Goodbye 2017 // Albums of the Year
I must admit I'm happy 2017 is just hours from being over. It's been one of the toughest years I've had in a while. It seemed like every time I would take two steps forward I would get shoved 13 steps backward. I wasn't the only one experiencing this which was a little comforting, but not by much. It's a bit sad when having your wisdom teeth removed is high up on your list of positive things about the year. Rather than harping on the things about this year I could not change I thought I would just not post anything at all. Even my blog posting began suffering with my existential crisis. Not that blogging truly matters in the larger scheme of things. I truly considered not even putting together a list of my favorite albums from the past year which is incredibly unlike me. I know everyone and their mother makes their end of the year albums list and there are many more that are far more important than my own, but it was always fun for me to take a look back. This year I just felt super done with the year and just wanted it over with. Well, there's still a few hours left in the year, but I managed to create the list in the nick of time.
The list is fulled with indie rock and some hip-hop albums that I really enjoyed over the past year. If you read this blog frequently or know me in real life, you wouldn't be surprised by that at all. This post contains three things: the album list (in no particular order), a sampler playlist featuring gems from the albums on the list, and a link to another (recently updated) playlist featuring plenty more songs from 2017 that were played in fairly heavy rotation. My hope is that you'll agree with at least some of my choices or that you'll find something new to listen to you'd hadn't considered or heard of before.
So enjoy. Have a happy new year, and I'll catch you on the flip side in 2018.