My favorite records from 2017
Here's this year's records, listed alphabetically, with favorites in bold.
Album | Bandcamp / SoundCloud / YT | Apple Music |
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Aldous Harding — Party | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Alessandro Cortini — AVANTI | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Alex Cameron — Forced Witness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
ANOHNI — Paradise EP | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Anton Kubikov — Whatness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Astrïd & Rachel Grimes — Through the Sparkle | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Balmorhea — Clear Language | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Bedouine — Bedouine | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Ben Frost — The Centre Cannot Hold | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Björk — Utopia | — | 🍎 |
Blanck Mass — World Eater | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Blonde Redhead — 3 O'Clock EP | — | 🍎 |
Blondie — Pollinator | — | 🍎 |
Brainwaltzera — Poly-Ana | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Brian Eno — Reflection | — | 🍎 |
Burial — Rodent | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Cameron Avery — Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker — Room 29 | — | 🍎 |
Charlotte Gainsbourg — Rest | YouTube | 🍎 |
Cigarettes After Sex — Cigarettes After Sex | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Lotta Sea Lice | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts — Milano | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Delia Gonzalez — Horse Follows Darkness | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Dustin O'Halloran — 3 Movements | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Eluvium — Shuffle Drones | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Fatima Al Qadiri — Shaneera | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Fever Ray — Plunge | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Four Tet — New Energy | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Gas — Narkopop | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Luciferian Towers | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Grizzly Bear — Painted Ruins | — | 🍎 |
High Plains — Cinderland | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Iron & Wine — Beast Epic | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Japandroids — Near to the Wild Heart of Life | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — On the Echoing Green | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Jlin — Black Origami | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Joni Void — Selfless | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Justin Walter — Unseen Forces | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Kastil — The Sadistic Abbess | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Kelly Lee Owens — Kelly Lee Owens | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
King Krule — The OOZ | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Kristoffer Lo — Anhedonia | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Lana Del Rey — Lust for Life | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Laraaji — Sun Gong | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
LCD Soundsystem - american dream | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri — La Equidistancia | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Lift to Experience — The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Reissue) | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Mdou Moctar — Sousoume Tamachek | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Mogwai — Every Country's Sun | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Murcof & Vanessa Wagner — EP02 & EP03 | EP02, EP03 | EP02, EP03 |
Oscar Mulero — Pattern Series Compilation | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Oxbow — The Black Duke | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Sevdaliza — Ison | YouTube | 🍎 |
St. Vincent — MASSEDUCTION | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Tale of Us — Endless | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
The Acid — The Bomb OST | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
The Blaze — Territory EP | YouTube | 🍎 |
The National — Sleep Well Beast | YouTube | 🍎 |
The War on Drugs — A Deeper Understanding | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
Timber Timbre — Sincerely, Future Pollution | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno — Finding Shore | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Visible Cloaks — Reassemblage | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
Waxahatchee — Out in the Storm | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
William Basinski — A Shadow in Time | Bandcamp | 🍎 |
yaeji — EP2 | SoundCloud | 🍎 |
A significant album I was introduced to this year is the 2012 Changeling by Camille O'Sullivan 🍎, which has been on heavy rotation throughout. It starts with a cover of Gillian Welch's Revelator, about which I got excited this time last year.
Timeline of favorite records: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
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