Tír Na HiFi

Excluding classical and jazz, here are the best albums this year that I have heard this year.  The most notable omission is St. Vincent's new album, Masseduction, which I haven't yet heard in its entirety.

Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
The Weather Station - Self-Titled 
The Barr Brothers - Queens Of The Breakers
Nadia Reid - Preservation
Aldous Harding - Party
Big Thief - Capacity

If I was forced to prune this down further, I would select these as my  most cherished albums of the year.  New music is in a wonderful place right now and it is incredibly heartening to see so much great music being made by these exceptional young artists.  

Julien Baker - articulating with intensity and anguish the very personal pain in her heart, she gave me the the most haunting listening experience of the year

The Weather Station - Tamara Lindeman is one of the best lyricists working right now and her new album was the most thoughtful and literate of the year

Aldous Harding - a true original and an entirely maverick talent, she gave me the most unsettling listening experience of the year.  

What did everybody else enjoy this year?

I don't do lists as I can barely remember what I bought last week!

Anyway just to say I wouldn't have known anyone on Paul's list only for his illuminating posts. At this stage I'm still barely catching up :)

My own 'list' is strictly based on what I actually bought this year, as far as I can remember anyway.....and not necessarily released this year either. Vinyl only.

Ho hum, shall we go through this transitive nightfall of diamonds....while we can?

Pan - Mono No Aware

Áine O'Dwyer - Music For Church Cleaners Vol. 1 & 2.

Jon Brooks - Autres Directions.

Marc Barrca - Music For Industry and Twilight expanded reissues.

Kerry Leimer - Land of Look Behind expanded reissue.

Fleet Foxes - Crack Up.

Grateful Dead - Shrine Exposition Hall LA 11/10/1967.

Here are a couple of LPs I bought during 2017 which have been on my turntable a lot...

Blake Mills - Heigh Ho
Warren Haynes & Railroad Earth - Ashes & Dust
Gilliam Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues & Ballads
Melody Gardon - Currency of Man (most played)
St Germain - Tourist
Alejandro Escovedo - Gravity
Samantha Crain - Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
D'Angelo - Voodoo (Light in the Attic label not that awful Back to Black version)

I don't do lists as I can barely remember what I bought last week!

I'm pretty much the same but these are some of the albums that have been doing it for me this year:
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound (also Live From Welcome To 1979 - RSD release)
Randy Newman: Dark Matter (obvious I know Dermot;-) )
Aimee Mann: Mental Illness
Robert Plant & the sensational space shifters: Carry Fire
Jake Xeres Fussell:What in the Natural World


p.s. I just got Goin' Platinum by Robert Finley about 2 weeks ago and I think it's a great LP too