Listening Habits 01-02.2018

The collaborative effort between Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile as well as The Weather Station's eponymous fourth LP are at the top of our list of recommended albums for the start of 2018.

Although there are already several outstanding releases in the first couple of months of the year, our latest selection focuses on 2017 releases that we have come across between the end of the year and now, some of them already on our radar, like "Lotta Sea Lice" which made it in our Top 50 of 2017 at the last minute, and some of them discovered after going through the various other "Best of 2017" lists out there, as it was the case with The Weather Station's record.

The resulting Top 15 can be seen as an addendum to our Top 50 Albums of 2017 and a good soundtrack for starting the new year, until we have enough strong new material to compile our first 2018 list. In the meantime, check these out:

Top 15 Albums

1.   Lotta Sea Lice - COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE
2.   The Weather Station - THE WEATHER STATION
3.   How The West Was Won - PETER PERRETT
4.   Flat Worms - FLAT WORMS
5.   Strange Peace - METZ
6.   Polygondwanaland - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
7.   Big Fish Theory - VINCE STAPLES
8.   Hiss Spun - CHELSEA WOLFE
9.   Capacity - BIG THIEF
10. Phases - ANGEL OLSEN
11. Low In High School - MORRISSEY
12. V - THE HORRORS
13. Okovi - ZOLA JESUS
14. Humanz - GORILLAZ
15. The Witch - PUMAROSA

Top 15 Tracks

1.   Over Everything - COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE
2.   Thirty - THE WEATHER STATION
3.   Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up On The Stage - MORRISSEY
4.   An Epic Story - PETER PERRETT
5.   Shark Smile - BIG THIEF
6.   Special - ANGEL OLSEN
7.   Red Hot Sand - FLAT WORMS
8.   Cellophane - METZ
9.   Spun - CHELSEA WOLFE
10. BagBak - VINCE STAPLES
11. Andromeda - GORILLAZ
12. Something To Remember Me By - THE HORRORS
13. Priestess - PUMAROSA
14. Exhumed - ZOLA JESUS
15. Polygondwanaland - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything