I'll have it ready soon everyone. Please be excited. It's gonna be QUITE a list. Probably got another 20 hours of deliberation but once it's complete you're gonna say WOW
I think I can make a cool list of 10 albums I really like. I'll give it another few weeks and come back.
Angel Olsen - Phases Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps U2 - Songs of Experience
Serious Q: To stand with sexual abuse victims, the etiquette here is to pretend Science Fiction wasn't the album of the year, and leave it off our EOTY lists?
I'd say it is a personal decision. I decided not to but I wouldn't fault anyone that did. I still haven't decided my future relationship with their discography.
I’d say it’s best to leave it off. It would have been my AOTY but it’s best to not recommend them to people in the future and that’s kinda what these lists do
I’m still so torn about Science Fiction. On another note, this will be the first time I’ve made a list in a long time. Feels good to have taken time for so much music this year.
1. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights 2. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely 3. Movements - Feel Something 4. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps 5. Creeper - Eternity in Your Arms 6. Grayscale - Adornment 7. Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom 8. Paramore - After Laughter 9. Code Orange - Forever 10. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
I really dug the shit out of that Angel Olsen album but not sure if I should include it since it’s a b-sides album.
I’ll finalize and post my top 30 sometime soon. Kept good track of everything this year. Also, yeah, uh, Brand New is pretty disqualified I think.
Full Lengths: 01. Dryjacket - For Posterity 02. Glassjaw - Material Control 03. Exist - So True, So Bound 04. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound 05. Chon - Homey 06. Eternal Boy - Awkward Phase 07. Reward - Music For The End Of The World 08. John Mayer - The Search For Everything 09. Nova Collective - The Further Side 10. Natalie Hemby - Puxico 11. Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets And The Migrant Flora 12. Paramore - After Laughter 13. A Will Away - Here Again 14. Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince 15. He Is Legend - few. 16. Decapitated - Anticult 17. Looming - Seed 18. WSTR - Red, Green or Inbetween 19. Greta Van Fleet - From The Fires 20. Kendrick Lamar - Damn. 21. Vattnet - Vattnet 22. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface 23. People Like You - Verse 24. So This Is Suffering - Palace For The Pessimist 25. BROCKHAMPTON - Saturation Pt. II 26. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps 27. Cytotoxin - Gammageddon 28. TWIABP - Always Foreign 29. Ben Rosett - Mellow Hype 30. Quicksand - Interiors EPs: 01. Eternity Forever - Fantasy 02. END. - From The Unforgiving Arms Of God 03. Hot Mulligan - Opportunities 04. The Traditional - The Queen Of Heaven 05. Heartsounds - Dualistic Nihilist 06. The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay 07. Drop The Girl - Survivor's Guilt 08. Polyphia - The Most Hated 09. Four Year Strong - Some Of You Will Like This, Some Of You Won't 10. Quiet Company - Your Husband, The Ghost Took them off mine... yet I kept Decapitated. I'm not so sure if they're really guilty of the crimes they're being charged with. If they end up pleading / being found guilty I certainly won't be supporting them further.
Top 20: Hodera - First Things First Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps Story of the Year - Wolves Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Always Foreign Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface Icarus The Owl - Rearm Circuits Arcade Fire - Everything Now Special Explosion - To Infinity The Oh Hellos - Notos Circa Survive - The Amulet Gang of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness Bleachers - Gone Now Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes The National - Sleep Well Beast And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering Portugal. The Man - Woodstock Backwards Dancer - Backwards Dancer Honourable mentions: American Opera - Small Victories Junior Astronomers - Body Language Head North - The Last Living Man... My friends band released an album this year and it's really, really good. But I felt biased putting it on my end of year list, so I purposely left it off; His band is called Spilt Cities and the album is called "Life, on Hold" - check it out here
1. A Black Mile to the Surface - Manchester Orchestra 2. Turn Out the Lights - Julien Baker 3. The Yunahon Mixtape - Oso Oso 4. After the Party - The Menzingers 5. Lovely Little Lonely – The Maine 6. I Just Want to Go Back to Hell - You Vandal 7. As You Please - Citizen 8. Good Nature - Turnover 9. The Amulet - Circa Survive 10.Gone Now - Bleachers 11. After Laughter – Paramore 12. Always Foreign - The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die 13. DAMN. – Kendrick Lamar 14. Cities In Search of a Heart – The Movielife 15. Spin – Tigers Jaw 16. The Last Living Man Alive Ever In The History of the World – Head North 17. Precious Art – Rozwell Kid 18. American Fall – Anti-Flag 19. The King of No Man – Captain, We’re Sinking 20. The Epilogue EP – Day at the Fair 21. Golden Fields - Poeta 22. Greatest Hits – Remo Drive 23. Adornment - Grayscale