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Robin Hilton's Top 10 Albums Of 2017

2017 was a year of chronic whiplash, not only for the ceaseless horror show of news headlines, but for the overwhelming number of great albums and songs that were released.
Feist's <em>Pleasure</em> was one of Robin Hilton's favorite albums this year.

2017 was a year of chronic whiplash, not only for the ceaseless horror show of news headlines, but for the overwhelming number of albums andin January (remember that one?) to Eminem's upcoming it seems we barely had enough time to get all the way through a single listen of a single album before a miles-wide torrent of other ones — all by bands we love — sloshed over the cracked and buckling dam.

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