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.
