We’re midway through the year in music and liking what we’ve heard so far. We’re excited for what’s to come, but here at the midpoint, we’re taking pause to talk about our favorite releases of the first half of 2017.
Here’s Brion’s picks:
1. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration
2. Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
3. Playboi Carti – Playboi Carti
4. TALsounds – Love Sick
5. Loss – Horizonless
We’re midway through the year in music and liking what we’ve heard so far. We’re excited for what’s to come, but here at the midpoint, we’re taking pause to talk about our favorite releases of the first half of 2017.
Here’s Rachel’s picks:
1. The Early November – Fifteen Years
2. Can’t Swim – Fail You Again
3. Grayscale – Adornment
4. ’68 – Two Parts Viper
5. Galactic Empire – Galactic Empire
Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases available at The Record Exchange on Friday!
CD:
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm
Offa Rex – Queen of Hearts
Lo Tom – Lo Tom
Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
Electric Wizard – Electric Wizard
Teenage Bottlerocket – Stealing the Covers
Silverstein – Dead Reflection
Various Artists – Punk Goes Pop Vol. 7
Oh Wonder – Ultralife
Red Pill – Day Drunk
The Vamps – Night and Day (Night Edition)
Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1 and 2
Korby Lenker – Thousand Springs
The Dears – Times Infinity Vol. 2
Expulsion – Nightmare Future
Integrity – Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume
Livid – Beneath This Shroud, the Earth Erodes
Bloodclot – Up in Arms
Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin’ Thru
Lisa Gerrard and James Orr – 2:22 Soundtrack
VINYL:
Kendrick Lamar – Damn.
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things Vol. 1 Deluxe Edition
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things Vol. 2 Deluxe Edition
Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love
Offa Rex – Queen of Hearts
Alan Vega – IT
Yoko Ono – Approximately Infinite Universe
Yoko Ono – Fly
Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly
Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (limited edition translucent blue vinyl)
The Vines – Highly Evolved
Enya – Amarantine
Silverstein – Dead Reflection
Television Personalities – They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles
The Fall – Perverted By Language
David Nance – Negative Boogie
Expulsion – Nightmare Future
Psychic TV – Allegory and Self
Goldlink – At What Cost
CKY – Phoenix
1. OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997 2017, Radiohead
2. Meanwhile … Back at the Lab, Slightly Stoopid
3. The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
4. Sand in the Sky, The Expendables
5. 4:44, Jay-Z
6. Something to Tell You, Haim
7. Boo Boo, Toro y Moi
8. Hug of Thunder, Broken Social Scene
9. Purple Rain Deluxe Edition, Prince
10. Crack-Up, Fleet Foxes
We’re midway through the year in music and liking what we’ve heard so far. We’re excited for what’s to come, but here at the midpoint, we’re taking pause to talk about our favorite releases of the first half of 2017.
Here’s Taylor’s picks:
1. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
2. Lounge on Fire – Lips of Calypso
3. Thundercat – Drunk
4. Beach Fossils – Somersault
5. Washed Out – Mister Mellow