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
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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