Below is a list of my top 50 favorite records that were released in 2017. Overall, 2017 was a pretty solid year for music. Some great debut and breakout albums are on this list and a lot of comeback records are not. Figuring out what was going to break into my top 50 was not […]
Read more "Zach’s Top 50 Albums of 2017"Turn Out the Lights A door creaks open and then shuts, footsteps echo across the room, filling the empty void. The footsteps stop and a bench is pulled out as we hear the clunk of the first piano note being played; thus opens Julien Baker’s sophomore LP, Turn Out the Lights. Baker, a 22 year-old […]
Read more "Turn Out the Lights"What I’ve Been Listening To: September Rostam- Half-Light Rostam has finally released his first solo debut, Half-Light. The former Vampire Weekender has allowed this record to marinate for quite sometime. After releasing a handful of the 15 tracks over the past few years, he finally sat down and created what is now Half-Light. Everything has […]
Read more "What I’ve Been Listening To: September"Good Nature Two years since the release of their sophomore LP, Peripheral Vision (a favorite of mine), Turnover returns with Good Nature. The band’s third album is somewhat of a departure from their melancholy approach in their past couple of releases. Good Nature is the flipside of Peripheral Vision’s coin. Peripheral Vision is essentially a […]
Read more "Good Nature"LANY, LANY After three EPs the electro-pop trio, LANY has finally released their long-awaited self-titled debut. The band has been steadily increasing popularity and creating buzz over the past year, mainly due to the success of the song, “ILYSB.” LANY, is a 16 track album with a run time of 57 minutes. The album contains […]
Read more "LANY"What I’ve Been Listening To Lorde- Melodrama The queen of emo pop has returned on her sophomore LP, Melodrama. Lorde’s new album was one of the most anticipated of the year and in a way it was worth the wait. It had been four years since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Pure […]
Read more "What I’ve Been Listening To: June"Three years after the release of Bleachers first album, Strange Desire, Jack Antonoff comes back with, Gone Now. During that three year break, Antonoff has helped write and produce a slew of songs and albums with artists like: Lorde, Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sia, Troye Sivan and Grimes; just to name a few. The […]
Read more "Gone Now"Coloring Book: One Year Later It has been a year since Chance The Rapper released his, now, Grammy winning mixtape, Coloring Book. Chance’s third mixtape was one of the most anticipated releases of last year and, personally, it did not disappoint. But, like most albums, the first listening experience is very different than any other. […]
Read more "Coloring Book: One Year Later"What I’ve Been Listening To Mac DeMarco- This Old Dog This past Friday, Mac DeMarco released his first full LP since 2014’s critically acclaimed, Salad Days. DeMarco returns once again with a breezy, sunny indie rock record that prepares us for a cool summer night out on the porch, watching fireflies. It’s an easy listen […]
Read more "What I’ve Been Listening To (5/9/17)"Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset Three years after the last Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s record, lead singer, Richard Edwards releases his debut album. Titled “Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset,” this album is a sweet yet sorrowful treat of alternative (pop/folk) rock. Edwards had been out of commission for a year due to health issues […]
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