2017 end of the year lists

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.

Pitchfork's overlooked albums of 2017:

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/overlooked-albums-2017/

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 ???

xpost That Kelly Lee Owens record was overlooked?

not by Piccadilly obv

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"

Between "Chuck Johnson" and "Milo" it's a pretty unfortunate year for Pitchfork bands to be using their real names

lmao my favorite album of the year made the overlooked albums. solid

lists = death

Kelly Lee Owens, Actress, DJ Sports and Gaussian Curve all got pretty major props from RA for what it's worth.

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, November 20, 2017 10:31 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Milo's real name is Rory Ferreira, maybe he should go back to that

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.

don't care much about the new lcd album but i haven't read a post this bad in a long time.

"It's got those electro beats right dudes?!?" is like someone trying to draw the Buscemi meme in MS Paint

"you are old and trying to be cool"

"i describe music i dislike as 'dinner party music'"

i heard "how do you sleep" out of context and enjoyed it more than any lcd song i've heard since the early singles

the other singles were all right

xpost also f u about balding tbh - not sure what having a full head of hair has to do with the vitality of one's musical taste, samson.

Guys it's only music calm the fuck down

quiet slaphead

"you are old and trying to be cool"

"i describe music i dislike as 'dinner party music'"

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, November 20, 2017 10:42 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"i'll just stick to music that never gets played at dinner parties, like Steely Dan or Joni"

xp
"How Do You Sleep" is great. not sure about the album as a whole

that and "emotional haircut" were the only songs that stood out (in a good way) for me

genuinely enjoyed the baldness of the jamiesummerz post

sorry, ribaldness

12 bald men solemnly sitting round a long dining table while their host wanders off to the kitchen to fetch some cheese, each of them straining their ears to catch the LCD Soundsystem record quietly playing on the Rega turntable in the corner. each of them lost in their own post-prandial reverie, as the soft electro beats waft from the speakers like a whisper in the breeze: "you are still down with the kids"

I know we're dying to get off this topic but the balding, doughy, white Hold-Steady fan contingent has always been there for LCD since their earliest singles because their songs (cf. "Losing My Edge," "All My Friends") specifically talk about coming to terms with being an aging hipster.

The fact that they stuck with them in 2017 is just a new generation inheriting the boomer tic of thinking your opinions are important/worthwhile and has nothing to do with TEH KIDS, who are busy eating ass and listening to teenage murderers on soundcloud

a crazy thought might be that people who liked them then are 16 years older or whatever.

eating ass?

assic or dud?

Lol, eating ass is so 2014, grandpa

does doughy mean fat btw

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