Back in 2003 GIITTV was born, intended as a music and culture webzine aimed at celebrating music. Originally a basic yahoo Geocities site featuring the music writing of Bill Cummings, Mike Mantin, and Alex Worsnip, it steadily grew over the years undergoing various redesigns and evolutions until we reach 2018 where through the hard work of our writing and fantastic sub-editing team (Loz Etheridge, Toni Spencer, Dean Mason, Simon Godley and Anastasia Connor) we have carved our own place in the world giving a platform to writers, artists and musicians of every level. Today, we celebrate our over 15 years as a website by picking 15 of our favourite albums since the site’s beginnings in 2003. By no means definitive but these are some of the albums we have written about and that have stuck with us. As always, thanks for reading.
Bill Cummings
- Mew – Frengers
- Goldfrapp – Supernature
- The Decemberists – Picaresque
- M.I.A – Kala
- Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
- Guillemots -Through the Windowpane
- Ladytron – Witching Hour
- Long Blondes – Someone To Drive You Home
- Late of the Pier – Fantasy Black Channel
- Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – S/T
- Chromatics- Kill For Love
- LoneLady – Hinterland
- Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
- Angel Olsen – My Woman
Loz Etheridge
- The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
- Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator
- Tom Waits – Bad As Me
- Gruff Rhys – American Interior
- Benjamin Zephaniah – Naked
- Rico – Violent Silences
- First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
- Drive-By Truckers – American Band
- Brakes – Give Blood
- Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
- The National – High Violet
- The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
- IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
- Jetplane Landing – Backlash Cop
- Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II
Toni Spencer
- Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
- Green Day – American Idiot
- Panic! At The Disco – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
- Brigade – Lights
- KT Tunstall – Drastic Fantastic
- Brigade – Come Morning We Fight
- Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
- Union Sound Set – Start/Stop
- The Blackout – Hope
- Flutes – Flutes
- Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
- Taylor Swift – 1989
- Halo Tora – Omni\One
- The Anchoress – Confessions Of A Romance Novelist
- Counterfeit – Together We Are Stronger
Jonathan Wright
- Broadcast – Tender Buttons
- Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
- Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
- Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
- Róisín Murphy – Overpowered
- Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time
- Britney Spears – Blackout
- The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight
- Antony & The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
- Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too
- Solange – A Seat At The Table
- Rachel Stevens – Come & Get It
- Portishead – Third
- KING – We Are King
Andy Page
- The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart
- Meilyr Jones – 2013
- Josh Rouse – Nashville
- The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
- Beach House – Bloom
- Anne – Dream Punx
- Marika Hackman – That Iron Taste
- Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
- Adam Green – Gemstones
- Grandaddy – Sumday
- Splashh – Comfort
- Sweet Baboo – Boombox Ballads
- The Strokes – Room On Fire
- Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
- Levy – Glorious
Ed Jupp
- Burial- Untrue
- The Last Battle- Heart Of The Land, Soul Of The Sea
- White Stripes- Elephant
- PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
- Broken Records- Until The Earth Begins To Part
- M.I.A – Arular
- Withered Hand – Good News
- Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
- Michael Kiwanuka – Love And Hate
- David Bowie- Blackstar
- Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country
- Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
- Bjork – Vulnicura
- Bill Fay – Life Is People
- Lisa Gerrard – Twilight Kingdom
Tim Russell
- Shack – Here’s Tom With the Weather
- Kraftwerk – Tour de France Soundtracks
- Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
- jj – jj no2
- Gravenhurst – The Western Lands
- Cut Copy – Free Your Mind
- A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
- David Bowie – Blackstar
- Radio Dept – Running Out of Love
- Jordan Ireland & Purple Orchestra – s/t
- Sigur Ros – Valtari
- Richard Hawley – Cole’s Corner
- Suede – Night Thoughts
- Tindersticks – The Something Rain
- Bohren und der Club of Gore – Piano Nights
