2017 end of the year lists

So, Rough Trade's kicking things off on November 14th, with an album that's not even released yet in the top 3.

https://roughtrade.com/gb/albums-of-the-year/2017

Is that list actually in any order?

yes, it is. the "top 20" link makes it clear it's ranked.

https://roughtrade.com/gb/albums-of-the-year-2017-top-20

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Clearly their EOY-list didn't come soon enough

haha what the heck this is earlier that usual surely

that is an absolutely fucking terrible list as well

Well at least it's cool to see Bedouine, PBS and Jane Weaver making it.

that is an absolutely fucking terrible list as well

Glad we got this out of the way early, too :)

"Here Lies Man" really? it just sounds like Jack White stuck in a loop while walking barefoot on burning coals or something. Really bland.

I hadn't heard of / heard this Aldous Harding record. It's nice.

Me neither but it sounds intruiging.

shit I didn't even see the Liam Gallagher one in there. Yikes.

Never heard any of those records, the woman in Greggs is pretty good with what she puts on. Can't speak for the asda though

wtf @ Colter Wall being a 21-year-old kid from saskatchewan

already?

It seems like just yesterday he was 20.

i'm a Ryan Adams fanboy but anyone w/ Prisoner at #2 for the year cannot be trusted

Aldous Harding was great playing with Deerhunter a couple years ago, that rare opening act whose set tracks an arc from total obscurity to a surprising immediacy. I like "Party" quite a lot though "Imagining My Man" stands out too much maybe.

this Colter Wall album is excellent

Do you think stores like this put albums they ordered too many copies of on their year end list, with plenty of time for people to pick them up as Christmas gifts as well?

this shit has to stop, i don't know why we don't wait until the following year like with movies

ilm does

worst case scenario a few december records miss the lists but it's hardly the end of the world and if artists really really care abt those silly lists they can just release music in october

I look forward to this bit of the year as it's the only time I listen to new music. I even checked the rough trade twitter feed a couple of times as they are always first. At the start of the next year everyone just wants to move on, which is understandable I guess.

I can't think why a record shop would want to publish their list early. It's a complete mystery.

we should have christmas and the end of the year seperate

let's move one of them to june

re: xmas- yes, makes sense for stores to have a rolling Best Albums of the Year list, but publications start making their lists in late November/early December, so anything that comes out in December is effectively X'd out.

Mojo has LCD Soundsystem at #1. I didn't realise people rate that album.

thankful for that LCD album because it got me hooked on Losing My Edge and Someone Great again

Uncut
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/795-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2017/2

wtf @ Colter Wall being a 21-year-old kid from saskatchewan

― Simon H., Tuesday, November 14, 2017

We're allowed to create music here in Saskatchewan too, or so I thought.

Anyone be so kind as to put up the Mojo list?

SK was a good place to make music ime, at least 4-5 years ago. Lots of jobs where you can sit by a phone all night (with Ableton or Sibelius open on your laptop) waiting for someone to call about parts from a mining or forestry or oil site.

good uncut list

@ A. Begrand: I was referring to his age and origin only in reference to his sound and vocals.

Glad the Juana Molina made the Uncut list, its really terrific (and probably better if for spanish speakers).

Were the LCD Soundsystem a debut album, I don't think it would feature at in any top 10.

Piccadilly Records: https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=852

I could be wrong but that list feels a bit more conservative than in previous years. I love that Visible Cloaks record right at the bottom of the list though.

2017 has been the best year in music I can recall, or at least the year where most of my favorite artists put out quality material:

Tinariwen, Feist, cupcakKe, Mac Demarco, Joan Shelley, Starcrash, Conor Oberst, The National, The Clientele, Four Tet, The Weather Station, St. Vincent, Destroyer and Julien Baker.

Add to that list some great new finds and it's just surreal. There was even a good Coldplay single!

<3 2017

There's some very good stuff in that Uncut list but there's a sense of desperation about the top 2. The War On Drugs at #2 especially.

I don't know, A Deeper Understanding is sounding pretty good to me right now

Ugh, both MOJO and Uncut riding LCD-S's jock, really? Having read Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me in the Bathroom, which ended with the ridiculously pompous LCD farewell show, the thought if listening to that album one more time makes me want to puke. Funny thing is I don't think she was trying to paint them in a negative light. But man, Murphy's ecstasy-fueled epiphany about dance music, pure cringe comedy.

At least the Piccadilly list has a few fun ones like L.A. Witch, Duds and Flat Worms.

P much all the indie record shop lists published so far have LCD in their top two (Brighton's Resident being another). It's fucking repulsive

Really liked the LCD Soundsystem record, but it didn't seem that ILM was into it. To forget about the sonic 'retro' aspects of it (surely this has been covered over and over again by now w/ LCD), the record felt very 2017 to me, thematically, lyrically, etc. Even to a certain extent in terms of drawing from a progressive past in an increasingly desperate present... I'm very aware that people will disagree with this. Should also say that I hadn't really been into them at all since the first records and album way back when.

It's fucking repulsive

The album itself or its placement on the lists (or both)? Must admit I've never been a big LCD fan and didn't realise the new one had been so well-received. I liked the single.

no the album is just kind of dull with one or two good tracks, their status as absolute critical darlings is so unexamined and awful though, they're music by and for boring rock critics

I don't think I've heard any of these records, where do you even find stuff like this? I've got a sinking feeling that I'll cross paths with some of them in the end of year poll.

I was curious what would be in the Tow Law Gazettes end of year list but it appears that not only has it gone out of business, it was only ever a prank in the first place

sorry this has been my own dull hobbyhorse for a decade now and you're all sick of me, i will start a new thread for my bullshit

saer is the right person to be sounding off itt

I don't mean to sound off, it disrupts the serenity of the lake!

I don't think I read any reviews of the LCD album, so tended to avoid encountering "their status as absolute critical darlings" - and maybe the 'dullness' of the record struck me as actually pretty consistent mood... it's not like I'm keen to really go into a full on defence, but criticising LCD as "music by and for boring rock critics" itself strikes me as a fairly obvious point, perhaps interesting in 2001, less so in 2017. I dunno. That kind of culture strikes me as so marginal these days that it's super easy to take in the record and not be worried about what Mojo Magazine journalists think or whatever.

sure, but they still have a lot of critical cachet and preferential treatment in terms of exposure, even if the mechanisms of exposure have been diversified. it just seems to be inherently conservative - their reformation, their music, their ethos and the way that they're feted as a Great Band, and maybe that's the right of the music community, but it's not a conservatism i find aesthetically pleasing. ymmv basically

The ageing hipster critique makes more sense to me.

Which may or may not be the same thing. Music for middle aged, highly educated white people, possibly with small families.

LCD allows middle aged balding journo bro's to imagine they're still down with the kids. "It's got those electro beats right dudes?!?"

except the kids are all over 30. along with Jamie XX it's the new dinner party music. i'll just stick to some Steely Dan or Joni, cheers.

jeez guys ease up on the projections, if you don't like LCD fine, that hardly makes you experts on people who do

I have never heard them before but whenever I do a bit of work in Perm, there is a poster of their records in one of the local bars. From what I can tell their fanbase is made up of hunchbacks, strongmen and local government officials. I don't know what your experience with bureaucracy is but its had a net negative effect on my anxiety levels. Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, we know this from reading

sounds about right

Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, we know this from reading

we know this from acoustics tbh

Yes, thats it! great book, wonderful prose, cheeky font!

Wait why are they publishing lists so early? They should at least wait until December. RT with an album that hasn’t come out yet is so fucking pretentious. I doubt they have advance copies too, the whole thing would have leaked already if they were giving advances.

Ah Kelly Lee Owens on 1 at Piccadilly is cool. Love that one.

Weird to see LCD topping two lists so far, I didn’t remember that album making a huge splash... it seemed to me the response to it was rather lukewarm and people moved on.

Wait why are they publishing lists so early?

Nothing new here:

Year-End Critics' Polls 2013 (started by Fastnbulbous on board I Love Music on Nov 18, 2013)

Year-End Critics' Polls 2014 (started by Johnny Fever on board I Love Music on Nov 15, 2014)

Year-End Critics' Polls 2015 (started by bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten) on board I Love Music on Nov 16, 2015)Wait why are they publishing lists so early?

I see... dont know why I remember them as starting in December.

some of the big ones don't drop until later

we're just talking about record shop lists and Mojo right now

It does make sense for stores to do this I guess before people decide on xmas gifts, and black friday around the corner.

I've given up on anything truly surprising, joyous or devastating ever being a critical consensus fave. I'll try to refrain from further complaints about the overrated entries on the top end. Here's some decent selections from near the ass end of the lists - Daniele Luppi w/ Parquet Courts, The Bug vs. Earth, H.Grimace, Childhood, Damaged Bug, Penguin Cafe, Endless Boogie, Richard Dawson, Andrew Weatherall, Snapped Ankles, Froth, Lowly, Dutch Uncles, Ibibio Sound Machine, Songhoy Blues, Arca, GAS, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. On the fence: Chmmr, Michael Nau, Cigarettes After Sex, King Krule, Michael Chapman, Metz, Susanne Sundfør.

Pitchfork's overlooked albums of 2017:

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/overlooked-albums-2017/

There was a lot of great music this year but I wasn't aware that anything other than DAMN. was in the running for AOTY. LCD in that slot is pretty ???

xpost That Kelly Lee Owens record was overlooked?

not by Piccadilly obv

didn't really feel like that Syd record was overlooked, but maybe "overlooked" means "came out in February and a lot has happened since then"

Between "Chuck Johnson" and "Milo" it's a pretty unfortunate year for Pitchfork bands to be using their real names

lmao my favorite album of the year made the overlooked albums. solid

lists = death

Kelly Lee Owens, Actress, DJ Sports and Gaussian Curve all got pretty major props from RA for what it's worth.

Between "Chuck Johnson" and "Milo" it's a pretty unfortunate year for Pitchfork bands to be using their real names

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, November 20, 2017 10:31 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Milo's real name is Rory Ferreira, maybe he should go back to that

LCD allows middle aged balding journo bro's to imagine they're still down with the kids. "It's got those electro beats right dudes?!?"

except the kids are all over 30. along with Jamie XX it's the new dinner party music. i'll just stick to some Steely Dan or Joni, cheers.

don't care much about the new lcd album but i haven't read a post this bad in a long time.

"It's got those electro beats right dudes?!?" is like someone trying to draw the Buscemi meme in MS Paint

"you are old and trying to be cool"

"i describe music i dislike as 'dinner party music'"

i heard "how do you sleep" out of context and enjoyed it more than any lcd song i've heard since the early singles

the other singles were all right

xpost also f u about balding tbh - not sure what having a full head of hair has to do with the vitality of one's musical taste, samson.

Guys it's only music calm the fuck down

quiet slaphead

"you are old and trying to be cool"

"i describe music i dislike as 'dinner party music'"

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, November 20, 2017 10:42 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i'll just stick to music that never gets played at dinner parties, like Steely Dan or Joni"

xp
"How Do You Sleep" is great. not sure about the album as a whole

that and "emotional haircut" were the only songs that stood out (in a good way) for me

genuinely enjoyed the baldness of the jamiesummerz post

sorry, ribaldness

12 bald men solemnly sitting round a long dining table while their host wanders off to the kitchen to fetch some cheese, each of them straining their ears to catch the LCD Soundsystem record quietly playing on the Rega turntable in the corner. each of them lost in their own post-prandial reverie, as the soft electro beats waft from the speakers like a whisper in the breeze: "you are still down with the kids"

I know we're dying to get off this topic but the balding, doughy, white Hold-Steady fan contingent has always been there for LCD since their earliest singles because their songs (cf. "Losing My Edge," "All My Friends") specifically talk about coming to terms with being an aging hipster.

The fact that they stuck with them in 2017 is just a new generation inheriting the boomer tic of thinking your opinions are important/worthwhile and has nothing to do with TEH KIDS, who are busy eating ass and listening to teenage murderers on soundcloud

a crazy thought might be that people who liked them then are 16 years older or whatever.

eating ass?

assic or dud?

Lol, eating ass is so 2014, grandpa

does doughy mean fat btw

Eating ass. That explains the shortage of breath mints in my town.

12 bald men solemnly sitting round a long dining table while their host wanders off to the kitchen to fetch some cheese, each of them straining their ears to catch the LCD Soundsystem record quietly playing on the Rega turntable in the corner. each of them lost in their own post-prandial reverie, as the soft electro beats waft from the speakers like a whisper in the breeze: "you are still down with the kids"

afair this was the final scene of "of gods and men"

Decibel's Top 40:

40. The Lurking Fear, Out of the Voiceless Grave, Century Media
39. Woe, Hope Attrition, Vendetta
38. Pyrrhon, What Passes for Survival, Willowtip
37. Power Trip, Nightmare Logic, Daymare
36. Ufomammut, 8, Neurot
35. Disharmony, Goddamn the Sun, Iron Bonehead
34. Wormwitch, Strike Mortal Soul, Prosthetic
33. Propagandhi, Victory Lap, Epitaph
32. Farsot, Fail-Lure, Lupus Lounge
31. Napalm Raid, Wheel of War, Self-Released
30. Oxbow, Thin Black Duke, Hydra Head
29. Loss, Horizonless, Profound Lore
28. Lock Up, Demonization, Listenable
27. With the Dead, Love from With the Dead, Rise Above
26. Dreadnought, Awake in Sacred Waves, Sailor
25. Cannibal Corpse, Red Before Black, Metal Blade
24. Wampyrinacht, We Will Be Watching. Les Cultes de Satan et Les Mysterères de la Mort, Zazen Sounds
23. Midnight, Sweet Death and Ecstasy, Hells Headbangers
22. Pagan Altar, The Room of Shadows, Shadow Kingdom
21. Artificial Brain, Infrared Horizon, Profound Lore
20. Cloak, To Venomous Depths, Season of Mist
19. Akercocke, Renaissance in Extremis, Peaceville
18. Enslaved, E, Nuclear Blast
17. Cormorant, Diaspora, Self-Released
16. Myrkur, Mareridt, Relapse
15. Dodecahedron, Kwintessens, Season of Mist
14. Obituary, Obituary, Relapse
13. Craven Idol, The Shackles of Mammon, Dark Descent
12. Kreator, Gods of Violence, Nuclear Blast
11. Bell Witch, Mirror Reaper, Profound Lore
10. Converge, The Dusk in Us, Epitaph
9. Wolves in the Throne Room, Thrice Woven, Artemisia
8. Full of Hell, Trumpeting Ecstasy, Profound Lore
7. Immolation, Atonement, Nuclear Blast
6. Spectral Voice, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, Dark Descent
5. Integrity, Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume, Relapse
4. Necrot, Blood Offerings, Tankcrimes
3. Pallbearer, Heartless, Profound Lore
2. Spirit Adrift, Curse of Conception, 20 Buck Spin
1. Paradise Lost, Medusa, Nuclear Blast

I feel more than partly responsible for the direction this thread has gone.

these threads are always 90% made up of complaints about the tastes of critics who are old, lazy and bald

and 90% of those complaints are from imago

"ugh, how apathetic the pens of scribes recommending platitudinous trollop SZA when Yrrrt Grvlakak released an album on Bandcamp"

Poor bald people... clearly not welcome in this thread.

I'd like to state for the record that I'm old, deaf, doughy, out of touch and lazy but I actually have a lot of hair. Most of it on my ass and shoulders and coming out of my ears.

i'm old and bald, and i will say this is probably my laziest year

Ass eating teenagers never consider what the future has in store.

I don't see an obvious winner for the ILM eoy album poll as it stands so that might make it a little more interesting...OR could result in something like LCD actually winning.

there is certainly an obvious frontrunner for the ILM EOY poll.

for damn sure.

yeah it'll be in my top five and I haaate voting like eVerYoNe ElSe!!

Is it Taylor Swift? Please tell me it’s not.

Sam Smith

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2017/10/Bradley-Walsh-When-Youre-Smiling.jpg

An aside, there are some nice tracks on that Kelly Lee Owens for those who don't know - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEaFeIwbuk

that kelly lee owens record is awesome

idk which record lj is talking about

BRADLEY

One might say that being number 1 is in the album's DNA...

I might humbly suggest...

(they're talking about the fourth best kendrick album)

bullshit, it might be the best one

it might be

but it isn't

Third probs. Not really sure where I place it on my best of list, but consensus has been pretty good on it, so I assume it'll be the number 1

Ah yeah forgot about that one. Seems like a safe bet.

I have hopes for my own AOTY/AOTD contender cracking the top ten, that'd be something

oh wait y'all are talking about kendrick? all right i guess

you were talking about kehlani up there I assume btw

both kehlani and kendrick will do very very well and no one needs to worry about them

WHo'll finish higher, Kehlani or Kelela?

Kesha imo

you were talking about kehlani up there I assume btw

― imago, Monday, November 20, 2017 10:50 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep! tbh it's sorta tied with the lee ann womack

i also haven't heard the new miguel yet and expect it to be up there with both of them

Kelela album is str8 fire tbh

WHo'll finish higher, Kehlani or Kelela?

kelela might get the benefit of recency bias and also being more winter-appropriate

(both are great and will do well I'm sure)

tt has told me good things about the kehlani and I do intend to give it a full listen soon

you'd really like it i think lj. second half especially is v strong

:) cool, will check

I am still repping Drab Majesty and Ulver

Fellow old bald people, have you heard Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever? They are for us!

Ulver will be high on my ballot

same

RT with an album that hasn’t come out yet is so fucking pretentious. I doubt they have advance copies too, the whole thing would have leaked already if they were giving advances.

The whole thing has leaked

Oh well then... carry on. Is it good?

Penguin Cafe

― Fastnbulbous

wait there's a new Penguin Cafe Orchestra album???

i'm old and bald, and i will say this is probably my laziest year

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:18 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird you forgot doughy

too lazy to include it

Yes and no! Penguin Cafe is lead by Arthur Jeffes is the son of Simon Jeffes, founder of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Along similar lines of chamber and modern classical, pretty nice.

Thumbs up on Decibel putting Spirit Adrift at #2.

RT with an album that hasn’t come out yet is so fucking pretentious. I doubt they have advance copies too, the whole thing would have leaked already if they were giving advances.

The whole thing has leaked

― Number None

Which thing?

Bjork new album

I think it's more savvy than pretentious though, trying to sell Björk records is all

Drift, the super-indie/hipster record shop in Totnes.

https://driftrecords.com/blogs/deluxe/2017-records-of-the-year

And the actual top 100:
1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
2. Blanck Mass - World Eater
3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
4. Thundercat - Drunk
5. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
6. Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
7. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
9. Kevin Morby - City Music
10. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
11. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
13. Omni - Multi - task
14. Four Tet - New Energy
15. Aldous Harding - Party
16. Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
17. Ty Segall - Ty Segall
18. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
19. Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
20. Jlin - Black Origami
21. Oh Sees - Orc
22. Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration
23. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
24. Angelo De Augustine - Swim Inside The Moon
25. H. Hawkline - I Romanticize
26. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
27. Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
28. Slowdive - Slowdive
29. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
30. Wand - Plum
31. Bonobo - Migration
32. Richard Dawson - Peasant
33. Crescent - Resin Pockets
34. Sampha - Process
35. The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
36. Floating Points - Mojave Desert
37. Temples - Volcano
38. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
39. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
40. VENN - Runes
41. Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
42. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
43. Andrea Belfi - Ore
44. Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
45. Alvvays - Antisocialites
46. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
47. Nadia Reid - Preservation
48. The National - Sleep Well Beast
49. Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
50. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
51. Girl Ray - Earl Grey
52. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
53. Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
54. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
55. Real Estate - In Mind
56. The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
57. Algiers - The Underside Of Power
58. Warm Digits - Wireless World
59. Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
60. Bicep - Bicep
61. WALL - Untitled
62. Kelela - Take Me Apart
63. Katie Von Schleicher - Shitty Hits
64. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
65. The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
66. Laurel Halo - Dust
67. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
68. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
69. Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
70. Alex Rex - Vermillion
71. Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
72. Jakuzi - Fantezi Muzik
73. Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
74. This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
75. Big Theif - Capacity
76. British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
77. Songhoy Blues - Résistance
78. Soulwax - From Deewee
79. The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
80. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
81. Liars - TFCF
82. Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
83. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
84. Forest Swords - Compassion
85. Beach Fossils - Somersault
86. Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea
87. Lowly - Heba
88. Lapalux - Ruinism
89. UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of Light
90. Michael Chapman - 50
91. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
92. Soccer Mommy - Collection
93. Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
94. Arca - Arca
95. Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac
96. Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
97. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
98. Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
99. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
100. Perfume Genius - No Shape

I like how the top 20 or so is the most enervatingly boring set of choices and then the #1 is a complete curveball.

Yeah, it's pretty unexpected. Kind of pleasing, though. I have no idea how they compile this list, whether it's based off sales, or if they invite people to contribute, or if it's just the guy who runs the shop and his staff coming up with it.

James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Omni - Multi - task
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
Algiers - The Underside Of Power
WALL - Untitled
Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace

A list good enough to choose these is a sign that it may be worth investigating some of the unfamiliar titles. And while I admire Protomartyr a lot, I like the Algiers album 100x more, and don't understand why they're being dismissed. At least it made this list. The Rolling Blackouts CS EP is spotty, and the Real Estate album is weak compared to the album by the masters, The Feelies.

that Protomartyr is real good if yer into post-punk

and yeah the failure of Algiers to catch on critically the way it should have is vexing to me as well

I am into post-punk and will arbitrate

I'm sure there's loads of good stuff on the list but I dunno, it's so uniform, taken altogether you can just see the annoying neckbeard a mile off. I mean, it's a record shop in Totnes so who really cares, but I don't find myself compelled to investigate any of the unfamiliar records.

that Bing & Ruth record is fine but what's the story behind it becoming the ambient album du jour

xp guys i need confirmation over what hairstyles i'm allowed to invoke in my withering dismissals of eoy material

Looking at a photo of people queuing up outside there seems to be an equal distribution of baldies and neckbeards so you're on safe ground with either.

a photo of a queue outside a record shop has to be for RSD therefore probably full of chancers who never visit otherwise

If you needed solo accordian minimalism in your life, the Mario Batkovic is the best option to date.

^^very cool album

No mention of Chelsea Wolfe thus far? :(

Or Wolf Alice for that matter.

that Bing & Ruth record is fine but what's the story behind it becoming the ambient album du jour

i don't really know but it's on a big indie (4AD), there were no new records from some of the more well-known names in that whole boomkat classical area (nils frahm, olafur arnalds, winged victory for the sullen etc) and also it's pretty good (if you like that sort of thing)

Wolf Alice will clean up in UK lists for sure

Wolf Alice appear to have slipped into that category of rock music that gets daytime Radio 1 play but gets ignored by 6music and that sort of stuff tends to also get ignored by yr more image-conscious publications. I like that album a lot but they might as well be the Foo Fighters or Enter Shikari at this stage.

what even are the important crit lists in the uk anymore?

listy wisties

'old on chums

Wolf Alice is #3 on the Q list. I haven't read that mag in 20+ yrs but the list is about exactly what I'd expect.

Q magazine’s Top 10 albums of 2017:

Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life
Lorde – Melodrama
Gorillaz – Humanz
St. Vincent – Masseduction
Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
Baxter Dury – Prince Of Tears
Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
The National – Sleep Well Beast

They've got Queens of the Stone Age too!

I v much like The National but in no way does that album belong in a top 10

I can see a bigger problem than The National in there lol

Father Fucking John Misty

I wasn't even talking about that haha!

Gorillaz? I couldn't get through one sitting with that one

I completely failed to notice that there was a Gorillaz album this year.

it's so peaceful here in my concrete bunker where I have no idea half of these dorks are still making records

I find it quite hard to understand how Albarn could have fallen this far

from such a low step? I know

aw

i love Protomartyr but how are they a curveball on that list up there? indie rock band, strong PR game, tons of hype/postiive reviews from the usual suspects, etc.

CBC's 100 Best Canadian Songs of 2017

i love Protomartyr but how are they a curveball on that list up there? indie rock band, strong PR game, tons of hype/postiive reviews from the usual suspects, etc.

― alpine static, Tuesday, November 21

Pitchfork gave Relatives in Descent a 6.9.

nice

lol

Steve Earle, the godfather of alt-country, said it best: Colter Wall is "the best young singer-songwriter I've seen in 20 years."

metacritic has Protomartyr at an avg of 8.5

but really, i'm talking more in terms of general chatter...i can't see them as a curveball on a list that includes Thundercat, Mt. Eerie, Morby, GYBE, Segall, KAS, Oh Sees, FJM, Fleek Foxes, etc. all acts that soak up plenty of pixels.

and again i like them! a lot!

a curveball would be, like ... Colter Wall or Cindy Wilson or Stabscotch or w/e

that's gotta sting for Justin Townes Earle

I don't get the impression they're real close.

alpine static otm

although i feel like i should note colter wall is a bit controversial bc his dad is the super conservative saskatchewan premier

also lol
http://www.rollingstone.com/country/features/how-folk-singer-colter-wall-got-a-boost-from-brock-lesnar-w484131

Colter wall's dad is brad wall?!

yep!

Alpine - fair enough, but their profile in the UK is minimal compared to much of the rest of the list, so it felt like a curveball.

I like that this discussion tries to include everything, but really I only care about Cosmopolitan's 50 Best Songs and Fact's 50 Best Albums.

Mojo..
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/797-mojos-top-50-albums-of-2017/

Kate Bush and ATCQ are from 2016?

Drowned In Sound's is odd. Not in content (far from it) but in methodology, or explanation thereof: Sean appears to have written it himself rather than polled contributors, because.... dunno.

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151506-drowned-in-sounds-favourite-albums-of-2017

Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2017
Editor's Cut
1) Wolf Alice - Visions of Life
2) Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
3) EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
4) St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5) Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
6) Austra - Future Politics
7) Feist - Pleasure
8) Jane Weaver - Modern Cosmology
9) Laura Marling - Semper Femina
10) Juana Molina - Halo
11) Soulwax - From Deewee
12) Thundercat - Drunk
13) Paramore - After Laughter
14) Jean Michel-Blais & CFCF - Cascades
15) Bjork - Utopia
16) Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
17) Zola Jesus - Okovi
18) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
19) Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
20) Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
21) Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiotopia
22) Slowdive - Slowdive
23) Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
24) Eyre Llew - Atelo
25) Perfume Genius - No Shape
26) Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
27) LCD Soundsystem - american dream
28) Lorde - Melodrama
29) Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
30) The Big Moon - Love In the 4th Dimension
31) Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
32) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
33) The Horrors - V
34) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
35) RIDE - Weather Diaries
36) Sylvan Esso - What Now
37) IDLES - Brutalism
38) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Before The Flood
39) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
40) Girl Ray - Earl Grey
41) The Mynabirds - Be Here Now
42) SZA - Ctrl
43) Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Fatal Gift
44) Johnny Jewel - Windswept
45) Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
46) Katy Perry - Witness
47) Clark - Death Peak
48) Grandaddy - Last Place
49) Tired Lion - Dumb Days
50) William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
51) Four Tet - New Energy
52) Sløtface - Try Not to Freak Out
53) Beck - Colors
54) Bicep - Bicep
55) Alvvays - Antisocialites
56) Juanita Stein - America
57) Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
58) Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
59) Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
60) Liars - TFCF
61) Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
62) Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
63) Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
64) Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
65) The National - Sleep Well Beast
66) Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
67) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Delusions
68) Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
69) Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
70) Wiley - Godfather
71) Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
72) Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Wolf Works
73) Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
74) Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
75) Big Thief - Capacity
76) Casey Dienel - Imitation of a Women To Love
77) The Shins - Heartworms
78) Destroyer - Ken
79) Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
80) Cherry Glazerr - Apocolipstick
81) Mura Masa - Mura Masa
82) Fever Ray - Plunge
83) Ryan Adams - Prisoner
84) Depeche Mode - Spirit
85) Laurel Halo - Dust
86) Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Whole Lotta Sea Lice
87) King Krule - The Ooz
88) Kelela - Take Me Apart
89) This Is The Kit - Moonshine Kingdom
90) Sampha - Process
91) Lapalux - Ruinism
92) Afghan Whigs - In Spades
93) Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
94) Circuit des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo
95) Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom
96) The War on Drugs - Deeper Understanding
97) Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
98) Future Islands - Far Field
99) Blanck Mass - World Eater
100) Arcade Fire - Everything Now

he really is a prize twat

all-female top ten is a nice if a bit weird & overreaching gesture i suppose

I love the inclusion of Arcade Fire at 100. That seems like a really lovely gesture.

almost an all female top 10 from DiS

Bjork album that hasn't been released or leaked yet at #15.

The NME one is actually pretty good until you get to Liam Gallagher at #10. Props for putting J-Hus at #6 though.

as you were LG x

I love the inclusion of Arcade Fire at 100. That seems like a really lovely gesture.

Sean on the forum: "Was surprised to see how many people who read the site like it (can’t stand it, hence its positioning)"

How fortunate then that there were only 100 albums released in 2017.

Some very good records on Picadilly's Compilations of the Year:

https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=853

Bjork album that hasn't been released or leaked yet at #15.

― Matt DC, Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:42 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The leak's been out there for over a week now tbh

Really surprised by that, because in The Guardian last week-

She has been working on this album for two and a half years. I have heard it exactly once. Seventy-five minutes ago, in the room next door, I plugged earphones into a laptop and listened to Utopia all the way through. Straight afterwards, I walked into this room to talk to Björk about what I’d just heard. I can’t hear Utopia any other way because Björk’s last album, Vulnicura, was leaked online three months before its release date. 

That interview would have taken place several weeks ago in fairness. And they can hardly admit to having illegally downloaded it in any case.

xp Head thee to the Björk thread

If you're the first to mention a new list that's available online, please link ya lazy sods!

http://www.nme.com/list/nmes-albums-of-the-year-2017-2161481

Those with Kindle Fires or other e-readers, NME offered a free digital subscription all year. Except sometime in the past week they all disappeared from my Kindle as if they were never there. Very strange. It wasn't exactly riveting reading (the what's on your headphone section generally made me despair for humanity), but it helps me feel somewhat connected to what's happening in pop.

Some thoughts. Been enjoying Sheer Mag, The Moonlandingz, Fever Ray, Methyl Ethel, Wiley, Wolf Alice.

On the fence: Creeper (goth themed mall punk?), The Big Moon, Austra, Princess Nokia, Alvvays, SZA, Lorde, Stormzy, Sampha, Kevin Morby, Paramore (liked last one), Loyle Carner

The albums were pretty big letdowns -- The xx, Phoenix, Arcade Fire, St. Vincent.

Creeper (goth themed mall punk?)

yep! i love them

yes we have enthused about them on the emo thread already, they'll be on my ballot and I might make a (futile) push for "Misery" or Riding With Boys" in the tracks poll

Kendrick Lamar was certainly not d**king around

Censoring even words like that? Was the NME always this prudish?

maybe had to tighten up now they foist it on randomers rather than sell it

NME started censoring 'fuck' etc at some point in the 1980s (mark s may well have been there at the time this happened). SWells not amused, iirc.

If you’re going to use a word and then censor it yourself, why not choose another word instead? Like say

Kendrick Lamar was certainly not exhibiting his genitalia around

i don't think that's what donk means

Songlines best albums of 2017:

http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/2017/11/songlines-best-albums-of-2017/

Only album I know from that list is Orchestra Baobab (cool artwork btw). Might need to find some time to listen to the rest.

I've long suspected that traditional Albanian music is underexploited by the world music scene. Will have to check out that file title.

(Second to last.)

you really should, it's great and the group are even better live

Lmfao

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” to open it up to conversation about the records people are passionate about. Allow for revisions to the list.
Instead I’ve misjudged and offended people for a variety of reasons.
I’m truly sorry. https://t.co/jPZiboYFMT

— Sean Adams (@seaninsound) November 23, 2017

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

People got offended? Out of the loop here.

ahahaha

in the replies below that tweet, he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

I was just happy to see the Paramore album high up on the Drowned In Sound list.

he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

Yeah, i was beginning to feel sympathy for him, but he lost me there

This whole argument is flawed, because there's no such thing as a "best" Mogwai album. They're all terrible.

Hey now, some of them are passably mediocre

I quite liked the one they did for Les Revenants TV show

Just been streaming that Saz'iso album, excellent stuff!

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.
DiS is no longer the commercial money chasing behemoth it once was.
it's his site, he can do whatever he feels like as far as i am concerned.
i guess he just got fed up with having to sort all the crap out and came up with a wordy way to basically say : "fuck you, this is my list."

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” STOP RIGHT THERE

haha.
well, there is that.
but i have been guilty of such indulgence, and will be again.
so who am i to judge.

glad to see the Kelly Lee Owens album do so well on these lists so far

Absolutely.

Can already see happening what I'd imagined: the Microphones record is so *painfully* good it's not gonna place anywhere.

The Mount Eerie record? I doubt that.

Soz yeah, meant Mt Eerie. Doubt what though? It's not popped up in some places where one could expect it to.

I like it and admire that it was made. And I feel for the guy. Wouldn't call it a killer album though

I wouldn't call it "killer" either (npi). It's a heck of an album though. If some douche bag at DiS can put Arcade fucking Fire at 100, you'd expect this one to be in the low 80s at least.

it's a great album imo, and not as hard to listen to as many make it out to be

(though of course that could vary wildly depending on personal history)

I wonder what The Horrors have done to piss the NME off. Again.

Xpost It's the 2nd highest rated album of the year on Metacritic. Of course it will show up on some lists.

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.

Haha I’m just being a troll. I have never seen that site, and really don’t have a vested interest in his polling methodology or lack thereof.

I can see why ppl would think the mount eerie album is too real to be contained within the artifice of a numbered list. it feels too obviously ridiculous to rank it against other things

SA's just not very bright.

He put Wolf Alice at the number one, so this seems to be the sole non-failure of music criticism so far.

xps highly recommend that saz’iso album! check it out if you haven't :)

Not into the Saz'iso album. I do like Justin Adams' Ribbons from the Songlines list.

no consensus in 2017

Was hoping for Albanian sounds more like this (even if more traditionally orchestrated). Or this or this. (I don't know this stuff, just pulling videos by artists who recorded the handful of Albanian mp3s I have and like.)

i don't know much about albanian music but i like the gjirokaster vocal ensemble's "albanie, polyphonies vocales du pays lab".

also "don't trust your neighbors" is a good archival albanian comp if you like the old stuff.

Probably too classic and hardcore for me in this case. Maybe I could get to appreciate it, but I tend to like the more contemporary beat-heavy Albanian music I've heard, with sinuous electric/electronic sounds (but not the perhaps still more contemporary things that imitate western pop almost totally).

it's all good, thanks for the links rudipherous I'll check them out next week!

I have an Albanian coworker I should really ask for tips on this stuff.

glad to see the Kelly Lee Owens album do so well on these lists so far

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, November 23, 2017 6:19 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been going down the Drowned in Sound list, one by one. This one was great! Expected her to be country pop or something with that name though.

Really liked the EMA album too.

Consequence of Sound

well, there you go: Mt. Eerie at #8

Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2017-w511763

1. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
2. Lorde - Melodrama
3. U2 - Songs of Experience
4. Kesha - Rainbow
5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
6. Khalid - American Teen
7. Taylor Swift - Reputation
8. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
9. Migos - Culture
10. Sam Smith - The Thrill of It All
11. The National - Sleep Well Beast
12. Jay-Z - 4:44
13. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
14. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
15. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
16. Margo Price - All American Made
17. Harry Styles - Harry Styles
18. St. Vincent - Masseduction
19. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
20. SZA - Ctrl
21. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
22. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love
23. Jlin - Black Origami
24. Valerie June - The Order of Time
25. Paramore - After Laughter
26. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
27. Drake - More Life
28. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
29. Jay Som - Everybody Works
30. Chris Stapleton - From a Room: Volume 1
31. Songhoy Blues - Résistance
32. Robert Plant - Carry Fire
33. Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over
34. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
35. Bob Dylan - Triplicate
36. Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie - Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie
37. Liam Gallagher - As You Were and Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Who Built the Moon?
38. Residente - Residente
39. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
40. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
41. Gregg Allman - Southern Blood
42. Beck - Colors
43. Ornette Coleman - Celebrate Ornette
44. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
45. Tracy Bonham - Modern Burdens
46. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman
47. Low Cut Connie - Dirty Pictures (Part One)
48. Chronixx - Chronology
49. Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
50. Code Orange - Forever

37 wtf?

poor Bjork, should have bumped up that release date by a couple of weeks

CoS list manages to be even more boring than RS

Prog Sphere:

http://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/top-40-albums-of-2017-prog-sphere/

Ryan Adams at #3 on CoS, what is is this 2000?

Lmao at U2 at 3

Paste magazine:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/11/the-50-best-albums-of-2017.html

xp's I stand corrected Prez Keyes!

I was wondering how I managed to completely forget the release of a U2 album, turns out it's not even out yet.

COS isn't great but it's a little better than RS, at least it has Future and Kelela.

i think we can all get behind this one:

http://www.radiox.co.uk/features/x-lists/30-best-new-albums-2017/

Alt-J - Relaxer
The Amazons - The Amazons
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Beck - Colors
Björk - Utopia
The Big Moon – Love In The 4th Dimension
The Charlatans - Different Days
Circa Waves - Different Creatures
Elbow - Little Fictions
Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold
Liam Gallagher - As You Were
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?
Gorillaz - Humanz
Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
Laura Marling – Semper Femina
Maximo Park – Risk To Exist
Morrissey - Low In High School
Portugal. The Man - Woodstock
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sounds
U2 - Songs Of Experience
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
The xx - I See You

god imagine if that was your life

Hahaha that looks like it was done by one of my friends. Ironically he’s the kind of guy who is always judging people by their bad taste in music.

Which is usual behaviour for my rockist friends come to think about it.

god imagine if that was your life

― Big Pred aka (Noodle Vague), Monday, November 27, 2017 12:28 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Looks like a high school kid circa 2004

Even the Prog Sphere list looks pretty boring, but I will check out a few things on it. Hilarious self-own to publish the list a week before the Cleric album comes to put all other prog-metal in the shredder

"Even the Prof Sphere list looks pretty boring"

"Hilarious self-own"

woah, look what happens if you rearrange the radio x list:

Gorillaz - Humanz
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sounds

Circa Waves - Different Creatures
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Morrissey - Low In High School
Beck - Colors
Elbow - Little Fictions
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sounds

The Independent's Album of the Year:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/best-albums-2017-loyle-carner-lorde-kendrick-lamar-taylor-swift-stormzy-j-hus-lists-a8071516.html

1) Loyle Carner  - Yesterday’s Gone  
2) Lorde - Melodrama
3) Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom
4) Perfume Genius - No Shape
5) SZA - Ctrl
6) Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
7) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
8) Syd - Fin
9) Jessie Ware - Glasshouse
10) Trampolene - Swansea to Hornsey
11) J Hus - Common Sense
12) King Krule - The OoZ
13) Stormzy - Gang Signs and Prayer
14) St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
15) Jay Z - 4: 44
16) Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
17) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
18) Sampha - Process
19) Taylor Swift - reputation
20) Bonobo - Migration
21) Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
22) The National - Sleep Well Beast
23) Brent Cobb - Shine On Rainy Day
24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
25) Thundercat - Drunk
26) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
27) Bleachers - Gone Now
28) The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
29) The xx - I See You
30) Alexandra Saviour - Belladonna of Sadness

lol xp

Loudwire 25 Best Metal Albums of 2017

http://loudwire.com/25-best-metal-albums-2017/

Get Ready To Rock! - The Website for Classic, Metal & Progressive Rock
http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/the-best-of-2017-top-albums-top-live-acts-the-reviewers-choice/

Top Albums

1 CATS IN SPACE Scarecrow
2 JUDIE TZUKE Peace Has Broken Out
3 HAREM SCAREM United
4 COCO MONTOYA Hard Truth
5 BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION IV
6 KING KING Exile & Grace
7 BLACK STAR RIDERS Heavy Fire
8 GRAHAM BONNET BAND Live Here Comes The Night
9 THEA GILMORE The Counterweight
10 THE MAGPIE SALUTE S/T

Top Live Acts

1 BLACK STAR RIDERS
2 ALICE COOPER
3 MARILLION
4 PANIC ROOM
5 KISS
6 ELIZA NEALS & THE NARCOTICS
7 BLACK SABBATH
8 THE MAGPIE SALUTE
9 FAIRPORT CONVENTION

i've never heard of any of the bands in that albums list therefore it is the best list so far.

it has a band named CATS IN SPACE so i agree

they will all turn out to be thuddingly retrograde hard-rock dirge-peddlers fyi

i don't know why they only managed to name 9 live acts btw, have a horrible feeling the tenth act passed on and had to be withdrawn from the list

for more clues, check out their live acts list

also lol haha yes

Independent list first one that makes some sense

yeah it always has been a publication for bourgie dullards

Girlpool conspicuously missing from all these lists

Come on lj, it's the most progressive list on here by far.

it just kinda looks like the other ones reshuffled

that thundercat record is awful

agreed about the thundercat record, was really looking forward to it after that awesome EP he dropped in 2015

I like "Show You the Way" but was never able to get into the record as a whole

(though of course I'd like it better without the winky vocalist intros)

flappy bird w/ a good point, re: Girlpool's absence

Oh don't worry there's 400 more lists yet to come.

lots more chances for Lorde to come in at #2

I had no idea there was a new Satyricon. Also pumped that the Elder LP is showing up in some of these.

Is the Lorde album even any good? I've not bothered with it yet

it's very good

(and I didn't care for the first much at all)

Is the Lorde album even any good? I've not bothered with it yet

― imago, Monday, November 27, 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asking this question in a thread highlighting various lists where it's come in at #1. At bear minimum it's probably worth a bother.

it's not really my thing and i still think it's p impressive

Lorde album is great

It is. Even though it's not among my faves, it's worth one breath as opposed to a thousand TayTay thinkpieces imo.

Not much into the whole Lorde album, but Green Light is one my tracks of the year

The Ryan Adams record is actually really good, too. Best since Love is Hell. #burningmyreponepostatatime

yeah it rules

anyone who has the portugal the man album on their list is a cop

sorry, rules are rules

Lots of the Lorde album is way better than Green Light, which I've come round to a bit, but still doesn't feel like the song matches up to the scale of the production.

Best random thing I've recently discovered off a list is Nadia Reid. Preservation is gorgeous, as is I Come Home to You.

i've particularly grown to admire "the louvre"

xp

lol at the name "Loyle"

i saw lorde's show on sunday and not that i wasn't already head over heels for the album but it's now cemented itself as a classic album for me

anyone who has the portugal the man album on their list is a cop

― maura, Monday, November 27, 2017 10:00 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Truth.

did Portugal. The Man have a crossover mainstream breakthrough this year? been seeing their name from a lot of people i didn't expect. feel like it's been ages since i listened to that stuff (circa survive, dredg, the sound of animals fighting)

did portugal. the man ever sound like circa survive. wait don't tell me

yeah, i live in the pac nw and the breakthrough of Portugal. The Man into the mainstream - which i didn't even know about until i saw them perform on the AMAs - is def the weirdest musical story of 2017, imo

flappy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feel_It_Still

xp don't they have the same singer?

i didn't realize portugal the man was a thing anyone cared about before their limp crossover hit this year

Lorde album is great, and Louvre has one of the years best lyrics in it: 'we're the greatest, they'll hang us in the Louvre / down the back, but who cares, still the Louvre'

xp don't they have the same singer?

― flappy bird, Monday, November 27, 2017 4:54 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no????????????

ohhh ok i just looked it up Anthony Green was also in Saosin (and Sound of Animals Fighting, which btw, first ep? amazing, still)

This might not qualify as an end of year list, because it's a mix, and also it picks up 2016 favorites. . . But it's as close as Musicophilia will ever get to an end-of-year list:

Various – ‘The Four Ethers‘
(2016-2017)

Part I: Spring/Life/Earth

01 [0:00:00] Moses Sumney – “Doomed” (Aromanticism, 2017)
02 [0:04:27] Four Tet – “Scientists” (New Energy, 2017)
03 [0:09:12] Ibeyi – “When Will I Learn” (Ash, 2017)
04 [0:12:12] Bjork – “Utopia” (Utopia, 2017)
05 [0:16:47] Mount Kimbie – “Audition” (Love What Survives, 2017)
06 [0:20:57] Thundercat – “A Fan’s Mail” (Drunk, 2017)
07 [0:23:27] Sampha – “Reverse Faults” (Process, 2017)
08 [0:27:34] Cornelius – “Dear Future Person” (Mellow Waves, 2017)

Part II: Summer/Warmth/Fire

09 [0:32:11] No Zu – “Spirit Beat” (Afterlife, 2016)
10 [0:36:40] Daphni – “Medellin” (Joli Mai, 2017)
11 [0:42:50] Anderson Paak – “The Bird” (Malibu, 2016)
12 [0:46:23] A Tribe Called Quest – “Whateva Will Be” (We Got It From Here. . ., 2016)
13 [0:49:16] !!! – “Our Love (U Can Get)” (Shake The Shudder, 2017)
14 [0:53:31] Golden Teacher – “Sauchiehall Withdrawal” (No LUscious Life, 2017)
15 [0:58:36] Fujiya & Miyagi – “Synthetic Symphonies” (Fujiya & Miyagi, 2017)

Part III: Autumn/Light/Air

16 [1:03:24] Frankie Rose – “Dancing Down The Hall” (Cage Tropical, 2017)
17 [1:08:45] Solange – “Don’t You Wait” (A Seat At the Table, 2016)
18 [1:12:51] Virginia Wing – “Grapefruit” (Forward Constant Motion, 2016)
19 [1:16:35] Black Marble – “A Million Billion Stars” (It’s Immaterial, 2016)
20 [1:19:46] Kendrick Lamar – “Feel” (Damn, 2017)
21 [1:23:17] David Bowie – “No Plan” (No Plan EP, 2017)
22 [1:26:52] Jane Weaver – “The Lightning Back” (Modern Kosmology, 2017)

Part IV: Winter/Sound/Water

23 [1:30:21] Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – “Stranger Things (Extended)” (Stranger Things Vol. 2, 2016)
24 [1:35:18] Fever Ray – “Red Trails” (Plunge, 2017)
25 [1:39:59] Joana Guerra – “Carpideiras” (Cavalos Vapor, 2016)
26 [1:43:40] Andy Stott – “First Night” (Too Many Voices, 2016)
27 [1:48:33] Radiohead – “Daydreaming” (A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016)
28 [1:54:45] Slowdive – “Falling Ashes” (Slowdive, 2017)
29 [2:02:29] Arca – “Reverie” (Arca, 2017)
30 [2:05:34] Serpentwithfeet – “Redemption” (Blisters EP, 2016)

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_the-four-ethers_2016-2017_cover.jpg?w=500

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xxxpost to dyl, re Portugal. The Man - they've been around for 10+ years, first got some attention off being from Sarah Palin's hometown, then moved to Portland. some of their earlier stuff isn't bad. but it was the kinda stuff that appealed to the stoner high school jazz band kids who were also into like Jaga Jazzist and Sigur Ros and the Mars Volta or w/e

i dunno, where i am they have been considered a credible, decent (if not particularly exciting) rock band for a long time. but Cascadia is weird.

yea i heard them thru the Mars Volta / ATDI / post hardcore connection but that was ages ago. weird to see their name pop up again in unexpected places

portugal the man are also utter rockist dicks whose identity crisis over having a shitty “we gave ‘please mr. postman’ xanax - let’s see what happens” crossover hit has led to them proclaiming that writers who mildly rebuke their stupid “hur hur we play REAL INSTRUMENTS BRO” posturing should work under pseudonyms if they don’t want to be swarmed by their idiot illiterate fans

not that i have personal experience with this or anything

Sorry to hear that, they suck

thanks. they’re also cowards who deleted everything and posted photos of them flexing instead 😭😭😭😭

yeah that 'real instruments no computers' thing was stupid, sorry that happened to you maura

closest i ever got to p.tm was missing their opening set for minus the bear (who were terrible) in front of like 100 people in a place that holds 500.

damn forgot about them too. rough era. i remember these arms are snake were good though

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-best-albums-of-2017?ref=hp

ew how is lcd soundsystem doing so well

they are the new wilco

wilco >>>>>>>>>>>>> lcd soundsystem

Aw 2017 was a great year why do they want to make it look terrible for future generations.

Music-wise I mean.

wilco >>>>>>>>>>>>> lcd soundsystem

― imago

depends

We all look at old lists from canonical listmakers as representing stodgy stalwarts of music criticism with a bit of new blood mixed in. There's no reason this year should be any different.

Its not a bad idea to ignore all but debut albums in year-end lists. Everything else is comfort food for those participating. If you like the debut, you will probably follow them till they run out of good ideas.

https://www.popmatters.com/the-best-jazz-of-2017-2512509428.html

lots of men are basic

that's how

Its not a bad idea to ignore all but debut albums in year-end lists

nah i think this is a bad idea

yea wtf

if they're lucky artists don't hit their stride until album 2 or 3. there's very long threads on here about bands that flamed out after 1 amazing debut album

like that would've disqualified Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

yeah but most people thought that was his debut so it's fine

Glen should do a Pazz & Jop data set that's just first appearances

side note: this is the third time this week i've seen someone forget about / dismiss / unaware of Section 80 and it's pissin' me off!

you've misread

Fastnbulbous at 8:12 28 Nov 17

https://www.popmatters.com/the-best-jazz-of-2017-2512509428.html

A few years back Pop Matters had a daily Kindle update which I read. They stopped, I stopped reading -- the site is a nightmare of pop-up ads. Still, their prog and jazz lists are fine. Others will back up some of the choices, such as Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse.

https://www.facebook.com/JazzDesk1/posts/680312402176091:0

Tom Hull generally has a reasonable looking list, but admittedly he's just one person:

http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/eoyjazz-17.php

Matthew Shipp Quartet: Not Bound (ForTune)
Avant pianist, third album this year, making it hard to take seriously his periodic retirements.

xxpost to Number None, you're right, sorry .... but i still think it's a real thing

wilco >>>>>>>>>>>>> lcd soundsystem

― imago

depends

― flappy bird, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:51 AM (six hours ago)

the official undergarment of next year's Wilco + LCD Soundsystem tour

lol i'd see that show!

If we only took debuts seriously then Radiohead ahoukd be judged by Pablo Honey.

should*

No idea what my autocorrect was doing there

Ahoukd A

or Ahoukd Computer perhaps.

To avoid further misinterpretation, when I said I don't pay much attention to the appearence of well known names in year end polls (in fact, when I C&P I'l edit them out), it was because I use them as consumer aids to introduce myself to current artists I might like.

Any consumer with a passing interest in music journalism will find out about the Kendrick Lamars and Radioheads of the world, if that's their thing, without the aid of year end polls.

I'm not so sure about the influence of yearly polls on the construction of the critical canon, either. Spend some time in the archives at rocklist.net, and its clear critics frequently don't get it right on their first pass.

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Songs of 2017:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2017-w512456

that number one tho

if someone could has the actual list handy that would be swell

wow that's weird even by Rolling Stone standards

Harry Styles at #1? one of the weakest Lorde tracks at #2? great to see Tove Styrke so high at least

I thought at first they were doing an ilm style fake #1

harry styles song just sounds like the stereophonics to me

I got as far as the write-up

Jazzwise albums:

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/artists/14787-top-20-jazz-albums-of-2017

Popmatters: The Best Ambient/Instrumental Music of 2017

https://www.popmatters.com/best-ambient-instrumental-albums-2017-2513144740.html

xp Yeah I gave Harry Styles' album a far shot yesterday and it sounds like Travis.

I kind of like the RS if only because it’s fucking bonkers specially coming from them. Weren’t they supposed to be a rockist mag?

Well i guess they moved from rock like a decade but still it’s a really weird list in selection and positioning. Is this a reader poll or staff poll?

RS is provocative over anything else. to go against their own rockism is perfectly in character

btw i highly recommend Joe Hagan's new Jann Wenner bio STICKY FINGERS, the rare biography that is fully authorized and denounced by its subject. it's like 600 pages and i inhaled it in a week.

i guess the point is they get to praise Styles for making a really rockist album in the grand tradition of "ex pop star is like really serious oh wow"

nothing against Humble but I'm surprised anyone would rate it higher than the supreme banger DNA

that Styles single is trash tho

DAMN. is an album where i could see a case made for every track on the album being the best over the others

Fuck ME that PopMatters site is unusable.

IDK guys, maybe they just like the Harry Styles song? I like the Harry Styles song. It sounds absolutely nothing like Stereophonics or Travis. Not going to bother listening to the album, but it's a good single.

*elaborate dancing gif that says "in my opinion" here*

It sounds absolutely nothing like Stereophonics or Travis.

I don't really remember Stereophonics but I kinda agree that it sounds like a typical 3rd or 4th single from the early 00s post-Britpop landfill era

I was referring to other songs from that album when I said they sound like Travis.

"Sign Of The Times" def sounds like Robbie Williams tho.

It also bothers me that the 3rd chord resolves too early in the progression and they just leave it there without generating any tension or allowing the song to move around in any unexpected directions. I guess you could call it One Directional.

"Bittersweet Symphony" kinda did the same thing I guess but for some reason that song doesn't feel quite as boring.

Did everybody just hate the HAIM record? Have HAIM been cancelled?

Also Moses Sumney's is not getting the love it deserves imo

someone was asking for the RS songs list:

1. Harry Styles - Sign of the Times
2. Lorde - Homemade Dynamite
3. Kendrick Lamar - Humble
4. Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
5. U2 - Lights of Home
6. Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee
7. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber - Despacito
8. Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
9. Lana Del Rey feat. the Weeknd - Lust for Life
10. Future - Mask Off
11. Tove Styrke - Say My Name
12. Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
13. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
14. LCD Soundsystem - Call the Police
15. Drake - Passionfruit
16. Julia Michaels - Uh Huh
17. Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3
18. Beck - Dear Life
19. Diet Cig - Sixteen
20. Taylor Swift - Call It What You Want
21. Arcade Fire - Everything Now
22. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
23. Charli XCX - Boys
24. DJ Khaled feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller - Wild Thoughts
25. Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
26. Tee Grizzley - First Day Out
27. Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos - Slide
28. Charly Bliss - Glitter
29. J Balvin and Willy William - Mi Gente
30. Jidenna - Bambi
31. Craig Finn - God in Chicago
32. Margo Price - Pay Gap
33. Lil Yachty feat. Diplo - Forever Young
34. Dua Lipa feat. Miguel - Lost in Your Light
35. Dirty Projectors - Up in Hudson
36. Dvsn - Mood
37. Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie - In My World
38. Gorillaz feat. Popcaan - Saturnz Barz
39. Dan Auerbach - Waiting on a Song
40. Fergie feat. Nicki Minaj - You Already Know
41. Kamasi Washington - Truth
42. Kodak Black - Tunnel Vision
43. Big Thief - Shark Smile
44. Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
45. Miley Cyrus - Malibu
46. Laura Marling - Wild Fire
47. Willie Nelson - Delete and Fast Forward
48. YFN Lucci feat. PnB Rock - Everyday We Lit
49. Haim - I Want You Back
50. 21 Savage - Bank Account

thanks!

*one of those calzino emojis*

honestly, ditch the 10 worst tracks and it's not that bad

Radio X reconstructing the canon, box set by box set:

http://www.radiox.co.uk/features/x-lists/the-10-best-deluxe-vinyl-box-sets-of-2017/

16. Julia Michaels - Uh Huh

nice of rs to recognize the superior julia michaels single

Can someone be awesome and organize the links from each list in a single post? In a couple of weeks the thread will be huge.

Maybe I’ll do it if noone else does when I get home.

The RS list recognizes the greatness of Charly Bliss, so I'm just thankful for that

surprised "praying" didn't show on rs's list

Nice to see Bad Liar so high on the RS list. That's turned out to be my song of the year at this stage. Boys, Cut To The Feeling, Malibu, Glitter and Say My Name deserve to be on there too.

Ah fuck it. I was compiling these:

CBC MUSIC - Songs: http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/19299/100-best-canadian-songs-of-2017
DECIBEL - Albums: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/11/20/spoiler-decibels-top-40-albums-2017/
DRIFT RECORDS - ALBUMS: https://driftrecords.com/blogs/deluxe/2017-records-of-the-year
PICCADILLY RECORDS - Albums: https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=852
PITCHFORK - Overlooked Albums: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/overlooked-albums-2017/
ROUGH TRADE - Albums: https://roughtrade.com/gb/albums-of-the-year/2017
UNCUT - Albums: http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/795-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2017/2

But then I realized that ALBUM OF THE YEAR kind of already aggregates every important list out there and it's easier access than open each site separately. So here' you go:

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php

They also have the summary which is fairly useful and mildly depressing:

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2017/

They unfortunately do not do Song lists it seems.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2017/ they do aggregate songs lists but don't have the lists available in their site like the albums lists are

Unfortunately the page you requested does not exist, or it has moved to another location. Please use the navigation bar along the top to navigate to the page you were looking for or CLICK HERE to return to the home page.

That's what I get if I follow your link

that's really weird, it seems the link doesn't work without the '/' at the end of it

you can get there by clicking 'songs' next to 'albums' from your link anyway

nice of rs to recognize the superior julia michaels single

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

issues>>>>

love uh huh tho

Bleep.com Top 10 Albums:

https://bleep.com/Albums-of-the-Year-2017

^^ that Alessandro Cortini album is gorgeous.
very much for fans of FAX golden era ambience.

really loving this Photay album

Cortini is the Nine Inch Nails guy right? have only heard the odd song off that so far

AOTY also puts genre-specific lists on the right rail, but does not include them in the aggregate. At this point most of the lists are the S.O.S. until we get to publications like The Wire, Louder Than War/Vive Le Rock. I miss Rock A Rolla.

The Sampha album is showing up a lot--It didn't seem to make much impact around here

Cortini is the Nine Inch Nails guy right? have only heard the odd song off that so far

yup.
but this is nothing like his work for that crew.
its a very lovely ambient record, my fave track is 'vincere'.

yes, he does good work, I voted for something in a previous ILX EOY poll

The Sampha album is showing up a lot--It didn't seem to make much impact around here

― President Keyes, Thursday, November 30, 2017 9:44 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was a fairly negative reaction in the R&B thread iirc

That Haim record is really nowhere to be seen, it's this years Caracal.

Haim had a record this year? oh

Lol @ how three blurbs in the Bleep list use the phrase "2017 belonged to" in their opening sentence.

i really wanted to like that Brainwaltzera album but it was just too busy and cloying for me.

lmao xpost

That Haim record is really nowhere to be seen, it's this years Caracal.

The Haim record would have to get the 2017 Secret Samadhi award for killling all career momentum with one album.

Past winners include Built To Spill's Ancient Melodies of the Future, Animal Collective's HZ Centipede, and in a rare debut album win, Perfect Pussy's Say Yes To Love.

the Haim album is still very good and better than the debut, though doesn't have anything as good as Don't Save Me on it

will have to check out the Cortini album, I think he performed it when I saw him earlier this year which was great

Regarding Haim, I only heard I Want You Back, and people let me tell you it can not carry The Wire's water!!!

Norman Records top 100 of 2017

Album of the year: Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me <3

Oh and Nick, it's got Grizzly Bear at #3

(sorry, it's a top 50)

that kara lis coverdale is superb

also everyone srsly needs to hear the james holden

Alessandro Cortini is incredible

Sonno from 2014 is one of my favourite records ever

(sorry, it's a top 50)

No you were right - there is a second 50 here:

https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-year-2017?show=bubblers

glad to see the Piano Magic album get some love, it's one of his best imo

had no idea that jarvis cocker had an album out on deutsche grammophon

(and now i do know, i'm still no closer to caring about it tbh)

It's cool in theory but tbh kind of a slog to actually sit through

Thanks for flagging the Norman Records list, Bateau. Was waiting for that one.

Gonna spend some time tonight exploring the unknown (to me) titles.

HAIM will probably make my top 10. it's one of those records I probably overrate in albums polls because it doesn't have a ton of killer stuff on it but i don't think I dislike a single song on there either, which is really rare.

Alessandro Cortini is incredible

Sonno from 2014 is one of my favourite records ever

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:32 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This one, Avanti, blows me away. I don't know Sonno yet. How do the two compare?

The EOY lists excel in one genre for me, and that's ambient and drone. Ten years ago I was on top of all that, but now the EOY lists come in really handy and hand me suggestions to check out the next year. Were there even new Dirk Serries or bvdub or Celer records this year? We need a good drone/ambient thread (and users to fill it).

@ LBI, Sonno is entirely made with a 303, a delay, and the sounds of being-in-hotel-rooms (air conditioners)

It's captures the feeling of being on a long trip across the US pretty amazingly

^^ yeah that's the one I was thinking of that I voted for

@ FGTI, that sounds pretty amazing. Can imagine the buzzing of the airco's going by the new one (which is quite melodic tbf).

The CD is OOP apparently and the LP's go for 100 a pop, going off discogs. Shame. Also he's hot, like a very young Jim O'Rourke.

it's on Spotify fwiw

ty!

All of Cortini’s albums are great and worth checking out.

And yeah that James Holden album is super.

That Norman Records list is awesome! Best one so far.

http://tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2017.html

jazz and more critic's top 100 albums (more includes Bjork, Teddy Afro from Ethiopia, Dayme Arocena from Cuba, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Betty Buckley...)

That Ted Gioia list has a lot of intriguing titles on it.

the HAIM record is killer imo, no idea why no one liked it or talked about it. peters out in the last third i suppose. 'little of your love' is my jam

like the haim record a lot ^ but yeah seems underrated

Cool, my partner is the chorus manager for bk youth chorus. That album is great!

(Dayme too)

(Cool album i mean, not that my partner is dayme )

from what I've seen so far the following albums are generally missing in these lists:

Destroyer - Ken
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
The Weather Station - s/t
Four Tet - New Energy
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

Seems Haim had 3 singles off the album and the last 2 of those didn't even make it into the uk Top 75. All of their previous singles were Top 30/40/50. The bottom kinda dropped out of the whole campaign somehow.

I've seen Julien Baker here and there xp

Top 25 Classic Rock Albums of 2017
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/2017-best-rock-albums/

1. Robert Plant - Carry Fire
2. Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?
3. Gregg Allman - Southern Blood
4. Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie - Buckingham/McVie
5. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
6. Chuck Berry - Chuck
7. Styx - The Mission
8. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
9. Ray Davies - Americana
10. Alice Cooper - Paranormal
11. Cheap Trick - Were All Alright
12. David Bowie - No Plan
13. Govt Mule - Revolution Come Revolution Go
14. Bob Dylan - Triplicate
15. U2 - Songs of Experience
16. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Barefoot in the Head
17. Todd Rundgren - White Knight
18. John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
19. Chris Hillman - Bidin My Time
20. Van Morrison - Roll With the Punches
21. Blondie - Pollinator
22. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Live at Royal Albert Hall
23. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Live From The Fox Oakland
24. Deep Purple - Infinite
25. Mike Nesmith - Infinite Tuesday Autobiographical Riffs

maybe i should listen to that Buckingham/McVie record

Capital XTRA Albums Of The Year List 2017
http://www.capitalxtra.com/features/lists/albums-of-the-year-list-2017/

20. Lil Uzi Vert - 'Luv Is Rage II'
19. Bryson Tiller - 'True To Self'
18. Jhene Aiko - 'Trip'
17. Wiley - 'Godfather'
16. Loyle Carner - 'Yesterday's Gone'
15. Big Sean - 'I Decided'
14. J. Cole - '4 Your Eyez Only'
13. Future - 'Future'
12. Chris Brown - 'Heartbreak On A Full Moon'
11. DJ Khaled - 'Grateful'
10. Mura Masa - 'Mura Masa'
9. Post Malone - 'Stoney'
8. Khalid - 'American Teen'
7. SZA - 'CTRL'
6. Migos - 'CULTURE'
5. Sampha - 'Process'
4. Stormzy - 'Gang Signs & Prayer'
3. JAY-Z - '4:44'
2. J Hus - 'Common Sense'
1. Kendrick Lamar - 'DAMN.'

seems like huge male bias there. how is that Jhene Aiko?

Jlin - Black Origami - Percussion-Driven Multicultural Dance Music

bless you ted g

from what I've seen so far the following albums are generally missing in these lists:

Destroyer - Ken
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
The Weather Station - s/t
Four Tet - New Energy
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

Feist too. I liked that album.

Feist was in the Drowned in Sound top 10.

not seeing Mark Eitzel either, but that's the usual

really loving this Brooklyn Youth Chorus album, dang