So many great records came out this year–both new releases and reissues. We’ve been trying to narrow it down to our top 5 favorites but it’s been tough. We’ll post the top 5 in a few weeks but for now here’s our long list…and yea, it’s long.
New Releases:
-Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Wigout at Jag Bags (Matador)
-The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
-Bitchin’ Bajas s/t (Drag City)
-Bonnie Prince Billy Singer’s Grave… (Drag City)
-The Shivas You Know What to Do (K Records)
-Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
-Thurston Moore The Best Day (Matador)
-Eno x Hyde High Life (Warp)
-Goat Commune (Sub Pop)
-PC Worship Social Rust (Dull Tools)
-Total Control Typical System (Iron Lung)
-Steve Gunn Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors)
-Water Liars s/t (Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess)
-Bass Drum of Death Rip This (Innovative Leisure)
-Swans To Be Kind (Young God)
-Beck Morning Phase (Capitol)
-Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture/Mom + Pop)
-David Kilgour and The Heavy 8’s End Times Undone (Merge)
-Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Country (Thirty Tigers)
-Shintaro Sakamoto Let’s Dance Raw (Other Music)
-Dirty Beaches Stateless (Zoo Music)
-Strand of Oaks Heal (Dead Oceans)
-Caribou Our Love (Merge)
-Temples Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
-Hiss Golden Messenger Lateness of Dancers (Merge)
-Talbot Adams s/t (Spacecase Records)
-Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
-William Tyler Lost Colony EP (Merge)
-Twin Peaks Wild Onion (Fat Possum)
-J Mascis Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
-Neil Young A Letter Home (Third Man Records)
-Sharon Van Etten Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
Reissues:
-Bob Dylan & The Band Basement Tapes Raw (Columbia)
-Lewis L’Amour (Light in the Attic)
-Modest Mouse Lonesome Crowded West and This is a Long Drive… (Glacial Paste)
-R.E.M. Unplugged (Warner Brothers)
-CAN vinyl reissues (Spoon/Mute)
–Ghost Woman Blues (Mississippi Records)
-Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (Big Brother)
-Craig Leon Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1 (RVNG Intl.)
-Belle & Sebastian vinyl reissues (Matador)
-Rowland S. Howard Pop Crimes (Fat Possum)
-The Clean Anthology (Merge)
–The Soul of Designer Records (Big Legal Mess)
–Parchman Farm: Photographs & Field Recordings (Dust to Digital)
-Yo La Tengo Extra Painful (Matador)
–Native North America Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-1985 (Light in the Attic)
-Wilco Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 (Nonesuch)
-Bedhead vinyl reissues (Numero Group)
We’re sure we left some off, but this is a long–and great–list. Stay tuned for our top 5 lists next week!
