I’ve reached the point where very year I wonder if I’m too old and out of the loop to do a list. But I still managed forty albums so I’ve managed lists in three decades and could even muster a fourth. There is still a lot of new music in the world that I like.

Listen to a Spotify Playlist of selections from every album of the year here!

1 DESIGNER – Aldous Harding
2 REWARD – Cate Le Bon
3 HOUSE OF SUGAR – (Sandy) Alex G
4 TITANIC RISING – Weyes Blood
5 ONLY THE BLUES – Dylan Moon
6 NETWORKER – Omni
7 ANAK KO – Jay Som
8 45 – School of Language
9 QUIET SIGNS – Jessica Pratt
10 WHY HASN’T EVERYTHING ALREADY DISAPPEARED? – Deerhunter

11 EVERYBODY SPLIT – Possible Humans
12 TIP OF THE SPHERE – Cass McCombs
13 DOLPHINE – Mega Bog
14 THE VISITOR – Van Dale
15 TOWN CENTRE EP – Squid
16 ON THE LINE – Jenny Lewis
17 CAPTAIN SAD – Wisely Brothers
18 SIGNIFICANT CHANGES – Jayda G
19 A BATH FULL OF ECSTACY – Hot Chip
20 PUNK – CHAI

21 GOLD PAST LIFE – Fruit Bats
22 SOUND & FURY – Sturgill Simpson
23 WHAT THE BROKEN HEARTED DO – Tim Heidecker
24 リピート (REPEAT) EP – Tricot
25 METRONOMY FOREVER – Metronomy
26 A YEAR – Jeremy Warmsley
27 I HAVE TO FEED LARRY’S HAWK – Tim Presley’s White Fence
28 FIBS – Anna Meredith
29 SWIMMERS – Younghusband
30 SHEPHERD IN A SHEEPSKIN VEST – Bill Callahan

31 SONGS FROM SAN MATEO COUNTY – Tony Molina
32 MISS UNIVERSE – Nilufer Yanya
33 MYTHS 004 – Cate le Bon & Bradford Cox
34 GOES WEST – William Tyler
35 LITTLE COMMON TWIST – Ryley Walker & Charles Rumback
36 CLOSER TO GREY – Chromatics
37 RESAVOIR – Resavoir
38 AMERICAN LOVE CALL – Durand Jones & The Indications
39 12 LITTLE SPELLS – Esperanza Spalding
40 THIS (IS WHAT I WANTED TO TELL YOU) – Lambchop