VMP Magazine

When introducing our Most Overlooked Albums Of 2016 list, we noted that there are something like 75,000 albums released every year, or at least that’s the best guesstimate. To keep up with everything, you’d need to listen to more than 1400 albums a week, which is a physical impossibility even if you capped every album at 20 minutes. Which is to say: you do not have enough time to listen to every album you want to--or should want to-- in any given period of time. Life is short, time is limited, and you can only spend so much of your waking life listening to music.

The goal of any overlooked albums list--this one included--is to try to pause the deluge of those 75,000 albums coming down the pike, and take some time to re-appreciate some albums that, for a variety of reasons (be they genre, timing, promotion, or otherwise) didn’t get the appreciation we think they deserved. We can’t say for sure that these albums will replace the number one on your list of favorite albums of 2017, but they all deserve more time to be considered than they got.

And like last year, we believe in these 15 titles so much, we’re carrying all of them in the Vinyl Me, Please store right now. You can purchase them by clicking the image below.

Without further ado, here are the 15 Most Overlooked Albums of 2017, as picked by the Vinyl Me, Please staff.