Best Albums of 2017: #25-1 (with commentary)
#25: Bjork, Utopia More ethereal fairy music from the Icelandic pixie. (And I don’t use “fairy” lightly: just listen to the title track and tell me the flutes and strings don’t […]
#25: Bjork, Utopia More ethereal fairy music from the Icelandic pixie. (And I don’t use “fairy” lightly: just listen to the title track and tell me the flutes and strings don’t […]
#50: King Krule, The OOZ To understand this album, just imagine stoned jazz. Very stoned jazz, with a lower-class English accent. You can see him holding a mic and not […]
Granddaddy, Last Place Jessica Lea Mayfield, Sorry Is Gone Diet Cig, Swear I’m Good at This Austra, Future Politics Slowdive, self-titled White Reaper, The World’s Best American Band Pile, A […]
I listened to 249 albums (an average of almost 3 times each) in 2017 to arrive at my top 100 albums for 2017. As anyone with math skills will see, that leaves 149 albums that didn’t make the cut. These are (mostly) very good records in and of themselves, but […]