Tiny Music Reviews, 2017

All the music I've listened to this year.

• Baby Driver Soundtrack - YES.

• Be The One (Dua Lipa Cover) by Youngr - A single song that is a singularly fantastic cover. So upbeat. A manifesto of musical style.

• ÷ by Ed Sheeran - This album is 50/50 good and bad songs. The Irish folk songs are excellent, Shape of You and What Do I Know? are super catchy.

• Beast Epic by Iron & Wine - Always love me some new Iron & Wine! I don't know how he continues to make so many great songs.

• Breath of the Wild OST - What a BRILLIANT concept for a Zelda soundtrack. Staggeringly moving and subtle.

• Hawaii: Part II by (basically Tally Hall) - I like it, but it's too weird to listen to around Nicole, or in the car, or play outside of headphones.

• hopeless fountain by Halsey - Halsey has a dear place in my heart and I know that she matches different sounds to her albums for effect. However, I couldn't get into this one. It just fades into the background for me, nothing particularly unique in it.

• Mashup Manifesto V by Isosine - Fucking hell. This is a solid album. It's just so good. Isosine has taken there craft to another level. It's FREE, go get it.

• Middle Ground by Richard Stirton - I got this album to capture this amazing cover of Bon Iver's Skinny Love. The rest of the album is a varied and well-executed concept that is great to drive to.

• Moana Soundtrack - Very fun, but the songs you want to hear are few. Each song is very repeatable.

• Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne - An album so light and relaxing, I really couldn't tell you more about it.

• Peaceful Road (Single) by City and Colour - Please let there be more of this soon.

• The Air is On Fire by David Lynch - Awesome ambiance for tense/mysterious game nights.

• The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Quality fun. Grabbed it for Molotov.

• Joseph - Such a fun acoustic sound. Moving lyrics.

• Paper Trails - Such a light and happy sound. It's like if the characters the Civil Wars sang about had a healthy, mutual love.

• Peter Silberman - First bit of music to stop me in my tracks this year. Checked out his album, Impermenance, and it's super chill. His Tiny Desk Concert is my favorite from him.

• The Avett Brothers - Their concert's highlights were their covers. They didn't play the only song of theirs I would have recognized: The Ballad of Love and Hate.

• Wild Reeds - Nice and mellow and relaxing, just the way I like it.