Features tagged with albums

We kick off our celebration of 2012's finest albums by looking at those that just missed out on our top fifty. The top fifty itself follows on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In the seventh installment of our monthly podcast, the team look back at the year that was and pick their favourite albums of 2011.

In our humble opinion, these twenty five albums represent the best new music that 2009 had to offer.

Forget the best of the decade - 2009 had plenty of great music to call its own and deserves its own party. Here's the first instalment of our Top 50 albums list.

Every December since 2002, No Ripcord has taken pride in publishing a Top Fifty Albums list, which draws on the collected thoughts of our writing team.This year we decided to offer you the chance to take part in the end of year shenanigans.

As promised earlier in the week, here are the 2008 album lists from our individual writers. The majority of these were used to compile our overall list, however it is worth noting a few were submitted (or changed) after the deadline, so those trying to work out the validity of our final 50 will struggle to make these fit!

Some critics would suggest that 2008 has been a barren year for exciting new music but we couldn't disagree more: our Top 50 albums list suggests it was as strong a year as any.

2008 seems to have passed us by in a blur and we’re at a loss to explain why. Some critics would suggest it’s because this has been a barren year for exciting new music but we couldn't disagree more: our Top 50 albums list suggests 2008 was as strong a year as any.

Another blast from the past: No Ripcord's top 50 albums of 2004.