Albums of my year, 2009-2022
These were made for The Portland Mercury, Letters With Mixtapes, and myself.
Best of 2022
1. Cat’s Miaow- Songs ‘94-’98 (World of Echo)
2. Taylor Swift- Midnights (Republic Records)
3) Kate Ferencz- You Will Love Again (Self-Released)
4) Friendship- Love the Stranger (Merge Records)
5) Time Pieces- Boundary Problems (Porchlight Records)
Best of 2021
1. Idle Ray- Idle Ray (Life Like Tapes)
2. Advance Base- Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn’t Write (Orindal Records)
3. Midwife- Luminol (The Flenser)
4. Pleasure Systems- Visiting the Well (Orchid Tapes)
5. Karima Walker- Dreaming the Waking Body (Orindal Records)
6. Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg (4AD)
7. Oh, Yes- Crooked Wine Smile (Relief Map Records)
8. Fog Lake- Tragedy Reel (Orchid Tapes)
Best of 2020
1. Babytooth- Thataway EP
2. Waxahatchee- Saint Cloud
3. Frances Quinlan- Likewise
4. Adrianne Lenker- Songs
5. Destroyer- Have We Met
6. The Mountain Goats- Songs for Pierre Chuvin
7. Idle Ray- Demo EP
8. Y La Bamba- Los Gritos
9. The Innocence Mission- See You Tomorrow
10. Radisson Blue- Assemblage EP
Best of 2019
1. Purple Mountains- Self-Titled
2. Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron- Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2
3. Sacred Paws- Run Around the Sun
4. Big Thief- Two Hands
5. Y La Bamba- Mujeres
6. Friendship- Dreamin’
7. Erin Durant- Islands
Best of 2018
1. Fred Thomas- Aftering
2. Black Belt Eagle Scout- Mother of My Children
3. Advance Base- Animal Companionship
4. Kate Ferencz- What Was the World
5. Stephen Steinbrink- Utopia Teased
Best of 2017
1. Kelela- Take Me Apart
2. Jessica Dennison + Jones- Self-Titled
3. Midwife- Like Author, Like Daughter
4. Michael Nau- Some Twist
5. Fred Thomas- Changer
6. Allison Crutchfield- Tourist in This Town
Best of 2016
1. Mal Devisa- Kidd
2. Frankie Cosmos- Next Thing
3. Michael Nau- Mowing
4. Sister Grotto- You Don’t Have to Be a House to Be Haunted
5. Mutual Benefit- Skip a Sinking Stone
6. Noname- Telefone
Best of 2015
1. Kate Ferencz- Dying Alone
2. Advance Base- Nephew in the Wild
3. Willis Earl Beal- Nocturnes
4. Richard Album- Saturday Night Album
5. Aunts- Good Mourning Moon
6. Two White Cranes- Radisson Blue
7. Quarterbacks- Self-Titled
8. Golden Hour- Don’t Be Cute
9. Mommy Long Legs- Assholes EP
10. Natural Magic- Self-Titled
Best of 2014
1. EMA- The Future’s Void
2. Stephen Steinbrink- Arranged Waves
3. Nicholas Krgovich- On Sunset/On Cahuenga
4. Blowout- We All Float Down Here
5. Silver Shadows- Self-Titled EP
6. Allison Crutchfield- Lean In To It
7. Two White Cranes- Self-Titled
Best of 2013
1. Mutual Benefit- Love’s Crushing Diamond
2. Kelela- Cut 4 Me
3. Autre Ne Veut- Anxiety
4. Corespondents- Land of the Low People
5. James Blake- Overgrown
6. Beyoncé- Self-Titled
7. RIVKA- Faded
Best of 2012
1. Arlt & Thomas Bonvalet- Self-Titled
2. Dirty Three- Toward the Low Sun
3. Azealia Banks- 1991
4. Lau Nau- Valohiukkanen
Best of 2011
1. Barren Nieces- Lascivious Occupations
2. Jordan O’ Jordan- Drawn Onward
3. EMA- Past Life Martyred Saint
4. Mega Bog- Freaky Dawn
5. Shabazz Palaces- Black Up
Best of 2010
1. Joanna Newsom- Have One on Me
2. CocoRosie- Grey Oceans
3. The Books- The Way Out
4. Eleanor Murray- Oh Thunder
5. Cock and Swan- Unrecognize
6. Corespondents- Ur
7. Xiu Xiu- Dear God I Hate Myself
8. Innocence Mission- My Room in the Trees
9. Ô Paon- Courses
10. S.L.F.M.- Affaire
Best of 2009
1. Christina Antipa- The Royal We
2. Polka Dot Dot Dot- Syzygy
3. Tiny Vipers- Life on Earth
4. DJ Dogwater- Amy Winehouse Memorial Mixtape
5. Gunmothers Head- Her Husband Didn’t
6. Corespondents- Do Not Doublestack Do Not Doublestack
7. Lactacious- Strong and Wrong
8. Arrington de Dionyso- Malaikat Dan Singa
9. Tara Jane O'Neill- A Ways Away
10. Karl Blau- 96