Nobody getting involved with this? I’m usually 2 or 3 months behind whatever is brand new, but some of the things I’ve listened to most this year (off the top of my head and not in order):
I’m always useless at cutting these down, but these are my faves of the year, that I can remember.
St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
Bjork - Utopia
Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Slowdive - Slowdive
Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
LCD Soundsystem - american dream
Lorde - Melodrama
The Big Moon - Love In the 4th Dimension
Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
Ride - Weather Diaries
Sylvan Esso - What Now
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Sampha - Process
Future Islands - Far Field
Menace Beach - Lemon Memory
tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Favourite Single = Confidence Man - Boyfriend (repeat)
Favourite non-2017 albums discovered this year = Slowdive - Souvlaki, Ride - Going Blank Again, If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest, Nils Frahm - Solo
I hate the cherry-picking of tracks prevalent with today’s Spotify generation. I buy online and even if an “autorip” is offered I’ll buy the CD too. Artist make fuck-all from album sale these days because of it.
Respect the artistic effort put into a collection of music and buy the whole album.