My dad and I used to sit for hours listening to music when I was growing up. We'd put on a record from his wall of vinyls and listen through the whole thing while he'd tell stories of that particular recording or band. He's the one that taught me that listening to an album is an active experience.
This list is public so that y'all can recommend new ones to me. I've also definitely forgotten that I own an album and then bought duplicates. So, you know, this helps me avoid that again.
Always have a record playing in the shop.
—Aaron Draplin
| Album | Artist |
|---|---|
Sound & Color | Alabama Shakes |
Albert Live | Albert King |
An Awesome Wave | alt-J |
Reduxer | alt-J |
AM | Arctic Monkeys |
Whatever People Say That's What I Am, That's What I'm Not | Arctic Monkeys |
I and Love and You | Avett Brothers, The |
IV | BADBADNOTGOOD |
Silent Alarm | Bloc Party |
22, A Million | Bon Iver |
For Emma, Forever Ago | Bon Iver |
i,i | Bon Iver |
Dylan’s Gospel | Brothers and Sisters, The |
Awareness | Buddy Terry |
The Great Paris Concert | Cecil Taylor |
Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come | Cecil Taylor |
From New Orleans to Chicago | Champion Jack Dupree |
The Magnificent Charlie Parker | Charlie Parker |
No Regerts | Chastity Belt |
Love Is Dead | CHVRCHES |
Willy And The Poor Boys | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death | Dead Kennedys |
The King Is Dead | Decemberists, The |
Digital at Montreaux, 1980 | Dizzy Gillespie |
Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 | Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker |
The Duke Plays Ellington | Duke Ellington |
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane | Duke Ellington and John Coltrane |
Heaven Up Here | Echo And The Bunnymen |
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic | Foxygen |
One Inch Masters | Gas Huffer |
Out of the Cool | Gil Evans Orchestra, The |
Lucky Shiner | Gold Panda |
Blowin’ Sessions | Griffin, Coltrane, Mobley |
Rhyme and Reason | Herb Geller |
Fire in the West | Herb Geller |
El Pintor | Interpol |
Turn on the Bright Lights | Interpol |
Overgrown | James Blake |
The Colour in Anything | James Blake |
In Colour | Jamie XX |
Aqualung | Jethro Tull |
Isle of Wright | Jimi Hendrix |
A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters | John Coltrane |
Inside In / Inside Out | Kooks, The |
Past Lives | L.S. Dunes |
Kalenda | Lost Bayou Ramblers |
Let's Get It On | Marvin Gaye |
Middle Brother | Middle Brother |
Water Babies | Miles Davis |
Never Been Caught | Mummies, The |
Sleep Well Beast | National, The |
Journey Without Maps | Northwest Jazz Sextet |
Free Jazz | Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, The |
So Long Forever | Palace |
Wide Awake! | Parquet Courts |
Marigold | Pinegrove |
That's It! | Preservation Hall Jazz Band |
Womb | Purity Ring |
Gossip In The Grain | Ray LaMontagne |
In Mind | Real Estate |
Hometowns | Rural Alberta Advantage, The |
Untitled (Black Is) | Sault |
Grownass Man | Shouting Matches, The |
Lush | Snail Mail |
Getz Au Go Go | Stan Getz Quartet, The New |
Songs In The Key Of Life | Stevie Wonder |
Is This It | Strokes, The |
Heaven Surrounds You | Surf Curse |
Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso |
Shallow Grave | Tallest Man On Earth, The |
Folklore | Taylor Swift |
Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP | Thee Oh Sees |
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane | Thelonious Monk |
Closing Time | Tom Waits |
Lament | Touché Amoré |
Palomino | Trampled By Turtles |
Stars and Satellites | Trampled By Turtles |
Down In Heaven | Twin Peaks |
Sweet '17 Singles | Twin Peaks |
Epoch | Tycho |
IC-01 Hanoi | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
Multi-Love | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
Sex & Food | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
Moon Dance | Van Morrison |
Repave | Volcano Choir |
Heaven | Walkmen, The |
Light Upon The Lake | Whitney |
Moh Lhean | Why? |
xx | xx, The |