I’ve reviewed 23 albums on this blog in 2020, and probably listened to just as many that I didn’t feel compelled to write about. From this list I’ve selected five of my favorite albums that I recommend you give a listen.
Check out my lists of favorite albums from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 as well.
It’s the time of the year to list my favorite albums! What follows are my ten favorite albums listed in alphabetical order by the artists. Links in the album title go to my full review of the album.
Check out my lists of favorite albums from 2014, 2016, and 2017 as well.
Have you ever wanted find all of my music posts in one place? I’ve created a new music page which you can find in the menu at the top of this blogs homepage. The music has three sub-pages.
This has been a challenging year in music as there have been few things that have jumped out at me as being all-time classics, much less favorites for 2017. To add to the struggle a lot of artists that I’ve counted on to produce great music put out new albums this year including Beck, Björk, Blitzen Trapper, Flaming Lips, Gorrillaz, The New Pornographers, Shamir, St. Vincent, and The xx. What should’ve been a bumper crop of music was dissapointing, and while I would not say that any of these artists’ albums were bad, I believe that could have done better. I don’t know, maybe I’m missing the great music of 2017, and if that is the case please direct to me to those great tunes ASAP.
Nevertheless, her are six albums from 2017 that I loved, with links to the original reviews. Check them out!
I’ve never attempted to make a list of favorite albums, primarily due to economic reasons I’ve never been able to listen to enough albums to make a fair judgment. But now we live in the age of the cloud and I subscribe to Rdio and have the opportunity to listen to a lot more albums than ever before. So, I’m going to give this a go, but I’m still not going to make a top ten, just eight favorites.
If you’re interested in more of the best albums of 2014, check out the lists compiled by my friends Erik and Jon.
The albums are arranged alphabetically by artist. I’ve included a sample song from each album, but check out SoundCloud, YouTube, or the artists’ websites for more. I’ve also included an Rdio playlist of all eight albums below.
A project of Italian alian producer C. Crisci, Clap! Clap! creates dance music by combining electronic sounds with samples of traditional African music. While not the first effort to make this combination of sounds, Tayi Bebba is remarkably unique.
Following up on the great supergroup project of Wild Flag, Mary Timony is back with another band that plays just straight-up great rock & roll. I haven’t fallen in love with an album this quickly in a long time.
Annie Clark’s eponymous album is on all the best-of lists of this year, so I don’t need to say more than if you haven’t listened to it, check it out now.
Prince released two albums this fall, and this is the better of the two, a collaboration with a new all-woman band of guitar player Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford and bassist Ida Kristine Nielsen. Prince responds well when challenged by working with other great artists, and this album has more of a rock vibe than I’ve heard from Prince in some time.
