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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2017)

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Aideen's list

1. Kendrick Lamar – Damn (Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment)
2. London Grammar – Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound)
3. Sampha – Process (Young Turks)
4. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life (Dirty Hit)
5. The National – Sleep Well Beast (4AD)
6. Lil Peep – Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 (Self Released)
7. Morrissey – Low in High School (BMG)
8. The xx – I See You (The Young Turks)
9. Hiatus – All the Troubled Hearts (Independent)
10. AFI – AFI (The Blood Album) (Concord Music Group)
11. Rise Against – Wolves (Virgin)
12. Laura Marling – Semper Femina (More Alarming Records)
13. St Vincent – Masseduction (Loma Vista Recordings)
14. Harry Styles – Harry Styles (Columbia Records)
15. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold (RCA)
16. Lorde – Melodrama (Republic Records)
17. Fangclub – Fangclub (Vertigo)
18. Jason Isbell – The Nashville Sound (Southeastern Records)
19. Liam Gallagher – As You Were (Warner Bros.)
20. Rancid – Trouble Maker (Hellcat)

Andy's list

1. White Suns – Psychic Drift (Flenser)
2. Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked At Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
3. Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones)
4. Diet Cig – Swear I’m Good At This (Frenchkiss Records)
5. Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File (Dais Records)
6. The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic)
7. Esmerine – Mechanics of Dominion (Constellation)
8. Oneohtrix Point Never – Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warp)
9. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
10. Pharmakon – Contact (Sacred Bones)
11. Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
12. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore)
13. Kamikaze Girls – Seafoam ( Big Scary Monsters Recording Company)
14. Johnny Jewel – Windswept (Italians Do It Better)
15. NRVS LVRS – Electric Dread (Hz Castle Records )
16. The Courtneys – II (Flying Nun)
17. Boris – Dear (Sargent House)
18. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph Records)
19. 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) – 5772 (Sentient Ruin / AnnapurnA)
20. The xx – I See You (The Young Turks)
21. Kindling – Hush (6131 Records)
22. Alexei Shishkin – 3 (Forged Artifacts)
23. The Seven Fields of Aphelion – Keep The Ocean Inside (Rad Cult)
24. Xetas – The Tower (12XU)
25. Ω▽(OHMSLICE) – Conduit (Imaginator Records)

Cheryl's list

1. Pallbearer – Heartless (Profound Lore Records/Nuclear Blast Records)
2. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore)
3. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood (Century Media)
4. Aosoth – V: The Inside Scriptures (Agonia Records)
5. Amenra – Mass VI (Neurot Recordings)
6. Tchornobog – Tchornobog (Fallen Empire Records)
7. Sampha – Process (Young Turks)
8. Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar (House of Mythology)
9. The Ruins of Beverast – Exuvia (Ván Records)
10. Zola Jesus – Okovi (Sacred Bones)
11. Soror Dolorosa – Apollo (Prophecy Productions)
12. Imperceptum – The Eternal Path to Nothingness (Independent)
13. Dødsengel – Interequinox (Debemur Morti Productions)
14. Sólstafir – Berdreyminn (Season of Mist)
15. Celeste – Infidele(s) (Denovali)
16. AFI – AFI (The Blood Album) (Concord Music Group)
17. The National – Sleep Well Beast (4AD)
18. Dodecahedron – Kwintessens (Season of Mist)
19. Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down (Loma Vista Recordings)
20. Whoredom Rife – Dommedagskvad (Terratur Possessions)
21. Woe – Hope Attrition (Vendetta)
22. Loss – Horizonless (Profound Lore Records)
23. The xx – I See You (The Young Turks)
24. The Great Old Ones – EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy (Season of Mist)
25. Emptiness – Not For Music (Season of Mist)

Kevin Fitzpatrick's list

1. Queens of the Stone Age – Villains (Matador)
2. Mastodon – Emperor of Sand (Warner Bros.)
3. Dead Cross – Dead Cross (Ipecac)
4. Death From Above – Outrage! Is Now (Last Gang)
5. At the Drive-In – In•ter a•li•a (Rise Records)
6. Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
7. Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark? (Warner Bros.)
8. Code Orange – Forever (Roadrunner Records)
9. Matt Cameron – Cavedweller (Dine Alone)
10. Gone Is Gone – Echolocation (Rise records)
11. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph Records)
12. Flobots – No Enemies (Independent)
13. Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down (Loma Vista Recordings)
14. Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy (Ipecac)
15. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold (RCA)
16. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet (Dead Oceans)
17. Liam Gallagher – As You Were (Warner Bros.)
18. Arcadea – Arcadea (Relapse)
19. Boris – Dear (Sargent House)
20. London Grammar – Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound)
21. The Obsessed – Sacred (Relapse)
22. Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
23. Black Anvil – As Was (Relapse)
24. Living Colour – Shade (Megaforce Records)
25. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore)

Loren's list

1. Worriers – Survival Pop (Side One Dummy)
2. Hard Girls – Floating Now (Asian Man Records / Specialist Subject Records)
3. Dead Bars – Dream Gig (No Idea Records)
4. P.O.S. – Chill, Dummy (Doomtree)
5. Iron Chic – You Can't Stay Here (Side One Dummy)
6. Career Suicide – Machine Response (Deranged)
7. The Dopamines – Tales of Interest (Rad Girlfriend Records)
8. Sciatic Nerve – Sciatic Nerve (Anxious And Angry/ Gunner Records)
9. Great Cynics – Posi (Specialist Subject Records)
10. Nothington – In the End (Red Scare Industries)
11. Caves – Always Why (Specialist Subject Records / Dead Broke)
12. STNNNG – Veterans of Pleasure (Modern Radio)
13. Vacation – Southern Grass: The Continuation of Rock’n’Roll (Recess Records)
14. City Mouse – Get Right (It's Alive Records)
15. Whiskey & Co. – Ripped Together, Torn Apart (No Idea Records)
16. The Mons – Trust No One (Triple Eye Industries)
17. The Slow Death – Punishers (Rad Girlfriend Records)
18. Rancid – Trouble Maker (Hellcat)
19. Cayetana – New Kind Of Normal (Plum Records)
20. Jim and the French Vanilla – Afraid of the House (Dirtnap)
21. Needles//Pins – Goodnight, Tomorrow (Mint/Dirt Cult)
22. Tim Barry – High on 95 (Chunksaah Records)
23. Dark/Light – Kill Some Time (Dirt Cult Records)
24. Naïve Sense – Self Titled EP (2017) (Independent)
25. Kid You Not – Never A Dull Movement (Deep Elm Records)

Matt's list

1. AFI – AFI (The Blood Album) (Concord Music Group)
2. Stormzy – Gang Signs & Prayer (#Merky)
3. HAIM – Something to Tell You (Polydor)
4. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph Records)
5. Ted Leo – The Hanged Man (SuperEgo Records)
6. At the Drive-In – In•ter a•li•a (Rise Records)
7. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up (Nonesuch)
8. Thundercat – Drunk (Brainfeeder)
9. Shilpa Ray – Door Girl (Northern Spy)

Nathan G. O'Brien's list

1. Haram – When You Have Won, You Have Lost (La Vida)
2. Limp Wrist – Facades (La Vida)
3. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (International Anthem)
4. LCD Soundsystem – The American Dream (DFA / Columbia)
5. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
6. Milk Music – Mystic 100s (Dom America)
7. Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now (Sub Pop)
8. Anarquia Vertical – Sistema Total de Liberation (La Vida)
9. Daudyflin – Ofbeldi (Iron Lung)
10. Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life (Anti / Arts & Crafts)
11. Gensu Dean & Wise Intelligent – Game of Death (Mello Music Group)
12. Apollo Brown & Planet Asia – Anchovies (Mello Music Group)
13. Barcelona – Un Ultimo Ultrasondio Nacio Y Murio en Barcelona (La Vida)
14. Insight & Damu – Ears Hear Spears (Redefinition)
15. Una Bestia Incontrolable – Metamorfosi (La Vida)
16. Heavy Metal Kings – Black God White Devil (Enemy Soil)
17. Tristate & Oh-No – 3 Dimensional Prescriptions (Hieroglyphics)
18. Sean Price – Imperius Rex (Duck Down)
19. Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs – Gems From the Equinox (Soul Assissins)
20. Wiki – No Mountains in Manhattan (XL Recordings)
21. Eel – Night Parade of 100 Demons (Beach Impediment)
22. Institute – Insubordination (Sacred Bones)
23. Rata Negra – Oido Absoluto LP (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos Punk)
24. Sievehead – Worthless Soul (Static Shock)
25. Facial – Facade (Chain Letter)
26. Makaya McCraven – Highly Rare (International Anthem)
27. Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
28. Void Ritual – Heretical Wisdom (Tridroid)
29. Hibushibire – Freak Out Orgasm! (Riot Season)
30. Concealed Blade – Concealed Blade (Beach Impediment)

Spyros Stasis's list

1. The Necks – Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
2. Oxbow – Thin Black Duke (Hydra Head)
3. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore)
4. Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu)
5. Pyrrhon – What Passes for Survival (Willowtip)
6. Zu – Jhator (House of Mythology)
7. Zola Jesus – Okovi (Sacred Bones)
8. Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar (House of Mythology)
9. Endon – Through the Mirror (Hydrahead)
10. Arca – s/t (XL Recordings)
11. Pact Infernal – Infernality (Horo)
12. Nadah El Shazly – Ahwar (Nawa Recordings)
13. Forest Swords – Compassion (Ninja Tune)
14. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood (Century Media)
15. Esmerine – Mechanics of Dominion (Constellation)
16. Fever Ray – Plunge (Rabid/Mute)
17. Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute)
18. Dodecahedron – Kwintessens (Season of Mist)
19. Demen – Nektyr (Kranky)
20. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async (Milan Records)
21. Pharmakon – Contact (Sacred Bones)
22. Myrkur – Mareridt (Relapse)
23. William Basinski – A Shadow In Time (2062 Records)
24. Justin Walter – Unseen Forces (Kranky)
25. Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven (Artemisia)