2017 Listening.

Albums I listened to released in the year of our lord, 2017; with rankings. You know how we do.

  • ’68 – Two Parts Viper (8/10)
  • Adam Gibson and the Ark Ark Birds – Cities of Spinifex (7.5/10)
  • AFI – AFI (The Blood Album) (5/10)
  • Aimee Mann – Mental Illness (7.5/10)
  • Alex Lahey – I Love You Like a Brother (7.5/10)
  • Algiers – The Underside of Power (7.5/10)
  • Ali Barter – A Suitable Girl (7.5/10)
  • Allday – Speeding (8/10)
  • Allison Crutchfield – Tourist in This Town (7/10)
  • Alt-J – Relaxer (7.5/10)
  • Arcade Fire – Everything Now (7.5/10)
  • At the Drive-In – in • ter a • li • a (8/10)
  • Bad//Dreems – Gutful (7.5/10)
  • Bare Bones – Bad Habits (5.5/10)
  • Batpiss – Rest in Piss (8/10)
  • Benny Davis – I Dunno Just Make It a Cool Font (6.5/10)
  • Beth Ditto – Fake Sugar (7.5/10)
  • Björk – Utopia (6.5/10)
  • Boat Show – Groundbreaking Masterpiece (7.5/10)
  • The Body and Full of Hell – Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light (7/10)
  • Body Count – Bloodlust (7/10)
  • Brand New – Science Fiction (8/10)
  • Brian Eno – Reflection (7.5/10)
  • Brief Habits – Brief Habits (6/10)
  • Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder (7.5/10)
  • The Bronx – The Bronx (7.5/10)
  • Busby Marou – Postcards from the Shell House (6.5/10)
  • Cable Ties – Cable Ties (7.5/10)
  • Caiti Baker – ZINC (7/10)
  • Cameron Avery – Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams (6.5/10)
  • Cayetana – New Kind of Normal (8/10)
  • Chain and the Gang – Experimental Music (6/10)
  • The Chainsmokers – Memories… Do Not Open (7/10)
  • Charli XCX – Pop2 (7.5/10)
  • Charly Bliss – Guppy (8.5/10)
  • Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex (7/10)
  • Citizen – As You Please (8/10)
  • Cloakroom – Time Well (8/10)
  • Cloud Control – ZONE (7.5/10)
  • Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound (8/10)
  • Clowns – Lucid Again (8/10)
  • Code Orange – Forever (8/10)
  • Cold War Kids – La Divine (6/10)
  • Cornelius – Mellow Waves (8.5/10)
  • Cory Branan – Adios (6.5/10)
  • Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice (8/10)
  • Creeper – Eternity, In Your Arms (6.5/10)
  • Crooked Colours – Vera (6/10)
  • Cub Sport – BATS (7/10)
  • Dan Sultan – KILLER (7.5/10)
  • Dappled Cities – ||||| (7/10)
  • Dave Hause – Bury Me in Philly (7.5/10)
  • DEAFCULT – AURAS (8/10)
  • Death Bells – Standing at the Edge of the World (8/10)
  • Death From Above – Outrage! Is Now (7.5/10)
  • Deep City Diver – Deep City Diver (7/10)
  • Die! Die! Die! – Charm. Offensive (7/10)
  • Diet Cig – Swear I’m Good at This (8/10)
  • Divide and Dissolve – BASIC (7.5/10)
  • Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory (6/10)
  • Dune Rats – The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit (7.5/10)
  • Ecca Vandal – Ecca Vandal (7.5/10)
  • Eisley – I’m Only Dreaming (7.5/10)
  • Everything Everything – A Fever Dream (7/10)
  • Feist – Pleasure (7.5/10)
  • Filthy Friends – Invitation (8/10)
  • Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters (6/10)
  • The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody (4/10)
  • Foam – Coping Mechanisms (7.5/10)
  • FOLEY! – Hey, Don’t Worry About It (7.5/10)
  • Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold (4/10)
  • Fragile Rock – Wake Up to the Breakup (7.5/10)
  • Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin (7.5/10)
  • Frenzal Rhomb – Hi-Vis High Tea (8/10)
  • Full of Hell – Trumpeting Ecstasy (8/10)
  • Future Islands – The Far Field (7.5/10)
  • Gang of Youths – Go Farther in Lightness (8/10)
  • Girlpool – Powerplant (7.5/10)
  • Glassjaw – Material Control (7.5/10)
  • Goldfrapp – Silver Eye (7.5/10)
  • Gold Class – Drum (8/10)
  • Gone is Gone – Echolocation (4/10)
  • Gordi – Reservoir (8.5/10)
  • Gorillaz – Humanz (6/10)
  • Great Cynics – POSI (7.5/10)
  • Grenadiers – Find Something You Love and Let It Kill You (7.5/10)
  • HAIM – Something to Tell You (7.5/10)
  • Halsey – hopeless fountain kingdom (6.5/10)
  • Have Mercy – Make the Best of It (7.5/10)
  • Harry Styles – Harry Styles (8/10)
  • Heartsounds – Dualistic Nihilist (7.5/10)
  • Holly Throsby – After a Time (8/10)
  • HTMLflowers – Chrome Halo (8.5/10)
  • IDYLLS – The Barn (8.5/10)
  • Incubus – 8 (4/10)
  • James Blunt – The Afterlove (5/10)
  • Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life (7.5/10)
  • Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound (7.5/10)
  • Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher (8/10)
  • Jeremy Neale – Getting the Team Back Together (8/10)
  • Jess Locke – Universe (8/10)
  • Julien Baker – Turn Off the Lights (8/10)
  • Kasey Chambers – Dragonfly (7/10)
  • Katy Perry – Witness (4.5/10)
  • Kehlani – SweetSexySavage (7/10)
  • Kelela – Take Me Apart (7/10)
  • Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens (7/10)
  • Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (8/10)
  • The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful (7/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (7.5/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup (7.5/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Murder of the Universe (7.5/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland (8/10)
  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club – Sketches of Brunswick East (7/10)
  • Kirin J Callinan – Bravado (7.5/10)
  • Kit Warhurst – Colour Wheel (7/10)
  • LCD Soundsystem – american dream (9/10)
  • Liam Gallagher – As You Were (5/10)
  • Limp Wrist – Facades (7/10) 
  • Lincoln le Fevre and the Insiders – Come Undone (8/10)
  • Linkin Park – One More Light (2.5/10)
  • Little Dragon – Season High (6/10)
  • Lo! – Vestigial (7.5/10)
  • Lorde – Melodrama (7.5/10)
  • Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface (8/10)
  • Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues (7.5/10)
  • MC Lars – The Jeff Sessions (3.5/10)
  • Mere Women – Big Skies (8/10)
  • Mew – Visuals (7.5/10)
  • Michael Crafter – Mince for the Recently Retired (8/10)
  • Michelle Branch – Hopeless Romantic (6.5/10)
  • Migos – Culture (6/10)
  • Miguel – War and Leisure (8/10)
  • Minus the Bear – VOIDS (6/10)
  • Morrissey – Low in High School (4.5/10)
  • Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (8/10)
  • Nadia Reid – Preservation (7/10)
  • NAIF – EVERYTHING WILL BE A BIT RIGHT, AND A BIT WRONG (8/10)
  • NAIF – PLZ ALTER THE ANIMAL THAT’S INSIDE OF ME (8/10)
  • NAIF – TOTAL FREEDOM FROM ALL ADDICTION (8/10)
  • The National – Sleep Well Beast (5.5/10)
  • Neil Cicierega – Mouth Moods (8/10)
  • N*E*R*D – NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES (8/10)
  • Nick Hakim – Green Twins (6.5/10)
  • Nickelback – Feed the Machine (6.5/10)
  • Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds – Who Built the Moon? (8/10)
  • Northlane – Mesmer (7/10)
  • The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions (8/10)
  • Obituary – Obituary (7/10)
  • Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (7.5/10)
  • Oslow – Oslow (8/10)
  • Pallbearer – Heartless (7/10)
  • Paramore – After Laughter (8.5/10)
  • Party Dozen – The Living Man (8/10)
  • Paul Kelly – Life is Fine (8/10)
  • Perfume Genius – No Shape (8/10)
  • Perspectives – Stay for Those Who Care (7/10)
  • Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps (7.5/10)
  • The Pinheads – The Pinheads (7.5/10)
  • Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now (7.5/10)
  • Polaris – The Mortal Coil (8/10)
  • Polish Club – Alright Already (7.5/10)
  • The Preatures – Girlhood (7/10)
  • Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (8/10)
  • Propagandhi – Victory Lap (7/10)
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Villains (8/10)
  • Quicksand – Interiors (8/10)
  • Rachel Maria Cox – Untidy Lines (7.5/10)
  • Randy Newman – Dark Matter (8/10)
  • Ratboys – GN (8/10)
  • Ride – Weather Diaries (7/10)
  • Rise Against – Wolves (6.5/10)
  • RVG – A Quality of Mercy (8/10)
  • Sampha – Process (8/10)
  • San Cisco – The Water (7/10)
  • Seether – Poison the Parish (6.5/10)
  • The Shins – Heartworms (7.5/10)
  • Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie (7/10)
  • Sleaford Mods – English Tapas (8/10)
  • sleepmakeswaves – Made of Breath Only (8/10)
  • Sløtface – Try Not to Freak Out (7.5/10)
  • Slowdive – Slowdive (7.5/10)
  • The Smith Street Band – More Scared of You Than You Are of Me (8/10)
  • Sorority Noise – You’re Not As ____ As You Think (7.5/10)
  • Spoon – Hot Thoughts (8/10)
  • Sports Bra – Sports Bra (8/10)
  • Stone Sour – Hydrograd (4.5/10)
  • Stormzy – Gang Signs & Prayer (7.5/10)
  • Suburban Haze – Wilt (7.5/10)
  • Surfer Blood – Snowdonia (6/10)
  • Syd – Fin (6.5/10)
  • SZA – Ctrl (8/10)
  • Tall Tall Trees – Freedays (7/10)
  • Taryn La Fauci – Cycling (8/10)
  • Taylor Swift – Reputation (4/10)
  • Thundercat – Drunk (8/10)
  • Tim Rogers – An Actor Repairs (7/10)
  • Tigers Jaw – spin (8/10)
  • Tired Lion – Dumb Days (7.5/10)
  • Tired Minds – Loom (8/10)
  • TLC – TLC (5.5/10)
  • Toby Martin – Songs from Northam Avenue (9/10)
  • Turnover – Good Nature (8/10)
  • Two Steps on the Water – Sword Songs (8/10)
  • U2 – Songs of Experience (7.5/10)
  • Vices – Now That I Have Seen I am Responsible (7.5/10)
  • The Waifs – Ironbark (5.5/10)
  • Wavves – You’re Welcome (7/10)
  • Weezer – Pacific Daydream (7/10)
  • Worriers – Survival Pop (8/10)
  • The xx – I See You (7.5/10)
  • Year of the Rat – Hell Bent (7/10)
  • Yes I’m Leaving – Pure Joy (8/10)
  • You Me at Six – Night People (6/10)
  • Zara Larsson – So Good (6.5/10)