Here's a partial lise of non-metal albums I considered for my top 10. Albums listen in (pretty much) alphabetical order.

2017, what a dumpster fire of a year. It wasn't all bad though. The Wonder Woman movie was amazing despite being a part of the assy mcbutt DC extended universe, Thor: Ragnarok dug itself out of its WHY SO SERIOUS and ended up being absolutely hilarious, there was a new season of Stranger Things, and of course there were a lot of great albums released this year. 

Starting off my annual Listy McListerson with the albums that did not quite make the cut this year.

With the year already halfway over (HOW HAPPEN SO FAST), here are just a few of my favorite albums of the year so far (in no particular order).

Several members of The West Coast Get Down (WCGD), heard on Kamasi Washington’s hella bloated “The Epic,” are branching off with their own releases. Coming from the same marathon jam session that spawned The Epic, comes such fantastic releases as Thundercat’s Drunk, Miles Mosley’s Uprising, and now Cameron Graves’ Planetary Prince. The WCGD are really taking the jazz/funk/R&B world by storm, and giving a huge kick in the nards to one of the most unpopular genres as of late.  To quote Frank Zappa, “Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.”