Favorite Albums of 2017
- Big Thief – Capacity (Saddle Creek)
- Perfume Genius – No Shape (Matador)
- Chastity Belt – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
- Jay Som – Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)
- Cold Beat – Chaos by Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
- Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator (ATO)
- Sneaks – It’s a Myth (Merge)
- ADULT. – Detroit House Guests (Mute)
- Kelela – Take Me Apart (Warp)
- Various – Cold Waves of color vol. 4 (Color Tapes)
- Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
- Florist – If Blue Could be Happiness (Double double Whammy)
- The World – First World Record (Upset the Rhythm)
Some songs that affected me very deeply in 2017
- Cold Beat – “In Motion” – Chaos by Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
- Chastity Belt – “Different Now” – I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (Hardly Art)
- Hamilton Leithauser, Angel Olsen – “Heartstruck – Wild Hunger [single]” (Glassnote)
- Michael Nau – “Good Thing” – Some Twist (Suicide Squeeze)
- Savage Hymn – “La Vida Sigue Igual” – La Vida Sigue Igual (Dark Entries)
- Little Dragon – “Celebrate” – Season High (Loma Vista)
- Bezier – “Imperial Tranz-Am” – Primes (Dark Entries)
- Chelsea Wolfe – “16 Psyche” Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
- Drab Majesty – “39 by Design” – The Demonstration (Dais)
- Aldous Harding – “Imagining my Man” – Party (4AD)
- Girlpool – “It Gets More Blue” – Powerplant (Anti-)
- Arms of Someone New – “Song for Krista” – Susan Sleepwalking (Dark Entries)
- Goldfrapp – “Moon in your Mouth” – Silver Eye (Mute)
- Japanese Breakfast – “Boyish” – Soft Sounds from Another Planet (Dead Oceans)
- (Sandy) Alex G – “Powerful Man” – Rocket (Domino)