2017 end of the year lists

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"

afair this was the final scene of "of gods and men"

Decibel's Top 40:

40. The Lurking Fear, Out of the Voiceless Grave, Century Media
39. Woe, Hope Attrition, Vendetta
38. Pyrrhon, What Passes for Survival, Willowtip
37. Power Trip, Nightmare Logic, Daymare
36. Ufomammut, 8, Neurot
35. Disharmony, Goddamn the Sun, Iron Bonehead
34. Wormwitch, Strike Mortal Soul, Prosthetic
33. Propagandhi, Victory Lap, Epitaph
32. Farsot, Fail-Lure, Lupus Lounge
31. Napalm Raid, Wheel of War, Self-Released
30. Oxbow, Thin Black Duke, Hydra Head
29. Loss, Horizonless, Profound Lore
28. Lock Up, Demonization, Listenable
27. With the Dead, Love from With the Dead, Rise Above
26. Dreadnought, Awake in Sacred Waves, Sailor
25. Cannibal Corpse, Red Before Black, Metal Blade
24. Wampyrinacht, We Will Be Watching. Les Cultes de Satan et Les Mysterères de la Mort, Zazen Sounds
23. Midnight, Sweet Death and Ecstasy, Hells Headbangers
22. Pagan Altar, The Room of Shadows, Shadow Kingdom
21. Artificial Brain, Infrared Horizon, Profound Lore
20. Cloak, To Venomous Depths, Season of Mist
19. Akercocke, Renaissance in Extremis, Peaceville
18. Enslaved, E, Nuclear Blast
17. Cormorant, Diaspora, Self-Released
16. Myrkur, Mareridt, Relapse
15. Dodecahedron, Kwintessens, Season of Mist
14. Obituary, Obituary, Relapse
13. Craven Idol, The Shackles of Mammon, Dark Descent
12. Kreator, Gods of Violence, Nuclear Blast
11. Bell Witch, Mirror Reaper, Profound Lore
10. Converge, The Dusk in Us, Epitaph
9. Wolves in the Throne Room, Thrice Woven, Artemisia
8. Full of Hell, Trumpeting Ecstasy, Profound Lore
7. Immolation, Atonement, Nuclear Blast
6. Spectral Voice, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, Dark Descent
5. Integrity, Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume, Relapse
4. Necrot, Blood Offerings, Tankcrimes
3. Pallbearer, Heartless, Profound Lore
2. Spirit Adrift, Curse of Conception, 20 Buck Spin
1. Paradise Lost, Medusa, Nuclear Blast

I feel more than partly responsible for the direction this thread has gone.

these threads are always 90% made up of complaints about the tastes of critics who are old, lazy and bald

and 90% of those complaints are from imago

"ugh, how apathetic the pens of scribes recommending platitudinous trollop SZA when Yrrrt Grvlakak released an album on Bandcamp"

Poor bald people... clearly not welcome in this thread.

I'd like to state for the record that I'm old, deaf, doughy, out of touch and lazy but I actually have a lot of hair. Most of it on my ass and shoulders and coming out of my ears.

i'm old and bald, and i will say this is probably my laziest year

Ass eating teenagers never consider what the future has in store.

I don't see an obvious winner for the ILM eoy album poll as it stands so that might make it a little more interesting...OR could result in something like LCD actually winning.

there is certainly an obvious frontrunner for the ILM EOY poll.

for damn sure.

yeah it'll be in my top five and I haaate voting like eVerYoNe ElSe!!

Is it Taylor Swift? Please tell me it’s not.

Sam Smith

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2017/10/Bradley-Walsh-When-Youre-Smiling.jpg

An aside, there are some nice tracks on that Kelly Lee Owens for those who don't know - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEaFeIwbuk

that kelly lee owens record is awesome

idk which record lj is talking about

BRADLEY

One might say that being number 1 is in the album's DNA...

I might humbly suggest...

(they're talking about the fourth best kendrick album)

bullshit, it might be the best one

it might be

but it isn't

Third probs. Not really sure where I place it on my best of list, but consensus has been pretty good on it, so I assume it'll be the number 1

Ah yeah forgot about that one. Seems like a safe bet.

I have hopes for my own AOTY/AOTD contender cracking the top ten, that'd be something

oh wait y'all are talking about kendrick? all right i guess

you were talking about kehlani up there I assume btw

both kehlani and kendrick will do very very well and no one needs to worry about them

WHo'll finish higher, Kehlani or Kelela?

Kesha imo

you were talking about kehlani up there I assume btw

― imago, Monday, November 20, 2017 10:50 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep! tbh it's sorta tied with the lee ann womack

i also haven't heard the new miguel yet and expect it to be up there with both of them

Kelela album is str8 fire tbh

WHo'll finish higher, Kehlani or Kelela?

kelela might get the benefit of recency bias and also being more winter-appropriate

(both are great and will do well I'm sure)

tt has told me good things about the kehlani and I do intend to give it a full listen soon

you'd really like it i think lj. second half especially is v strong

:) cool, will check

I am still repping Drab Majesty and Ulver

Fellow old bald people, have you heard Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever? They are for us!

Ulver will be high on my ballot

same

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.

The whole thing has leaked

Oh well then... carry on. Is it good?

Penguin Cafe

― Fastnbulbous

wait there's a new Penguin Cafe Orchestra album???

i'm old and bald, and i will say this is probably my laziest year

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:18 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird you forgot doughy

too lazy to include it

Yes and no! Penguin Cafe is lead by Arthur Jeffes is the son of Simon Jeffes, founder of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Along similar lines of chamber and modern classical, pretty nice.

Thumbs up on Decibel putting Spirit Adrift at #2.