the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

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

I was just listening to that Earthen Sea one, it's good (think Loscil, Gas).

(God, I've gotten to hate the left. Much of it anyway.)

uh

reiterating that Powerplant by Girlpool is curiously slept on despite getting p4k BNM & being a fucking amazing record

(God, I've gotten to hate the left. Much of it anyway.)

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 27 November 2017 15:55 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this where I get to call Melkbelly thoroughly mediocre?

(Inspired in part by: Brexit destroying the future of Britain's youth, etc. in that one list of overlooked albums.)

go stick your fist up someone's butt

Enjoyed all the albums on here that I've heard, especially Les Amazones d' Afrique---hope that got a fair amount of publicity via xgau's Expert Witness review.
Here's one I was raving about on Rolling Country, though really anybody who is into that folk-pop-rock-country radio crossover of the late 60s might enjoy it:

Don't want to say too much about Nicole Atkins' Goodnight Rhonda Lee yet, but,
following the opening Laura Nyro-in-Memphis-upside-the-head "A Little Crazy", which is maybe a little too persistent with the swooping, hijacked-countrypolitan strings of the chorus, behold "Darkness Falls So Quiet," which is somewhat misleadingly titled, being very persistently catchy and not that quiet, and she says when things get too spooky, she can rely on her friends and her records, and it seems like her friends might be her records and vice-versa, and if so, that's okay.
For she has not only absorbed 60s Nyro, Dusty In Memphis, Ode To Billie Joe, the production moves of Lee Hazlewood and his prodigious acolyte Suzi Jane Hokom (especially on her own records), Atkins has also seen how other popologists have fallen short(incl. falling back into compulsive replays/rehash; she's been through that, 'til "the grooves of my brain are wearing out") and how so many, even the best, are just nimbic names now, afterglow halos matter how good they were at certain things---who actually listens that much nowadays to Dwight Twilley, or even Harry Nilsson? It's sad. But the title track is vibrant and stoic: "When they stop listening, that's just the way it goes, don't let it crush you, say goodnight Rhonda Lee."
This track begins or makes more noticeable a recurring Heartbreaker of the Year vibe, in the sense that Whitney Rose and her producer/sometime duet partner Raul Malo drew from the Spanish tinge of late 50s-to mid-60s pop-rock hits (and their influence on some late 60s pop-country), with a Twin Peaks Senior Prom echo chamber.
So: unabashedly plush but well-tymed girlie swirls x restless drums, bass, rhythm guitar, tolerating bits of steel, keys, orchestra (the electric guitar is the orchestra on the last track--waking "from a nightmare to a dream"--- but not too much of one).
Whole thing's here, sounding better than Spotify to me:https://nicoleatkins.bandcamp.com/

― dow, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:32 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know about "single best" but the self-titled RIPS album is full of great tunes and I haven't seen a single mention of it anywhere

https://ripsnyc.bandcamp.com/releases

https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-under-the-earth

just released (exciting)

i still think this is one of the best songs of the year, album sunk like a stone

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

for how big and potent it is, Algier's album has been relatively overlooked. Bad Pitchfork review and absent from almost every EOTY list. Other than that, I would go with Jlin - Black Origami.

yeah I expect it do to well in the 77 poll but it's been slighted in the real world

BOB DYLAN TRIPLICATE

oooh otm, i'd add SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ to the list

(even though i wasn't able to get a copy before they sold out)

The 2nd Algiers album isn't as magical to me as the first one was? I kinda just stopped listening to it once that occurred to me.

Savage Young Du is incredible but IMO reissues (even of previously un-issued period material) are a separate beast entirely

tru

neil / promise of the real the visitor

I think the songwriting on the 2nd Algiers album is much, much stronger, as is the singing.

Beaches - Second Of Spring
Massive and probably way too long double album of heavy motorik + girl group harmonies. I've listened to this more than any other album this year.
https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/second-of-spring

nice, thanks

Love the Beaches album; have had it on heavy rotation the past month or so. Not too long as far as I'm concerned!

thanks for the beaches link! loved the first album and completely forgot about them