troutman's Best of 2017 – in no particular order (work in progress, will adjust)
Local:
Blu Shorts – Blu Wave Music
Crystal Eyes – The Female Imagination
Deep Covers – A Liminal Planet
Laser Cake – S/T
Napalmpom – The Core Competencies Of Napalmpom
Raleigh – Powerhouse Bloom
Shiverettes – Dead Men Can’t Cat Call
VanGaalen, Chad – Light Information
Canada:
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Bad Hoo – Two Tin Cans And A Lollipop
Bonnie Doon – Dooner Nooner
Broken Social Scene – Hug Of Thunder
Casper Skulls – Mercy Works
Century Palm – Meet You
Coffey, Sam & The Iron Lungs – S/T
Destroyer - ken
Expanda Fuzz – Bleuets
Faith Healer – Try
Fake Palms – Pure Mind
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers
Gun Control – Volume 1
Land Of Talk – Life After Youth
METZ – Strange Peace
Mobina Galore – Feeling Disconnected
New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
Nightshades – S/T
Psychic Alliance – Evil Against Evil
She-Devils – S/T
Slates - Summery
Tough Age - Shame
Walrus – Family Hangover
Wares – S/T
WNHL – WNHL
Various – Pentagon Black (Compilations No.1 and No.2)
Other:
Adam Strangler – Key West
Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
Beck - Colors
British Sea Power – Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
Café Tacvba – Jei Beibi
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Citrus Clouds – Imagination
Deerhoof – Mountain Moves
Dig – Bloodshot Tokyo
Dirty Projectors – S/T
Dude York – Sincerely
Feelies – In Between
Finn, Craig – We All Want The Same Things
Froth – Outside (briefly)
Future Islands – The Far Field
Galavis, Quin – The Battery Line
Gold Class - Drum
Gothic Tropic – Fast Or Feast
Grandaddy – Last Place
Guantanamo Baywatch – Desert Center
Guided By Voices – How Do You Spell Heaven?
Hames, Coco – S/T
Hand Habits – Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void)
Holiday Ghosts – S/T
Hoops - Routines
Horse Jumper Of Love – S/T
Idle Bloom – Little Deaths
I.L.Y’s – Boduguard
Jaysom – Everybody Works
Jesus And Mary Chain – Damage And Joy
Kissing Is A Crime – S/T
Lahey, Alex – I Love You Like A Brother
Leo, Ted – The Hanged Man
Luna – A Sentimental Education
Magpies – Annex
Male Gaze – Miss Taken
May, Dent – Across The Multiverse
Menace Beach – Lemon Memory
Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol. 1
Moore, Thurston – Rock N Roll Consciousness
Nana Grizol – Ursa Minor
New Swears – And The Magic Of Horses
Oh Sees - Orc
Pond, Matt PA – Still Summer
Pontiak – Dialectic Of Ingnorance
Preatures – Girlhood
Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent
Radcliffe, Spencer & Everyone Else – Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Ranaldo, Lee – Electric Trim
Real Estate – In Mind
Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized
Rouge Wave – Cover Me
Shins – Heartworms
Spiral Stairs – Doris And The Daggers
Sprout, Tobin – The Universe And Me
St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
Suspirians – Ti Bon Ange
Various – T2 Trainspotting
Waxahatchee – Out In The Storm
xx – I See You
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