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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:

__________ 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

These are our favorite things from the first half (roughly) of 2014, complete with an incomplete soundcloud playlist: __________ ALBUMS __________ 01 SHABAZZ PALACES - Lese Majesty 02 DOSS - Doss EP 03 LEWIS - L'Amour (reissue) 04 FEAR OF MEN - Loom 05 FREDDIE GIBBS + MADLIB - Piñata 06 YUMI ZOUMA - Yumi Zouma EP 07 THE WAR ON DRUGS - Lost in the Dream 08 ANA CAPRIX - For Seven Nights This Island

Do you guys still watch these things? We do, and these are our favorites of 2013, which tended toward the beautifully surreal (FKA Twigs, anything Wareheim did, etc.) and disturbing (FKA Twigs again, 0PN, Miley) this year. Check the list after the jump, tell us what we missed, etc.

This is always the most difficult and ridiculous list to make, but we spent a lot of time thinking about it (about 11.5 months), and these are the songs that stuck with us this year. Following last week's list of the albums of the year, we present our favorite songs of 2013. Check the list + a nearly comprehensive 4-hour spotify playlist after the jump, and as always, we'd love to see your favori

Here is the list of our favorite releases of 2013: not quite as deep as last year's list, which probably has more to do with our increasingly/intently focused listening habits (I feel like I listened to nothing but Anxiety for a month straight early this year, thus its spot at the top) than the quality of this year's offerings. Check our selections + a very emotional accompanying BEST OF 2013 mi

__________ 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 ...

Presenting our 100 favorite songs of 2011. Like our albums of the year list, we had to leave off a ton of great jams, but this is a pretty thorough representation of what we were most into this year. Turns out it was a pretty great one. Check the list after the jump…

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

30 Ty Segall - Melted 29 Shackleton - Fabric 55 28 Caribou - Swim 27 Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers 26 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 25 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh 24 The Walkmen - Lisbon 23 Tennis - Tennis (cassette) 22 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 21 Frankie Rose & the Outs - Frankie Rose & the Outs __________ 20 Twin Shadow - Forget mp3: __________ 19 Fores