The Long Players that are worthy of repeat listening from the top half of this year.
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Arctic Monkeys- Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Bishop Nehru- Elevators: Act I & II
Black Panther Soundtrack
Cut Chemist- Die Cut
DJ Jazzy Jeff- M3
DJ Koze- Knock Knock
First Aid Kit- Ruins
George FitzGerald- All That Must Be  
Hollie Cook- Vessel of Love
Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer
J. Cole- KOD
Jon Hopkins- Singularity
Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour
Kali Uchis- Isolation
Khruangbin- Con Todo El Mundo  
Leon Bridges- Good Thing
MGMT- Little Dark Age
Middle Kids- Lost Friends
Mr. Fingers- Cerebral Hemispheres
Palace Winter- Nowadays
Parquet Courts- Wide Awake
Plan B- Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose
Raf Rundell- Stop Lying
Royce Da 5’9”- Book of Ryan
Soccer Mommy- Clean
Sunflower Bean- Twentytwo in Blue
The Go! Team- Semicircle
Tom Misch- Geography
Whyte Horses- Empty Words
Young Fathers- Cocoa Sugar

My silver screen selections from the first 6 months of 2018.
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​A Quiet Place
Black Panther
Blockers
Coco
Deadpool 2
Game Night
Isle of Dogs
I, Tonya
Molly’s game
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Tully
You Were Never Really Here

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Best of the binge worthy box sets from the early half of the year. 
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Atlanta
Barry
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Cunk on Britain
Derry Girls
Electric Dreams
High Maintenance
Love
Lovesick
Patrick Melrose
Portlandia
Silicon Valley
Sneaky Pete
Star Trek: Discovery
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
The Defiant Ones
The End of the F***ing World
The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
The Young Offenders 
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
​Westworld
Wild Wild Country

Alien Stadium- this one's for the humans
Art School Girlfriend- moon
Belle and Sebastian- the same star
Bill Baird- walking in a straight line
Brazilian Girls- pirates
Club Kuru- the memory junkie
Creep Show- modern parenting
Cuddle Magic- slow rider
Girl Ray- the way we came back
Jack White- over and over
Jordan Rakei- eye to eye
Kitty, Daisy and  Lewis- suspicion
Matt Maltese- like a fish
Melody's Echo Chamber- breathe in, breathe out
Nick Mulvey- in your hands
Paddy Hanna- bad boys
Rex Orange County- loving is easy
Simian Mobile Disco- defender
Snail Mail- pristine
Sudan Archives- nont for sale
Tops- petals
Toro Y  Moi- omaha
U.S. Girls- rosebuds

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The best of the rest...
Arlo Parks- forgive me
Baywaves- still in bed
Beach House- lemon glow
Blossoms- deep grass
Broken Social Scene- stay happy
Caroline Rose- getting to me
Courtney Barnett- need a little time
David Kitt- imagination
Dead Horses- turntable
Dermot Kennedy- moments passed
Ellie Occleston- move on
Father John Misty- things it would be helpful to know before the revolution
Fuzzy Sun- come take a bite
Gracie and Rachel- only a child
Haley Heynderickx- oom sha la la
Happy Axe- seven sounds
Hatchie- sure
Jiggy- an capall dubh
Joan Shelley- I got what I wanted
Lily Allen- higher
Lucy Rose- all that fear
Makana- napo'o ka la
Mattiel- send it on over
Matt Maltese- greatest comedian
Matty- embarrassed
Mimicking Birds- sunlight daze
Mormor- heaven's only wishful
Nassau- whatever brings you peace of mind
PJ Harvey- an acre of land
Ratboys- GM
Ruth-Anne Cunningham- the vow
Sophie Barker- don't give it away (The Afropolitan southside mix)
Sufjan Stevens- mystery of love
The Lost Brothers- echoes in the wind
The Magic Gang- take care
The Shacks- follow me
Tuvaband- horses
Unknown Mortal Orchestra- doomsday
Vagabon- fear force
Wyvern Lingo- snow ii
Yellow Days- the way things change

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Spring cleaning...
A.A.L.- I never dream
Atelje- zephyr
Avalon Emerson- one more fluorescent rush
Bonobo- outlier
Caroline Says- winter is cold
Clark Peak- magnetic
Cray76- merce
Cs + Kreme- whip
Daniel Avery- slow fade
DJ Koze- nein konig nein
DrumTalk- out of the blackness into the blue
Eagles and Butterflies- the last dance (sunrise mix)
Escapism Refuge- drifting
Fit of Body- 56k
Four Tet- planet
Fyodor the DJ- ambient
Golden Teacher- sauchiehall withdrawal
GusGus- featherlight
Hammer- Atlantic 252
Hammer- inside soul
Hugh Mane- real sucker for your love
James Holden- each moment like the first
Jinsang- feelings
Joachim Pastor- mountain
Jon Hopkins- emerald rush
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- to follow and lead
Keiichi Suzuki- satellite serenade
Kelly Lee Owens- anxi
Kidnap- and in me too a wave rises
Kingdom- nurtureworld
Kolsch- left eye left
La Decadanse- alcazar
Lambchop- the hustle unlimited
LCD Soundsystem- how do you sleep
Lone- Temples
Lost Horizons- the places we've been
Luttrell- intergalactic plastic
Marisa Anderson- cloud corner
Melanie de Biasio- gold junkies
Minor Science- volumes
Moby- like a motherless child
Nabihah Iqbal- in visions
New Jackson- electric blue
Nic Fanciulli- saying (Kolsch remix)
Nils Frahm- all melody
Nils Frahm- sunson
Objekt- needle and thread
Opal Sunn- pluto
Otm Shank- kaida
Pangaea- bone sucka
Pardon Moi- inside the outside (Low Manuel remix)
Pepe Benzine- electronics
Pillow Person- kitchen
Radioactive Man- steve chop
Sebastian Leger- dida
Sebastian Leger- lost miracle
Shanti Celeste- make time
Sigur Ros /Alex Somers- end
Simian Mobile Disco- caught in a wave
Simian Mobile Disco- hey Sister
Simon Boswell- meltdown
Sleazy- rave melancolie
Susanne Sundfor- reincarnation
Talamanca System- my past is your future
Tash Sultana- mystik
Thundercat- Tokyo
Tracy Thorn- sister (Andrew Weatherall remix)
Tusks- last (Vok remix)
Valerie Dore- get closer (Gerd Janson edit)
Yazz Ahmed- bloom
Yuki Ame- circles

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Here's the other contenders for this episode

Adana Twins- uncompromising
Alejandro Molinari- anxiety
Artbat- planeta
Artbat- sand in your shoe
Bicep- aura  
Borai & Denham Audio- make me
Boxia- only human
Carl Craig- sandstorms (Versus version)
Claptone- in the night
Crackazat- proton blue
David Penn- yeah yeah
Deetron- cry with the stars
Doctor Dru- praerie
Durante- orbital frame
Eagles and Butterflies- the last dance
Eduardo de la Calle- dayalu
Eli and Fur- white sails
Etapp Kyle- quantum
Fouk- f3000
Freaks- mr computer man
GusGus- spiraling
Henrik Schwarz- take words in return (Jimi Jules remix)
James Welsh- thread (Radio Slave remix)
Joe- tail lift
Kamakura- muscumesi
Kink- neutrino
Leftwing & Kody- want it
Lone- mind's eye melody
Luke Nova- last wolf (Ian Metty remix)
Manik- fresh with it
Mark Jenkyns- sirens
Moon Boots- power (Mylo remix)
Ninetoes- big boy
Nu Era- space above us
Nyma- instinctual lover
Oxia- domino (Matador remix)
Paolo Martini- next generation (Pepe Bradock remix)
Rroxymore- thoughts of an introvert
Sasha/ Polica- out of time
Sebo K- brock wild
Son of 8- back from outer space
Tom Trago- faith belongs to us
T Williams- the learning process
Undercatt- verano
Waajeed- shango
Westworld- the slam (Gerd Janson remix)
Yolanda Be Cool- musika

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Here's my favourite long players from this year. All these albums are solid from start to finish. 
Beck- Colors
Big Thief- Capacity
Charlotte Gainsbourg- Rest
Cigarettes after Sex- Cigarettes after Sex
Four Tet- New Energy
Gabriel Garzon-Montano- Jardin
Goldie- the Journey Man
Gorillaz- Humanz
Jordan Rakei- Wallflower
Kelela- Take Me Apart
Kendrick Lamar- Damn
Little Dragon- Season High
Moonchild-Voyager
Nick Hakim- Green Twins
Powerdance- The Lost Art of Getting Down
Sampha-Process
Steve Cobby- Hemidemisemiquaver
St Vincent-  Masseduction
SZA- Ctrl
The War on Drugs- A Deeper Understanding
The xx- I see you
Thundercat- Drunk
Washed Out- Mister Mellow

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Here's the movies that captured my attention these past 12 months
American Made
Baby Driver
Battle of the Sexes
Blade Runner 2049
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Brigsby Bear
Columbus
Detroit
Dunkirk
Get Out
Good Time
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Hidden Figures
Ingrid goes West
IT
Lady Bird
Logan
Logan Lucky
Okja
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
T2 Trainspotting
The Big Sick
The Disaster Artist
The Florida Project
Thor: Ragnarok

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Here's the binge worthy T.V. shows that I enjoyed in 2017
American Gods
Better Call Saul
Black Mirror
Detectorists
Fargo
Glow
High Maintenance
It's always Sunny in Philadelphia
Love
Lovesick
Master of None
Mindhunter
Mr Robot
Narcos
Nathan For You
Ozark
Portlandia
Review
​Silicon Valley
Sneaky Pete
Stranger Things
The Good Place
The Man in the High Castle
The Sinner

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