10. Dougie Poole - The Freelancer’s Blues
Super weird millennial Americana with all the right flair
8. Adrianne Lenker - Songs
Misty-eyed, atmospheric, savant singer/songwriter gorgeousness
6. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire…
A super idiosyncratic pop album about love and yearning and fucking off
4. Blake Mills - Mutable Set
Impeccably soft songs that swell and diminish and embrace throughout
2. Moses Sumney - Grae
The vanguard of creativity in every sense of the word, a start to finish ride
9. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning…
Super weird millennial ambient music that transports with close listening
5. Destroyer - Have We Met
Crystal clear and lively, a soundtrack of unapologetic angst
3. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bold Cutters
Earthen sounds and cutting poetry and the unadulterated energy of it all…
1. Fleet Foxes - Shore
Cinematic and symphonic and painterly, a large album of small details
It Was Hard Not To Include:
My Morning Jacket, Khotin, Nicolas Jaar, Grimes, Beatrice Dillon, Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Haim, Phoebe Bridgers, Emily Sprague
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Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan, Polica, Kyson, Agnes Obel, Pantha du Prince, Four Tet, US Girls, Hania Rani, Aesop Rock, Bill Callahan, Kelly Lee Owens, Hayley Williams, The Avalanches, Loma, The Microphones, Kate NV