This year, I’ve made it a goal to listen to one new-to-me album per week. I’m pretty sure I’ve always listened to at least that many albums in a year, but I’ve never really bothered to document.
I’m focusing primarily on 2017 releases, but if week’s are slow, I’ll dip into revered albums I’ve never had time for in the past.
- Japanese Breakfast – Psychochomp
- The Accidentals – Parking Lot EP
- The XX – I See You
- Japandroids – Near the Wild Heart of Life
- The Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
- Ty Segall – Ty Segall
- Yazoo – Upstairs at Eric’s
- PRIESTS – Nothing Feels Natural
- Strand of Oaks – Hard Love
- Surfer Blood – Snowdonia
- The Sadies – Northern Passages
- The Dirty Projectors – The Dirty Projectors
- Brokeback – Illinois River Valley Blues
- Jay Som – Everybody Works
- Vagabon – Infinite World
- The Courtneys – The Courtneys II
- Joy Division – Closer
- Desperate Journalist – Grow Up
- The Big Moon Love in the 4th Dimension
- Kendrick Lamar – Damn.
- Diet Cig – Swear I’m Good at This
- Charly Bliss – Guppy
- Splahh – Waiting a Lifetime
- Sylvan Esso – What Now
- The Black Angels – Death Song
- Hoops – Routines
- Orange Juice – Rip it Up
- Hippo Campus – Landmark
- (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket
- Pond – The Weather
- Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
- Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
- Big Thief – Capacity
- Amber Coffman – City of No Reply
- Smidley – Smidley
- Big Boi – Boomiverse
- Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
- Marika Hackman – I’m Not Your Man
- White Reaper – The World’s Best American Band
- Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker
- The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
- She-Devils – She-Devils
- Algiers – The Underside of Power
- Jay-Z – 4:44
- Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
- Tyler, the Creator – Scum Fuck Flower Boy
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Nashville Sound
- Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence
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