Cugerock Top 15 Albums of 2016 - 1st Half of 2017

Sorry folks. I know it's been awhile. I would say in the past 18 months I've experienced the absolute highest of highs and darkest of lows in my life thus far. That being said I quote Mike D of the Beastie Boys...

"I've been through many times in which I thought I might lose it. The only thing that saved me, has always been music."

This was also the quote submitted for my high school yearbook that never made it to print unfortunately. #FunYetSadFact

Let's recap the great albums from the last year and a half. Young indie upstarts mixed with modern rock mainstays, old punk legends and shoegaze revivals. Enjoy and PLEASE keep buying music.

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

2. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate

3. Yuck - Stranger Things

4. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions

5. Tennis - Yours Conditionally

6. Spoon - Hot Thoughts

7. Fleet Foxes - Crack Up

8. The London Suede - Night Thoughts

9. Slowdive - Slowdive

10. Land of Talk - Life After Youth

11. Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

12. Nada Surf - Stay Who You Are

13. Real Estate - In Mind

14. The Thermals - We Disappear

15. Tegan & Sara - Love You to Death