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1. After the Party - The Menzingers 2. The King of No Man - Captain, We're Sinking 3. Gone Now - Bleachers 4. Makes Me Sick - New Found Glory 5. Spin - Tigers Jaw 6. Last Young Renegade - All Time Low 7. Precious Art - Rozwell Kid 8. After Laughter - Paramore 9. Lovely Little Lonely - The Maine 10. You're Not As _____ As You Think - Sorority Noise 11. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar 12. More Scared of You Than You Are of Me - The Smith Street Band 13. The Epilogue EP - Day At The Fair 14. Near to the Wild Heart of Life - Japandroids 15. Adornment - Grayscale 16. The Same View With A New Light - WATERMEDOWN 17. Vision - Pet Symmetry 18. Golden Fields - Poeta 19. Culture - Migos 20. Sound the Alarm EP - Less Than Jake 21. For Posterity - Dryjacket 22. Disposable EP - Super American 23. Sick Scenes - Los Campesinos! 24. Zombies on Broadway - Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness 25. Fear of Missing Out - The Bombpops 26. FUTURE - Future 27. Prisoners - Ryan Adams 28. Life Without Sound - Cloud Nothings 29. Inviting Light - The Flatliners 30. Okay. - As It Is
1. Perfume Genius - No Shape 2. Arca - Arca 3. Jay Som - Everybody Works 4. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds 5. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural 6. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions 7. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 8. Sampha - Process 9. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angels 10. Drake - More Life Unrankable: Jlin - Black Origami HM: Girlpool, The xx, Kendrick Lamar, Mono No Aware compilation, Father John Misty, Future - HNDRXX
I'm about 100 albums into this year. I like these... Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound Jonah Levine Collective - Attention Deficit The Menzingers - After The Party Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me Natalia Lafourcade - Musas Natalie Hemby - Puxico Paramore - After Laughter P.O.S - Chill, dummy Ryan Adams - Prisoner Slowdive - Slowdive Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister - Planetarium
1. The Mountain Goats - Goths 2. Code Orange - Forever 3. Jay Som - Everybody Works 4. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 5. Sampha - Progress Off the top. There are others too.
Gonna wait a couple more weeks to do this. I still need to hear Lorde, Smidley, Ratboys, Sufjan's new project, and catch up on some things I've overlooked. Current AOTY would probably be Paramore.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape Forest Swords - Compassion Sampha - Process Converge - Jane Live Mac Demarco - This Old Dog Emperor X - Oversleeps International The Menzingers - After The Party Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Midseason on my blog came at the end of April so the stuff in May/June etc isn't included. All Media Reviews: 2016-2017 Midseason Albums List 1. Anakdota - Overloading 2. Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day 3. 22 - You Are Creating: Limb 1 4. Mew - Visuals 5. The Reign of Kindo: Patreon Songs 6. Persefone - Aathma 7. Big Wreck - Grace Street 8. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar 9. The Family Crest, - Prelude to War [EP] 10. Tuxedo - Tuxedo II 11. Blackfield - V 12. Moonloop - Devocean 13. Rachel Flowers - Listen 14. The Barnum Meserve - When All is Lost 15. Waaktaar and Zoe - World of Trouble 16. Umphrey's McGee - Zonkey 17. Black Map - In Droves 18. Radical Face - SunMoonnEclippse [EP] 19. Thundercat - Drunk 20. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend Singles: 1. Fjokra - Sick Kids 2. 1000Faces - Sleeping for Dreamers (ft. Jimmy Gnecco) 3. Bend Sinister - Get Along 4. Kimbra and Young Dreams - Oban (Rework/Remix) 5. Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Electric City Rivalry 6. For the Imperium - We Cannot Face It YouTube
Off the top of my head, because I am not at home to check all my 2017 releases: Adult Mom - Soft Spots Cayetana - New Kind Of Normal Julia Lucille - Chthonic Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Karima Walker - Hands In Our Names Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me Planning For Burial - Below The House Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged Vagabon - Infinite Worlds Wild Pink - Wild Pink
1. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister - Planetarium 2. Perfume Genius - No Shape 3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
So much good shit this year. My favorites in no particular order: Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor The Menzingers - After the Party Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes Future - FUTURE/HNDRXX Web of Sunsets - Chaos Waltz Midnight Reruns - Spectator Sports Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Charly Bliss - Guppy Kendrick Lamar - Damn Jay Som - Everybody Works (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket Vagabon - Infinite Words The Migos and Yachty albums are okay but bloated. Need more listens to Gucci and Playboi Carti. Caught up on a bunch of releases within the past few days that will probably make my list. Liked a lot of other stuff, but I listened to the ones above the most.
Curious...do people exclude live albums from their lists as a rule? There have been a few really, really great ones this year (Sufjan Stevens, Sleater-Kinney, Converge) and Jane Live is most certainly a top 10 album of the year for me.
These are the big five for me right now: After Laughter - Paramore Two-Parts Viper - '68 DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar Planetarium - Sufjan Stevens (and co.) Visuals - Mew
I'm still making my albums listened spreadsheet for this year but I know Syd, Kendrick and both Future releases are gonna be on it.
I've got one album to listen to before I declare Perfume Genius my top album of the first half of the year.
I haven't gotten a chance to listen to Perfume Genius, Mountain Goats,or Bleachers yet That being said no particular order Feist Michelle Branch Nelly Furtado Aimee Mann Charli
I see All Time Low and New Found Glory mentioned a decent amount which almost makes me want to listen to them.
Paramore - After Laughter is no surprise my #1 everything else that's stuck with me in a big way: The Mountain Goats - Goths Charly Bliss - Guppy Spoon - Hot Thoughts Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions Future - Future/HNDRXX Communions - Blue Need to listen to Perfume Genius, Arca, and Alex G more than I have Also honorable mention/special shoutout to the soundtrack to Dear Evan Hansen which is pretty strong throughout (if you like musicals) and has one of my picks for best song of the year in "Waving Through a Window"