1. Perfume Genius - No Shape 2. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal 3. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 4. Kendrick Lamar - Damn 5. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory 6. The Menzingers - After the Party 7. Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, & James McAlister – Planetarium 8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 9. Paramore - After Laughter 10. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural 11. Slowdive - Slowdive 12. (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket 13. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds 14. Lorde - Melodrama 15. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 16. Future – HNDRXX 17. Desperate Journalist - Grow Up 18. Smidley - Smidley 19. Caddywhompus - Odd Hours 20. Fiver - Audible Songs From Rockwood 21. The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are of Me 22. Valerie June - The Order of Time 23. '68 - Two Parts Viper 24. Harry Styles - Harry Styles 25. Bleachers - Gone Now 26. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness 27. Tricot – 3 28. Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls 29. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 30. Sylvan Esso - What Now 31. Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in this Town 32. Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes 33. Migos – Culture 34. Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged 35. Vasudeva - No Clearance 36. Ryan Adams – Prisoner 37. Holly Throsby - After a Time 38. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life 39. Leif Vollebekk - Twin Solitude 40. Grandaddy - Last Place 41. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness 42. Tigers Jaw – Spin 43. Real Estate - In Mind 44. Spoon - Hot Thoughts 45. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape 46. Jay Som - Everybody Works 47. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 48. Wednesday Campanella - Superman 49. Football, Etc. – Corner 50. Dead Man Winter - Furnace Honorable Mentions: All Them Witches, Jesca Hoop, Aye Nako, Diet Cig, Fionn Regan, Ali Barter, Dirty Projectors, Drugstore Ghost, White Reaper, Kelly Lee Owens, The Weeks, Matthew Ryan This was a very difficult Top 50 and that's without The National, Lana, Manchester, TWIABP, War on Drugs, and probably a lot of others that I'm forgetting haha. Fucking phenomenal year.
it's so good. i'm kind of surprised no one else mentioned it here. it's definitely in my top 5 for the year so far.
1) MisterWives - Connect The Dots 2) London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing 3) Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up 4) San Fermin - Belong 5) Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now 6) The xx - I See You 7) Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory 8) Sampha - Process 9) SOHN - Rennen 10) Stormzy - Gang Signs and Prayer 11) MUNA - About U 12) Spoon - Hot Thoughts 13) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound 14) Lorde - Melodrama 15) Hippo Campus - landmark 16) Portugal. The Man - Woodstock 17) Sylvan Esso - What Now 18) Beach Fossils - Somersault 19) Overcoats - Young 20) Bleachers - Gone Now Next 5: Kendrick Lamar, Colony House, Algiers, Chris Stapleton, Mount Eerie 5 More I'm Looking Forward To: Haim - Something To Tell You Mutemath - Play Dead Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
I cannot fathom someone hearing Stormzy and thinking it's better than Kendrick. And I like Stormzy. Misterwives was not good. Jesca Hoop is legit though.
Idk if I think it's "better", but I've gone back to Stormzy more. "Cold" and "Blinded By Your Grace Pt 2" are two of my favorites for the year. Both are great.
1. The Maine - LLL 2. Paramore - After Laughter 3. The Menzingers - After The Party 4. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick 5. Day Wave - The Days We Had 6. MUNA - About U 7. All Time Low - Last Renegade 8. Lorde - Melodrama 9. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 10. Dry Jacket - For Posterity
Happened to be perusing Metacritic and saw that Creeper is a top five album from this year on the site. Gross haha.
personally when i make these lists i worry about what i like the most and im not narcissistic enough to assume that my ranking of what i like is the same as a ranking as what's objectively the best
I assume that's what everybody does, yes. That's good of you considering there is no such thing as "objectively the best."
Because I cannot fathom someone hearing Stormzy and thinking it's better than Kendrick. I'm not complaining about it lol. He can think what he wants about two albums that both of us like haha.
1. Post Malone - Stoney (fight me) 2. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN 3. Lorde - Melodrama 4. Calvin Harris - Funk Vol. 1 5. Paramore - After Laughter 6. Drake - More Life 7. Northlane - Mesmer 8. Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti 9. Bleachers - Gone Now 10. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely Top song: Tyler The Creator - 911/Mr. Lonely Looking forward to: Tyler The Creator, Manchester Orchestra, Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Turnover, Pianos, Circa Survive, Eminem (hopefully), Post Malone, The Killers, August Burns Red.
I threw it on mine. It's one of those albums I can't put down at all. Really hoping beerbongs and bentleys drops this year.
You should check them (obviously I think that since they're on my list). I think the Yachty album is deeply misjudged and Charli is making the best pop music around imo.
I'm a casual fan of Charli so it's definitely high on my list right now. I'll get around to Yachty soon enough. I haven't heard anything from him but I followed along in the thread so I have no clue what to expect haha. Other than that cello line lol.