Employee Picks: Best Of 2017
2017 has been a wild year for the world, which means it’s been a wild year for art and culture. There have been a ton of interesting and important albums released this year, and it was really hard for each of us to narrow down our favorites. Here are our individual Top 3 picks of the year, along with our #1 store-wide Album of the Year to top it off:
Isabella:
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Choir of the Mind
Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
The Black Angels – Death Song
Matt:
Guerilla Toss — GT Ultra
Buildings — You Are Not One of Us
Unsane – Sterilize
Soroush:
L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch
Ride – Weather Diaries
Kane Strang – Two Hearts and No Brain
Rachel:
Rostam – Half-Light
St. Vincent — Masseduction
Chad VanGaalen – Light Information
Dylan:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Luciferian Towers
Cloakroom — Time Well
Pharmakon — Contact
Judy:
Miles Mosley — Uprising
Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle — The Time Between Us
King Krule — The Ooz
Top store pick (and most overall played album) of the year for 2017:
Slowdive - Slowdive
