I’ve already done my TV and movies lists, so music is the obvious one I’m missing.
Songs and albums are mixed in together. (A lot of songs this year — I think that reflects not so much what was available as the fact that I downloaded a lot more free singles than I usually do.) No order.
If I haven’t listed your favorite album, it’s probably because I didn’t hear it.
- Action Bronson, “Set It Off”
- Apathy, “Check to Check”
- Danny Brown, “Outer Space”
- Wiley, 100% Publishing
- Earth, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
- Bobby Long, A Winter Tale
- Lana Del Rey, “Video Games” — shut up
- Shabazz Palaces, “Swerve… The reeping [sic?] of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding [sic?])”
- Omar LinX f/ Emilio Rojas, “Say Goodbye”
- Glasses Malone, “May 1st”
- Spank Rock f/ Big Freedia, “Nasty”
- Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am
- Ben Sollee, Inclusions
- Diz Gibran & Moonshine, “SLICK”
- Jojo Pellegrino f/ Vinnie Paz, “Pellienza” (Vinnie’s verse is a goddamn riot — this doesn’t have all of them, but it’s close, and it’s so amazing)
- Mount Moriah, “Lament”
- Braids, Native Speaker
- The Answer Page, “Cold Blue Light (In Circles)”
- EMA, “The Grey Ship”
- Theophilus London, “I Stand Alone”
- Balam Acab, “Oh, Why”
- Fielded, “White Death”
