Nov 2, 2020

The Best Albums Of 2019

Top 50










  1. Dogrel - FONTAINES D.C.     
  2. I am easy to find - THE NATIONAL
  3. U.F.O.F. / Two hands - BIG THIEF
  4. Schlagenheim - BLACK MIDI
  5. Leaving meaning - SWANS
  6. Purple Mountains - PURPLE MOUNTAINS
  7. Remind me tomorrow - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  8. All mirrors - ANGEL OLSEN
  9. Why hasn't everything already disappeared? - DEERHUNTER
  10. Stunning luxury - SNAPPED ANKLES
  11. White stuff - ROYAL TRUX
  12. Somebody's knocking - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  13. Sunshine rock - BOB MOULD
  14. No home record - KIM GORDON
  15. Designer - ALDOUS HARDING
  16. When I have fears - THE MURDER CAPITAL
  17. Amyl And The Sniffers - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
  18. First taste - TY SEGALL
  19. Bad wiring - JEFFREY LEWIS & THE VOLTAGE
  20. Deceiver - DIIV
  21. The practice of love - JENNY HVAL
  22. Anima - THOM YORKE
  23. Serfs up! - FAT WHITE FAMILY
  24. So removed - WIVES
  25. The seduction of Kansas - PRIESTS
  26. The center won't hold - SLEATER-KINNEY
  27. Father of the bride - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
  28. Humanworld - PETER PERRETT
  29. Ghosteen - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  30. Ex:Re - EX:RE
  31. Closer to grey - CHROMATICS
  32. Lost girls - BAT FOR LASHES
  33. Any human friend - MARIKA HACKMAN
  34. Close it quietly - FRANKIE COSMOS
  35. Boat - PIP BLOM
  36. Everything not saved will be lost part 1 / Everything not saved will be lost part 2 - FOALS
  37. Lux Prima - KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE
  38. Ladytron - LADYTRON
  39. This is not a safe place - RIDE
  40. It's real - EX HEX
  41. Help us stranger - THE RACONTEURS
  42. These times - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
  43. Dusty notes - MEAT PUPPETS
  44. Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery - THE COMET IS COMING
  45. Proto - HOLLY HERNDON
  46. Venus in Leo - HTRK
  47. Birth of violence - CHELSEA WOLFE
  48. Stuffed & ready - CHERRY GLAZERR
  49. Beneath the eyrie - PIXIES
  50. Psychedelic country soul - THE LONG RYDERS
 
Also recommended: 
 
Memory - VIVIAN GIRLS, Weird - JULIANA HATFIELD, Better Oblivion Community Center - BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER, Beyond the door - REDD KROSS, King's mouth - THE FLAMING LIPS, Anak Ko - JAY SOM, Sacred dreams - JOSEFIN OHRN AND THE LIBERATION, Vol 4 - Slaves of fear - HEALTH, Highway hypnosis - SNEAKS, Tallies - TALLIES, 3 - NOTS, Thrashing thru the passion - THE HOLD STEADY, I need a new war - CRAIG FINN, What nature gives... nature takes away - MEMBRANES, The talkies - GIRL BAND, In search of the miraculous - DESPERATE JOURNALIST, The competition - LOWER DENS, Adult baby - KAZU, Heartbreak - UNLOVED, IGOR - TYLER, THE CREATOR, Hyperspace - BECK, Ode to joy - WILCO, Warmer - JEFF TWEEDY, Western stars - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Oh my God - KEVIN MORBY, Reward - CATE LE BON, Emerald valley - FILTHY FRIENDS, Scatter the rats - L7, The age of immunology - VANISHING TWIN, The book of traps and lessons - KATE TEMPEST, Flashback - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, Side effects - WHITE DENIM, Inferno - ROBERT FORSTER, This (is what I wanted to tell you) - LAMBCHOP, A bath full of ecstasy - HOT CHIP, Pang - CAROLINE POLACHEK, Wraith - TEETH OF THE SEA, Black Friday - PALEHOUND, An obelisk - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Face stabber - OH SEES, The long goodbye - PERE UBU, The Brian Jonestown Massacre - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Zeppelin over China - GUIDED BY VOICES, Warp and woof - GUIDED BY VOICES, Sweating the plague - GUIDED BY VOICES, Fishing for fishies - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Infest the rats’ nest - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Vols. 11 and 12 - DESERT SESSIONS, Phoenix - PEDRO THE LION, I made a place - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Gallipoli - BEIRUT, No treasure but hope - TINDERSTICKS, Wheeltappers and Shunters - CLINIC, Brickbat - PIROSHKA, Future ruins - SWERVEDRIVER, Athena - SUDAN ARCHIVES, Flamagra - FLYING LOTUS, Further - RICHARD HAWLEY, Dizzy spells - PATIENCE, Happy in the hollow - TOY, Get tragic - BLOOD RED SHOES, The imperial - THE DELINES, The devil you know - THE COATHANGERS, I have to feed Larry's hawk - TIM PRESLEY'S WHITE FENCE, We wanna be hyp-no-tized - SPIRAL STAIRS, Almost free - FIDLAR, Why you so crazy - THE DANDY WARHOLS, The modern age - SLEEPER, Good Fuck - GOOD FUCK, Myth of a man - NIGHT BEATS, Assume form - JAMES BLAKE, Encore - THE SPECIALS, Buoys - PANDA BEAR, Exploding head syndrome - THE TELESCOPES, What chaos is imaginary - GIRLPOOL, Terms of surrender - HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, My finest work yet - ANDREW BIRD, Kinship - SHE KEEPS BEES, Providence - SHANNON WRIGHT, Dreaming the dark - TAMARYN, Crushing - JULIA JACKLIN, Whoosh - THE STROPPIES, Lung bread for daddy - DU BLONDE, Don’t you think you’ve had enough - BLEACHED, Persistence - WITCHING WAVES, Strange creatures - DRENGE, Montage images of lust and fear - THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH, In league with dragons - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, There will be no intermission - AMANDA PALMER, I also want to die in New Orleans - SUN KIL MOON, It won't be like this all the time - THE TWILIGHT SAD, Still here - THE BEASTS, Tasmania - POND, Laughing matter - WAND, 6 Lenins - THE PROPER ORNAMENTS, Big wows - STEALING SHEEP, Stonechild - JESCA HOOP, Winter sun - ELVA, Violet street - LOCAL NATIVES, Powers - THE FUTUREHEADS, Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres - PETER DOHERTY AND THE PUTA MADRES, Wallop - !!!, Interview music - IDLEWILD, Ex voto - VERSUS, Brutalism - THE DRUMS, Office politics - THE DIVINE COMEDY, Jeanines - JEANINES, Til the Morning - THE CATENARY WIRES, House of sugar - (SANDY) ALEX G, Metronomy forever - METRONOMY, Hot motion - TEMPLES, Pang! - GRUFF RHYS, 2020 - RICHARD DAWSON, LAHS - ALLAH LAS, Veils of winter - BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT, Networker - OMNI, All in good time - EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, Devour you - STARCRAWLER, Spectre - LIGHTNING DUST, Sonic citadel - LIGHTNING BOLT, War music - REFUSED, Juice B crypts - BATTLES, Inflorescent - FRIENDLY FIRES, How to live - MODERN NATURE, Cry - CIGARETTES AFTER SEX, Quiet signs - JESSICA PRATT, Beware of the dogs - STELLA DONNELLY, Enderness - AA BONDY, Water - DEHD, Free - IGGY POP, Pony - ORVILLE PECK, Tip of the sphere - CASS MCCOMBS, Badbea - EDWYN COLLINS, Here comes the cowboy - MAC DEMARCO, Sound and fury - STURGILL SIMPSON, Jaime - BRITTANY HOWARD, Kiwanuka - MICHAEL KIWANUKA, i,i - BON IVER, Immunity - CLAIRO, Look up sharp - CARLA DAL FORNO, No geography - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Transmission suite - 808 STATE, Norman fucking Rockwell! - LANA DEL REY, Magdalene - FKA TWIGS, When we all fall asleep, where do we go? - BILLIE EILISH, When I get home - SOLANGE, Cuz I love you - LIZZO, uknowhatimsayin¿ - DANNY BROWN, Grey area - LITTLE SIMZ, Nothing great about Britain - SLOWTHAI, Psychodrama - DAVE, 5 - SAULT, Animated violence mild - BLANCK MASS, Crush - FLOATING POINTS, Subservient - LARRY GUS, Fongola - KOKOKO!, Shiny new model - BODEGA, Morning in America - MUDHONEY

Apr 3, 2020

The Best Singles Of 2019

Top 50














  1. Not - BIG THIEF
  2. Blankenship - DIIV
  3. Seventeen - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  4. The Barrel - ALDOUS HARDING
  5. All My Happiness Is Gone - PURPLE MOUNTAINS
  6. Rylan - THE NATIONAL
  7. Big - FONTAINES D.C.
  8. Green & Blue - THE MURDER CAPITAL
  9. In The Capital - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
  10. All Mirrors - ANGEL OLSEN
  11. This Life - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
  12. I Want Your Dreams - PETER PERRETT
  13. Woman - KAREN O & DANGER MOUSE
  14. High Alice - JENNY HVAL
  15. Deadzone - LADYTRON
  16. Future Love - RIDE
  17. Element - DEERHUNTER
  18. White Stuff - ROYAL TRUX
  19. Rechargeable - SNAPPED ANKLES
  20. Ducter - BLACK MIDI
  21. Feet - FAT WHITE FAMILY
  22. Summon The Fire - THE COMET IS COMING   
  23. Stitch It Up - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  24. Sketch Artist - KIM GORDON
  25. Not The News - THOM YORKE
  26. Hurry On Home - SLEATER-KINNEY
  27. The 20 Teens - WIVES
  28. Shiny New Model - BODEGA
  29. Wasted Nun - CHERRY GLAZERR
  30. Tough Enough - EX HEX
  31. Jesus’ Son - PRIESTS
  32. The One - MARIKA HACKMAN
  33. Red Bull & Hennessy - JENNY LEWIS
  34. Walking Away From Love - STEVE MASON
  35. The Hunger - BAT FOR LASHES
  36. On The Luna - FOALS
  37. Daddy Issues - PIP BLOM
  38. Got You - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
  39. On Graveyard Hill - PIXIES
  40. Warranty - MEAT PUPPETS
  41. Addicted To The Day - BLUE ORCHIDS
  42. Lineas En Hojas - LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE
  43. Lost Heads - MOON DUO
  44. Future Shade - BLACK MOUNTAIN
  45. Help Me Stranger - THE RACONTEURS
  46. Taste - TY SEGALL
  47. Lost Faith - BOB MOULD
  48. Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  49. LPs - JEFFREY LEWIS & THE VOLTAGE
  50. Sunglasses - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD


Sep 22, 2019

The Best Albums Of 2018

Top 50














  1. In a poem unlimited - U.S. GIRLS
  2. Hunter - ANNA CALVI
  3. Hope downs - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
  4. Tell me how you really feel - COURTNEY BARNETT
  5. 7 - BEACH HOUSE
  6. Wide awaaaaake! - PARQUET COURTS
  7. Freedom's goblin - TY SEGALL
  8. All nerve - THE BREEDERS
  9. Goat Girl - GOAT GIRL
  10. Songs of praise - SHAME
  11. Joy as an act of resistance - IDLES
  12. Endless scroll - BODEGA
  13. Beyondless - ICEAGE
  14. Snow bound - THE CHILLS
  15. Wanderer - CAT POWER
  16. Possible dust clouds - KRISTIN HERSH
  17. Aviary - JULIA HOLTER
  18. Marauder - INTERPOL
  19. Bottle it in - KURT VILE
  20. Microshift - HOOKWORMS
  21. Snares like a haircut - NO AGE
  22. We're not talking - THE GOON SAX
  23. Lush - SNAIL MAIL
  24. Vessel - FRANKIE COSMOS
  25. Be the cowboy - MITSKI
  26. Spencer sings the hits - JON SPENCER
  27. Jericho sirens - HOT SNAKES
  28. What a time to be alive - SUPERCHUNK
  29. Digital garbage - MUDHONEY
  30. You won't get what you want - DAUGHTERS
  31. A laughing death in meatspace - TROPICAL FUCK STORM
  32. Physical - GABE GURNSEY
  33. Kazuashita - GANG GANG DANCE
  34. I can feel you creep into my private life - TUNE-YARDS
  35. Double negative - LOW
  36. And nothing hurt - SPIRITUALIZED
  37. Tranquility base hotel + casino - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  38. Dove - BELLY
  39. Sparkle hard - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
  40. The church of simultaneous existence - THE AINTS!
  41. Hell-on - NEKO CASE
  42. Future me hates me - THE BETHS
  43. Clean - SOCCER MOMMY
  44. Rebound - ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
  45. Twin fantasy - CAR SEAT HEADREST
  46. Pinned - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
  47. Art of doubt - METRIC
  48. Twerp verse - SPEEDY ORTIZ
  49. Twentytwo in blue - SUNFLOWER BEAN
  50. Little dark age - MGMT

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Now! (In a minute) - AUDIOBOOKS, Marble skies - DJANGO DJANGO, Always ascending - FRANZ FERDINAND, The official body - SHOPPING, Felt - SUUNS, Last building burning - CLOUD NOTHINGS, Silver dollar moment - THE ORIELLES, C'est la vie - PHOSPHORESCENT, I'll be your girl - THE DECEMBERISTS, There's a riot going on - YO LA TENGO, V. - WOODEN SHJIPS, Joy - TY SEGALL & WHITE FENCE, Boarding house reach - JACK WHITE, Merrie land - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, Goners - LAURA GIBSON, Lump - LUMP, B.E.D - BAXTER DURY DELILAH HOLLIDAY ETIENNE DE CRECY, Big attraction & Giddy up - AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS, Fudge sandwich - TY SEGALL, Dream Wife - DREAM WIFE, Mien - MIEN, New material - PREOCCUPATIONS, Bark your head off, dog - HOP ALONG, Historian - LUCY DACUS, For my crimes - MARISSA NADLER, Shadow people - THE LIMINANAS, Haze - THE SHACKS, The louder I call, the faster it runs - WYE OAK, >>> - BEAK>, Performance - WHITE DENIM, Wrong creatures - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Thank you for today - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Space gun - GUIDED BY VOICES, Room inside the world - OUGHT, Hippo lite - DRINKS, Elastic days - J MASCIS, Titles with the word fountain - LIARS, Dose your dreams - FUCKED UP, Drift - THE MEN, Romance - ONEIDA, The thread that keeps us - CALEXICO, Con todo el mundo - KHRUANGBIN, Lamp lit prose - DIRTY PROJECTORS, Bon voyage - MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER, Hormone lemonade - CAVERN OF ANTI MATTER, Something else - BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe - TESS PARKS AND ANTON NEWCOMBE, Move through the dawn - THE CORAL, Look now - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, American utopia - DAVID BYRNE, Warm - JEFF TWEEDY, The straight hits! - JOSH T PEARSON, Love is magic - JOHN GRANT, God’s favorite customer - FATHER JOHN MISTY, Transangelic exodus - EZRA FURMAN, The lookout - LAURA VEIRS, Abysskiss - ADRIANNE LENKER, Le kov - GWENNO, Indigo - WILD NOTHING, Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s rock out! - ART BRUT, Constant image - FLASHER, Forth Wanderers - FORTH WANDERERS, Deaths - SAUNA YOUTH, Pre strike sweep - GOGGS, King of cowards - PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS, Smote reverser - OH SEES, Fall into the sun - SWEARIN', Sex and food - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, Virtue - THE VOIDZ, Francis trouble - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., A productive cough - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Quiet and peace - BUFFALO TOM, This is Eggland - THE LOVELY EGGS, Criminal - THE SOFT MOON, How to solve our human problems, Parts 1-3 - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Slow air - STILL CORNERS, I’m all ears - LET’S EAT GRANDMA, Ruins - FIRST AID KIT, In the rainbow rain - OKKERVIL RIVER, Deportation blues - BC CAMPLIGHT, Psychic data - TVAM, Stranger today - OUR GIRL, European heartbreak - AMBER ARCADES, I don't run - HINDS, AAARTH - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Chris - CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS, Gate of grief - WHITE RING, Raw silk uncut wood - LAUREL HALO, This behavior - ADULT., The switch - BODY / HEAD, Dead magic - ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF, Mother - XYLOURIS WHITE, What heaven is like - WUSSY, Starcrawler - STARCRAWLER, Freedom - AMEN DUNES, The horizon just laughed - DAMIEN JURADO, Cusp - ALELA DIANE, Quit the curse - ANNA BURCH, Superorganism - SUPERORGANISM, Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell - EVERYTHING IS RECORDED, Babelsberg - GRUFF RHYS, Call the comet - JOHNNY MARR, True meanings - PAUL WELLER, The blue hour - SUEDE, World’s strongest man - GAZ COOMBES, One for the ghost - PETE ASTOR, Righteous harmony fist - BLUE ORCHIDS, We’re your friends, man - THE BEVIS FROND, Open here - FIELD MUSIC, Uniform distortion - JIM JAMES, High as hope - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE, So sad, so sexy - LYKKE LI, Damned devotion - JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, White is relic/Irrealis Mood - OF MONTREAL, Any day - THE SEA AND CAKE, The deconstruction - EELS, Islands - ASH, A better life - SPRING KING, Acts of fear and love - SLAVES, Violence - EDITORS, Semicircle - THE GO! TEAM, Love is dead - CHVRCHES, Vessels of love - HOLLIE COOK, The house - PORCHES, Daytona - PUSHA-T, Singularity - JON HOPKINS, Cocoa sugar - YOUNG FATHERS, Hive mind - THE INTERNET, Negro swan - BLOOD ORANGE, The now now - GORILLAZ, Different days - THE CHARLATANS, Cool like you - BLOSSOMS, Kindness is the new rock and roll - PEACE, With animals - MARK LANEGAN AND DUKE GARWOOD, Tangerine reef - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, I've tortured you long enough - MASS GOTHIC, Black rainbow sound - MENACE BEACH, Mother of my children - BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT, Obey - EXPLODED VIEW, The lost record - ESCAPE-ISM, The CIA - THE CIA, Only now forever - THE KVB, Wasted space - THE OSCILLATION, TPC - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, Heaven - DILLY DALLY, Fighting season - THALIA ZEDEK BAND, On dark horses - EMMA RUTH RUNDLE, Deafman glance - RYLEY WALKER, Songs of love and horror - WILL OLDHAM, Dionysus - DEAD CAN DANCE, My name is safe in your mouth - LIELA MOSS, Do the get along - HOLLY GOLIGHTLY, Jassbusters - CONNAN MOCKASIN, Confident music for confident people - CONFIDENCE MAN, Whale city - WARMDUSCHER, 1,2, Kung Fu! - BOY AZOOGA, Street worms - VIAGRA BOYS, Resistance is futile - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Simulation theory - MUSE, Bad witch - NINE INCH NAILS, Ordinary corrupt human love - DEAFHEAVEN, Dance music - MASTERSYSTEM, Minus - DANIEL BLUMBERG, Mozart’s mini mart - GO-KART MOZART, Record - TRACEY THORN, Broken politics - NENEH CHERRY, Heaven & earth - KAMASI WASHINGTON, Room 25- NONAME, FM! - VINCE STAPLES, Some rap songs - EARL SWEATSHIRT, Kids See Ghosts - KIDS SEE GHOSTS, Dirty computer - JANELLE MONÁE, Isolation - KALI UCHIS, Invasion of privacy - CARDI B, Honey - ROBYN, Golden hour - KACEY MUSGRAVES, The future and the past - NATALIE PRASS, Your queen is a reptile - SONS OF KEMET, A brief inquiry into online relationships - THE 1975, Palo Santo - YEARS & YEARS, The anteroom - HOW TO DRESS WELL, Song for alpha - DANIEL AVERY, Knock knock - DJ KOZE, 2012 - 2017 - AGAINST ALL LOGIC, Oil of every pearl’s un-insides - SOPHIE, El mal querer - ROSALÍA, Safe in the hands of love - YVES TUMOR, All melody - NILS FRAHM, Age of - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER

Apr 6, 2019

The Best Singles Of 2018

Top 50












  1. Pearly Gates - U.S. GIRLS
  2. Talking Straight - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
  3. How Did This Happen!? - BODEGA
  4. Don't Beat the Girl Out of My Boy - ANNA CALVI
  5. Woman - CAT POWER feat. LANA DEL REY
  6. Lemon Glow - BEACH HOUSE
  7. Comeback Kid - SHARON VAN ETTEN
  8. Need a Little Time - COURTNEY BARNETT
  9. Make Time 4 Love - THE GOON SAX
  10. Nobody - MITSKI
  11. I Shall Love 2 - JULIA HOLTER
  12. Nervous Mary - THE BREEDERS
  13. The Man - GOAT GIRL
  14. Danny Nedelko - IDLES
  15. Total Football - PARQUET COURTS
  16. MX Liberty - THURSTON MOORE
  17. Wheel of Fortune - PROTOMARTYR
  18. CIA Man (NSA Man Violation) - SNAPPED ANKLES
  19. Loading Zones - KURT VILE
  20. Complex - THE CHILLS
  21. Over And Over And Over - JACK WHITE
  22. Four Out of Five - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  23. The Rover - INTERPOL
  24. Shiny One - BELLY
  25. Heat Wave - SNAIL MAIL
  26. Your Dog - SOCCER MOMMY
  27. Apathy - FRANKIE COSMOS
  28. For You Too - YO LA TENGO
  29. Refute - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
  30. Boys in the Better Land - FONTAINES D.C.
  31. Crisis Fest - SUNFLOWER BEAN
  32. Fanny - TY SEGALL
  33. Catch It - ICEAGE
  34. Static Resistance - HOOKWORMS
  35. Brean Down - BEAK>
  36. You Can - GABE GURNSEY
  37. IDK About You - FEVER RAY
  38. Heart Attack - TUNE-YARDS
  39. Lotus - GANG GANG DANCE
  40. Surface To Air - DJANGO DJANGO feat. SELF ESTEEM
  41. Curse of the Contemporary - LUMP
  42. Little Dark Age - MGMT
  43. Put Your Money on Me - ARCADE FIRE
  44. Last Lion of Albion - NEKO CASE
  45. Severed - THE DECEMBERISTS
  46. Nervous Young Inhumans - CAR SEAT HEADREST
  47. What a Time to Be Alive - SUPERCHUNK
  48. Never Coming Back - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
  49. Dressed to Suppress - METRIC
  50. I'm Your Man - SPIRITUALIZED
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Nov 15, 2018

The Best Albums Of 2017

Top 50














  1. American dream - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
  2. Masseduction - ST. VINCENT
  3. The underside of power - ALGIERS
  4. Holiday destination - NADINE SHAH
  5. Plunge - FEVER RAY
  6. Run The Jewels 3 - RUN THE JEWELS
  7. Hot thoughts - SPOON
  8. Modern kosmology - JANE WEAVER
  9. Relatives in descent - PROTOMARTYR
  10. Rock n roll consciousness - THURSTON MOORE
  11. Damage and joy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
  12. Antisocialites - ALVVAYS
  13. Out in the storm - WAXAHATCHEE
  14. Whiteout conditions - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  15. A deeper understanding - THE WAR ON DRUGS
  16. Damn. - KENDRICK LAMAR
  17. Sleep well beast - THE NATIONAL
  18. In spades - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  19. Gargoyle - MARK LANEGAN
  20. Slowdive - SLOWDIVE
  21. Death song - THE BLACK ANGELS
  22. How did I find myself here? - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
  23. Hey Mr Ferryman - MARK EITZEL
  24. Painted ruins - GRIZZLY BEAR
  25. Lotta sea lice - COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE
  26. Moonshine freeze - THIS IS THE KIT
  27. Semper femina - LAURA MARLING
  28. Soft sounds from another planet - JAPANESE BREAKFAST
  29. Nothing feels natural - PRIESTS
  30. Flat Worms - FLAT WORMS
  31. Hug of thunder - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  32. Cry, cry, cry - WOLF PARADE
  33. Weather diaries - RIDE
  34. Brood X - BOSS HOG
  35. Flying microtonal banana - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
  36. Ty Segall - TY SEGALL
  37. Cost of living - DOWNTOWN BOYS
  38. Apocalipstick - CHERRY GLAZERR
  39. ken - DESTROYER
  40. Exile in the outer ring - EMA
  41. Electric trim - LEE RANALDO
  42. In between - THE FEELIES
  43. Last place - GRANDADDY
  44. Everything now - ARCADE FIRE
  45. Visions of a life - WOLF ALICE
  46. Near to the wild heart of life - JAPANDROIDS
  47. Life without sound - CLOUD NOTHINGS
  48. Occult architecture Vol. 1 / Occult architecture Vol. 2 - MOON DUO
  49. New facts emerge - THE FALL
  50. How the west was won - PETER PERRETT

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