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CWMP3s presenters’ best albums of 2017
Alan
I Am The Polish Army – My Old Man
Mark Lanegan – Gargoyle
Waxahatchee – Out In The Storm
Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked At Me
Partner – In Search of Lost Time
Guided By Voices – August By Cake
Rainer Maria – S/T
Craig Finn – We All Want The Same Things
Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator
The Big Moon – Love In The 4th Dimension
Andrew
The New Year – Snow
Pile – A Hairshirt Of Purpose
Heron Oblivion – The Chapel
The Effects – Eyes To The Light
Hey Colossus – The Guillotine
Jamie Lenman – Devolver
Meatwave – The Incessant
LoTom – LoTom
Slowdive – Slowdive
Andrew Cohen & Light Coma – Unreality
Dan
Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
Dream Wife – Fire (EP)
Saint Etienne – Home Counties
Slowdive – Slowdive
Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
Weaves – Wide Open
The Orielles – Sugar Tastes Like Salt (EP)
Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics
Boy Azooga – Buzzard (EP)
Tiger Cub – Abstract Figures In The Dark
Gordon
Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
Warm Digits – Wireless World
James Holden and the Animal Spirits – The Animal Spirits
Mr Jukes – God First
Dark Days and Canapes – Ghost Poet
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
Fourtet – New Energy
Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears
Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics
Glen
Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
Micah P Hinson – Holy Strangers
King Crimson – Sailors Tales
Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Spider Beetle Bee
Popol Vuh – Cobra Verde
Zaimph – Between The Infinite and The Finite
Gary Numan – Savage
Jonathan Heron – Skylark
Bill Nelson – Kid Flip and The Golden Spaceman
Loftän – From Here
John B
nurses – Naughtland
Hannah Peel – Mary Casio – Journey to Cassiopeia
Husky Loops – EP2
Seazoo – Shoreline (single)
Dead Rider – Crew Licks
DUDS – Of A Nature Or Degree
IGLOOGHOST – Neo Wax Bloom
Tera Melos – Trash Generator
Thee Oh Sees – Orc
Katie Von Schleicher – Shitty Hits
Palm – Shadow Expert
RICHARD DAWSON – Peasant
Yoink – Yankee Oscar India November Kilo
Spoon – Hot Thoughts
The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
Husky Loops – EP1
Angel Olsen – My Woman
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
CWMP3s presenters’ best albums of 2016
Hopefully you haven’t forgotten 2016 yet. Well it was a pretty unforgettable year, musically and otherwise, so we thought we’d share with you our presenters’ top albums.
Alan
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
Lucy Dacus – No Burden
Russian Circles – Guidance
The Wedding Present – Going, Going…
Eric Bachmann – Eric Bachmann
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
The Prettiots – Fun’s Cool
Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
Wussy – Forever Sounds
Big Thief – Masterpiece
Andrew
Pinegrove – Cardinal
Heron Oblivion
Big Thief – Masterpiece
Weaves – Weaves
Rutabega – Unreliable Narrator
Intoitoverit – Standards
Totorro – Come To Mexico
The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
Wolf People – Ruins
Riley Walker – golden sings that have been sung
Dan
Hannah Peel – Awake But Always Dreaming
Justice – Woman
Weaves – Weaves
The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
White Denim – Stiff
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
Honorary mentions go to Dream Wife and Estrons for many fine EPs put out in 2016
Glen
David Bowie – Black Star
Mac Quayle – Mr Robot Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2
Brian Eno – The Ship
Thought Forms – Songs About Drowning
Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans (remaster)
Opeth – Persephone
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Gong – Rejoice! I’m Dead.
Gary Numan – Obsession
Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To
Gordon
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve – The Soft Bounce
The Allergies – As We Do Our Thing
Moon Duo – Shadow of the Sun
Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
Underworld – Barbara, Barbara, We face a Shining Future
Nonkeen – The Gamble
The Comet is Coming – Channel the Spirits
Steve Mason – Meet the Humans
Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool
Boxed In – Melt
John B
Anna Meredith – Varmints
Birthmark – How You Look When You’re Falling Down (2015)
Autolux – Pussy’s Dead
Alarmist – Popular Demain (2015)
Ital Tek – Hollowed
Paul Jebanasam – Continuum
Strobes – Brokespeak
Mums – Land of Giants
Russian Circles – Guidance
Signals – Facial Furniture (2013)
MNHM – Super Empowered (2013)
(My list includes a few albums I discovered in 2016 but which came out previously.)
John P
Weaves – Weaves
White Denim – Stiff
Andrew Bird – Are you serious
Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid
Trashcan sinatras – wild pendulum
Atmosphere – Fisherman’s Blues
Matt Elliot – The Calm Before
The Veils – Total Depravity
La Dispute – Tiny Dots
Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free