Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!
Here’s Jil’s Top 10:
JD MCPHERSON
Undivided Heart and Soul
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
Rest
IDAHO ARTISTS
Please see the store’s list!
COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE
Lotta Sea Lice
BLITZEN TRAPPER
Wild and Reckless
ST. VINCENT
Masseduction
CURTIS HARDING
Face Your Fear
MOGWAI
Every Country’s Sun
LAURA MARLING
Semper Femina
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS
Soul of a Woman
Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases available at The Record Exchange Friday, Dec. 22.
All titles available in-store or our online shop!
CD:
Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage Deluxe Edition
Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life (Fan Box Set)
Tom Waits – Real Gone (Remixed and Remastered)
VINYL:
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things Season 2 Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch – Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Bring Me the Horizon – 2004-2013 (limited-edition clear vinyl available)
Russ – There’s Really a Wolf
Concrete Blonde – Still in Hollywood
DVD/BLU-RAY:
The Tragically Hip – A National Celebration DVD and Blu-ray
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!
Here’s Ian’s Top 10:
KELELA
Take Me Apart
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Soundtrack
CARETAKER
Everywhere at the End of Time Stages 1-3
THUNDERCAT
Drunk
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
AUSTRA
Future Politics
BJORK
Utopia
HANS ZIMMER AND BENJAMIN WALLFISCH
Blade Runner 2049 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
CHELSEA WOLFE
Hiss Spun
TYLER, THE CREATOR
Flower Boy
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!
Here’s Eric’s Top 10:
THUNDERCAT
Drunk
IGLOOGHOST
Neo Wax Bloom
LAUREL HALO
Dust
MILO
Who Told You to Think??!!?!?!?!
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Async
SECRET PYRAMID
Two Shadows Collide
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
ROC MARCIANO
Rosebudd’s Revenge
KING KRULE
The Ooz
MULATU ASTATKE
Mulatu of Ethiopia
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!
Here’s John O.’s Top 10, followed by an abridged version of his blog post on the year in music as heard through his ears.
SLEAFORD MODS
English Tapas
CURTIS STIGERS
One More for the Road
TYLER CHILDERS
Purgatory
VINCE STAPLES
Big Fish Theory
SUN BLOOD STORIES
It Runs Around the Room with Us
CHICANO BATMAN
Freedom Is Free
SOFT KILL
Choke
OH SEES
Orc
ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER
The French Press
JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD
Sorry Is Gone
The top 10 list is a cruel taskmaster. It usually dictates the terms of engagement. This year I wanted it to be different. I started my list last December. I made a playlist on Spotify, where I put songs from albums I wanted to remember. I paid attention, and wanted this list to be bulletproof. Fail. No list is bulletproof. It is, however, a reflection of where I was on 17 November 2017. And, immediately, the list regret.
My friends killed it this year. So many great records. Some are on this list, some are not. All were worthy, but we were only allowed 10. I have a particular thing about remakes, and Sinatra, but Curtis Stigers made me proud. Sun Blood Stories continue to amaze me. Ben and Amber’s singing and playing are reaching new heights. Brett Netson released a beautiful reissue of the mighty Caustic Resin’s The Medicine Is All Gone on his Scavenger Cult label, then followed it up with a split release featuring his new band Snakes and Crosss, originally from Nova Scotia. Thanks to Henry Rollins’ constant championing of John Dwyer on his KCRW program, I finally dove in to the OH SEES sound. And now, I can’t get enough.
For more on what I’ve been listening to and enjoying, and HOW I’ve been listening to it, read an unabridged version of this post on my blog: http://snobbingblog.tumblr.com/post/168730195657/the-top-ten-list-is-a-cruel-taskmaster-many-are.