Thursday, December 21, 2017

Mojo Magazine - Albums of the Year








The first of five countdowns of Albums of the Year as we head to Christmas Day.

1. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
2. Nadia Reid - Preservation
3. Queens of the Stoneage - Villains
4. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
5. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
6. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCATION
7. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
8. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
9. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
10. Aldous Harding - Party
11. The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
12. The National - Sleep Well Beast
13. Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
14. This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze
15. Sparks - Hippopotamous
16. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
17. Binker & Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever
18. Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
19. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
20. Richard Dawson - Peasant
21. Thundercat - Drunk
22. Peter Perrett - How the West Was Won
23. Songhoy Blues - Resistance
24. Oh Sees - Orc
25. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
26, Tony Allen - The Source
27. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
28. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
29. Perfume Genius - No Shape
30. The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert
31. Susanne Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble
32. Tanikrest - Kidal
33. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
34. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
35. Sampha - Process
36. Wire - Silver / Lead
37. Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
38. Oumou Sangare - Mogoya
39. Kelley Stolz - Que Aura
40. Beck - Colors
41. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
42. Foo Fighters - Concrete & Gold
43. Shabazz Palaces - Quarzarz
44. Kate Bush - Before the Desert
45. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
46. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
47. Roger Waters - Is this the Life we Really Want
48. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
49. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
50. Wrongtom Meets the Ragga Twins - In Time

Eight of these were in my chart. Ones which might have been include Shabazz Palaces, Wire, Songhoy Blues, Nadia Reid and Ghostpoet. The usual suspects that appear on other lists irritate me, I don't quite see the appeal of Queens of the Stoneage and Roger Waters I find beyond the pale. Not a list in general that I go for much as it doesn't give off much of an idea of coherence and identity. The magazine itself of course is great!


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