13. SURFEROSA - Shanghai My Heart

This was second in my list at one point this year.  I mean, at the time I’d only bought two albums which came out this year, but hey…  This is just crazy fun pop lunacy.  And it makes me smile.  An album I really needed at the time when I got it (I was in a pretty bad place and was only listening to Nick Cave and the like).  It reminds me of The Start in many ways.  There is 80s pop and 90s rock at work here, and it makes for a bounce-tastic record.  And ‘German Socks’ is insane.  They must have been taking drugs when they wrote/recorded that.  Surely…