the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

Young Mopes is a fantastic album. I liked her last one too, but this is even better.

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.

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).

am I just old now?

me irl

(i also liked the courtneys album tho)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Anna Wise is great

xp nice call on that Ifriqiyya Électrique, Glitterbeat has been on a roll lately

robyn/top hat is underrated

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.

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?

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.

House And Land s/t on Thrill Jockey

bluegrass/Appalachian stuff via 60s minimalism. way more accessible than that sounds (imo)

Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things

Mark Mulcahy — Possum in the Driveway
https://markmulcahyhq.bandcamp.com/album/the-possum-in-the-driveway

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

that link to the youtube playlist doesn't seem to work. let me try again
https://youtu.be/Ef8z_F5FL0Y

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.

Good struck me as a bit less tuneful than History of Hygiene

I think I need to listen to that immediately.

that would be the new year's "snow", a delight from start to finish.

It's a collaboration between Mark Barrott, Phillip Lauer and Gerd Janson

!!!!

i think i love every single song on the new emily haines record

(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)

MOKOOMBA Luyando (OutHere) Young Zimbabwe afropop band

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)

loving this!

good thread

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.

Perhaps Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination? Not totally overlooked, got good reviews, but somehow doesn’t seem to be talked about much.

I'm going to get a lot of use out of this thread. Way behind this year.

that Nadine Shah record is fucking dope thanks

Haley Bonar's Impossible Dream

Getting way off topic here, but you should definitely listen to 2014's Last War.

don't know if it's the best overlooked album but an overlooked debut is phoebe bridger's stranger in the alps

Dave Catching's solo album Shared Hallucinations didn't get nearly as much coverage as it deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDiQMf6Br8

That's really good - gonna buy that one -had no idea about it.

katherine you may like this album soccer mommy - collection

old, but revelatory: what if PC Music were *good*

https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/track/personal-assistant

the talaboman album is underrated

i actually started liking pc music in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If77CW_aZsY

It's cheeky as hell, but I adore Luke Vibert presents UK Garave Vol 1.

The new Hercules and Love Affair album is amazing imo. esp the first four songs

Not as obscure as much of what's been mentioned, but I would expect to see more enthusiasm for Dauwd's Theory of Colours.

^^^ love that record

An odd mix of echoes on that album. The speech parts of "Murmure" remind me of Robert Ashley's "Automatic Writing," and then there are melodic lines throughout that sound like they could come from Ash Ra Temple or Agitation Free.

In terms of being overlooked even within the niche electronic scenes they occupy, I think this year's Air Max '97 EP (Vessel) feels strangely underrated. Also the Liquid City Motors EP on Glacial Industries.

In terms of the larger landscape, maybe milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!

R Stevie Moore album with Jason Falkner, "Make It Be" is one of the best albums R Stevie has ever recorded

but I would expect to see more enthusiasm for Dauwd's Theory of Colours.

yeah, i really enjoy this album when i remember to put it on.
this and BICEP are two of my fave electronic albums this year.

it's not THAT overlooked maybe but

Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kM-NXin1Ec

gorgeous Russian techno

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.

I briefly mentioned it in the 2017 end of the year lists thread

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