2017 end of the year lists

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.

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

― Number None

Which thing?

Bjork new album

I think it's more savvy than pretentious though, trying to sell Björk records is all

Drift, the super-indie/hipster record shop in Totnes.

https://driftrecords.com/blogs/deluxe/2017-records-of-the-year

And the actual top 100:
1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
2. Blanck Mass - World Eater
3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
4. Thundercat - Drunk
5. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
6. Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
7. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
9. Kevin Morby - City Music
10. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
11. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
13. Omni - Multi - task
14. Four Tet - New Energy
15. Aldous Harding - Party
16. Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
17. Ty Segall - Ty Segall
18. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
19. Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
20. Jlin - Black Origami
21. Oh Sees - Orc
22. Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration
23. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
24. Angelo De Augustine - Swim Inside The Moon
25. H. Hawkline - I Romanticize
26. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
27. Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
28. Slowdive - Slowdive
29. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
30. Wand - Plum
31. Bonobo - Migration
32. Richard Dawson - Peasant
33. Crescent - Resin Pockets
34. Sampha - Process
35. The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
36. Floating Points - Mojave Desert
37. Temples - Volcano
38. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
39. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
40. VENN - Runes
41. Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
42. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
43. Andrea Belfi - Ore
44. Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
45. Alvvays - Antisocialites
46. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
47. Nadia Reid - Preservation
48. The National - Sleep Well Beast
49. Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
50. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
51. Girl Ray - Earl Grey
52. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
53. Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
54. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
55. Real Estate - In Mind
56. The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
57. Algiers - The Underside Of Power
58. Warm Digits - Wireless World
59. Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
60. Bicep - Bicep
61. WALL - Untitled
62. Kelela - Take Me Apart
63. Katie Von Schleicher - Shitty Hits
64. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
65. The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
66. Laurel Halo - Dust
67. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
68. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
69. Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
70. Alex Rex - Vermillion
71. Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
72. Jakuzi - Fantezi Muzik
73. Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
74. This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
75. Big Theif - Capacity
76. British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
77. Songhoy Blues - Résistance
78. Soulwax - From Deewee
79. The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
80. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
81. Liars - TFCF
82. Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
83. The Weather Station - The Weather Station
84. Forest Swords - Compassion
85. Beach Fossils - Somersault
86. Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea
87. Lowly - Heba
88. Lapalux - Ruinism
89. UMFANG - Symbolic Use Of Light
90. Michael Chapman - 50
91. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
92. Soccer Mommy - Collection
93. Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
94. Arca - Arca
95. Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac
96. Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
97. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
98. Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
99. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
100. Perfume Genius - No Shape

I like how the top 20 or so is the most enervatingly boring set of choices and then the #1 is a complete curveball.

Yeah, it's pretty unexpected. Kind of pleasing, though. I have no idea how they compile this list, whether it's based off sales, or if they invite people to contribute, or if it's just the guy who runs the shop and his staff coming up with it.

James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
Omni - Multi - task
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - Dreaming In The Non-Dream
Proper Ornaments - Foxhole
Algiers - The Underside Of Power
WALL - Untitled
Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace

A list good enough to choose these is a sign that it may be worth investigating some of the unfamiliar titles. And while I admire Protomartyr a lot, I like the Algiers album 100x more, and don't understand why they're being dismissed. At least it made this list. The Rolling Blackouts CS EP is spotty, and the Real Estate album is weak compared to the album by the masters, The Feelies.

that Protomartyr is real good if yer into post-punk