Fatherson top The Skinny Scottish Album of 2018 vote

In what’s becoming a bit of a festive tradition, we asked you lot to cast your vote for your favourite Scottish album of the last twelve months, from a ten-strong shortlist put together by our music writers. And you did. In your thousands. Thanks for that.

In third place was Dance Music, the album from Frightened Rabbit and Editors supergroup Mastersystem, while genre-straddling Glasgow five-piece LYLO came in second with their debut record Post Era.

But top of your list for 2018 was Sum of All Your Parts, the third album from Kilmarnock’s own Fatherson. It’s an album that we gave the full five stars on its release back in September, saying that it “leaves long-lasting impressions that intensify with every listen,” and clearly you lot agreed. After a headline show at the Barrowlands and topping the bill at the Alternative Peers Ball at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh last month, the band finish their 2018 with a set at Sleep In The Park in Dundee on 8 Dec.

Congratulations to Fatherson; your full top ten is below. We're revealing our music team’s pick of the year’s best albums all this week on the website, but you can read the top ten in full right now in the new print issue of The Skinny, available free at venues across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.

The Skinny's Scottish Albums of 2018: The results

1) Fatherson – Sum of All Your Parts
2) LYLO – Post Era
3) Mastersystem – Dance Music
4) Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake the Want Is
5) Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
6) The Spook School – Could it Be Different?
7) Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Here Lies the Body
8) SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
9) Martha Ffion – Sunday Best
10) Makeness – Loud Patterns

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Read our recap of the year in Scottish Music, from our December issue
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