Kendrick - TPAB
Kanye - MBDTF
Hotelier - HLNPIT
Can’t do on instinct alone unfortunately as my concept of time has completely disappeared and I don’t know what was released and when.
Bandana - Madlib and Freddie Gibbs
RTJ2 - Run the Jewels
Drifters/Love is the Devil - Dirty Beaches
Had to check last.fm, sorry…
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Aseop Rock - The Impossible Kid
David Bowie - Blackstar
Beach House - Teen Dream
Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION
With a little bit of hindsight, hell of a period for music. I remember being a bit burnout on the discussion come list season, but feels like there’s about 10x more certified classic albums than it felt like there were 4 years ago (nostalgia/distance/influence all help)
Marcberg
Mitski – Puberty 2
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Grouper – A I A: Dream Loss
HM:
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel
Heather Woods Broderick – Glider
Joanna Newsom – Divers
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (especially the 14-track version that I actually listen to)
Low - Double Negative
Epic45 - Through Broken Summer
Lone Wolf - The Lovers
Think I have to narrow it down by picking the three albums that got me through the worst times:
The Antlers - Burst Apart
Local Natives - Hummingbird
Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse
Very surprised no one else has said Burst Apart, it’s the clear AOTD for me and the only one that would be in every permutation of the 20 or so albums that I could pick.
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Hons.
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Slowdive - S/t
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
SZA - Ctrl
Kanye - MBDTF (although this feels like decades ago now)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (as above)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
The National - High Violet
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs