It's crunch time now. I've been thinking about this list for weeks. In the past, I've done about 30 albums and / or EPs, with a little blurb for each, in a two-part post. I don't really have that in me this year; so I've decided just to list my favorites. I've talked enough about most of them throughout the year, in the "Favorite Songs" post, etc.
These are pretty much just the albums I listened to the most this year. There were long stretches of time when I was too distracted to listen to much of anything; and, clearly, these are heavily concentrated in the genres where I spend most of my time. I'll make an effort in the new year to expand my listening; but, for now, here's where I'm at.
With that all said, here we go in no particular order.
Albums
Superchunk, What a Time to Be Alive -- "Clinging to the myth that you were cheated / Yeah, the myth that you were robbed."
Screaming Females, All at Once -- "She needs to love me still / Until I've had my fill / I try and try to leave / I want to watch you grieve."
Titus Andronicus, A Productive Cough -- "Deplorable forces conspire to fire the lord and to hire a guy who will try to eat more of the portions / A guy who's more boorish, a guy who's more selfish, with elves as his helpers"
Snail Mail, Lush --"It just feels like / The same party every weekend / Doesn't it? Doesn't it?"
The RockNRoll Hi-Fives, Re-Introducing The RockNRoll Hi-Fives -- "Then I knew / You and me / Could make a real good team"
Dentist, Night Swimming -- "I'm feeling insecure / Ain't that what life is for?"
Lost Boy ?, Paranoid Fiction -- "I swore that I'd sell my soul / If I could rock like this every day"
Flasher, Constant Image -- "Go, go, living on the inside / Prying eyes, the night, the night / Suicide all the time / Taking over your face and come on"
Bad Moves, Tell No One -- "In the eyes of every cop, don't it seem to say / 'It's criminal. It’s written in the code of your DNA.' / But the pillage and the take, it don't ever stop / 'Cause that's the way they generate, oh"
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Years -- "Too damn tired to walk away / Too tired to make it through another day / Just gonna lie here and complain instead"
Bat Fangs, Bat Fangs -- "Maybe you're just a boy of summer / The kind that you see next year / Maybe you think you got my number / But now I'm gonna disappear"
The Beths, Future Me Hates Me -- "Oh you, you wouldn't like me / If you saw what was inside me / Yeah you, you wouldn't like me / At all"
Well Wisher, This Is Fine -- "What's the meanest you could be / To the one you claim you love? / I know better"
Secretary Legs, Cool Myths -- "And on and on it goes / A sad holiday / A sad holiday"
Hinds, I Don't Run -- "Every night when I am on stage / I picture you in my favorite lines"
Caroline Rose, Loner -- "Bang bang and away she goes..."
Lucy Dacus, Historian -- "In five years, I hope the songs feel like covers / Dedicated to new lovers"
Big Bliss, At Middle Distance -- "Maybe I'm uninspired / Maybe it's just I am losing faith"
Exmaid, Fair Sex -- "We'll see about that / I will be Goddamned / Over my dead body / And other bad words"
Idles, Joy as an Act of Resistance. -- "I'm like Stone Cold Steve Austin / I put homophobes in coffins"
Alice Bag, Blueprint -- "I make 77 cents on the dollar / It's not fair and it makes me want to holler / Yeah you work hard but I work harder / To catch where you are I gotta push myself farther"
Erotic Novels, There Is No Language in Our Love --"What ya know 'bout Jersey? / Don't you know there ain’t nothing left here?"
Culture Abuse, Bay Dream -- "It's been a long year / And I been tryin' / To take it easy"
EPs
Lowlight, Born to Run -- "You see it comin' but you can't stop now"
Yawn Mower, Could Eat, Would Sleep -- "When you get to be, where you're meant to be / Please remember please, what you meant to me"
The Rareflowers, The Rareflowers -- "I'm so scared that I could be alone"
Baked, II -- "There could be something in these walls / There could be nothing"
Roy Orbitron, 8 Million to One -- "I'll root for my heroes / And I'll be singing their songs at the top of my lungs"
Russian Baths, Penance -- "I tried to straighten it out / I'm having bad luck / Out in the poolhouse"
Blushing, Weak -- "No one gets / No one gets / To love you twice"
Live Albums
(A category I put here just so I could add these two releases)
Lowlight, It's Later Than You Think -- "Everybody always bumming cigarettes / Over $30 entrées"
Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires, Live at The Nick -- "We don't want the city turned into a tiny kingdom / We don't want nobody buried beneath the city walls / Tear down the city walls"
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