by ARBOURETUM
• The Tide Pulls From The Moon by William FITZSIMMONS
• Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain) by MOGWAI
• Allez allez allez by CAMILLE
• and FEIST
• and METRONOMY

My CDs of the year 2010

The Bad Wife by Julie CHRISTMAS

• The Suburbs by ARCADE FIRE
• High Violet by THE NATIONAL
• We were exploding anyway by 65DAYSOFSTATIC
• The FLAMING LIPS And Stardeath And White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins And Peaches Doing Dark Side Of The Moon
• 1983 by Sophie HUNGER
• Vexations by GET WELL SOON

My CDs of the Year 2009

• Lovetune for Vacuum by SOAP&SKIN
• XX by The XX
• Glitter and Doom Live by Tom WAITS
• Mirror Mirror by GHINZU
• It's Blitz by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
• Far by DINOSAUR JR
• Baby Darling Doll Face Honey by BAND OF SKULLS
• At The Cut by Vic CHESNUTT

My CDs of the year 2008

• Third by PORTISHEAD
• Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum End by SIGUR RÓS
• Music Hole by CAMILLE
• The Ruiner by MADE OUT OF BABIES