Here it is. The list of my 30 favorite albums of the year. For Your Consideration.
I do not know if these have been the best, but certainly these are the 30 albums I enjoyed and recommended the most throughout this year. Needless to say that this is an open list and, of course, there are more that I’m still missing.
Influences…
Rosalia “El Mal Querer”
John Hopkins “Singularity”
Saba “Care For Me”
U.S Girls “In a Poem Unlimited”
NoName “Room 25”
Mitski “Be the Cowboy”
Yves Tumor “Safe in the Hands of Love”
Tirzah “Devotion”
Low “Double Negative”
Snail Mail “Lush”
Serpentwithfeet “soil”
Kali Uchis “Isolation”
Oneohtrix Point Never “Age of”
Sophie “Oil of Every pearl’s Un-Insides”
Cardi B “Invasion of Privacy”
Robyn “Honey”
Lucy Dacus “Historian”
Vince Staples “FM!”
Caroline Rose “Loner”
Anderson Paak “Oxnard”
Skee Mask “Compro”
Janelle Monae “Dirty Computer”
MGMT “Little Dark Age”
Spiritualized “And Nothing Hurt”
Soccer Mommy “Clean”
Beach House “7”
Kamasi Washington “Heaven and Earth”
Natalie Prass “The Future and the Past”
CupcakKe “Ephorize”
The Internet “Hive Mind”