Briscoe – Pop 2017 mix
Childish Gambino – Sober
French Kiwi Juice – Lying Together (Self Titled LP)
Oliver – Chemicals (Full Circle LP)
Toro Y Moi – Inside my head (Boo Boo LP)
Little Dragon – Celebrate (Season High LP)
Goldfrapp – Anymore (Silver Eye LP)
Jamiroquai – Cloud 9 (Automaton LP)
Photay – Inharmonious Slog (Onism LP)
UNKLE – Arms Length (The Road Part 1 LP)
Tornado Wallace – Today (Lonely Planet LP)
Cut Copy – Memories We Share (Haiku From Zero LP)
Chk Chk Chk – Throttle Service (Shake the Shudder LP)
Joe Goddard – Home (Electric Lines LP)
Phoenix – Ti Amo (Ti Amo LP)
LCD Soundsystem – Tonite (American Dream LP)
Blue Hawaii – No One Like You (Tenderness LP)
The XX – Dangerous (I See You LP)
Sinjin Hawke – Dawn of Infinity (First Opus LP)
Lali Puna – Wonderland (Two Windows LP)
Tricky – Dark Days (Ununiform LP)
The Gorillaz – Andromeda (Humanz LP)
Thundercat – Show You The Way (Drunk LP)
Jonti – Cities (Tokorats LP)
2017 has been a great year for Pop music. Outside of the first track by Childish Gambino (here because I discovered it in 2017), the tracks here are songs from albums I really enjoyed this year. The last number of years have produced drab lo-fi clicks and drones to high praise from the critics, but very little worth playing more than once. There were exceptions, like last year’s Avalanches return, but this year so many of my favorite album bands released good to great lps. This is not as much a “Mix” as much as a Mixtape as it was back in the days when we made cassette compilations. I didn’t have room for Saint Etienne or James Holden and the Animal Spirits, other great LPs this year. Already, I see The Go! Team has a release scheduled for January 2018.
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