I made a few lists of some of my favorite releases from the first half of the year.
Top 10 Baltimore Albums
BUTCH DAWSON - PREY
Great American Canyon Band - Only You Remain
Jacober - Glass Splinter
Horse Lords - Interventions
JPEGMAFIA - Black Ben Carson
Outer Spaces - A Shedding Snake
Post Pink - I Believe You, OK
Scroll Downers - Hot Winter
The Snails - Songs from the Shoebox
Sri Aurobindo - Psychic Process
Top 20 Metal Releases
Abbath - Abbath
Aborted - Retrogore
After the Burial - Dig Deep
Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
Be'lakor - Vessels
Cough - Still They Pray
Entombed A.D. - Dead Dawn
Exmortus - Ride Forth
Gadget - the Great Destroyer
Geruvah - Hallelujah!
Gojira - Magma
Hicks Kinison - Devour Their Hearts
Karybdis - Samsara
Magrudergrind - II
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens
Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade
Vektor - Terminal Redux
The Zenith Passage - Solipsist
Zhrine - Unortheta
Top 30 Everything Else
Aesop Rock - the Impossible Kid
BAMBARA - SWARM
Basement - Promise Everything
Big Ups - Before a Million Universes
Bloody Knives - I Will Cut Your Heart Out for This
Choir of Young Believers - Grasque
clipping. - Wriggle
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land
David Bazen - Blanco
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Doug Tuttle - It Calls on Me
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
Flasher - S/T Cassette
James - Girl At the End of the World
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
the Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect
Lissie - My Wild West
Lucy Dacus - No Burden
Milk Teeth - Vile Child
Minor Victories - Minor Victories
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Psychic Ills - Inner Journey Out
RiFF RAFF - Peach Panther
Tacocat - Lost Time
Underworld - Barbera Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
UXO - UXO
Violent Soho - Waco
Xeno & Oaklander - Topiary
Youth Code - Commitment to Complications
µ-ziq - RY30 Trax