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
- Lahai – Sampha
- Stereo Mind Games – Daughter
- JUNGLE – The Blaze
- The Big Mess – Tanlines
- Laugh Track – The National
- Halo – Bakar
- The Record – Boygenius
- This Is Why – Paramore
- Water Made Us – Jamila Woods
- Careful Of Your Keepers – This is the Kit
- Prize – Rozi Plain
- Good Living is Coming for You – Sweeping Promises
- Cracker Island – The Gorillaz
- Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps
- Changing Channels – Pangea
- Integrated Tech Solutions – Aesop Rock
- First Two Pages of Frankenstein – The National
- Everything Is Going to Be OK – GOGO Penguin
- Indiana Jones – Boldy James
- Desire, I Want To Turn Into You – Caroline Polachek
- One More Time… – Blink 182
- Continue As A Guest – The New Pornographers
- The Flames Pt 2 – Kele
- Where You Really Live – Ghost Rock
- LIES – Lies
- THE AUX – Blockhead
- THAT! FEELS GOOD! – Jessie Ware
- Space Heavy – King Krule
- portrait of a dog – Jonah Yano
- Sun Arcs – Blue Lake
- Heaven Is a Junkyard – Youth Lagoon
- Alchemy – Disclosure
- New Blue Sun – Andre 3000
- Javelin – Sufjan
- LXXXVIII – Actress
- Everything Went Well – Weval
- Sundial – No Name
- Debbie’s Son – Maxo
- Slugs of Love – Little Dragon
- Johnny – The Drums
- Pollen – Tennis
- Formal Growth In The Desert – Protomartyr
- AUSTIN – Post Malone
- END – Explosions in the Sky
- Action Adventure – DJ Shadow
- To What End – Oddisee
- The Rat Road – SBTRKT
- VOIR DIRE – Earl Sweatshirt
- Falling or flying – Jorja Smith
- 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