This week on The Saturday Alternative we looked back over a year of great music discoveries, and man were there a lot of’em!  These were some of the standout tracks we heard together on the show. Songs that moved us, inspired us, surprised us… and even frightened us! Below you’ll find the entire playlist, and a Spotify playlist for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

Here’s to another great year of music in 2018. Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year. Thanks for joining me each week for this great little listening party we’ve got goin’ on.

– Galler

 

 

 

—hour 1—

Near to the Wild Heart of Life – Japandroids – Near To The Wild Heart of Life

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Can’t Hold On – The Black Lips – Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art

Exhumed – Zola Jesus – Okovi 

Ocean – Goldfrapp – Silver Eye 

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The Bus Song – Jay Som – Everybody Works

Moonshine Freeze – This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze 

Plastic 100°C – Sampha – Process

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The Alien – Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface 

Shark Smile – Big Thief – Capacity 

Better Off – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist 

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Land Animal – Bent Knee – Land Animal 

Destroy – Raindeer – Neon Death 

—hour 2—

Way We Won’t – Grandaddy – Last Place 

Deathless f. Kamasi Washington – Ibeyi – Ash

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Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me – Ron Gallo – Heavy Meta 

Running – Bully – Losing

Arabian Heights – The Afghan Whigs – In Spades 

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Masseduction – St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION 

To The Moon And Back – Fever Ray – Plunge 

other voices – LCD Soundsystem – american dream 

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In The Midst – sir Was – Digging a Tunnel 

Nobody Cares – Superorganism

Dream State – Son Lux – Brighter Wounds 

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God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly 

The Evil Has Landed – Queens of the Stone Age – Villains 

—hour 3—

Hot Thought – Spoon – Hot Thoughts 

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Quarrel – Moses Sumney – Romanticism 

Pleasure – Feist – Pleasure 

Turtleneck – The National – Sleep Well Beast 

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Two Wildly Different Perspectives – Father John Misty – Pure Comedy 

The Weather – Pond – The Weather 

Sunrise (Always Comes Around) – UNKLE – The Road, Pt. 1 

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Pain – The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding 

Neighbors – Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins 

If Before I Wake – The Districts – Popular Manipulations

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Slip Away – Perfume Genius – No Shape