This has been a great year for albums, although I haven’t had as much time to listen to them as I would have liked to. There hasn’t been one given favourite this year, so I have actually listed 50 records this time around. The top 10 is the same as the list I contributed towards the complied end-of-year lists at HYMN. So without further ado, let’s dig into it.
01 Eerie Wanda – Hum BBIB
02 Death Valley Girls – Glow In the Dark Burger
03 Levitation Room – Ethos Burger
04 Viv & the Sect – This Will Pass Get Hip
05 Quilt – Plaza Drag City
06 Savoy Motel – s/t What’s Yr Rupture?
07 Doug Tuttle – It Calls On Me Trouble In Mind
08 The Higher State – Volume 27 13 O’Clock
09 Gloria – In Excelsis Stereo Howlin Banana
10 Heaters – Baptistina BBIB
11 Real Numbers – Wordless Wonder Slumberland
12 Cool Ghouls – Animal Races Melodic
13 Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Heavy Roller Permanent
14 Pill – Convenience Mexican Summer
15 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity ATO
16 Holy Wave – Freaks of Nurture Reverberation Appreciation Society
17 Massenger – Peeling Out Burger
18 Kyle Forester – s/t Flying Moonlight
19 Shanti Shanti – Winter In September Wild Honey/Dusty Medical
20 Puberty – s/t Born Bad
21 Constantine – Day of Light no label
22 V/A – A Tribute to Pet Sounds Reverberation Appreciation Society
23 The Mystery Lights – s/t Wick
24 ORB – Birth Castle Face
25 Night Beats – Who Sold My Generation Heavenly
26 Running – Wake Up Applauding Castle Face
27 Pink Mexico – Fool Burger
28 Sick Thoughts – Last Beat of Death Goodbye Boozy
29 Tyvek – Origin of What In the Red
30 Feels – s/t Castle Face
31 The Missing Souls – s/t Dangerhouse Skylab
32 Thee Oh Sees – An Odd Entrances Castle Face
33 Tacocat – Lost Time Hardly Art
34 Boys Forever – s/t Amor Foo
35 Ex-Cult – Negative Growth In the Red
36 Telephone Lovers – s/t Lolipop
37 Audacity – Hyper Vessels Suicide Squeeze
38 The Lemons – Hello, We’re the Lemons Burger
39 Elephant Stone – Ship of Fools Burger
40 Wild Raccoon – Half Pine Cone Howlin Banana
41 Moonrite – s/t Soundflat
42 Mozes and the Firstborn – Great Pile of Nothing Burger
43 Lumpy & the Dumpers – Huff My Sack La vida es un mus
44 Exploded View – s/t Sacred Bones
45 Honey Radar – Blank Cartoon What’s Yr Rupture?
46 CFM – Still Life of Citrus and Slime In the Red
47 The Tyde – Darren 4 Spiritual Pajamas
48 Diamond Hands – s/t I Am the Cosmos
49 Sunwatchers – s/t Castle Face
50 Curlee Wurlee! – Birds & Bees Moody Monkey
