Tape Op Staff Picks 2017

There have been so many great releases in 2017 that it is hard to pick just a top five or ten! This is no way definitive year end wrap-up, but here are a few of this year's Tape Op staff favorites. Happy listening!
-GS

Larry Crane

1. Roger Waters
   Is This The Life We Really Want?

2. Jason Isbell
   The Nashville Sound

3. Margo Price
   All American Made

4. Jay-Z
   4:44

5. The Beatles
   Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band (50th Anniversary Re-Issue)

6. Jessica Boudreux
   No Fury

7. Dan Auerbach
   Waiting on a Song

8. Queens of the Stone Age
   Villians

9. Gary Numan
   Savage (Songs from a Broken World)

John Baccigaluppi

1. Björk
   Utopia

2. Hurray for the Riff Raff
   The Navigator

3. Moses Sumney
   Aromanticism

4. Big Thief
   Capacity

5. Roger Waters
   Is This The Life We Really Want?

6. Juana Molina
   Halo

7. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister
   Planetarium

8. Sufjan Stevens
   The Greatest Gift

9. Julien Baker
   Turn Out The Lights

10. Conor Oberst
    Salutations

11. Sam Smith
    The Thrill of it All

12. Liam/Noel Gallagher
    As You Were/Who Built The Moon?

Geoff Stanfield

1. Lee "Scratch" Perry and Subatomic Sound System
   Super Ape Returns to Conquer

2. Moses Sumney
   Aromanticism

3. Big Thief
   Capacity

4. Jay-Z
   4:44

5. Thundercat
   Drunk

6. La Santa Cecilia
   Amar y Vivir

7. Tinariwen
   Elwan

8. Sun Kil Moon
   Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood

9. ÌFÉ
   IIII+IIII

10. Brian Eno
    Reflection

11. Arca
    Arca

12. Perfume Genius
    No Shape

13. Sampha
    Process

14. Juana Molina
    Halo

Anthony Sarti

1. Horseneck
   Heavy Trip

2. Glass Jaw
   Material Control

3. Mew
   Visuals

4. Chelsea Wolfe
   Hiss Spun

5. Pvris
   All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell