albums

As we come up on 15 years existing as a blog, we are pleased to present our favorite releases of the decade. When we did this back in 2009 — that list still mostly holds up, with a few exceptions — we got Carles to write the foreword. It's a relic of an era that feels like an eternity ago, but one thing he said still rings true: "We have lived through this. Now we shall reflect upon this"

As we approach the midway point of 2019, here's our constantly evolving recap of our favorite albums, songs, and videos from the first half of an already insane year. In an era when truly special new records seem to evade or evaporate from the internet's collective consciousness at an unsettling rate -- in many cases before they're even officially released -- it's not easy to keep up, but I've don

Presenting the list of our favorite releases from an overwhelming year, posted up way too soon like we always do:

As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces

As we approach the halfway point of 2017, here are our favorite albums + songs from what is shaping up to be a frenetic, kind of convoluted (we are not on board with the teaser trend, just drop the jams), and overwhelmingly great year for new music:

As we approach the midway point of what has been an overwhelming year for new music, here's the ever-evolving list of our favorite records of (roughly) the first half of 2016. Favorite songs of the year (SO FAR) coming later this week:

We feel pretty confident proclaiming 2015 the best year for new music this decade, and we'd even go so far as to say it's been arguably our favorite year in the history of this site. So many stars seemed to serendipitously align this year — our 10th as a blog — for sounds that veered right into our own personal, sometimes insular little lane: the triumphant return of Grimes; the improbable meteori

__________ ALBUMS __________ 01 PANDA BEAR - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper 02 LEON BRIDGES - Coming Home 03 JAMIE XX - In Colour 04 LOWER DENS - Escape from Evil 05 SUFJAN STEVENS - Carrie & Lowell 06 BOP ENGLISH - Constant Bop 07 JESSICA PRATT - On Your Own Love Again 08 YOUNG THUG - Barter 6 09 YUMI ZOUMA - EP II 10 CHASTITY BELT - Time To Go Home 11 RAE SREMMURD - SremmLife 12 BULLY - F

__________ ALBUMS __________ 01 AUTRE NE VEUT - Anxiety 02 GROUPER - The Man Who Died in His Boat 03 JAI PAUL - demos 04 THE KNIFE - Shaking the Habitual 05 TORO Y MOI - Anything in Return 06 POSTILJONEN - Skyer 07 BLUE HAWAII - Untogether 08 VARIOUS - After Dark 2 09 DISCLOSURE - Settle 10 CHARLI XCX - True Romance NEXT 12 (alphabetical) 3:33 - $ ... Read More ...

This was a little tougher than usual this year, but after much deliberation and some unpleasant culling, here are our favorite releases -- full-lengths, mixtapes, EPs, and one cassette -- of 2011. To accompany our choices, we asked all of the amazing artists on our list to tell us their own personal favorite albums from the past year, and a lot of them were nice enough to answer, so their picks a