We’ve loved a lot in 2017. Here’s a swell list of things we couldn’t get enough of this year in no particular order. We definitely didn’t have room for everything that made this year swell for us so think of these as a great, big starting point:
Albums
A few cohesive gems we can’t stop revisiting that breathed a lot of life into our 2017
Kane Strang – Two Hearts and No Brain
Friendship – Shock Out of Season
The Babe Rainbow – The Babe Rainbow
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EPs
An underrated category where so much potential shined this year
Stella Donnelly – Thrush Metal
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Videos
A bunch of lookers (and listeners)
illuminati hotties – “(You’re Better) Than Ever”
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – “Over Everything”
Peach Pit – “Drop The Guillotine”
All of our sessions
Everything by Bob Sweeney
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Covers
New old things mostly from Triple J’s Like A Version
Julia Jacklin – “Someday”
Haim – “That Don’t Impress Me Much”
Holly Macve – “All I Have To Do Is Dream”
The Shacks – “This Strange Effect”
Middle Kids – “All The Small Things”
Margaret Glaspy – “Let Me Love You”
Queen of Jeans – “Are You That Somebody?”
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Pop + Beyond
Our forever obsession with big tracks continues
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry”
Charli XCX – “Boys”
Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
Confidence Man – “Boyfriend (Repeat)”
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Past Pals
Blasts from the past the brightened our present
Shania Twain – ALL THE HITS
La Roux – “Sexotheque”
Mother Maybelle & Sarah Carter – “Sweet Fern” (Original live recording)
The Twang Zone – A playlist by Chad of Water Temple
Jazz – A playlist by Dave of Darla and Water Temple
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Friends
Nice people and places who’ve been really nice to us
Bob Sweeney (Love you)
Jake Detwiler (Love you)
Jon Doyle of Various Small Flames (Love you)
Jon Chin of Cereal + Sounds (Love you)
Collin Smith
Keith Abrams
Manny Lemus of Citrus City Records (Love you)
Jackson of Indie Photo (Love You)
All of our new photographer friends
Everyone we got to film a session with
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Other
Swell things that we can’t go without
Making Playlists
Cauliflower Rice
Airbnb
Film Photography
Puns
Playing Phone Tag With Creative Voicemails
Running From Show To Show
Ear Plugs
Candles
Learning From Mistakes
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Can’t wait to make more musical memories with you in 2018!