Albums:
1. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
2. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
3. Neil Young – A Letter Home
4. Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
5. Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right
6. The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
7. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
8. Meatbodies – Meatbodies
9. Sean Nicholas Savage – Bermuda Waterfall
10. Aphex Twin – Syro
11. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
12. White Lung – Deep Fantasy
13. Run The Jewels – RTJ2
14. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
15. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing…
16. Total Control – Typical System
17. Ex Hex – Rips
18. Arca – Xen
19. Fear of Men – Loom
20. Alvvays – Alvvays
21. Ultimate Painting – Ultimate Painting
22. Goat – Commune
23. Silk Rhodes – Silk Rhodes
24. Fat White Family – Champagne Holocaust
25. V/A – Red Hot & Arthur Russell
Records that may have made this list if I had more time to listen to them:
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
Grouper – Ruins
Swans – To Be Kind
Shellac – Dude Incredible
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
Singles:
1. Caribou – “Can’t Do Without You”
2. Todd Terje – “Inspector Norse”
3. Drake – “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”
4. Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Never Catch Me”
5. iLoveMakonnen – “Tuesday”
6. Charli XCX – “Boom Clap”
7. Shamir – “If It Wasn’t True”
8. A$AP Rocky – “Multiply”
9. St. Vincent – “Digital Witness”
10. Tinashe – “2 On”
At the top of my Xmas wish list:
Bedhead vinyl box set
William Onyeabor vinyl box set
Go-Betweens vinyl box set
1. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
2. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
3. FKA Twigs – LP1
4. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Wig Out At Jagbags
5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Pinata
6. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
7. Tops – Picture You Staring
8. Caribou – Our Love
9. Pure X – Angel
10. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
1. Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
2. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
3. Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
4. Sean Nicholas Savage – Bermuda Waterfall
5. Celestial Shore – Enter Ghost
6. Freddie Gibbs + Madlib – Piñata
7. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
8. Clap! Clap! – Tayi Bebba
9. OOIOO – Gamel
10. Mega Bog – Gone Banana
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