2017 end of the year lists

It seems like just yesterday he was 20.

i'm a Ryan Adams fanboy but anyone w/ Prisoner at #2 for the year cannot be trusted

Aldous Harding was great playing with Deerhunter a couple years ago, that rare opening act whose set tracks an arc from total obscurity to a surprising immediacy. I like "Party" quite a lot though "Imagining My Man" stands out too much maybe.

this Colter Wall album is excellent

Do you think stores like this put albums they ordered too many copies of on their year end list, with plenty of time for people to pick them up as Christmas gifts as well?

this shit has to stop, i don't know why we don't wait until the following year like with movies

ilm does

worst case scenario a few december records miss the lists but it's hardly the end of the world and if artists really really care abt those silly lists they can just release music in october

I look forward to this bit of the year as it's the only time I listen to new music. I even checked the rough trade twitter feed a couple of times as they are always first. At the start of the next year everyone just wants to move on, which is understandable I guess.

I can't think why a record shop would want to publish their list early. It's a complete mystery.

we should have christmas and the end of the year seperate

let's move one of them to june

re: xmas- yes, makes sense for stores to have a rolling Best Albums of the Year list, but publications start making their lists in late November/early December, so anything that comes out in December is effectively X'd out.

Mojo has LCD Soundsystem at #1. I didn't realise people rate that album.

thankful for that LCD album because it got me hooked on Losing My Edge and Someone Great again

Uncut
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/795-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2017/2

wtf @ Colter Wall being a 21-year-old kid from saskatchewan

― Simon H., Tuesday, November 14, 2017

We're allowed to create music here in Saskatchewan too, or so I thought.

Anyone be so kind as to put up the Mojo list?

SK was a good place to make music ime, at least 4-5 years ago. Lots of jobs where you can sit by a phone all night (with Ableton or Sibelius open on your laptop) waiting for someone to call about parts from a mining or forestry or oil site.

good uncut list

@ A. Begrand: I was referring to his age and origin only in reference to his sound and vocals.

Glad the Juana Molina made the Uncut list, its really terrific (and probably better if for spanish speakers).

Were the LCD Soundsystem a debut album, I don't think it would feature at in any top 10.

Piccadilly Records: https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=852

I could be wrong but that list feels a bit more conservative than in previous years. I love that Visible Cloaks record right at the bottom of the list though.

2017 has been the best year in music I can recall, or at least the year where most of my favorite artists put out quality material:

Tinariwen, Feist, cupcakKe, Mac Demarco, Joan Shelley, Starcrash, Conor Oberst, The National, The Clientele, Four Tet, The Weather Station, St. Vincent, Destroyer and Julien Baker.

Add to that list some great new finds and it's just surreal. There was even a good Coldplay single!

<3 2017

There's some very good stuff in that Uncut list but there's a sense of desperation about the top 2. The War On Drugs at #2 especially.

I don't know, A Deeper Understanding is sounding pretty good to me right now

Ugh, both MOJO and Uncut riding LCD-S's jock, really? Having read Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me in the Bathroom, which ended with the ridiculously pompous LCD farewell show, the thought if listening to that album one more time makes me want to puke. Funny thing is I don't think she was trying to paint them in a negative light. But man, Murphy's ecstasy-fueled epiphany about dance music, pure cringe comedy.

At least the Piccadilly list has a few fun ones like L.A. Witch, Duds and Flat Worms.

P much all the indie record shop lists published so far have LCD in their top two (Brighton's Resident being another). It's fucking repulsive

Really liked the LCD Soundsystem record, but it didn't seem that ILM was into it. To forget about the sonic 'retro' aspects of it (surely this has been covered over and over again by now w/ LCD), the record felt very 2017 to me, thematically, lyrically, etc. Even to a certain extent in terms of drawing from a progressive past in an increasingly desperate present... I'm very aware that people will disagree with this. Should also say that I hadn't really been into them at all since the first records and album way back when.

It's fucking repulsive

The album itself or its placement on the lists (or both)? Must admit I've never been a big LCD fan and didn't realise the new one had been so well-received. I liked the single.

no the album is just kind of dull with one or two good tracks, their status as absolute critical darlings is so unexamined and awful though, they're music by and for boring rock critics

I don't think I've heard any of these records, where do you even find stuff like this? I've got a sinking feeling that I'll cross paths with some of them in the end of year poll.

I was curious what would be in the Tow Law Gazettes end of year list but it appears that not only has it gone out of business, it was only ever a prank in the first place

sorry this has been my own dull hobbyhorse for a decade now and you're all sick of me, i will start a new thread for my bullshit

saer is the right person to be sounding off itt

I don't mean to sound off, it disrupts the serenity of the lake!

I don't think I read any reviews of the LCD album, so tended to avoid encountering "their status as absolute critical darlings" - and maybe the 'dullness' of the record struck me as actually pretty consistent mood... it's not like I'm keen to really go into a full on defence, but criticising LCD as "music by and for boring rock critics" itself strikes me as a fairly obvious point, perhaps interesting in 2001, less so in 2017. I dunno. That kind of culture strikes me as so marginal these days that it's super easy to take in the record and not be worried about what Mojo Magazine journalists think or whatever.

sure, but they still have a lot of critical cachet and preferential treatment in terms of exposure, even if the mechanisms of exposure have been diversified. it just seems to be inherently conservative - their reformation, their music, their ethos and the way that they're feted as a Great Band, and maybe that's the right of the music community, but it's not a conservatism i find aesthetically pleasing. ymmv basically

The ageing hipster critique makes more sense to me.

Which may or may not be the same thing. Music for middle aged, highly educated white people, possibly with small families.

LCD allows middle aged balding journo bro's to imagine they're still down with the kids. "It's got those electro beats right dudes?!?"

except the kids are all over 30. along with Jamie XX it's the new dinner party music. i'll just stick to some Steely Dan or Joni, cheers.

jeez guys ease up on the projections, if you don't like LCD fine, that hardly makes you experts on people who do

I have never heard them before but whenever I do a bit of work in Perm, there is a poster of their records in one of the local bars. From what I can tell their fanbase is made up of hunchbacks, strongmen and local government officials. I don't know what your experience with bureaucracy is but its had a net negative effect on my anxiety levels. Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, we know this from reading

sounds about right

Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, we know this from reading

we know this from acoustics tbh

Yes, thats it! great book, wonderful prose, cheeky font!

Wait why are they publishing lists so early? They should at least wait until December. RT with an album that hasn’t come out yet is so fucking pretentious. I doubt they have advance copies too, the whole thing would have leaked already if they were giving advances.

Ah Kelly Lee Owens on 1 at Piccadilly is cool. Love that one.

Weird to see LCD topping two lists so far, I didn’t remember that album making a huge splash... it seemed to me the response to it was rather lukewarm and people moved on.

Wait why are they publishing lists so early?

Nothing new here:

Year-End Critics' Polls 2013 (started by Fastnbulbous on board I Love Music on Nov 18, 2013)

Year-End Critics' Polls 2014 (started by Johnny Fever on board I Love Music on Nov 15, 2014)

Year-End Critics' Polls 2015 (started by bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten) on board I Love Music on Nov 16, 2015)Wait why are they publishing lists so early?

I see... dont know why I remember them as starting in December.

some of the big ones don't drop until later

we're just talking about record shop lists and Mojo right now

It does make sense for stores to do this I guess before people decide on xmas gifts, and black friday around the corner.

I've given up on anything truly surprising, joyous or devastating ever being a critical consensus fave. I'll try to refrain from further complaints about the overrated entries on the top end. Here's some decent selections from near the ass end of the lists - Daniele Luppi w/ Parquet Courts, The Bug vs. Earth, H.Grimace, Childhood, Damaged Bug, Penguin Cafe, Endless Boogie, Richard Dawson, Andrew Weatherall, Snapped Ankles, Froth, Lowly, Dutch Uncles, Ibibio Sound Machine, Songhoy Blues, Arca, GAS, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. On the fence: Chmmr, Michael Nau, Cigarettes After Sex, King Krule, Michael Chapman, Metz, Susanne Sundfør.

psyched you love the kid as much as i do whiney

Yeah, it got plenty of attention this year but should have gotten more

I wish you/RS wouldn't lump jazz together with the noise and the other stuff on that list, but I get why you do it. In any case, I need to check out that Sult/Marhaug album.

cheers whiney, great list going on the stuff i know and lots to check out :)

https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/albums-of-2017/

Man, wish I'd heard of Finest Kiss before. Based on the 30% or so of what I recognize from his lists and his descriptions of what I don't recognize, I'm really looking forward to going through them. Loving everything I've clicked on so far.

I did talk up The Finest Kiss back on December 9!

Yes, but at that point I was too busy marveling over Raven Sings the Blues to check out anything else!

Dusted (3 lists so far, probably more to come)
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/tagged/yearend-2017

My year-end list and comments, highlighted by a joke I've recycled three times (and may not be finished with yet).

enjoyed that, good comments

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/01/05/peter-margasaks-40-favorite-albums-of-2017-numbers-10-through-1

1. Richard Dawson-Peasant
2. JD Allen - Radio Flyer
3. Circuit des Yeux, Reaching for Indigo
4. Pancrace, Pancrace
5.Chris Speed Trio, Platinum on Tap

Am curious about a Brazilian fave of his from further down the list--Negro Leo-Action Lekking (sept. 17 on bandcamp)

that guy knows what's up. will check out all of those

circuit des yeux sounded so exciting from the preview tracks that I might just buy it

Good album, not wholly won over by her voice. But then again, Scott Walker elicits similar feelings from me.

Does the comparison stop at 'difficult vocals', or is Circuit de Yeux musically akin to late Walker too?

that Pancrace album is awesome, one of my favorites of the year

There's a bit of overlap beyond the vocals, though CDY is less prone to atonalism. Their feeling for the theatrical strikes me as rather similar.

xp

*feel for the theatrical

man, Margasak's top 40 list is mind-boggling

A-Musik Record Store, Cologne: http://a-musik.blogspot.de/2017/12/a-musik-top-50-2017.html

polite bump to remind you all about ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

http://www.post-punk.com/post-punk-com-best-of-2017/

Post-Punk album of the year:

Drab Majesty - The Demonstration

The rest of the best:

Slowdive - Slowdive
Sally Dige - Holding On
The Horrors - V
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Second Still - Second Still
Pawns - The Gallows
Egrets On Ergot - Surfeit of Gemütlich
Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow
Boy Harsher - Country Girl EP

Honorable mentions:

Choir Boy - Sunday Light
Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
Death Bells - Standing at the Edge of the World
Glaare - To Deaf a Day
Bootblacks - Fragments
Azar Swan - Savage Exile
Ride - Weather Diaries
Die Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt
Odonis Odonis - No Pop
Martial Canterel - Lost At Sea
The Iron Oak - Dune Messiah
Veil of Light - Front Teeth
Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
Sextile - Albeit Living
Multiple Man - New Metal

Going to check everything from that list because of DRAB MAJESTY NUMBER ONE!

Late, but great RS list Whiney

thx fgti! i hope you like my display name

I don't get it but I love it

fgti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1FrqheQNI

Lol yay

“Faghetti”

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2017.cfm

Pokey Bear -Bear Season
O.B. Buchana --- Swing On With O.B.
Pokey Bear --- Bear Season
Miss Portia --- All In My Feelings
Uncle Wayne --- The Birth Of Hithm And Bluez
Ms. Jody --- Thunder Under Yonder
Jeter Jones --- Trailride Certified
Sharnette Hyter --- Grown Folks Talkin'
Lady Di --- Three Way Love Affair
Angel Faye Russell --- A Taste Of Angel
Mo B --- Toast It Up
Joe "Blues" Butler --- Full Figured Woman
David Brinston --- Sidepiece Motel
Mr. Sam --- Make Time (For Her)
Stevie J. Blues --- Back 2 Blues
Big G --- Darkest Hour
Sweet Angel --- Can't Walk Away
El' Willie --- The Game Changer
Rashad --- Country Soul
Stan Butler --- The Blues In Me
Nellie "Tiger" Travis --- Mr. Sexy Man: The Album
Jaye Hammer --- Last Man Standing
Bigg Robb --- Born 2 Do This
Latimore --- A Taste Of Me: Great American Songs
Tre' Williams --- Chocolate Soul
Lacee --- Mind Gone
Lomax --- Is This What You Want
Tyree Neal --- Still Called The Blues
Simone De --- Unbelievable
J. Red --- J. Red The Nephew And Friends
Beat Flippa producer, Various Artists --- Trailride Music Vol. 1

I randomly came across this blog's 2017 list, seemed ILM-friendly enough to post it here.

50. Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata (Leisure System)
49. Succumb - Succumb (The Flenser)
48. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City (Northern Electronics)
47. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers (Constellation Records)
46. Clark - Death Peak (Warp Records)
45. F ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out (Blackest Ever Black)
44. Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder (Arts & Crafts)
43. GAS - Narkopop (Kompakt)
42. White Suns - Psychic Drift (The Flenser)
41. Demen - Nektyr (Kranky)
40. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (Domino Records)
39. Ariel Pink - Dedicated To Bobby Jameson (Mexican Summer)
38. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent (Domino Records)
37. King Krule - The Ooz (True Panther Sounds)
36. Chino Amobi - PARADISO (UNO)
35. Autumns - Suffocating Brother (Clan Destine Records)
34. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (Milan Records)
33. Björk - Utopia (One Little Indian)
32. John Maus - Screen Memories (Domino Records)
31. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan Records)
30. Forest Swords - Compassion (Ninja Tune)
29. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (Def Jam)
28. Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)
27. Uniform - Wake In Fright (Sacred Bones Records)
26. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
25. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA Records)
24. King Woman - Created In The Image Of Suffering (Relapse Records)
23. Downtown Boys - Cost Of Living (Sub Pop)
22. Perfume Genius - No Shape (Matador Records)
21. Big Thief - Capacity (Saddle Creek)
20. Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File (Dais Records)
19. Zola Jesus - Okovi (Sacred Bones Records)
18. Prurient - Rainbow Mirror (Hospital Productions)
17. Kelela - Take Me Apart (Warp Records)
16. TOPS - Sugar at The Gate (Arbutus Records)
15. Pharmakon - Contact (Sacred Bones Records)
14. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Top Dawg Entertainment)
13. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord Records)
12. Jlin - Black Origami (Planet Mu)
11. Pan Daijing - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN)
10. Arca - Arca (XL Recordings)
9. Damien Dubrovnik - Great Many Arrows (Posh Isolation)
8. JASSS - Weightless (IDEAL Recordings)
7. Austra - Future Politics (Domino Records)
6. Blanck Mass - World Eater (Sacred Bones Records)
5. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon Records)
4. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
3. Fever Ray - Plunge (Brille Records)
2. Slowdive - Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
1. Drab Majesty - The Demonstration (Dais Records)

Waah! Drab Majesty again at #1! Why aren't these people on ILM?

we're so friendly

These lists are coming out earlier every year:
https://www.popjustice.com/articles/the-top-33-albums-of-2018/

lol