the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

I just got tipped to that Bedouine album about a week ago. It's very beautiful stuff.

People on ILM (who like things from the vaguely punk rock end of the spectrum*) should be all over Melkbelly's Nothing Valley by now. I'm tempted to start a thread on the album but I think I may have run out of things to say about it.

*On the other hand, I'm mostly indifferent to that sort of music these days, but I love this. Still, I tend to like a bit more punk in my rock than what most indie rock I hear provides.

Melkbelly save rock music!

These guitars are very Butthole Surfers fan friendly, if not generally as psychedelic or quite as variable.

I'll add more votes for the Eitzel and Gaussian Curve albums. Also Ed Dowie's The Uncle Sold is excellent and should appeal to one's post-Wyatt sensibilities.

gonna campaign like mad to get Eitzel in the 77

I've nominated half a dozen now, but not seen this mentioned elsewhere: Nev Cottee's Broken Flowers. He's new to me; reminds me of Lanegan circa Whisky for the Holy Ghost, Jack, Tindersticks, a bit, and Lee Hazleweood.

welp that's essential listening based on that description

I've probably doomed it with those comparisons, but still.

Also, mea culpa Whiskey, ffs.

République Amazone by Les Amazones d'Afrique; a supergroup of sorts of African women singers including Mariam of Amadou & Mariam, Nneka (her involvement is how I found it), and Angélique Kidjo. The production is amazing. There's only a little bit of sung English on it, but the overarching theme is apparently female equity and gender equality. I feel it. Let these women take over.

I first came across it a few months ago, but this past weekend it really clicked and now it's in my top 3 shortlist for 2017.

^thank you for this

A friend put me on to this, and I don't know if it's the "single best" anything -- single best improv hurdy-gurdy drone music, probably -- but it is overlooked and it is super cool:

Razen The xvoto reels

https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/the-xvoto-reels

(And weirdly, that means my only two contributions to this thread are by Belgians. May be related to all the sour beer I've been drinking.)

PEASANT - Richard Dawson

^aoty by a mile but not overlooked? at least not by anyone within earshot of me lol

i mean yeah everyone i know who's heard it loves it but i haven't seen that many people talking about it/writing about it, people in the USA still don't seem to know who he is (has he ever toured here?). also doesn't help that he has the same name as the very "handy" ex-Family Feud host

Razen The xvoto reels

This seems promising so far.

Really liking the Bedouine album mentioned above. A bit retro in a Rumer/A Girl Called Eddy way but when it's as lovingly done I can go for it.

never heard of PEASANT - Richard Dawson

that's one where the concept makes you a bit skeptical, but the results are amazing

what part of "honey-throated sprite and his loud friends synthesise 1500 years of northern england into avant-folk song cycle" would make one skeptical now ;)

Peasant is amazingly compelling.

Yumi Zouma - Willowbank. Zoomers stand up!

'A Crow Looked At Me' doesn't fall into overlooked, does it? Would have thought it was at the front of a lot of AotY lists.

Drunk In Hell's s/t finally came out after 8 years or something, to no fanfare apart from me.

I think I love A Crow Looked at Me. I listened to it online when it came out, then I bought it on vinyl, and now I'm scared of it.

so what i'm getting from this thread is, lots of ppl still listening to plenty of great music but not posting about it on the board anymore. why not?

1. balkanization - rolling genre threads suck up a lot of posting content & album opinions that's easy to miss if you don't follow like three dozen threads. seems like it's been this way for a while, but I don't follow all of them.

2. general lack of interest in starting album specific-threads? idk.

Everytime I start an album thread, either no one cares or I realize three days later that the album I started a thread for isn't as good as it seemed the first time I heard it.

Be There by Dataline
piano and organ by Olivia Block

Started a thread for Alex Lahey, but only Brad commented on it so...

She's a super-talented Australian singer-songwriter in the power-pop mold with amusing lyrics and endless hooks. Will draw Courtney Barnett comparisons but she's far more hook-oriented and tuneful.

https://youtu.be/tBj_magluuc
https://youtu.be/d9TqFgWAWiU

The album is called I Love You Like a Brother, go listen to it

it's so good

Be There by Dataline

this rules, thanks!!

ok it did get a nice Pitchfork writeup a while back, but I feel the need to mention Odonis Odonis' No Pop which is a great, deranged, industrial synthpop record and probably my second-favorite Canadian album of the year behind my beloved Propagandhi. especially recommended for folks who frequented the "late 90s / early 00s electronic pivots" thread

sherwood/pinch : man vs sofa.

home listening vs wall shaking noise.

i love this album.

probably the Nelly Furtado album.

This Odonis Odonis album is good (about halfway through)

weaves

Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2, Star Stuff. (Better than this year's Toro y Moi album.)

Sorry to ignore the word single but for me it's $hit & $hine's Total Shit!, Justin Walter's Unseen Forces, The Lone Taxidermist's Trifle, Vanishing by Vanishing, Rûwâhîne's Ifriqiyya Electrique and Endon's Through The Mirror. And it will no doubt go on to include Lotto's VV after that comes out as well.

Delia Gonzalez - Horse Follows Darkness

i'll be honest i thrive on context, somebody just naming a record they like isn't going to do much for me. someone naming seven records they like and i know and like two of them will get me to listen to the other five.

Endon is pretty good so far. Once I found out they were Japanese it all fell into place. I am apparently in the mood for noisey rock quasi-rock this year, without having fully realized it.

"catastrophic noise metal"

Not really into the vocals, predictably, though I might be able to tolerate them.

shannon lay

http://www.treblezine.com/37736-overlooked-albums-2017/

madeline kenney's album is really great and slept on

that Earthen Sea record sounds good!

the Couch Slut album on that list fuckin slams

yeah I am listening to it now and wow