After such a big year of incredible album releases, I’ve found it sooooo hard trying to choose my Top 10. I did however mage to break it down to 10 tops, with another 10 honorable mentions down the bottom.
Three of the artists that I manage via Mammal Sounds released ep’s this year. They were Golden Vessel, Benji Lewis and Midnight Pool Party, and these are collections that I have been listening to well before they were released, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time with them by now, and love them all so very much.
For the most part of the year I was pretty certain that ‘Omnion’ by Hercules & Love Affair was going to be my number one album of the year, but then Baths came along with ‘Romaplasm’ and I was once again blown away by this man’s incredible sound – so that’s where I went for my number one, with H&LA at a very close second.
A huge shout-out goes to everyone mentioned below for being the soundtrack to my 2017. I love you all 🙂
1. Baths – ‘Romaplasm’
2. Hercules & Love Affair – ‘Omnion’
3. Golden Vessel – ‘Right/Side EP’
4. Benji Lewis – ‘Home For Now EP’
5. Midnight Pool Party – ‘Dalliance EP’
6. The Blaze – ‘Territory EP’
7. Sinkane – ‘Life & Livin It’
8. LCD Soundsystem – ‘American Dream’
9. The Kite String Tangle – ‘The Kite String Tangle’
10. Sufjan Stevens – ‘Planetarium’
Honorable Mentions:
11. Bonobo – ‘Migration’
12. Pnau – ‘Changa’
13. Daily Holla – ‘the HYPERCOLOUR collection’
14. Danger Incorporated – ‘Birds Fly By Night’
15. Toro Y Moi – ‘Boo Boo’
16. Cut Copy – ‘Haiku From Zero’
17. Mount Kimbie – ‘Love What Survives’
18. Juveniles – ‘Without Warning’
19. Cub Sport – ‘Bats’
20. Calvin Harris – ‘Funk Wave Bounces Vol. 1′