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Hella Bent’s (formerly 4chan) top picks for 2017

Posted on January 8, 2018

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)

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