2023 Favorites

 2023 Favorite Albums

1. Laurel Halo-Atlas

2. Home Is Where-The Whaler
3. Liturgy-96396
4. Sufjan Stevens-Javelin
5. Shame-Food For Worms
6. feeble little horse- Girl with Fish
7. Boygenius-The Record
8. Noname-Sundial
9. Parannoul-After The Magic
10. The Trenchies-Addie's Got A Famous Dad
11. Bill Orcutt-Jump On It
12. Black Country New Road-Live at Bush Hall
13. Agriculture-Agriculture
14. Sadness-compilation 4
15. Ostraca-Disaster
16. Jute Gyte-Unus Mundus Patet
17. MS Paint-Post-American
18. Jerome's Dream-The Gray In Between
19. Danny Brown-Quaranta
20. MIKE-Burning Desire

Favorite EPs

1. Kraus-Anything Else
2. NewJeans-Super Shy EP
3. Yukika-Time-Lapse

Favorite Songs

1. feeble little horse-pocket
2. Home Is Where-Skin Meadow
3. Black County, New Road-Turbines/Pigs
4. PinkPanthress-Boy's a Liar pt. 2 (ft. Ice Spice) 
5. Mitski-My Love Is Mine All Mine

Shout out to all my clients as well. They killed it as usual. Some amazing (even Grammy nominated!) talent on display. 

2022 Favorites

  2022- Favorite Albums

1. Black County New Road- Ants From Up There

2. Bill Orcutt- Music For Four Guitars

3. Big Thief- Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

4. 40 Watt Sun- Perfect Light 

5. Horsegirl- Versions of Modern Performance

6. Chat Pile- God's Country

7. Alvvays- Blue Rev

8. Saba- Few Good Things

9. Kendrick Lamar- Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers

10. Undeath- Its Time...To Rise From The Grave

11. SZA- S.O.S

12. Earl Sweatshirt- Sick! 

13. Pusha T- It's Almost Dry

14. black midi- Hellfire 

15. Beach Bunny- Emotional Creature

16. Black Thought & Danger Mouse- Cheat Codes

17. Say Sue Me- The Last Thing Left

18. Otoboke Beaver- Super Champion

19. Lupe Fiasco- Drill Music in Zion

20. Soul Glo- Diaspora Problems

21. Spoon- Lucifer By The Sidewalk

22. Sudan Archives- Natural Brown Prom Queen

23. 10 Things I Hate About You- 10 Things I Hate About You

25. Asunojokei- Island 

26. J.I.D.- The Forever Story 

27. Nicolas Craven & Boldy James- Fair Exchange No Robbery

28. Freddie Gibbs-$oul $old $eparately

29. Dry Cleaning- Stumpwork

30. Wet Leg-Wet Leg

31. Boris-Fade

Also loved the records from Chief Keef, Smino, Elizabeth Moen, Special Interest, Bjork, Jeff Parker, Pool Kids, Redveil, Chris Patrick, Kaina, Conway The Machine, and Benny The Butcher this year. None of my clients' records appear here, but I assure you they also put out excellent stuff that I will perhaps throw together a playlist for later.  

2022-Best Songs

1. Chat Pile-Why

2. Pusha T- Diet Coke 

3. Kendrick Lamar- Mr. Morale (With Tanna Leone) 

4. Alvvays-Blue Rev

5. Jim Legxacy- DJ

6. SZA-Gone Girl 

7. MJ Lenderman-Tastes Just Like It Costs

8. Camp Cope-Running With The Hurricane

9. Big Thief- Blue Lightning 

10. Black County New Road- The Place Where He Inserted The Blade

2022-Best EPs

1. Della Zyr- Nebulous You

2. Liturgy- As The Blood of God Bursts The Veins of Time 

3. Parannoul- White Ceiling / Black Dots Wandering Around

4. Parannoul & Asian Glow-  Paraglow

2021 Favorites

 2021 Favorite Albums

1. Lingua Ignota-Sinner Get Ready

2. Home is Where- I Became Birds 

3. Black County New Road-For the First Time 

4. Katy Kirby-Cool Dry Place 

5. Pharoah Sanders & Floating Points- Promises

6. Parannoul- To See The Next Part of the Dream

7. Moontype-Bodies of Water

8. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp- We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway. 

9. The Armed- Ultra Pop 

10. Lala Lala-I Want The Door To Open 

11. Pom Pom Squad- Death of a Cheerleader

12. Nala Sinephro- Space 1.8

13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor-G_D's Pee at State's End! 

14. Tyler, The Creator-Call Me If You Get Lost 

15. Boldy James & The Alchemist- Bo Jackson

16. Grouper- Shade

17. Japanese Breakfast- Jubilee

18. Lucy Dacus- Home Video 

19. Kraus-View No Country 

20. Polo G- Hall of Fame 

21. Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg 

22. Macie Stewart- Mouth Full of Glass

23. Ka-A Martyr's Reward 

24. Boldy James & Alchemist-Tecmo Bo

25. Fire-Toolz- Eternal Home 

26. Black Midi- Cavalcade

27. Jeff Rosenstock-Ska Dream

28. Jeff Parker- Forfolks

29. Silk Sonic- Silk Sonic

30. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- Carnage

31. Ovlov- Buds

32. Ratboys- Happy Birthday Ratboy

33. Topaz Jones-Don't Go Tellin' Your Mama

34. Squid-Bright Green Field 

35. Canal Irreal-Canal Irreal

36. King Woman- Celestial Blues 

37. Park Hye Jin- Before I Die

38. Duke Deuce-Duke Nukem 

39. Dating-I Would Prefer Not To 

40. Tricot-Jodeki

41. Xiu Xiu-OH NO

42. Grouplove-This is This 

43. Turnstile-Glow On 

44. Panopticon-...And Again Into The Light 

45. Chief Keef-4nem

46. Jute Gyte-Mitrealitat

47. Adele-30

A couple things to note-many of my clients put out great records, but are not listed for bias reasons. Also-I never list reissues, but I feel compelled to just mention that the Pastor TL Barrett-I Shall Wear A Crown release was fantastic. 

 

2021 Favorite EPs

1. Ten Things I Hate About You- The Second Release

2. Stuck-Content That Makes You Feel Good

3. Beach Bunny-Blame Game 

4. Yukika-timeabout

5. Serpent Column-Katartisis

6. Militarie Gun-All Roads Lead To The Gun II

2021 Favorite Songs 

1. Home Is Where-Assisted Harikiri

2. Lingua Ignota-I Who Bend The Tall Grasses 

3. Silk Sonic- Leave the Door Open 

4. Katy Kirby-Cool Dry Place

5. Beach Bunny-Oxygen

6. Peggy Gou-Nami

7. Moontype-Ferry 

8. Park Hye Jin-Whatchu Doin Later

9. Pom Pom Squad-Head Cheerleader

10. Japanese Breakfast-Paprika

11. Fire-Toolz-Where on EARTH is my Sacchidananda? 

12. Tyler, The Creator-Wilshire

13. Black County New Road- Sunglasses

14. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp- So Many Things to Feel Guilty About 

15. Kanye West- Jail

2020 Favorites

2020 Favorite Albums

1. Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters 

2. Oranssi Pazuzu- Mestarin Kynsi

3. Dogleg- Melee 

4. Special Interst- The Passion Of 

5. Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher 

6. Beach Bunny- Honeymoon 

7. Boris- No 

8. Ka- Descendants of Cain 

9. Jeff Parker- Suite for Max Brown 

10. Bartees Strange- Live Forever 

11. Boldy James & The Alchemist- The Price of Tea in China 

12. Freddie Gibbs- Alfredo 

13. Jeff Rosenstock- No Dream 

14. Gulch- Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress 

15. Ratboys- Printer's Devil

16. Elder- Omens 

17. Respire- Black Line 

18. Fire-Toolz- Rainbow Bridge

19. R.A.P. Feriera- Purple Moonlight Pages 

20. KeyiA- Forever, Ya Girl 

21. Yukika- Soul Lady 

22. Ganser- Just Look At That Sky 

23. Owen Pallett- Island 

24. Guitar Fight From Fooley Cooley- Soak 

25. Lianne La Havas- Lianne La Havas 

26. Benny The Butcher- Burden of Proof

27. Mamaleek- Come And See  

28. Nnamdi- BRAT 

29. Pyrrhon- Abcess Time 

30. Bob Dylan- Rough and Rowdy Ways 

31. The Koreatown Oddity- Little Dominiques Nosebleed 

32. Black Wing- No Moon

33. Kairon; IRSE!- Polysomn

34. Ohmme- Fantasize Your Ghost 

35. Envy- The Fallen Crimson 

36. Flaming Lips- American Head 

37. Record Setter- I Owe You Nothing 

38. Gulfer- Gulfer 

 

2020 Favorite EPs

1. Burial/Four Tet/ Thom Yorke- Her Revolution/His Rope

2. System of a Down- Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz 

3. Your Arms Are My Cocoon- Your Arms Are My Cocoon 

4. 10 Things I Hate About You- Three Things I Hate About You  

5. Soul Glo- Songs To Yeet At The Sun 

2020 Favorite Songs 

1. Pinkshift- I'm Going To Tell My Therapist On You

2. Bo Bundy- Mi Barrio 

3. Dogleg- Fox 

4. Fiona Apple- I Want You To Love Me 

5. Black Wing- Is This Real Life Jesus Christ 

6. Phoebe Bridgers- I Know The End 

7. Dogleg- Kawasaki Backflip 

8. Fiona Apple- Fetch The Bolt Cutters 

9. Bob Dylan- Murder Most Foul 

10. Bartees Strange- Mustang 

11. Yukika- Soul Lady 

12. Beach Bunny- Promises 

13. Freddie Gibbs and Tyler The Creator- Something to Rap About 

14. Ratboys- I Go Out At Night 

15. Jeff Rosenstock- f a m e 

Decade Favorite Albums- 2010-2019 

1. Saba- Care For Me
2. Sun Kil Moon- Benji
3. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
5. The Hotelier- Home, Like Noplace Is There
6. Japandroids- Celebration Rock
7. Julien Baker- Sprained Ankle
8. Deafheaven- Sunbather
9. Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, Maad City
10. Chuck Person- Chuck Person's Eccojams
11. Frank Ocean- Blonde
12. My Bloody Valentine- m b v
13. Crash of Rhinos- Knots
14. Sufjan Stevens- Carrie and Lowell
15. Touche Amore- Stage Four
16. Fucked Up- David Comes to Life
17. Lingua Ignota- Caligula
18. Kanye West- Yeezus
19. Anderson Paak- Malibu
20. Janelle Monae- The Archandroid
21. Elder- Reflections from a Floating World
22. Phoebe Bridgers- Stranger in the Alps
23. 40 Watt Sun- The Inside Room
24. A$AP Rocky- Livelovea$ap
25. Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
26. Liturgy- H.A.Q.Q.
27. Noname- Telefone
28. Cloakroom- Further Out
29. Joyce Manor- Never Hungover Again
30. Sza- CTRL
31. Jeff Rosenstock- WORRY
32. Giles Corey-Giles Corey
33. YOB- Our Raw Heart
34. Daughters- You Won't Get What You Want
35. Beach House- Bloom
36. Death Grips- Exmilitary
37. Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
38. Ambersmoke- Une Femme Est Une Femme
39. Julia Holter- Have You In My Wilderness
40. Power Trip- Nightmare Logic
41. Foxing- The Albatross
42. Have A Nice Life- The Unnatural World
43. Chief Keef- Finally Rich
44. Lorde- Pure Heroine
45. Tame Impala-Lonerism
46. Julie Byrne- Not Even Happiness
47. Planning For Burial- Leaving
48. Coping- Nope
49. Angel Olsen- My Woman
50. Subrosa- More Constant Than The Gods


Honorable Mentions: 
40 Watt Sun- Wider Than The Sky
Touche Amore- Is Survived By
Kamasi Washington- The Epic
Against Me!- Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Sky Ferriera- Night Time, My Time
CHVRCHES- The Bones of What You Believe
Yukari- Echo
Glocca Morra- Just Married
Oneohtrix Point Never- Replica
Panopticon- Kentucky
Women- Public Strain
George Clanton- Slide
Spiritualized- Sweet Heart Sweet Life
Algernon Cadwallader- Parrot Flies
Snowing- I Could Be Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted
Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Iovine- Perils From The Sea
King Woman- Doubt EP
HYUKOH- How To Find True Love And Happiness EP

Songs: 

1. Big Thief-Not 

2019 Favorites

Albums
1. Lingua Ignota- Caligula
2. Liturgy- H.A.Q.Q.
3. Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising
4. Black Midi- Schlagenheim
5. Duster- Duster
6. PUP- Morbid Stuff
7. American Football-American Football
8. Tyler, the Creator- Igor
9. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib- Bandana
10. Jamila Woods- Legacy! Legacy!
11. Anderson Paak- Ventura
12. Roy Montgomery- After Nietzche
13. Pom Pom Squad- Ow
14. Thurston Moore- Spirit Counsel
15. Vehemence- Par Le Sang Verse
16. Jambinai-Onda
17. Carla Dal Forno- Look Up Sharp
18. Otoboke Beaver- Itekoma Hits!
19. Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains
20. Denzel Curry- Zuu
21. Batushka-Panihida
22. Blood Incantation- Hidden History of the Human Race
23. Riot City- Burn The Night
24. Boris- Love and Evol
25. Inter Arma- Sulphur English
26. Polo G- Die A Legend

2018 Favorites

Top Albums
1. Saba- Care For Me
2. YOB- Our Raw Heart
3. Mitski- Be The Cowboy
4. Pusha T- Daytona 
5. Kraus- Path
6. Respire- Dénouement
7. Daughters- You Won't Get What You Want
8. The Armed- Only Love
9. IDLES- Joy As An Act of Resistance
10. Noname- Room 25
11. George Clanton- Slide
12. Jeff Rosenstock- POST-
13. Earl Sweatshirt- Some Rap Songs
14. Gulfer- Dogbless
15. Xinlisupreme- I Am Not Shinzo Abe
16. Kids See Ghosts- Kids See Ghosts
17. Haru Nemuri- From Haru To Shura
18. Foxing-Nearer My God
19. Mount Eerie- Now Only
20. Hermit and the Recluse- Orpheus vs. The Sirens
21. Sleep- The Sciences
22. Birds in Row- We Already Lost The War
23. Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer
24. Mid-Air Thief- Crumbling
25. Grouper- Grid of Points
26. ASUNOJOKEI- Awakening
27. Deafheaven- Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
28. Jorja Smith- Lost and Found
29. MGMT- Little Dark Age
30. Flora- A Sword of Holly
31. Iceage- Beyondless
32. Zeal and Ardor- Stranger Fruit
33. Lala Lala- The Lamb
34. Julia Holter- Aviary
35. Freddie Gibbs- Freddie
36. Joey Purp- QUARTERTHING
37. Ostraca- Enemy
38. Judas Priest- Firepower
39. Park Jiha- Philos
40. Anna Von Hauswolff- Dead Magic

Honorable Mentions:
Sigh- Heir to Despair 
Park Jiha- Communion
Death Grips- Year of the Snitch
Candy- Good To Feel
C.H.E.W.- Feeding Frenzy
Grapetooth- Grapetooth
Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

EPs
1. HYUKOH- 24: How to Find True Love and Happiness
2. Spielbergs- Distant Star 
3. boygenius-boygenius
4. Raven Lenae- Crush
5. Stars Hollow- Happy Again 
6. Aphex Twin- Collapse
7. Brian Eno & Kevin Shields- The Weight of History/Only Once Away My Son

Songs
1. Saba- Prom/King 
2. IDLES- Danny Nedelko
3. Kraus- Bum
4. The 1975- Love It If We Made It
5. Pusha T- If You Know, You Know 
6. Lala Lala- Destroyer
7. Childish Gambino- This is America
8. IDLES- Samaritans
9. Grapetooth- Trouble
10. Death Grips- Death Grips Is Online
11. Sheck Wes- Mo Bomba
12. Valee- Womp Womp
13. Daughters- Satan In The Wait
14. Mitski- A Pearl
15. YOB- Beauty in Falling Leaves
16. MGMT- Little Dark Age
17. Anderson Paak- Bubblin'
18. Julia Holter- I Shall Love 2
19. Travis Scott- Sicko Mode
20. Janelle Monae- Make Me Feel
21. Kanye West, Kid CuDi, 070 Shake- Ghost Town
22. Jorja Smith- Where Did I Go? 
23. Cardi B- I Like It
24. Noname- Self
25. Jeff Rosenstock- U.S.A.