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!
Larry Crane
Roger Waters- Is This The Life We Really Want?
Jason Isbell- The Nashville Sound
Margo Price- All American Made
Jay-Z- 4:44
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band (50th Anniversary Re-Issue)
Jessica Boudreux- No Fury
Dan Auerbach- Waiting on a Song
Queens of the Stone Age- Villians
Gary Numan- Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
John Baccigaluppi
Björk- Utopia
Hurray for the Riff Raff- The Navigator
Moses Sumney- Aromanticism
Big Thief- Capacity
Roger Waters- Is This The Life We Really Want?
Juana Molina- Halo
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister- Planetarium
Sufjan Stevens- The Greatest Gift
Julien Baker- Turn Out The Lights
Conor Oberst- Salutations
Sam Smith- The Thrill of it All
Liam/Noel Gallagher- As You Were/Who Built The Moon?
Geoff Stanfield
Lee Scratch Perry and Subatomic Sound System- Super Ape Returns to Conquer
Moses Sumney-
Big Thief- Capacity
Jay-Z- 4:44
Thundercat- Drunk
La Santa Cecilia- Amar y Vivir
Tinariwen- Elwan
Sun Kil Moon- Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
ÌFÉ- IIII+IIII
Brian Eno- Reflection
Arca- Arca
Perfume Genius- No Shape
Sampha- Process
Juana Molina- Halo
Anthony Sarti
Horseneck- Heavy Trip
Glass Jaw- Material Control
Mew- Visuals
Chelsea Wolfe- Hiss Spun
Pvris- All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
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