fav albums of the year, in no particular order:

• andrew bird - my finest work yet
• nina nesbitt - the sun will come up, the seasons will change
• lizzo - cuz i love you
• two door cinema club - false alarm
• fka twigs - magdalene
• leslie odom jr - mr
• the head and the heart - living mirage
• maggie rogers - heard it in a past life
• sigrid - sucker punch
• vampire weekend - father of the bride
• jade bird - jade bird
• carly rae jepsen - dedicated
• hozier - wasteland, baby!
• yeasayer - erotic reruns
• banks - iii
• james blake - assume form
• h.e.r. - i used to know her
• vérité - new skin
• half•alive - now, not yet
• king princess - cheap queen
• betty who - betty
• orla gartland - why am i like this? ep
• kim petras - clarity
• billie eilish - when we all fall asleep, where do we go?
• lil nas x - 7 ep
• boom forest - hard times, anything helps
• oh land - family tree
• mika - my name is michael holbrook
• brittany howard - jamie
• the new pornographers - in the morse code of the brake lights
• lana del rey - norman fucking rockwell!
• faye webster - atlanta millionaires club
• fruit bats - gold past life
• hot chip - a bath full of ecstasy
• the national - i am easy to find
• sara bareilles - amidst the chaos
• broods - don't feed the pop monster
• beirut - gallipoli
• orville peck - pony