I’m still working on my best albums list but thought I’d share my top 33⅓ (so far) along with my best songs playlist. I’m freaking out over albums 1 and 2 (which may just swap): they’re two of the best records I have ever heard. Stay tuned for the full list, I’ll tag the usual suspects in that one when I post it later this month.
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2. Tempers - “New Meaning”
3. Perfume Genius - “Ugly Season”
4. Kendrick Lamar - “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers”
5. King Hannah - “I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me”
6. Raum - “Daughter”
7. Lucrecia Dalt - “¡Ay!”
8. Porridge Radio - “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky”
9. Bloodz Boi (w’ Claire Rousay & More Ease) - “a crying poem”
10. Animal Collective - “Time Skiffs”
11. Kurt Vile - “(Watch My Moves)”
12. Naima Bock - “Giant Palm”
13. Dottie - “Thief”
14. Horsegirl - “Versions of Modern Performance”
15. Nosaj Thing - “Continua”
16. Sudan Archives - “Natural Brown Prom Queen”
17. JEEN. - “Tracer”
18. Fontaines DC - “Skinty Fia”
19. Angel Olsen - “Big Time”
Sofie Birch - “Holotropica”
21. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - “I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon”
22. Plains - “I Walked With You A Ways”
23. FKA Twigs - “Caprisongs”
24. Viul & Benoît Pioulard - “Konec”
25. Danger Mouse w’ Black Thought - “Cheat Codes”
26. Tomberlin - “i don’t know who needs to hear this…”
27. Cate Le Bon - “Pompeii”
28. Soundwalk Collective w’ Patti Smith - “The Perfect Vision Reworkings”
29. Soccer Mommy - “Sometimes, Forever”
30. Rachika Nayar - “Heaven Come Crashing”
31. Just Mustard - “Heart Under”
32. Abby Sage - “The Florist” (ep)
33. Melody’s Echo Chamber - “Emotional Eternal”
… & ⅓ : Young Moon - “Paraverbal Orchids”
