2017: 20 ALBUMS

Here follow 20 albums that most thoroughly goosed my moose during the year 2017. Perhaps you're already familiar with them; perhaps it's better if you're not.  Nothing quite like having new music to investigate and evaluate; nothing quite like that prickly, electric thrill of discovery and that first blush of love.  So please do feel free to left-click on the artists' names in order to invoke additional information, sound samples, and the like....

[A note: For reasons I think you can quite comprehend, these albums are not available for download from this website.]

CAMERON AVERY/ripe dreams, pipe dreams

RICHARD EDWARDS/lemon cotton candy sunset

EL GOODO/by order of the moose

FAST ROMANTICS/american love

NEIL FINN/out of silence

GIANT ROOKS/new estate [ep]

HA HA TONKA/heart-shaped mountain

MAKTHAVERSKAN/iii

LOLA MARSH/remember roses

MIDDLE KIDS/s/t

MOTHER MOTHER/no culture

TOM ROSENTHAL/fenn

ALEXANDRA SAVIOR/belladonna of sadness

THE SECRET SISTERS/you don't own me anymore

SIR SLY/don't you worry, honey

LUKE SITAL-SINGH/time is a riddle

SOLTERO/western medicine blues

VITA BERGEN/retriever

THE WILD REEDS/the world we built

WOLF PARADE/cry cry cry