Two thirds of the way through the year is clearly the correct time to segway into a mid year review, so below we’ll have listed Velvet’s favourite albums and singles of the year. There’s a whole range of artists to choose from spanning a wide collection of genres, so there (hopefully) should be something for everyone. Just FYI, it’s in alphabetical order, not ranking, we’ll save that for the end of the year!
LP’s
- The Academic – Tales from the Backseat
- A Grave With No Name – Passover
- A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned
- Barbarossa – Lier
- CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead
- Django Django – Marble Skies
- Fickle Friends – You Are Someone Else
- Gengahr – Where Wilderness Grows
- Geowulf – Great Big Blue
- Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? – Jazzbelle 1984 / 1988
- Her – Her
- ISLAND – Feels Like Air
- JO PASSED – Their Prime
- Kraus – Path
- LANKS – twentyseven
- Look Vibrant – The Up Here Place
- Meg Myers – Take Me To The Disco
- Melissa Laveaux – Radyo siwèl
- The Men – Drift
- Moaning – S/T
- Night Flowers – Wild Notion
- NoMBe – They Might’ve Even Loved Me
- Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
- Porches – The House
- Preoccupations – New Material
- Shame – Songs of Praise
- St. Tropez – S/T
- Superorganism – S/T
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
- Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
Single’s
- Aerial – Be Down
- Alex Rand – My Mettle Changes
- Arizona – Freaking Out
- Barbarossa – Broek Beauty
- BLVTH – Seven
- Boniface – Phantom Limbs
- Childhood – Deep Ocean°C
- Childish Gambino – This Is America
- Chloe Olivia – Gilded
- Christine and The Queens – Damn, dis-moi/Girlfriend
- CHVRCHES – Get Out
- Club Kuru – The Memory Junkie
- Colouring – Time
- Django Django – Surface To Air
- DZ Deathrays – Shred For Summer
- Ellevator – Voices
- Fan club – Leaves
- Fickle Friends – Heartbroken
- FIL BO RIVA – Head Sonata (Love Control)
- Friendly Fires – Love Like Waves
- Gengahr – Carrion
- Harris Mac – Shallow
- Haux – Heartbeat
- Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? – Bambi Act
- HAWK – Keeps Me Out
- Holy ’57 – Alison
- The Howl & The Hum – I Wish I Was A Shark
- James Blake – Don’t Miss It
- JO PASSED – MDM
- Lea Porcelain – Gotta Run
- Llovers – Just Lust
- Look Vibrant – Numb Your Spirit
- LOWES – If You Leave Me Now
- Meg Myers – Numb
- Melissa Laveaux – Lè ma monte chwal mwen
- Nausica – Black & White
- Night Flowers – Losing The Light
- Oddnesse – Trust
- Peace – Power
- Peluché – Keep Making Me Happy
- Phoria – Rrotor
- Plaza – In The Know
- Real Lies – The Checks
- Rendez Vous – Double Zero
- Rina Sawayama – Valentine (What’s It Gonna Be)
- Soju – So Juicy
- St. Tropez – Down
- Thyla – Blame
- Thyla – I Was Biting
- Tom Tripp – Loving You More
- Truett – Run Me Down
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – American Guilt
- Young Fathers – In My View
- WENS – Take
- Wilderado – You Don’t Love Me
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