Many listeners are still in love with the album: a piece of work that allows a musician to fully sketch out their current worldview. We explored the phenomenon here – as well as how albums are mutating in response – and started our own monthly playlist. Now, after culling votes from more than 50 Guardian writers and critics, we’ve collated our top 100 tracks of the year in a single giant playlist, featuring everything from rap to pop, vocal jazz and shoegaze. Paramore – Hard TimesParamore’s passage from tortured emo teens to tortured soft-rock grownups continued with this irrepressible single from their album After Laughter. Lead-off single Big for Your Boots showed that he didn’t need to do either: he was as withering as ever, and the quotable bars and musicality of his delivery meant that big top lines weren’t even needed.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2017 11:03 UTC