1. Childhood

  • The White Stripes
    1. The White Stripes – The White Stripes
    2. The White Stripes – De Stijl
    3. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
    4. The White Stripes – Elephant
    5. The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
    6. The White Stripes – Icky Thump

2. Sixth Form

  1. John Mayer – Continuum
  2. The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It
  3. The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
  • Vampire Weekend!!

Kings of Leon

  1. Kings of Leon – Holy Roller Novocaine (EP)
  2. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
  3. Kings of Leon – Because of the Times

Bombay Bicycle Club

  1. Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
  2. Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind of Fix
  3. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow

Jose

  1. José González – Veneer

Ben Howard

  1. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
  2. Ben Howard – The Burgh Island EP

The Strokes

  1. The Strokes – Room On Fire
  2. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
  3. The Strokes – Angles
  4. The Strokes – Comedown Machine

Arctic Monkeys

  1. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

Other

  1. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (bottom-left corner)

Alt J

  1. alt-J – This Is All Yours
  2. alt-J – An Awesome Wave

3. Early Uni

Discovering rap!

  • Childish GAminbo’s “Because the Internet” was the first rap album I really loved
  • I also really liked Drake’s “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late”
  • Then I got into Kendrick
    • Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
    • I remember trying out To Pimp A Butterfly in my first year bedroom when Kanye tweeted about how good it was, and I bounced right off it, too jazzy and weird
      • Of course it eventually clicked hard
  • Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo → Top Dawg
  • Mick Jenkins – The Water[s]
  • Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
  • **Drake – _Take Care
  • Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
    1. Drake – Nothing Was the Same

Became obsessed with David Bowie

  • David Bowie – Blackstar
  1. David Bowie – Low (Remastered)
  2. David Bowie – Station to Station

Radiohead

  • In Rainbows!!!!!
  1. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

Other

  • Tame Impala – Currents
  • Lorde – Pure Heroine
  • Damien Rice – O
  • Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were
    1. Anderson .Paak – Malibu

Everything Everything

  1. Everything Everything – Get to Heaven

4. Late Uni

  • DAMN coming out!!!!
    • My first new Kendrick release as a huge fan. Super super exciting, kinda an anticlimax

Radiohead

  • In Rainbows!
  1. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
  2. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
  3. Radiohead – Kid A
  4. Radiohead – In Rainbows
    1. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
    2. I remember seeing it announced that a new Radiohead album was coming out and that they’re erased their social media and I was like “who are they, I hate that band name”

Marvin Gaye

  1. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

Car Seat Headrest

  1. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial

D’Angelo

  1. D’Angelo – Black Messiah
    • This was the only D’Angelo album I listened to for years, it took me ages to get around to Brown Sugar and Voodoo, I loved this one so much

Danny Brown

  1. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition

Mick Jenkins

  1. Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component
  • Mick Jenkins - Wave[s]

Kanye

  • The Life of Pablo

Kendrick Lamar

  • Ahhhh when “untitled unmastered” dropped out of the blue!!!!!
  • And also I got into Section.80 and was really surprised at how good at was!! Remember listening to “Fuck your ethnicity” for the first time in the university library

5. First job after uni

  1. Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
  2. The Strokes – Future Present Past (EP)
  3. Lorde – Melodrama
  4. Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
  5. Rina Sawayama – RINA (EP)
  6. Yucky Duster – Yucky Duster
  7. Alex Cameron – Forced Witness
  8. The Voidz – Tyranny
  9. Alvvays – Antisocialites
  10. Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference (EP)
  11. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
  12. Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion (Deluxe)

Idk?

  1. Bon Iver – 22, A Million → when was this??
  2. Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy

To process next

  • Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
  • Anderson .Paak – Ventura
  • Radiohead – OK Computer
  • Jeremy Soule – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Soundtrack)
  • Jeremy Soule – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Original Soundtrack)
  • Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
  • Little Simz – GREY Area
  • Childish Gambino – “Awaken, My Love!”
  • Solange – A Seat at the Table
  • Solange – When I Get Home
  • Ariana Grande – thank u, next
  • Ben Howard – Noonday Dream
  • James Blake – Assume Form
  • LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
  • Frank Ocean – Blonde
  • LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
  • D’Angelo – Voodoo
  • JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
  • J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only
  • IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
  • Anderson .Paak – Oxnard
  • MGMT – Little Dark Age
  • Ariana Grande – Sweetener
  • Swans – To Be Kind
  • ROSALÍA – El Mal Querer
  • BROCKHAMPTON – 1999 WILDFIRE (Single)
  • BROCKHAMPTON – 1998 TRUMAN (Single)
  • Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place
  • BROCKHAMPTON – iridescence
  • Ought – Room Inside the World
  • Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
  • BROCKHAMPTON – 1997 DIANA (Single)
  • James Blake – If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead (Single)
  • Death Grips – Year of the Snitch
  • Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace
  • The Carters – EVERYTHING IS LOVE
  • KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS
  • Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
  • Kanye West – ye
  • Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
  • Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  • Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
  • J. Cole – KOD
  • Kali Uchis – Isolation
  • The Voidz – Virtue
  • Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
  • Kero Kero Bonito – Bonito Generation
  • Ought – Sun Coming Down

Appendix

huge huge huge shoutout to Anthony Fantano