Songs from my top albums of year! Generally in order, with the best last.
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | New | Local |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speedy Ortiz | Swell Content | Foil Deer | Carpark | ||
| Sleater-Kinney | Fangless | No Cities to Love | SubPop | ||
| Palehound | Molly | Dry Food | EIS | ||
| Mountain Goats | Choked Out | Beat the Champ | Merge | ||
| Lithuania | Hardcore Friends | Hardcore Friends | Lame-O | ✔ | ✔ |
| Kurt Vile | Wild Imagination | b'lieve i'm goin down | Matador | ✔ | ✔ |
| The Districts | Hounds | A Flourish and a Spoil | Fat Possum | ✔ | |
| Destroyer | Times Square | Poison Season | Merge | ||
| Calexico | Falling from the Sky | Edge of the Sun | Anti- | ||
| Ought | Celebration | Sun Coming Down | Constellation | ✔ | |
| Alex G | Kicker | Beach Music | Domino | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tenement | Crop Circle Nation | Predatory Headlights | Don Giovanni | ||
| Vacation | 4341 | Non-Person | DG | ||
| Dogs on Acid | Let the Bombs Fall Off | Let the Bombs Fall Off | Jade Tree | ✔ | |
| Shopping | No Show | Why Choose | Fat Cat | ✔ | |
| Pile | Tin Foil Hat | You're Better than This | EIS | ||
| Worriers | Most Space | Imaginary Life | DG | ||
| Screaming Females | Hopeless | Rose Mountain | DG | ✔ | |
| Saintseneca | Sleeper Hold | Such Things | Anti- | ✔ | |
| Girlpool | Crowded Stranger | Before the World Was Big | Wichita | ✔ | |
| Sidekicks | The Kid Who Broke His Wrist | Runners in the Nerved World | Epitaph | ||
| Royal Headache | Carolina | High | What's Your Rupture? | ||
| Max Levine Ensemble | Backlash, Baby | Backlash, Baby | Lame-O | ||
| QUARTERBACKS | Center | QUARTERBACKS | Team Love | ||
| Goodbye Party | Personal Heavens | Silver Blues | Salinas | ✔ | |
| Ava Luna | Tenderize | Infinite House | Western | ||
| Torres | New Skin | Sprinter | Partisan | ||
| Yowler | Belle | Yowler | DDW | ||
| Waxahatchee | The Dirt | Ivy Tripp | Merge | ✔ | |
| Eskimeaux | Sparrow | OK | DDW | ||
| Fred Thomas | Monster Movie | All Are Saved | Polyvinyl | ||
| Sufjan Stevens | My Blue Bucket of Gold | Carrie & Lowell | Asthmatic Kitty | ||
| All Dogs | Leading Me Back to You | Kicking Every Day | Salinas | ✔ | |
| Hop Along | Horseshoe Crabs | Painted Shut | Saddle Creek | ✔ |