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Favorite music of 2025 December 21, 2025

Honorable Mentions:

• Djrum – Under Tangled Silence
• Barker – Stochastic Drift
• Wata Igarashi – Kaleidoscopic EP
• Martinou – Linked
• Mattheis – Waiting for the Silhouette
• Anthony Naples – Scanners
• Andrea – Living Room
• Sunflower Bean – Mortal Primetime
• Patrick Holland – Canada House
• Chicarica – Invierno en la Playa
• IE – Reverse Earth
• Sofia Kourtesis – Volver
• Introspekt – Moving the Center
• coatshek – Sound Bath
• James K – Friend
• irini – Lost in Dreams
• Tortoise – Touch
• Bitchin Bajas – Inland See
• Tame Impala – Deadbeat
• Efdemin – Poly

10. Logic1000 – DJ Kicks

9. Kassian – Channels

8. Herbert & Momoko – Clay

7. Voices From The Lake – II

6. Various Artists – Late Shift Silk

5. Fabric Presents Pretty Girl

4. Carré – Body Shell EP / Meltdown EP

3. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift

2. K-Lone – sorry I thought you were someone else

1. Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Best Albums of 2019 December 25, 2019

Honorable Mentions:

ADLAS – Arrival By Air          Akasha System – Echo Earth           Anthony Naples – Fog FM           Barker – Utility          Boy Harsher – Careful         Cassius – Dreems           Crumb – Jinx          DJ Python – Derretirse          Drugdealer – Raw Honey          Flying Lotus – Flamagra        Galcher Lustwerk – Information          Kornel Kovacs – Stockholm Marathon                   Juan Maclean – The Brighter the Light            Moodyman – Sinner                                   Shanti Celeste – Tangerine          Uun – Praxis          Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride          VC-118A – Inside

10. Karenn – Grapefruit Regret

9. Floating Points – Crush

8. Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

7. Joyero – Release The Dogs

6. Urulu – Metroid

5. Oceanic – Yellow Cone

4. Relaxer – Coconut Grove

3. TOOL – Fear Inoculum

2. Move D – Building Bridges

1. Thom Yorke – ANIMA

Happy Holidays!

GBITS

Best Albums of 2018 March 6, 2019

Honorable Mentions              Nils Frahm – Melody;  Jim Tenor & Freestyle Man – Sleepover;                                           Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still; Palmbomen II – Memories of Cindy;  Road Hog – Spares;                                              Blawan – Wet Will Always Dry; DJ Healer – Nothing 2 Loose; Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi; DJ Seinfeld – DJ Kicks; Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs; Jimpster – Curve; Waajeed – From The Dirt; Surgeon – Luminosity Device; Bjørn Torske – Byen                                                  Post-Animal – When I Think Of You In A Castle;

10.  Djrum – Portrait with Firewood

9.  Suuns – Felt

8.  JJUUJJUU – Zionic Mud

7.  Forest Drive West – Apparitions

6.  YOB – Our Raw Heart

5.  X-Altera – X-Altera

4.  GUM – The Underdog

3.  Against All Logic – 2012-2017

2.  Cavern of Anti-Matter – Hormone Lemonade

1.  Low – Double Negative

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GBITS Favorite Albums of 2017 December 18, 2017

Another absolutely amazing year for music is drawing to a close, and with that, the obligatory enumerations of subjectively preferred albums (read:  year-end best-of lists).  The GBITS 2017 entry:

23.-11.

War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

Porter Ricks – Anguilla Electrica

Destroyer – ken

Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives

Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder

Peaking Lights – The Fifth State of Consciousness

GAS – Narkopop

Thundercat – Drunk

Porcelain Raft – Microclimate

Varg – Nordic Flora Series Part 3: Gore-Tex City

Hoops – Routines

Konx-om-Pax – Refresher EP

Blondes – Warmth

10.  Cut/Copy – Haiku From Zero

9.  Steffi – World of the Waking State

8.  SW. – The Album (SUED015)

7.  Actress – AZD

6.  Fleet Foxes – Crack Up

5.  Various (100% Silk) – Sensate Silk

4.  Slowdive – Slowdive

3.  LCD Soundsystem – American Dream

2. Octo Octa – Where Are We Going?

1.  Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins

Happy Holidays!

J

Best Albums of 2015 December 17, 2015

It’s that time of year again – lists!  You’ll find all sorts:  the top 5 songs about cats, the top 10 non-GMO organic lactose-free hormone-free yogurt-free greek yogurts, the top 20 Star Wars-themed toilet-paper dispensers, the top 50 top 20s, etc.  Let me add one to your list.

I hope you’ll find something here that you’ve loved this year or, perhaps, something that you will love in 2016.

Viet Cong – Viet Cong – Despite their unfortunate selection of band-name (which is now in the process of being changed), this foursome from Calgary crafted a feat of hypopnic garage-rock, post-punk and enough signature changes to wonder just how many songs are really embedded in these seven tracks.  Released early in 2015, no other album quite delivered the same narcotic rush.

2. 

Susan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell – You may believe that this album is uncomfortably difficult to digest.  You would be mostly correct.  It is the painfully naked document of the relationship (or lack thereof) between Stevens and his recently-deceased absentee mother.  The only hope here lies in the belief that she has found peace in eternity, but Stevens has been left hollowed.  It is not likely you will find a more beautiful album with such heavy themes than this.  Well, not since Come On! Feel The Illinoise!

3.   Scuba – Claustrophobia

4.   Time Wharp – Time Wharp

5.   André Bratten – Math Ilium Ion EP

6.   Blondes – Persuasions EP

7.   My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall

8.   Jamie XX – In Colour

9.   Tamaryn – Cranekiss

10.  Wand – Golem

Honorable Mentions:

John Tejada – Signs Under Test    /    Grooms – Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair    /    Nadastrom – Nadastrom    /    Nick Hoppner – Folk    /    Follakzoid – III    /    Lower Dens – Escape From Evil    /    BOOF – Hydrangea Whispers    /    Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin’ down    /    VHÖL – Deeper Than Sky    /    Karamika – Karamika    /    Special Request – Modern Warfare EP’s 1-3

Happy Holidays

J