As you've probably read elsewhere, we've reached that just-about halfway mark in the year (and the official start of summer, whoo) so it's time for every music publication to rattle off their favourite records of the the past six months. As is my due blogging diligence, I'm throwing my hat in the ring, keeping my list to a stout 15.
An exercise like this can be a weird one though. A Stereogum commenter put it well when he wrote, "These lists are snapshots in time, snapshots take time to develop. We’ll see what more exposure brings come winter time."
It's hard to accurately rank albums I've spent so little time with and who knows where or if they'll show up on my year-end list--plus, there's that looming issue of albums I haven't even heard yet. Regardless, here are the LPs I've been spinning nonstop since I first got my ears on them...
15. Woods - Sun & Shade
14. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
13. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
12. Julian Lynch - Terra
11. Ducktails - Arcade Dynamics
10. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
09. White Denim - D
08. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
07. Zomby - Dedication
06. Wild Beasts - Smother
05. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
04. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
03. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver*
02. Pure X - Pleasure
01. James Blake - James Blake
*Includes the album's three bonus tracks.
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5 comments:
solid. i'd prob switch james blake with bon iver though.
No Panda Bear??
panda bear? yuck?
Really happy Pure X is high on the list. SO good. Listen to the new Com Truise too.
Destroyer?
I have a feeling the list is going to change quite a bit by the time December comes, so don't judge me to harshly yet...
While I'm digging the new Panda Bear, it's not in my Top 15 and I don't think it will be; Person Pitch it is not.
As far as Yuck goes, I honestly get bored with that record half-way through it; Pavement they aren't.
The new Com Truise is choice, I've been spinning it a ton lately, though I'm not sure how I feel about Destroyer... yet.
Thanks for the feedback, dudes.
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