I got pretty discouraged this year and had a really hard time writing. I’ve been trying to write the same piece for 10 months on and off, I’m not positive I can ever finish it. I wanted to post this so I can come back and look at this list in the coming years, the very reason I started writing again in the first place. This time there are no pictures and no explanations. I’ll write again this year because I’m not going to be discouraged anymore. I’ll finish what I started! Or not, I don’t know.
There was a lot of music this year, some really great songs. I think the album out put was actually not incredible. I suspect it’s because streaming has cheapened the art of making a body of music, and that the general public is becoming more sheeplike and docile every day. Oh well, this year will be better!
- Manchester Orchestra- The Million Masks Of God
- Czarface & MF DOOM- Super What?
- Iceage- Seek Shelter
- Deafheaven- Infinite Granite
- The Avalanches- We Will Always Love You
- Shame- Drunk Tank Pink
- Turnstile- GLOW ON
- SUUNS- The Witness
- Angel Du$t- YAK: A Collection Of Truck Songs
- Every Time I Die- Radical
- Sleigh Bells- Texas
- Dr. Lonnie Smith- Breath
- James Blake- Friends That Break Your Heart
- PinkPantheress- to hell with it
- The Bronx- The Bronx VI
- BADBADNOTGOOD- Talk Memory
- Shad- Tao
- Parquet Courts- Sympathy for Life
- Wavves- Hideaway
- Glitterer- Life Is Not A Lesson
Honorable Mentions
Slow Magic- it’s the end of the world, but it’s ok
Madlib- Sound Ancestors
Skeggs- Rehearsal
Zao- The Crimson Corridor
Land Of Color- Show Me What It Means
Flying Lotus- Yasuke
Squid- Bright Green Field
TEKE::TEKE- Shirushi
Cold Cave- Fate In Seven Lessons
’68- Give One Take One
Billie Eilish- Happier Than Ever
Kanye West- Donda
Make Sure- Ninjutsu
Public Service Broadcasting- Bright Magic
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