2017 LISTS
Bob Dylan, Triplicate (Columbia)
Beck, Colors (Capitol/Virgin EMI)
Kendrick Lamar, Damn (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
Various, Afro Beats Hot Hits (Shanachie)
Arcade Fire, Everything Now (Columbia)
Saint Etienne, Home Counties (Heavenly)
Old Crow Medicine Show, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Columbia/Sony Music)
Dan Auerbach, Waiting on a Song (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch)
Mary J. Blige, The Strength of a Woman (Capitol)
Chuck Berry, Chuck (Dualtone) (NB, not a sentimental glitch)
Chuck Prophet, Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)
Sunny Sweeney, Trophy (Aunt Daddy)
Thundercat, Drunk (Brainfeeder)
The New Pornographers, Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works/Concord)
Angeleena Presley, Wrangled (Thirty Tigers)
Classical
Mahler, Symphony No. 4, Kenneth Slowick (Dorian)
Bach, Trios, Thile, Ma, Meyer (Sony)
Schubert, Quintet and Lieder, Quatour Ebene (Erato)
Brahms, The Symphonies, BSO, Andris Nelsons (BSO Classics)
Schubert, Impromptus, D 899; Moments Musicaux, D 780; Six German Dances, D 820, Lars Vogt (Ondine)
Brahms, Violin Sonatas, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt (Ondine)
Bartok, String Quartet No. 6, Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi)