RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: DIANA

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Diana’s Top 10:

MOSES SUMNEY
Aromanticism
KING KRULE
The Ooz
SZA
Ctrl
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
KENDRICK LAMAR
Damn.
TYLER, THE CREATOR
Flower Boy
YAEJI
EP2
MIDORI TAKADA
Through the Looking Glass
MATT MARTIANS
The Drum Chord Theory
DUCKWRTH
An XTRA UUGLY Mixtape

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: CHLOE HALONE

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Chloe Halone’s Top 10:

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Even a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk and Rock 1969-1973
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon
JACKIE SHANE
Any Other Way
MOUNT EERIE
A Crow Looked at Me
2 CHAINZ
Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
DARK SWALLOWS
II
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Soundtrack
PROTOMARTYR
Relatives in Descent
BEACH HOUSE
B-Sides and Rarities
FEVER RAY
Plunge

ENTER TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED HERB ALPERT LP!

Herb Alpert has a new holiday album called The Christmas Wish, and we have an autographed vinyl LP to give away to one lucky customer!

To enter the drawing, send an email* with the subject “Herb Alpert” HERE by midnight Thursday, Dec. 21. We will draw a name at random and notify the winner on Friday, Dec. 22.

The Christmas Wish is Herb Alpert’s first holiday album in almost 50 years. Recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood, The Christmas Wish boasts a 10-piece rhythm section, a 45-piece orchestra and a 32-member choir!

* One entry per person, NOT per email address. If you have 16 email addresses and you enter with each address, we’ll just delete 15 of them. We have the technology. To be eligible to win, you must live in the Boise metro area and be able to pick up your prize at the store.

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: CHAD

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Chad’s Top 10:

KELLY LEE OWENS
Kelly Lee Owens
PROTOMARTYR
Relatives in Descent
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
SLOWDIVE
Slowdive
DRAB MAJESTY
The Demonstration
RADIOHEAD
OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
PRINCE
Purple Rain Deluxe Expanded Edition
GNORK
No Gravity
SALTLAND
A Common Truth
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Run Stop and Drop!! (The Needle)

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: RACHEL

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Rachel’s Top 10:

JOHN CARPENTER
Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
MOVEMENTS
Feel Something
CAN’T SWIM
Fail You Again
COMEBACK KID
Outsider
COUNTERPARTS
You’re Not You Anymore
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Hammer Horror: Classic Themes 1958-1974
’68
Two Parts Viper
PERTURBATOR
New Model
CHELSEA WOLFE
Hiss Spun
KNUCKLE PUCK
Shapeshifter