Albums of the Year – First Attempt
It looks like there won’t be any new music coming out until January – so it is time for me to list my albums of the year. This is mostly to remind myself – not infrequently, as magazines publish their lists, I discover a whole host of records that I missed. With Deezer and Spotify, though, the knowledge gap is closing. So here is my list, so far – there will be additions:
DEFINITES
Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress (great album – lousy cover!)
Kasabian – 48:13
U2 – Songs of Innocence
Hiss Golden HMessenger – Lateness of Dancers
Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes
Hozier – Hozier
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern SoundsLeonard Cohen – Popular Problems
Jacob Young – Forever Young*
The Dowling Poole – Bleak Strategie
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Lucinda Williams – Down where the river meets the bone
War on Drugs – Lost in the dream
Wyatt Funderburk – Novel and Profane
Dylan Howe – Subterranian
Ginger Baker – Why?*
New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
NEXT BEST
Mogwai – Rave Tapes
Temples – Sun Structures
Allah-Las – Worship the sun
Robert Plant – Lullaby & Ceaseless Roar
Roddy Frame – Seven Dials
Howlin’ Rain – Live Rain
Damian Rice – My Favorite Faded Fantasy
Tom Petty – Hypnottic Eye
Rolling Stones – Fort Worth 1981
Henry Butler – Viper’ Dag
Sons of Kenet – Burn*
IQ – Road to Bones
Hans Chew – Life & Love
Angel Olsen – Burn your fire for no witness
Stephano Bollani – Joy in spite of everything
John Fullbright – SOngs
Afghan Whigs – Do the Beast
Chuck E. Weiss – Red beans and Weiss
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There?
Drive By Truckers – English Oceans
Get The Blessing – Lope and Antilope*
New Mendicants – Into the Lime
Jack White – Lazaratto
The Horrors – Luminous
Swans – To be kind
EELS – The cautionary tale of Mark Oliver Everett
Nick Waterhouse – Holly
King Creosote – From Scotland With Love
PROBABLES
Merchandise – After the end
John McLaughlin – Boston Record*
POSSIBLES (haven’t listened enough to commit)
Syd Arthur – Sound Mirror
Lana Del Ray – Ultraviolence
Johnny Marr –
Caribou – Our Love
Spoon – They want my soul
Phantom Band Strange Friend
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
Jim Goodwyn – Odludek
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
St Vincent – St Vincent
East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
Mac De Marco – Salad Days
Pink Floyd – Endless River
UNDERWHELMING ALBUMS (they may grow…maybe)
Elbow – Take off and landing
Morrissey – World Peace
Beck – Morning Phase
Sun Kill Moon – Benji
Black Keys – Turn Blue
Neil Young – Letter Home and Storeytone
REISSUES/REMASTERS/BOX SETS
Bob Dylan – Basement Tapes Complete (bootleg series vol 11)
Deep Purple – Made in Japan (Complete) – vinyl
Beatles – Mono Box (vinyl)
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on Gravel Road (vinyl)
The The – Soul Mining (30th anniversary box)
Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain (30th)
CSN&Y – Live 1974 (live)
Morrissey – Your Arsenal (definitive master –CD + vinyl)
Led Zeppelin – Reissues – they’re all good
Pink Floyd – Division Bell (vinyl)
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