What album (old or new) do you think you've played the most this year?

Hm?

My answer: Probably St Vincent. I can only conclude there's maybe only one sub-par song towards the end of the album and the first run of five or six songs are all excellent. Even songs I was a bit iffy on, 'I Prefer Your Love' have really grown on me. Seeing some live performances on TV too, have really cemented the fact she's a great visual performer too.

Studio "West Coast"

Esben and the Witch – Wash the Sins Not Only the Face

probably Sleaford Mods but I've been typically bad at actually giving the stuff I like its due and instead wasting time listening to average pish just in case it surpasses expectations

^ posts that effortlessly summarise... etc

The Embrace album, but that's a weird, special case. Other than that, probably Polar Bear or Wild Beasts. Can see Owen P and then Caribou being right up there.

Old music? Not much this year.

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Prefab Sprout - Jordan: the Comeback

William Tyler - Lost Colony EP (2014)
OutKast - Aquemini (1998)

Probably Animal Joy by Shearwater.

"Oui" by The Sea And Cake

Young Thug - 1017 Thug

Old - Faye Wong, Only Love Strangers

New - probably the new Lana album which has grown on me immensely despite its limitations.

Courtney Barnett - The Double EP

I've only heard Avant Gardener (I love it though). Does the rest hold up well?

Bob Dylan - Desire

duane pitre - organized pitches occurring in time -- mostly to calm down at night.

toss-up between scratch perry & upsetters "super ape" & peter tosh "legalize it" & maybe bob marley "exodus"

Fastball - Little White Lies

Still probably Interpol, and I can no longer pretend this is entirely due to 22 Listens. God help me.

Open Mike Eagle, 'Dark Comedy'

hmmm, maybe the newest Daniel Bachman? tough question.

Angel Olsen / Warpaint / St Vincent

Old: Deep Purple - Made in Japan
New: Comet Control - Comet Control

Probably gene clark-no other.
Or Exile on main st

Complete 1958-59 Max Roach "Plus Four" Sessions

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Tom Verlaine - Cover
Alexandre Desplat - Monuments Men OST
Robert Plant - Principle of Moments
Prince - Purple Rain
Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica season 1-4 OSTs
Television - live at CBGB 12.18.1976

I don't know but I've played these a lot:

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valoniela
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Real Estate - Atlas
Leonard Cohen - The Best of Leonard Cohen
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
and a bunch of Horace Silver on Blue Note

the war on drugs - lost in the dream

what a trip back into my university days in the 80s.

but it was released this spring.

Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Roxy Music - Stranded

of course but they sound like my youth, it's crazy.

New Stuff

Loads of recent Tzadik releases, they have really been on fire this year.
Terrence Parker - Life On The Back 9
Stein Hurheim - s/t
Old stuff

Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Chopin piano concertos
Prokofiev violin concerto 1 + 2

Sorry I am too ill disciplined just to pick one selection each, it is impossible.

old : 3 chairs - spectrum (2009)
new : kassem mosse - workshop 19

BEYONCE
cilvia demo
honest
ultraviolence

Mercyful Fate - Melissa
In Solitude - Sister and The World, The Flesh, The Devil
Slint - Spiderland
MBV - EPs
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

Probably Ghettoville

Sibelius - The Tempest
Darkthrone - Hate Them
Rodelius - Self Portrait vol 1

June Christy and Peggy Lee - The Capitol Transcription Sessions

according to my last.fm its the war on drugs - lost in the dream

2nd place is mark mcguire - along the way
3rd is warpaint

New
St. Vincent
Todd Terje
Charli XCX
Amel Larrieux
Owen Pallett
Sebastien Tellier

Old
Global Communication - 76:14
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Steely Dan - All their early albums really
Insides - Euphoria
Belly - King

In A Silent Way sessions box set thingie (3 discs, does that count?)

otherwise, Orange Juice - The Glasgow School (on a bit of a kick)