Top 10 of 2017

published on December 4, 2017

Every year since starting a blog in 2007 to now I've put out a list of my favorite albums that have come out each year. This is the tenth anniversary of my best of lists!

I’m posting my Audio-Flamingos piece, celebrating the pleasure of listening to sweet tunes. There were so many good albums released this year, it’s hard to pick just 10, but I’m going to do this hot take style.These are the albums that have kept my interest and enjoyment piqued throughout the year.

10. Tobacco – Ripe & Majestic

9. Seven Fields of Aphelion – Keep the Ocean Inside

8. Moby – More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse

7. Tuxedo – Tuxedo II

6. Goldfrapp – Silver Eye

5. !!! – Shake the Shudder

4. The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful

3. Cut Copy – Haiku From Zero

2. Spoon – Hot Thoughts

1. Beck – Colors

Honorable Mention: Closeness – Personality Therapy, Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Echo of Pleasure, Marnie – Strange Words and Weird Wars, Annie Hart – Impossible Accomplice, New Fumes – Teeming 2