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"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"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)"You’re Not As _____ As You Think The Connecticut foursome, Sorority Noise, have released their third album, “You’re Not As _____ As You Think.” The album title is up for interpretation, but the contents of the record give the listener a few words to fill in the blank with. “You’re Not As _____ As You […]
Read more "You’re Not As ____ As You Think"Dirty Projectors Five years after Swing Lo Magellan, Dirty Projectors- the now solo project- releases its self-titled album, Dirty Projectors. Frontman- now solo artist- David Longstreth has brought forth an album about his breakup with former member and girlfriend, Amber Coffman. It is a record that continues on the appropriate path of “alternative” genre music […]
Read more "Dirty Projectors"Prisoner Three years after Ryan Adams and two after 1989, the alt-country rocker gives us his break-up record, Prisoner. Ryan Adams has never been shy of allowing his listeners to peer deep into his soul through his music. Prisoner is just that, a glimpse of Adams’ heartbreak after his recent divorce with actress, Mandy Moore. The […]
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