Hi friends, colleagues, acquaintances, allies, buddies, companions, strangers, comrades, moms, friends of moms, RELATIONS.
The time has come, at last. It’s been a year for the ages filled with many and lots of good and bad moments!
Without further adieu, here’s the best music I got into this year!!!! SOLID YR FOR MUSICAL ENDEAVORS AND LOTS OF FAVAORITE BANDS N ARTISTS COMBINATINGG
- The XX – I See You
- Thundercat, Drunk
- Grizzly Bear, Painted Ruins
- Vince Staples, Big Fish Theory
- SYD – Fin
- Tyler, the Creator, Flower Boy
- Spoon, Hot Thoughts
- Brand New, Science Fiction
- Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
- Moses Sumney, Aromanticism
- The National, Sleep Well Beast – and you as well beast
- SZA, CTRL
- !!! – Shake the Shudder
- Father John Misty, Pure Comedy
- Broken Social Scene, Hug of Thunder
- Ryan Adams, Prisoner
- Sampha, Process
- Queens of the Stone Age, Villains
- Miguel – War & Leisure
- N.E.R.D. – No_one Ever Really Dies
- Kamasi Washington, Harmony of Difference
- Kele – Fatherhood
- Iron and Wine – Beast Epic
- Maya Jane Coles – Take Flight
- Big Krit – 4eva is a Mighty Long Time
- Big Thief, Capacity
- Liars – TFCF
- Galantis – The Aviary
- J Roddy Walston and the Business – Destroyers of the Soft Life
- Underacheivers – Renaissance
- Brockhampton, Saturation II
- Manchester Orchestra, A Black Mile To The Surface
- Run the Jewels, Run The Jewels 3 – 2016 album but it came out so late it deserves justice again in 2017 lists. Whatever.
- The Drums – Abysmal Thoughts
- Jay-Z, 4:44
- Arcade Fire, Everything Now
- Perfume Genius, No Shape
- Tennis – Yours Conditionally
- St. Vincent, Masseduction
- Jay Som, Everybody Works
- Lupe Fiasco – DROGRAS Light
- Brockhampton, Saturation
- The New Pornographers, Whiteout Conditions
- Rostam, Half-Light
- Beck, Colors
- Bully – Losing
- Protomartyr, Relatives In Descent
- Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
- Japanese Breakfast, Soft Sounds From Another Planet
- Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me
- Mac DeMarco, This Old Dog
- Cold War Kids – LA DIVINE
- Dawd – Theory of Colors
- Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.
- Tennis – We Can Die Happy
- Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice
- Dan Auerbach, Waiting on a Song
- Japandroids, Near to the Wild Heart of Fire
- DNCE – DNCE
- HAIM, Something To Tell You
- Joey Badass – All American Bada$$
- Portugal. The Man, Woodstock
- Passion Pit – Tremendous Sea of Love
- JMSN – Whatever Makes U Happy
- Future Islands, The Far Field
- John Mayer, The Search For Everything
- Khalid, American Teen
- Bjork, Utopia
- Phoenix, Ti Amo
- Alt-J, Relaxer
- The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding
- Migos – Culture