2017 is over at this point! Who cares! Well okay here, take these: seven little trinkets from the year that’s deceased and behind us. If anything listen to the Charli XCX album. It’s unlike any pop music you’ve ever heard and I’ve been blasting in nonstop since its release. If I had put my Best of 2017 list out now it would have easily made my Top 20. The Visible Cloaks EP is fantastic as well.
Brockhampton – Saturation III [self-released]
The boys are back in town.
Charli XCX – Pop 2 [Atlantic Records]
A diamond-encrusted, digitally glitched SkyMall catalog.
Miguel – War & Leisure [RCA]
The most comfortable piece of outdoor furniture.
Nabihah Iqbal – Weighing Of The Heart [Ninja Tune]
City lights reflected off the visor of a slick motorcycle helmet.
Ovlov – Greatest Hits Vol. II [Exploding In Sound Records]
Pulling out a bag of potato chips you forgot you had in the back of your cabinet.
Prurient – Rainbow Mirror [Profound Lore]
A large granite slab slowly lowers from the ceiling, crushing you in between a bed of nails.
Visible Cloaks – Lex [RVNG Intl.]
Rosetta Stone language & literacy lesson for the soft expanse.
My favorite 100 songs of 2017 don’t venture too far off from my favorite albums list, but still has a few untouched gems in there that I’d love for you to listen to. A lot of “indie” staples represented here that many have likely heard of before, but new artists like Aldous Harding, CCFX, Demen, First Hate,Kelly Lee Owens, Yaeji, Smerz,SASSY 009, Superorganism &Hand Habits kicked ass this year. VERY excited to hear what they all put in motion in the coming years. For now though I’m very happy with what we have now.
Be sure to check out my Spotify Playlist if you want to listen to most of these + 100 more!
TOP 10 (RANKED):
PLAYBOI CARTI – “Magnolia”
SASSY 009 – “Feel me”
DANNY L HARLE – “1UL”
KELELA – “Waitin”
LAUREL HALO – “Moontalk”
CHINO AMOBI – “PARADISO”
KING KRULE – “Dum Surfer”
YAEJI – “Raingurl”
WEED – “Leash”
YVES TUMOR – “Limerence”
90 MORE (ALPHABETIZED):
ALDOUS HARDING – “Living The Classics”
ALVVAYS – “Dreams Tonite”
AMBER COFFMAN – “City Of No Reply”
ARCA – “Reverie”
ARIEL PINK – “Another Weekend”
BEACH FOSSILS – “Down The Line”
BECK – “Dear Life”
BIG THIEF – “Great White Shark”
BJÖRK – “Blissing Me”
BLANCK MASS – “Please”
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BLUE HAWAII – “No One Like You”
BROCKHAMPTON – “GUMMY”
CARLY RAE JEPSEN – “Cut To The Feeling”
CCFX – “The One To Wait”
CHARLI XCX – “Out Of My Head (ft. Tove Lo & ALMA)”
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG – “Deadly Valentine”
CIRCUIT DES YEUX – “Black Fly”
COLIN STETSON – “Spindrift”
COLLEEN – “A flame my love, a frequency”
COLTER WALL – “Bald Butte”
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DEMEN – “Morgon”
DESTROYER – “Sky’s Grey”
DJ SEINFELD – “Time Spent Away From U”
DRAB MAJESTY – “Too Soon To Tell”
DRAKE – “Portland (ft. Quavo & Travis Scott)”
FAYE WEBSTER – “She Won’t Go Away”
FEVER RAY – “A Part Of Us”
FIRST HATE – “The One”
FOUR TET – “SW9 9SL”
FRANK OCEAN – “Provider”
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FUTURE – “Mask Off”
GIANT CLAW – “Soft Channel 007”
GUERILLA TOSS – “Crystal Run”
GUNN-TRUSCINSKI DUO – “Seagull For Chuck Berry”
HAND HABITS – “Actress”
HOOPS – “Burden”
HUNDRED WATERS – “Wave To Anchor”
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF – “Nothing’s Gonna Change That Girl”
J HUS – “Did You See”
JACASZEK – “Soft Music”
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JACQUES GREENE – “Afterglow”
JAPANESE BREAKFAST – “Machinist”
JAY SOM – “Baybee”
JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD – “Meadow”
JENS LEKMAN – “How We Met, The Long Version”
JULIE BYRNE – “I Live Now As A Singer”
KEDR LIVANSKIY – “Ariadna”
KELLY LEE OWENS – “Throwing Lines”
KENDRICK LAMAR – “HUMBLE.”
KEVIN MORBY – “City Music”
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KNOX FORTUNE – “Lil Thing”
LAND OF TALK – “This Time”
LAWRENCE ROTHMAN – “Wolves Still Cry”
MADELINE KENNEY – “John In Irish”
MAKTHAVERSKAN – “Comfort”
MARGO PRICE – “Weakness”
MEN I TRUST – “Tailwhip”
MIGOS – “Slippery (ft. Gucci Mane)”
MOLLY BURCH – “Please Be Mine”
MOUNT KIMBIE – “Marilyn (ft. Mica Levi)”
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NATALIA LAFOURCADE – “Tú Sí Sabes Quererme”
NITE JEWEL – “Had To Let Me Go”
OMNI – “Equestrian”
PALM – “Two Toes”
POND – “Paint Me Silver”
PRIESTS – “Lelia 20”
RICHARD DAWSON – “Ogre”
ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER – “French Press”
ROSS FROM FRIENDS – “Crimson”
SAM AMIDON – “Juma Mountain”
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SAMPHA – “Under”
(SANDY) ALEX G – “Bobby”
SHABAZZ PALACES – “Shine A Light”
SHE-DEVILS – “Darling”
SLOWDIVE – “Star Roving”
SMERZ – “Oh my my”
SNEAKS – “Look Like That”
SOULMATES – “Instant Fan”
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – “Future Looks Bright (It’s Blinding)
I haven’t crunched all the numbers yet, but I’m fairly certain that in 2017 I saw the most shows ever in one year… out of anyone who’s ever lived. Joking aside, I truly have not seen more shows in one year than this year. That’s what living in NYC will do for you, I guess! To keep myself occupied and to fend off the evil spirits that were haunting me in a major way for most of this year, I attended as many concerts as I could. There was a stretch through January and February where I may have seen only two or three shows max, but things really kicked into high gear later. My longest streak was in September, when I saw nine shows in eight consecutive days. I almost matched it later in October. You can see my full listening stats down below my Top 10.
I got to see artists like Colin Stetson, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Daniel Bachman, Julianna Barwick, St. Vincent, Nai Palm – all masters of their craft. They ooze talent and skill and left me in awe while watching them. Then there were shows like Washed Out, TOPS, El Guincho, Jessy Lanza, Pond; which were all massive parties and everyone was having a great time. You’ll see me say this a lot throughout the post, but feeling very lucky that I was able to see this many great artists perform in my own city! Excited to see more in 2018.
TOP 10 SHOWS:
1. El Guincho @ Le Poisson Rouge
El Guincho put on the most fun show I attended all year, perhaps the most fun show I’ve seen in NYC thus far. They played a career-spanning set that mainly focused on material from their 2016 album Hiperasia, which featured the fantastic “Parte Virtual” as the finisher (you can check out a video of that song from this exact show below!). The new songs were met with warmth from the crowd, but when they broke into classics like “Bombay” or “Palmitos Park,” everything lit up. This was the band’s first show in NYC since 2010, so the audience was clearly riled up and ready to dance to all these now-classic electro-pop songs. This energy all came to a head in the encore after the soundboard shut the stage down & turned the lights on after one song. The band was clearly upset and confused at the sound dudes, which inspired folks in the audience to cuss out the folks upstairs and demand they let the band play another. Eventually they caved, letting the band play an elongated version of “Antillas,” a song that get the entire audience dancing and singing (you can check out a clip of that at the end of the video below). Everyone came together and had a real fun time. Can’t ask for anything more out of a concert.
2. Colin Stetson @ Baby’s All Right
Seeing Colin Stetson perform was unlike anything I had ever experienced in my life. How can it be? It’s just one man with a saxophone. The sheer volume of sound being emitted onstage was enough to tap into some kind of hysteria within me. There were points where I was just laughing, since I didn’t know what to do with this excess of stimuli that I was being dowsed in. One friend compared it to watching an olympic athlete compete. Definitely feel lucky to have seen him.
3. Mount Eerie @ Murmrr Theatre
I got demolished. My entire emotional infrastructure was hit with a large moving object & burned to the ground. Phil’s new material was just as sad and just as good as his most recent record. Expect more of that coming soon.
4. Nai Palm @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
One of the rawest showings of musical talent I’ve ever seen. Nai is the bandleader of Hiatus Kaiyote and packed Music Hall of WBurg to the gills on a Monday night. Just her voice and a guitar. She played her own songs, reworkings of Hiatus songs and a bunch of covers, including the mind-blowing Angel Olsen cover you’ll see below. Goosebumps.
5. Jessy Lanza & Kate NV @ House of YES
A big dance party! Jessy definitely played the hits and worked the room – so much more superior than when I saw her at Baby’s All Right in 2016. Bigger room, more folks dancing, overall less bro-y crowd (as is Baby’s), and a great opener in Russia’s Kate NV. Can’t beat just a plain old fun time!
6. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith @ Knockdown Center
Beautiful, moving, inspiring, lovely, incredible. I definitely teared up a little bit from KAS’s masterful synth manipulation. I saw her another time after this but it was at my least-favorite venue in the city and could only stay for a bit because of the heat and cigarette smoke. Very thankful I had this previous experience to tape over the second one!
7. TOPS @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
I’ve now seen TOPS more than any other band. This was the best I’ve ever seen them, with a fuller band and a practically-sold out Music Hall to iron their spines onstage. They played most of their new album Sugar At The Gate, but delved into a few older ones too. I had so much fun and it really seemed like the band had a ton of fun too – isn’t that what it’s all about in the end? Such a great band.
8. Giant Claw, Kate NV & Foodman @ Cape House
The most unique show I saw all year, with two international artists (Kate NV from Russia, Foodman from Japan). It was actually a segment of a showcase for the Northside Festival, put on by Orange Milk Records – other artists performing were death’s dynamic shroud.wmv, Honnda, Machine Girl, and more. Legit $5 for hat bill at a venue a few subway stops away. Can you say #blessed? Giant Claw was the first I caught, creating a dynamic, perplexing soundscape with just a drum pad sitting on his lap. It confounded me – how can this dude have so many insane sounds coming from that small thing? It was dope. Then was Kate NV, which was the third time I saw her this year. She played more or less the same set as the two previous times, but it was still super fun and engaging. Foodman closed things out for me, spinning his bizarro take on footwork, which continues to push the limits of electronic music in general. It was totally bizarre and unlike anything I had ever heard, as you might imagine. I especially did not want to miss this show because it was a collection of artists that challenge me to go outside my usual listening bracket and I know wouldn’t see this kind of lineup ever again. Feeling lucky to have seen these amazing artists practically in my backyard!
9. Julianna Barwick @ First Unitarian Church BK
Second time seeing JB, first in an actual concert setting (actual first was at a public school fundraiser). This was in a gorgeous church with great visuals filling in the massive centerpiece behind Barwick, molded somehow to fit in alongside the molding and decoration of the church walls. A perfect setting for Barwick’s meditative songs.
10. Daniel Bachman @ Baby’s All Right
Totally mesmerizing American Primitive style guitar playing and just a genuine onstage presence. Another display of shocking musical talent seen this year, joined by such great company! Unfortunately pretty sparsely attended. Y’all missed out on a real treat. He seems like such a solid guy too, told a few funny stories onstage. Yeehaw!
Honorable Mentions:
Aldous Harding @ Bowery Ballroom (for being a treat to see as always)
Hand Habits @ Park Church Co-op (for putting my mind at ease)
Kelela @ Bowery Ballroom (for making me feel at home despite being surrounded by 1000% more fashionable and attractive people)
New Order @ Radio City Music Hall (for playing the hits and making old people around me dance awkwardly)
Pond @ Bowery Ballroom (for being the biggest Aussie goofballs out there & having an adorable 60+ year old superfan)
Sam Amidon @ Union Pool (for blowing my mind with free jazz & bluegrass)
Sneaks @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg (for being a two-person wrecking crew)
St. Vincent @ Kings Theatre (for being the most overwhelming one-person spectacle)
Washed Out @ Brooklyn Steel (for being incredibly entertaining and great visuals)
Yo La Tengo @ Bowery Ballroom (for playing my favorite song!)
Zola Jesus @ Rough Trade (for being an empowering, badass performer & human)
Happy to bring you, treasured reader, another batch of 50 albums ranked via the pleasure yielded upon each listen throughout the year of 2017. This is my 8th year of doing these, so I’ve gotten quite good at whittling everything down. However, I always have to leave in some honorable mentions, which you’ll find directly below. This was the first year I was tempted to list 100 records here, but concluded that there wasn’t really any point in listing 50 more records that were just pretty good, not really good. It was more just to spark some future name recognition for you, dear reader, so if you saw someone like NPR or Gorilla Vs Bear talking about a band, you could remember “oh yeah, Warm Visions listed that as his 87th favorite album of 2017. That’s interesting. Maybe I’ll post the rest at a later time. For now, there’s just 50 + 15.
I also have a long, rambling thing at the very bottom of this post on why I post a Top 50 and why I like lists so much. Thought it was necessary since I’ve been seeing a lot of negative feels on lists for some reason. Nevertheless, happy how this turned out and I hope you enjoy it as well.
50. Faith Healer – Try 😉
49. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
48. Mega Bog – Happy Together
47. Jacaszek – KWIATY
46. The Spirit Of The Beehive – Pleasure Suck 45. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
44. Land Of Talk – Life After Youth
43. Colter Wall – Colter Wall 42. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up 41. Circuit Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo
40. Omni – Multi-task
39. Oneohtrix Point Never – Good Time Soundtrack
38. Destroyer – ken
37. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
36. Migos – Culture
35. Nite Jewel – Real High
34. Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
33. Hundred Waters – Communicating
32. Pond – The Weather
31. Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
30. Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan
29. TOPS – Sugar At The Gate
28. Slowdive – Slowdive 27. Four Tet – New Energy 26. Giant Claw – Soft Channel 25. Brockhampton – Saturation II
24. Laurel Halo – Dust
23. Colleen – A flame my love, a frequency 22. King Krule – The OOZ
21. Fever Ray – Plunge
As is tradition, the christening of WARM VISIONS LIST WEEK starts with the EPs. The little guys. The quality over quantity. The toe dip before the album. It never feels right to rank EPs with full albums, so I always give them their own time to shine.
This year we see new faces, teasers of things to come, a double dose, a local supergroup, a real good grooves. Hope you find something you really love in this batch. Shout out to Half Waif and Amber Mark too.
10. Ross From Friends – The Outsiders
An arcade machine comes alive at night and plays dance music to a dusty storeroom.
9. CCFX – CCFX EP
Grey skies, dry heat blasting, impending snowstorm, change & crumbs in old car seats.
8. Sudan Archives – Sudan Archives
A violin sits at the bottom of a naturally heated lake, sprouting vegetation on its banks.
7. Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference
The grand populace teaming together to fight a rising, malevolent force.
6. Yaeji – EP2
A step by step method to making friends with everyone in any club’s VIP section.
This November was much better than last year, where I struggled to even make a post with November and December combined. Some really good stuff this month, including my space queen Björk. Still trying to unpack her record, but it’s still yielded some goosebumpy listens. I cannot recommend SASSY 009 and Yaeji enough – two EPs that pair nicely together.
Angel Olsen – Phases [Jagjaguwar]
A box of old things found while going through your childhood home.
Björk – Utopia [One Little Indian]
Like eating a really, really spicy pepper and experiencing a euphoric spectrum of overwhelming stimuli and blistering heat.
Call Super – Arpo [Houndstooth]
A rollercoaster made out of really nice office chairs.
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest [Because]
Driving down a winding, tree-lined road at night with a bouquet of roses, a knife and a one-way plane ticket in the passenger seat.
DJ Seinfeld – Time Spent Away From U [Lobster Fury]
Getting emotional in the club, or maybe in a step aerobics class.
EERA – Reflection Of Youth [Big Dada]
Your house is steadily filling up with sand and the sounds of birds.
Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Bay Head [Three-Lobed Recordings]
Two best friends, competitors, rivals, partners, equals, duel for the fun of it to delay the end of the world.
SASSY 009 – Do you mind EP [Hard Up / Luft Recordings]
Getting crushed by a giant LED screen that’s showing a live feed of you getting crushed by said LED screen.
Yaeji – EP2 – [Godmode]
“When the sweaty walls are bangin’, I don’t fuck with family planning. Make it rain, girl, make it rain.”
Various Artists – Diggin’ In The Carts : A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music [Hyperdub]
A hidden cavern filled with dusty treasures.
Haven’t posted in a while, but I’m going to be posting A LOT of list content soon so I wanted to get something I’ve been jamming on before all that comes out.
SASSY 009 is one of the few new groups this year that have actually excited me and got my musical obsession juices flowing this year. They’re truly something special and I can’t wait for you all to start listening to them. My favorite song off their debut EP, “Feel me,” is nowhere on the internet besides Spotify, so go listen to it there. For now, listen & watch the video for “Are you leaving”, which features a great flute and some bit-crushed drums.
“Intimidatingly euphoric” rave track from True Panther duo SoulMates. The press releases hint at bigger names behind the music here, but for now they’re going under the aliases of Adaron and Nico, a corgi and gecko, respectively. This track is a major banger and I’ve been listening to it over and over. I listed it in my favorite songs of October post, but thought it deserved its own little shout out here. Hope you enjoy.
October yielded some really, really great albums. Some things that had me reach outside my comfort zone and pull back remarkable things I probably wouldn’t have listened to otherwise. I highly recommend anyone listen to the things I’ve listed here. You can do it! You’ve earned it! Enjoy your life and reap its benefits!
CCFX – CCFX EP [DFA]
The oldest car in the Kroger parking lot has a shoegaze mix stuck in its CD player and a copy of Silence Of The Lambs on laserdisc, wrapped in a down coat, laying in the trunk.
Circuit Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo [Drag City]
A cowboy hat and a bouquet of blue roses are launched into a multi-dimensional rift.
Colleen – A flame my love, a frequency [Thrill Jockey]
A series of recurring dreams in which the clouds and stars and planets and waves and snowflakes and dead leaves become emotionally dependent on one another.
Destroyer – ken [Merge Records]
Otherwise mundane and common occurrences are overplayed to a theatrical, over the top degree by assorted pedestrians that it charms many into a state of euphoric fatigue.
Fever Ray – Plunge [Mute]
A human trapped in alive ice for the past 80 years is thawed and experiences culture shock upon viewing the hedonistic behavior of today’s society, eventually succumbing to the overwhelming carnal pleasures.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid [Western Vinyl]
Deep analyses of a dense, murky swamp and all of the complex, intertwined relationships of the organisms that thrive there.
Kelela – Take Me Apart [Warp Records]
A break-up leads our protagonist to a full-bodied metamorphosis into a truly superior, elegant and groove-based individual that effortlessly glides through analyzing and accepting trauma and kindles a new love within themselves.
King Krule – The OOZ [True Panther Records]
A previously charming man who’s spent too long laying in a gutter, covered in mold, shambles around an urban landscape in the dead of night, searching for stimulants.
Kllo – Backwater [Ghostly]
Warm lights bob and pulsate around and against two stainless steel sculptures of lovers.
Nai Palm – Needle Paw [Sony Masterworks]
A room full of candles melt wax into the form of a multi-colored snake, which majestically slithers into the starry heavens.
GR8 SONGS OF OCTOBER::
Listen to all these songs plus at least 150 more from 2017 on this Spotify playlist.
Blue Hawaii – “No One Like You”
CCFX – “The One To Wait”
Circuit Des Yeux – “Black Fly”
Colleen – “A flame my love, a frequency”
De Lux – “875 Dollars (Juan MacLean Remix)”
Deradoorian – “Mountainside”
Destroyer – “Sky’s Grey”
Fever Ray – “To The Moon And Back”
Fever Ray – “Red Trails”
Foodman – “Oyaji Voice”
John Maus – “Touchdown”
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “Who I Am And Why I Am Where I Am”
A man in a suit of mirrors walks down a dark highway, reflecting the light of passing headlights into a pitch-black sky.
Reduction Plan is the main venture of CT musician and friend of the blog Dan Manning and is often joined by similar friend of the blog Luis Durango onstage (and potentially in the studio? Who knows! I’m working on a Reduction Plan exposé to answer these questions, so stay tuned). Solo or together, Reduction Plan makes dark rock songs heavily based upon guitar and drum machine work with the occasional flash of synth and loop-based noise interludes. Their newest record, Somewhere, was released this summer.
Buried beneath the 80s-inspired guitar and standoffish, gothic flair lie the architectural basis of great pop songs, learned from years of practice and listening. Dan and I have bonded over many bands that I feel have keys to the basement of Reduction Plan’s foundation, from basics like The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen and New Order, to contemporary favorites like Have A Nice Life, Merchandise, and Black Marble. So going into it, I knew the influences were there. All these groups have made obviously incredible pop songs with varying shades of darkness etched into them. There’s no doubt those pop sensibilities would also carry over with the overall aesthetic that Reduction Plan drapes over their own work. The guitars shimmer, shake and smash, the drum machine plods along with a minimal, yet necessary accompaniment, and Dan’s droning vocals keep the nihilistic goth feel alive and well. What I’m trying to say is that Somewhere falls in line with the dark, post-punk lore that has stretched for years before this, marking itself a worthy addition to the catalog.
“Dreams In Blue,” is the first track that really stuck out to me, since it’s the best overall “guitar”song on the record. It also adds another player into the RP lore, Ryan Kalentkowski, who adds guitar work to the track. Thanks Ryan! The melody ebbs and flows like a rough patch of sea, arcing into a high register before quickly dipping down to a crushing, resolving chord. It’s a moving melody, one that takes the listener on a journey and sets it apart from other murky tracks that populate the rest of the record. It has a steady tempo (not too fast to slam, not too slow to stifle), a big resounding “for whom the bell tolls” / “clock strikes midnight” dirge stomp joins a muted drum machine to keep time, and the ghostly vocals in the back add more ambiance than anything. Definitely a great rock song for when you’re in the mood to light candles and sit alone in a nice chair.
I meant to write about the record here sooner, but it honestly didn’t feel right to write about something like it at the time of release. The music of Somewhere is not fit for light summer listening, at least not for someone of my stature. Projects from Vince Staples, Washed Out and Kirin J Callinan had just come out. I was listening to Japanese city pop. Not now, Reduction Plan. Catch me with the candles and nice chair later.
Going back to the draft of this post now was natural. It’s in the waning days of October and despite the weather on the East Coast being unusually humid and rarely dipping below 60º, it feels infinitely more appropriate to start getting people talking about Reduction Plan. This is music made for fast-approaching evenings, deep shadows, great sunsets, central heat getting fired up, layered clothing, the whole fall package. Just check out the song “Autumn,” the most upbeat and pop-leaning song on the record. Doesn’t that make you wanna ride a bike down a leafy path at sunset, racing against the clock? I sure can.
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June 26: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – We Are Light Pauses In the Silence of the Sun Born At Midnite – Eternal BAM Nation Downtown Boys – Public Luxury
July 3: mary in the junkyard – Role Model Hermit
July 10: Parts & Labor – Set of All Sets Tracey Nelson – Hercules
Warm Visions 