Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

Have you heard Julie Byrne's live cover of Photobooth by Death Cab? She takes it to another level... there's something about her performances which really gets to me and I usually hate that emo lyrics + folk guitar combo.

She recently showed up on my release radar, enjoyed it but couldn't figure out if it was the kind of singer songwriter material the world has plenty of already

Hell no. She's really something else. Give her a shot.

Julie Byrne's "Prism Song" was one of my favourites from 2014, so cool to be reminded me of her now. Will need to check the album out :)

I like her but I wouldn't say she's something else, I'm just a sucker for that kind of stuff (Alela Diane, Marissa Nadler etc.). I prefer Rooms With Walls and Windows but this one is solid too.

Have you heard Julie Byrne's live cover of Photobooth by Death Cab?

I think you're thinking of Julien Baker.
www.avclub.com/video/julien-baker-covers-death-cab-cuties-photobooth-237511

now there's a unique singer songwriter!

Hah I was thinking Julien Baker. I love her.

I also like Julie Byrne but yeah I was actually talking about Baker.

I'm not much into emo lyrics but her singing is very genuine so I'll buy in... also she's such a good guitar player! I'm yet to hear a live performance of her where she doesn't have a great tone on her guitar.

https://youtu.be/Tkot9YL3YyQ

It's such a clean performance each time... studio engineers love her I bet.

she has a dedicated thread FYI. I think she's gonna have a huge year.

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle, my god

Thank you! Search hasn't been working for me in weeks.

that Julie Byrne record is lovely, especially "Sleepwalker"

Mmm Jan. Top 10 songs:

Grouper - I'm Clean Now (yeah I know its from the last week of december but I'm counting it)
Jens Lekman - What's that perfume that you wear?
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Ariel Pink - Tears on Fire
XX - Replica
Sia - The greatest (kda rmx)
C Duncan - Sibling
Luyas - Self Unemployed
Elliot Smith - I figured you out
Ibibio Sound Machine - pot is on fire

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

some nice balearic adventures

co-sign "Sibling". I later discovered a lot of his album is in the same vein, but this is still a particularly beautiful example

Other January favourites not yet mentioned:

Wiley - "Speakerbox"
Bridgit Mendler - "Do You Miss Me at All" (Marian Hill Remix) + ditto (Pusher Remix)
Mr Tophat ft. Robyn - Trust Me EP
Goldfrapp - "Anymore"
MUNA - "Crying On The Bathroom Floor"
Tinawiren - "Assàwt"
Kumisolo - "La tête ailleurs"
Louis The Child ft. Elohim - "Love Is Alive"
Nadia Rose - "Puddycat"
Zooey - The Drifters (album)

Good track: Mariam the Believer - "Crust"
Good album: V/A - Sensate Silk

Trax I'm into

Ódú - Different
Joe Goddard ft. SLO - Music Is the Answer
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason; The Pot Is on Fire
Shiny Darkly - The Other Man
Tei Shi - Keep Running
With You ft. Bobby Saint - Black Bamboo

Albums

Kehlani - Sweetsexysavage
Mega Bog - Happy Together
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Jardín

New Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood collab song "Tears on fire"

KILL THIS SONG WITH FIRE AND THROW IT INTO SPACE

they should have stuck with the Mering & Rosenberg name

"Tears On Fire" is dreamy

Hahaha I think Tears on Fire is amazing but I wont fight anyone who thinks otherwise. I've been annoying all my friends with it for the past few weeks.

Tears On Fire sounds like a merger of Wicker-Man style folk with Air. It works, I think.

Currently into Julie Byrne's new one, Robyn, Kid Koala and Rose Elinor Dougall (ex Pipettes)

Rose Elinor Dougall

I just noticed yesterday that the album came out. Started listening to it and got distracted. Need to get back to it.

Oh, I forgot to mention Syd's album Fin which is about 75% amazing.

This is what I've enjoyed the most this year so far (in no particular order)

Piano Magic – Closure
Brian Eno - Reflection
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
Michael Chapman – 50
Mark Eitzel – Hey Mr Ferryman
Matt Jencik - Weird Times
Draugsól – Volaða Land
Au champ des morts – Dans la joie
Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial
Laster – Ons vrije fatum
Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats
Kevin Hufnagel – The Protected Shards
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Lorn - Arrayed Claws

Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much

This is wild!

Landlady - "Cadaver," from The World is a Loud Place -- some kind of entrancing herky-jerky prog pop

https://youtu.be/f_NXf3usZ7s

can't decide if i love or hate the band name pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs

foxy dads - mr spilled milk

https://foxydads.bandcamp.com/track/mr-spilled-milk

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

Bryan Ferry should work with this guy, it's crazy how the guitars sound imported from Avalon or late solo Ferry.

Also "Voices" with its "In Your Eyes" re-appropriation is gorgeous

I don't think there's an appropriate rolling genre thread to put this in so here we go:

https://visualdisturbances.bandcamp.com/album/uncanny-valley

Over one and a half hours of anxious avant-noise-rock. The first music in a long time that me think HOLY FUCK more than once. It rules.

Prefer this over the album that placed in 2016 EOY: https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/the-distance

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/album/through-passages-of-time

They talked about the Stabscotch in LJ's new thread (which needs a revive anyways) xp to ultros

rolling attention deficit 2017 -> 999999999999 -> 999999999999999999

I forgot what that thread was called, thanks

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y
…and intheyearendpoll-y and gotonevotefromjustme-y

harrumph

;-)

Chromatics (no, not them, the hip-hop/Soca artist from Trinidad) - "Mapepire"

https://youtu.be/DtiAl2mOvPs

Jeff W all ahead of the curve-y

Still digesting the overt trop house vibes of the Wednesday Campanella album but I think it's good?

The Hardy Tree LP is wonderful. Best thing yet on Clay Pipe.

"Cave Me In" - Gallant, Tablo, Eric Nom: https://youtu.be/NQunCjYdAcU

This song has been ruling my world for the past couple of weeks

Little Dragon - High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AsLISPht_M

"In a part of Dublin known as the Liberties, which is also where the Vikings settled 1000 years ago, there is a small community of rebel horse owners. And a few years ago, a travelling street musician who goes by the name, "The Musical Slave", accidentally crashed her van into the wall of one of their urban horse yards – and out came a horse and a few boys. One of them brought her for a spin with a horse and two-wheeler, and from that day on she was hooked. She ended up buying her own horse and moving him into the yard...

The Musical Slave is a street musician and storyteller from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. She plays tropical punk, and sings about love, the forces of nature, and the world economy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19A53SyAUak

Are all of those youtube comments trolling?

?

They're all saying it's the most beautiful thing ever / they cried/ they watch the video daily to feel inspired.

Im pretty certain theyre not trolling

Jo Harman - Person of Interest

Fantastic track from the Outro Tempo compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9b6Wc-5wQ

My end of year compilation:

1. Claire M Singer - Solas (technically from last year but ...)
2. Colleen - Separating
3. Ian Hawgood - She
4. Ian William Craig - Arrive, Arrive (Slow Vessels version)
5. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Hangout
6. Grizzly Bear - Four Cypress
7. High Plains - Cinderland
8. Olivier Alary - Nollywood
9. Jacaszek -
10. Max Richter - Tuesday
11. Oliver Cherer - Unspoken

i enjoyed so many house/tech etc eps this year.. some of these are on the lo-fier side

Mark Du Mosch - The Red Hour
Schwefelgelb - Dahinter Das Gesicht
Ancient Methods - The First Siren
Roza Roza - Sadok Sudei
Body-san - Pacific Reasons EP
RAJA - Amadeus EP
Reedale Rise - Eternal Return
Person Of Interest - Down For Your Fantasy EP
Odes - Frank & Tony
Money Morning ‎– Corporate Karma
Accelera - Surplus
D Tiffany - Blue Dream

Last chance to vote in the ILM EOY poll! Voting ends tonight-ish.

working mostly to an ilx deadline i finalised my own list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/169917908547/favourite-music-2017

thread of some of my favourite songs from this year (2017)
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— Sam (@fuiud) November 28, 2017

working mostly to an ilx deadline i finalised my own list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/169917908547/favourite-music-2017

― monotony

Great lists. Very happy to see some more love for Do It by Rae Morris. I only discovered it when Popjustice made it their single of the year. I've been obsessively watching the video since then.

re: monotony's list

I came around really late on the Sophia Kennedy album, and then promptly forgot to vote for it in the eoy poll (despite nominating it myself). Hope it places despite me.

I never heard that Nilüfer Yanya song before today, but it's marvelous.

love nilufer