Best of the best of the best, sir. Might be the most mainstream list I’ve put out in years.

Proof that I actually listened to these artists!! Random playlist of stuff I gathered this year

  1. Lahai – Sampha
  2. Stereo Mind Games – Daughter
  3. JUNGLE – The Blaze
  4. The Big Mess – Tanlines
  5. Laugh Track – The National
  6. Halo – Bakar
  7. The Record – Boygenius
  8. This Is Why – Paramore
  9. Water Made Us – Jamila Woods
  10. Careful Of Your Keepers –  This is the Kit
  11. Prize – Rozi Plain
  12. Good Living is Coming for You – Sweeping Promises
  13. Cracker Island – The Gorillaz
  14. Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps
  15. Changing Channels – Pangea
  16. Integrated Tech Solutions – Aesop Rock
  17. First Two Pages of Frankenstein – The National
  18. Everything Is Going to Be OK – GOGO Penguin
  19. Indiana Jones – Boldy James
  20. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You – Caroline Polachek
  21. One More Time… – Blink 182
  22. Continue As A Guest – The New Pornographers
  23. The Flames Pt 2 – Kele
  24. Where You Really Live – Ghost Rock
  25. LIES – Lies
  26. THE AUX – Blockhead
  27. THAT! FEELS GOOD! – Jessie Ware
  28. Space Heavy – King Krule
  29. portrait of a dog – Jonah Yano
  30. Sun Arcs – Blue Lake
  31. Heaven Is a Junkyard – Youth Lagoon
  32. Alchemy – Disclosure
  33. New Blue Sun – Andre 3000
  34. Javelin – Sufjan
  35. LXXXVIII – Actress
  36. Everything Went Well – Weval
  37. Sundial – No Name
  38. Debbie’s Son – Maxo
  39. Slugs of Love – Little Dragon
  40. Johnny – The Drums
  41. Pollen – Tennis
  42. Formal Growth In The Desert – Protomartyr
  43. AUSTIN – Post Malone
  44. END – Explosions in the Sky
  45. Action Adventure – DJ Shadow
  46. To What End – Oddisee
  47. The Rat Road – SBTRKT
  48. VOIR DIRE – Earl Sweatshirt
  49. Falling or flying – Jorja Smith
  50. Heavy Heavy – Young Fathers


HONORABLE MENTIONS

  • Lackthereof – New Devonian
  • Rat Saw God – Wednesday
  • Quarenta – Danny Brown
  • Rescued – Foo Fighters
  • For the Dogs – Drake
  • Slowdive
  • College Park – Logic
  • In Times New Roman – Queens of the Stone Age
  • Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
  • Andy Shauf – Norm
  • King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Plant Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation