Indie30 TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2017

TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2017

10. No Shape

Perfume Genius (USA)

Matador

TRACKLIST:

Otherside
Slip Away (VIDEO)
Just Like Love
Go Ahead
Valley
Wreath
Every Night
Choir
Die 4 You (VIDEO)
Sides (feat. Natalie Mering)
Braid
Run Me Through
Alan

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9. Black Origami

Jlin (USA)

Planet Mu

TRACKLIST:

Black Origami (AUDIO)
Enigma
Kyanite
Holy Child (AUDIO)
Nyakinyua Rise
Hatshepsut
Calcination
Carbon 7 (161) (VIDEO)
Nandi
1%
Never Created, Never Destroyed
Challenge (To Be Continued)

8. Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void)

Hand Habits (USA)

Woodsist

TRACKLIST:

Flower Glass (AUDIO)
Actress
Greater LA (scene)
In Between
All The While (AUDIO)
Demand It (VIDEO)
Cowboy (scene)
Sun Beholds Me (AUDIO)
Book On How To Change (VIDEO)
Time Hole (scene)
Nite Life
Bad Boy
New Bones

7. Backwater

Kllo (AUS)

Ghostly International

TRACKLIST:

Downfall (VIDEO)
Still Motion
Virtue (VIDEO)
Predicament
Last Yearn
Backwater
Dissolve (AUDIO)
By Your Side
Making Distractions
Too Fast
Nylon (AUDIO)
Not Like Them

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6. Aromanticism

Moses Sumney (USA)

Secretly Canadian

TRACKLIST:

Man On The Moon (Reprise)
Don’t Bother Calling
Plastic (AUDIO)
Quarrel
Stoicism
Lonely World (VIDEO)
Make Out In My Car
The Cocoon-Eyed Baby
Doomed (VIDEO)
Indulge Me

5. Warmth

Blondes (USA)

R&S

TRACKLIST:

OP Actual
Clipse
Quality Of Life
Stringer (AUDIO)
Trust
Tens
KDM (AUDIO)
All You
MRO (AUDIO)
Cleo

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4. Benefits Of Solitude

Dag (AUS)

Bedroom Suck

TRACKLIST

Exercise
Staying Up At Night (VIDEO)
Not Fine Mind
Know Where To Go
Company (AUDIO)
Are Of Anxiety
Guards Down (VIDEO)
JB
Benefits Of Solitude (AUDIO)
Endless, Aching Dance

3. Jen Cloher

Jen Cloher (AUS)

Milk! Records

TRACKLIST:

Forgot Myself (VIDEO)
Analysis Paralysis
Regional Echo (VIDEO)
Sensory Memory
Shoegazers
Strong Woman (VIDEO)
Kinda Biblical
Great Australian Bite
Loose Magic
Waiting In The Wings
Dark Art

2. Take Me Apart

Kelela (USA)

Warp Records

TRACKLIST:

Frontline
Waitin’
Take Me Apart
Enough
Jupiter
Better
LMK (VIDEO)
Truth Or Dare
S.O.S
Blue Light (VIDEO)
Onanon
Turn To Dust
Bluff
Altadena

1. Kelly Lee Owens

Kelly Lee Owens (ENG)

Smalltown Supersound

TRACKLIST:

S.O
Arthur
Anxi (feat. Jenny Hval) (VIDEO)
Lucid
Evolution (AUDIO)
Bird
Throwing Lines (VIDEO)
C.B.M. (AUDIO)
Keep Walking
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