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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
I can't think why a record shop would want to publish their list early. It's a complete mystery.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
we should have christmas and the end of the year seperate
― nxd, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
Mojo has LCD Soundsystem at #1. I didn't realise people rate that album.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
thankful for that LCD album because it got me hooked on Losing My Edge and Someone Great again
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 November 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Uncuthttp://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/795-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2017/2
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Anyone be so kind as to put up the Mojo list?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 17 November 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
good uncut list
― niels, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
@ A. Begrand: I was referring to his age and origin only in reference to his sound and vocals.
― Simon H., Friday, 17 November 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 17 November 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Piccadilly Records: https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=852
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Saturday, 18 November 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― damian green is people (NickB), Saturday, 18 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
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
― niels, Saturday, 18 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 18 November 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
I don't know, A Deeper Understanding is sounding pretty good to me right now
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 20 November 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 20 November 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 20 November 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
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
― saer, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
I don't mean to sound off, it disrupts the serenity of the lake!
― saer, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
The ageing hipster critique makes more sense to me.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 20 November 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
Which may or may not be the same thing. Music for middle aged, highly educated white people, possibly with small families.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 20 November 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 20 November 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
jeez guys ease up on the projections, if you don't like LCD fine, that hardly makes you experts on people who do
― niels, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
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
― saer, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
sounds about right
― niels, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
Music doesn't exist in a vacuum, we know this from reading
we know this from acoustics tbh
― damian green is people (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Yes, thats it! great book, wonderful prose, cheeky font!
― saer, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 November 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
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?
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
I see... dont know why I remember them as starting in December.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 November 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
some of the big ones don't drop until later
we're just talking about record shop lists and Mojo right now
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
It does make sense for stores to do this I guess before people decide on xmas gifts, and black friday around the corner.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 November 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Pitchfork's overlooked albums of 2017:
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/overlooked-albums-2017/
― damian green is people (NickB), Monday, 20 November 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
There was a lot of great music this year but I wasn't aware that anything other than DAMN. was in the running for AOTY. LCD in that slot is pretty ???
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
xpost That Kelly Lee Owens record was overlooked?
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
not by Piccadilly obv
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
didn't really feel like that Syd record was overlooked, but maybe "overlooked" means "came out in February and a lot has happened since then"
― voodoo chili, Monday, 20 November 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
Between "Chuck Johnson" and "Milo" it's a pretty unfortunate year for Pitchfork bands to be using their real names
― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
lmao my favorite album of the year made the overlooked albums. solid
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Yes, but at that point I was too busy marveling over Raven Sings the Blues to check out anything else!
― early rejecter, Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Dusted (3 lists so far, probably more to come)http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/tagged/yearend-2017
― Dinsdale, Friday, 5 January 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
My year-end list and comments, highlighted by a joke I've recycled three times (and may not be finished with yet).
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
enjoyed that, good comments
― niels, Saturday, 6 January 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/01/05/peter-margasaks-40-favorite-albums-of-2017-numbers-10-through-1
1. Richard Dawson-Peasant2. JD Allen - Radio Flyer3. Circuit des Yeux, Reaching for Indigo4. Pancrace, Pancrace5.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)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
that guy knows what's up. will check out all of those
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
circuit des yeux sounded so exciting from the preview tracks that I might just buy it
― #TeamHailing (imago), Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Good album, not wholly won over by her voice. But then again, Scott Walker elicits similar feelings from me.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
Does the comparison stop at 'difficult vocals', or is Circuit de Yeux musically akin to late Walker too?
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
that Pancrace album is awesome, one of my favorites of the year
― Dan S, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
*feel for the theatrical
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
man, Margasak's top 40 list is mind-boggling
― alpine static, Sunday, 7 January 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
A-Musik Record Store, Cologne: http://a-musik.blogspot.de/2017/12/a-musik-top-50-2017.html
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 8 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
polite bump to remind you all about ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD
― Vote! In the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Friday, 19 January 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
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 - SlowdiveSally Dige - Holding OnThe Horrors - VAlgiers - The Underside of PowerDesperate Journalist - Grow UpSecond Still - Second StillPawns - The GallowsEgrets On Ergot - Surfeit of GemütlichAmanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A RainbowBoy Harsher - Country Girl EP
Honorable mentions:
Choir Boy - Sunday LightGary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of LuxuryDeath Bells - Standing at the Edge of the WorldGlaare - To Deaf a DayBootblacks - FragmentsAzar Swan - Savage ExileRide - Weather DiariesDie Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher GewaltOdonis Odonis - No PopMartial Canterel - Lost At SeaThe Iron Oak - Dune MessiahVeil of Light - Front TeethDeath of Lovers - The AcrobatSextile - Albeit LivingMultiple Man - New Metal
― early rejecter, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
Going to check everything from that list because of DRAB MAJESTY NUMBER ONE!
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 26 January 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
Late, but great RS list Whiney
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
thx fgti! i hope you like my display name
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 26 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
I don't get it but I love it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
fgti:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1FrqheQNI
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
Lol yay
“Faghetti”
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 27 January 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2017.cfm
Pokey Bear -Bear SeasonO.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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 January 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
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)
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Waah! Drab Majesty again at #1! Why aren't these people on ILM?
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
we're so friendly
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
These lists are coming out earlier every year:https://www.popjustice.com/articles/the-top-33-albums-of-2018/
― President Keyes, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
lol
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link