Before we get to the Number One, here's the full countdown. I reckon the bottom two have already been elbowed off the chart by a couple of better albums I'm currently listening to, but I'll have to leave those for the new year...
17. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
16. The National - Sleep Well, Beast
15. The Menzingers - After The Party
14. Weezer - Pacific Daydream
13. Grandaddy - Last Place
12. Foxygen - Hang
11. Brad Paisley - Love And War
10. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps
9. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
8. Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales - Room 29
7. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
6. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things
5. Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood / Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth / Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye & Jim White
4. Morrissey - Low In High School
3. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
2. Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
The death of Little England through Brexit, parochialism and Saville. This staggering musical banishing spell urges hope.
More here.
And especially here.
That was 2017. Who knows what 2018 will bring? That new Manic album sounds promising... and it'll be good to have First Aid Kit back.
I'll say this Rol.....that was a rundown unlike any other that I'v read for 2017.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant idea to restrict each review to so few words. And well done on achieving it.
JC