https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/the-silver-veil
I've listened to this more than any other album this year
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
I've probably discovered more this year than the past few. it's just generally not been from 2017. it is fucked up on many levels that I feel guilty about this
Oh how I can relate to this! It's not that I'm overly focused with the new - and, let's face it, there's more of it than ever. But our society is completely obsessed with "what have you done for me lately", especially in America where we tear down our 'old' buildings with no regard for their history or importance. And music has always been youth-driven, so it makes sense we feel guilt about not being as completely engaged as we once were. But I let that feeling wash away when I listen to something new-to-me-and-cool.
Most of my discoveries this year come from a previous era, the new Jane Weaver being my favorite of 2017 releases. Runners up include Fazerdaze - Morningside, The Black Watch - The Gospel According To John, Popguns - Sugar Kisses and Pete Fij/Terry Bickers - We Are Millionaires.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
Mdou Moctar - Sousoume Tamachek
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
I was never a huge fan of Lillix and didn't think that much of her first couple of solo albums but Young Mopes by Louise Burns is a terrific record. It's not a million miles away from The Bangles / VOTB / Belinda Carlisle at times.
The three singles from the album currently have between 3000 and 18,000 YouTube views.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
I love this:
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained
Bandcamp is currently suggesting you can buy the CD for a quid (which seems ridiculous).
― djh, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
I love love love The Courtneys and their album II. Been meaning to start a thread for it.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
I want the world blanketed with Girlpool music.
I also relate to this. Might've been my answer if they were new to me this year.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 2:25 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh damn this is good to know
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
Young Mopes is a fantastic album. I liked her last one too, but this is even better.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
I keep coming back very often to Nikki Lane's 'Highway Queen,' but I honestly don't know what kind of footprint it has in the real world. Maybe it's popular? I know it's not chart popular, and it seems untalked about in "Americana" circles for the most part. It's not throwback country, really, but it's not pop Nashville either. It swings and the songwriting is sooooo good.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
I was all set to write off Liars' T F C F as an Angus solo project, but I have got a lot out of it (maybe more so than some of the previous 5 albums).
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
am I just old now?
me irl
(i also liked the courtneys album tho)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
This is pretty easily The Stevens Good for me. It starts slow, but give it a chance, unless you're absolutely allergic to indie guitars, because there are some f***in tunes on here, a Kinks-ian plenty, in fact:
https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/good
― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
I realise Katherine's only asked for one, but a few of the albums I've not read much about that I've enjoyed include Sevdaliza - ISON (hyperemotional fkatwigsy R&B/pop), Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher (latest alb from partner of Courtney Barnett), Hey Violet - From the Outside (American pop/rock girlgroup) and The Preatures - Girlhood (affable 70s-style Australian guitarpop which most notably features a song with a verse in Dharug, a Sydney indigenous language).
Like Katherine I haven't fallen for nearly as many albums this year as I have in the last few.
― monotony, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
Good struck me as a bit less tuneful than History of Hygiene (and the titles aren't as dryly amusing) but "Keep Me Occupied" is quite a song.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
Came down here to post Girlpool, glad to see that flappy bird beat me to it. It's a fantastic album, albeit in the way that it'll mean a lot to some people but not enough people to exactly dominate year-end lists. Personally it's my #2 album of the year!
Also the SZA album isn't exactly overlooked but it hasn't been talked about that much on ilm. there's not even a sza thread, which is weird because it's basically ILM bait
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 02:53 (six years ago) link
TOPS' Sugar at the Gate is also great great indie pop
Seconding the Anna Wise - The Feminine Part 2. Accessible and all you King fans should be all over it.
My nominee would be Ifriqiyya Électrique - Rûwâhîne Tunisian call/response heavy industrial. Pisses all over any number of cafe safe Tuareg albums that are filling the bins these days.
― prelude to abjection (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
Anna Wise is great
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
xp nice call on that Ifriqiyya Électrique, Glitterbeat has been on a roll lately
― sleeve, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:20 (six years ago) link
robyn/top hat is underrated
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
I honestly thought Nick Hakim's The Green Twins would get a similar amount of love around here that the KING album got last year, but alas, no.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
Maybe I wasn't forceful enough about this but I thought this would fit in some ilxor's Venn diagrams
Thraed of Iconika
Umm kiiara del weeknd with a side of kelela?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
HOTT MT - AU (Alternate Universe) is an album with a surprisingly low profile that I think could find more fans here and generally. I don't think it's been mentioned once on this board before now.
It is a rather excellent psychedelic soul odyssey of a "dreampop" record.
Could name several others but the reasons for their marginality might be more readily comprehensible.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 07:38 (six years ago) link
House And Land s/t on Thrill Jockey
bluegrass/Appalachian stuff via 60s minimalism. way more accessible than that sounds (imo)
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
Mark Mulcahy — Possum in the Drivewayhttps://markmulcahyhq.bandcamp.com/album/the-possum-in-the-driveway
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
Talamanca System's s/t was my soundtrack to the summer, works great in the car as well. It's a collaboration between Mark Barrott, Phillip Lauer and Gerd Janson.Nice interview about the genesis of the album: http://www.theransomnote.com/music/interviews/were-creating-timeless-heart-music-talamanca-system-talk/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef8z_F5FL0Y&list=PLReajJHjtcx8-cUxdNvrcj-j-yioQMpDg
― willem, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
that link to the youtube playlist doesn't seem to work. let me try againhttps://youtu.be/Ef8z_F5FL0Y
― willem, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
I've spent the bulk of 2017 listening to jazz, and there have been some incredible records this year (Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die and Yazz Ahmed's La Saboteuse are the first two that come to mind, both by female trumpeter/composers), but I'll stick to rock for this thread and talk about Memoriam's For the Fallen; it's a new project from ex-Benediction and Bolt Thrower dudes, doing what they've always done - grinding, low-end death metal - but age and maturity have given the music real depth and feeling.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
Good struck me as a bit less tuneful than History of Hygiene
I think I need to listen to that immediately.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
that would be the new year's "snow", a delight from start to finish.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
It's a collaboration between Mark Barrott, Phillip Lauer and Gerd Janson
!!!!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
i think i love every single song on the new emily haines record
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
(my contribution to this -- idk if it can really be called "overlooked" because I successfully pitched it, but it came out in January, so the Rose Elinor Dougall album was really great)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
MOKOOMBA Luyando (OutHere) Young Zimbabwe afropop band
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
This is pretty easily The Stevens Good for me. It starts slow, but give it a chance, unless you're absolutely allergic to indie guitars, because there are some f***in tunes on here, a Kinks-ian plenty, in fact:https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/good― o. nate, Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:14 PM (yesterday)
― o. nate, Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:14 PM (yesterday)
loving this!
good thread
― alpine static, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
Hadn't heard (or heard of) Louise Burns until this thread, but really liking Young Mopes (and Midnight Mass too). Kinda reminds me of one of my favorite discoveries from last year that I don't think ever got a mention here, Haley Bonar's Impossible Dream.
I wish I liked the Drab Majesty album more -- I'm a big early Xymox fan (Medusa tour was the first show I went to that didn't require me being driven to by an adult) but this just doesn't do it for me for some reason.
If the first song is anything to go by I'm going to love the Popguns album.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
Perhaps Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination? Not totally overlooked, got good reviews, but somehow doesn’t seem to be talked about much.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
I'm going to get a lot of use out of this thread. Way behind this year.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
that Nadine Shah record is fucking dope thanks
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
Haley Bonar's Impossible Dream
Getting way off topic here, but you should definitely listen to 2014's Last War.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
don't know if it's the best overlooked album but an overlooked debut is phoebe bridger's stranger in the alps
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
Dave Catching's solo album Shared Hallucinations didn't get nearly as much coverage as it deserved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDiQMf6Br8
― how's life, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
That's really good - gonna buy that one -had no idea about it.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
katherine you may like this album soccer mommy - collection
― flopson, Thursday, 28 September 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
old, but revelatory: what if PC Music were *good*
https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/track/personal-assistant
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 28 September 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
the talaboman album is underrated
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 28 September 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
i actually started liking pc music in 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If77CW_aZsY
― flopson, Thursday, 28 September 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
It's cheeky as hell, but I adore Luke Vibert presents UK Garave Vol 1.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 28 September 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
^absolutely
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Billy Woods - Known Unknowns
― octobeard, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
thinking plague hoping against hope
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Blind Boys of Alabama - Almost Home
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
alvarius b with a beaker in the burner and an otter in the oven
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
that fabiano do nascimento album is great, been caning it
― ogmor, Friday, 5 January 2018 08:51 (six years ago) link
I had no idea Camille released an album last year - thanks for the heads up!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.toneglow.net/reviews/2017/11/16/jurg-frey-lame-est-sans-retenue-i
sounds massive on the stereo.. like intermittent surf (breaks), or a jet plane carving out the sky - but very, very intermittent at parts. lot of silent breaks, it's aggravating to listen to actively
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
I think I read about it here first but now can't find it. Anyway, the Upper Wilds' Guitar Module 2017 is kinda wild. Dan Friel and Aaron Siegel making a glorious racket.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 11 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
I briefly mentioned it in the 2017 end of the year lists thread
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
Ryan Power - They Sell Doomsday. Perfect smooth prog pop, kind of like a spikier, cynical Prefab Sprout. This guy is basically at Rundgren levels of one-man-band production.
https://ryanpower.bandcamp.com/album/they-sell-doomsday
― J. Sam, Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link