2017 end of the year lists

CBC's 100 Best Canadian Songs of 2017

i love Protomartyr but how are they a curveball on that list up there? indie rock band, strong PR game, tons of hype/postiive reviews from the usual suspects, etc.

― alpine static, Tuesday, November 21

Pitchfork gave Relatives in Descent a 6.9.

nice

lol

Steve Earle, the godfather of alt-country, said it best: Colter Wall is "the best young singer-songwriter I've seen in 20 years."

metacritic has Protomartyr at an avg of 8.5

but really, i'm talking more in terms of general chatter...i can't see them as a curveball on a list that includes Thundercat, Mt. Eerie, Morby, GYBE, Segall, KAS, Oh Sees, FJM, Fleek Foxes, etc. all acts that soak up plenty of pixels.

and again i like them! a lot!

a curveball would be, like ... Colter Wall or Cindy Wilson or Stabscotch or w/e

that's gotta sting for Justin Townes Earle

I don't get the impression they're real close.

alpine static otm

although i feel like i should note colter wall is a bit controversial bc his dad is the super conservative saskatchewan premier

also lol
http://www.rollingstone.com/country/features/how-folk-singer-colter-wall-got-a-boost-from-brock-lesnar-w484131

Colter wall's dad is brad wall?!

yep!

Alpine - fair enough, but their profile in the UK is minimal compared to much of the rest of the list, so it felt like a curveball.

I like that this discussion tries to include everything, but really I only care about Cosmopolitan's 50 Best Songs and Fact's 50 Best Albums.

Mojo..
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/797-mojos-top-50-albums-of-2017/

Kate Bush and ATCQ are from 2016?

Drowned In Sound's is odd. Not in content (far from it) but in methodology, or explanation thereof: Sean appears to have written it himself rather than polled contributors, because.... dunno.

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151506-drowned-in-sounds-favourite-albums-of-2017

Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2017
Editor's Cut
1) Wolf Alice - Visions of Life
2) Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
3) EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
4) St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5) Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
6) Austra - Future Politics
7) Feist - Pleasure
8) Jane Weaver - Modern Cosmology
9) Laura Marling - Semper Femina
10) Juana Molina - Halo
11) Soulwax - From Deewee
12) Thundercat - Drunk
13) Paramore - After Laughter
14) Jean Michel-Blais & CFCF - Cascades
15) Bjork - Utopia
16) Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
17) Zola Jesus - Okovi
18) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
19) Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
20) Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
21) Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiotopia
22) Slowdive - Slowdive
23) Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
24) Eyre Llew - Atelo
25) Perfume Genius - No Shape
26) Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
27) LCD Soundsystem - american dream
28) Lorde - Melodrama
29) Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
30) The Big Moon - Love In the 4th Dimension
31) Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
32) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
33) The Horrors - V
34) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
35) RIDE - Weather Diaries
36) Sylvan Esso - What Now
37) IDLES - Brutalism
38) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Before The Flood
39) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
40) Girl Ray - Earl Grey
41) The Mynabirds - Be Here Now
42) SZA - Ctrl
43) Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Fatal Gift
44) Johnny Jewel - Windswept
45) Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
46) Katy Perry - Witness
47) Clark - Death Peak
48) Grandaddy - Last Place
49) Tired Lion - Dumb Days
50) William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
51) Four Tet - New Energy
52) Sløtface - Try Not to Freak Out
53) Beck - Colors
54) Bicep - Bicep
55) Alvvays - Antisocialites
56) Juanita Stein - America
57) Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
58) Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
59) Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
60) Liars - TFCF
61) Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
62) Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
63) Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
64) Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
65) The National - Sleep Well Beast
66) Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
67) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Delusions
68) Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
69) Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
70) Wiley - Godfather
71) Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
72) Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Wolf Works
73) Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
74) Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
75) Big Thief - Capacity
76) Casey Dienel - Imitation of a Women To Love
77) The Shins - Heartworms
78) Destroyer - Ken
79) Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
80) Cherry Glazerr - Apocolipstick
81) Mura Masa - Mura Masa
82) Fever Ray - Plunge
83) Ryan Adams - Prisoner
84) Depeche Mode - Spirit
85) Laurel Halo - Dust
86) Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Whole Lotta Sea Lice
87) King Krule - The Ooz
88) Kelela - Take Me Apart
89) This Is The Kit - Moonshine Kingdom
90) Sampha - Process
91) Lapalux - Ruinism
92) Afghan Whigs - In Spades
93) Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
94) Circuit des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo
95) Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom
96) The War on Drugs - Deeper Understanding
97) Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
98) Future Islands - Far Field
99) Blanck Mass - World Eater
100) Arcade Fire - Everything Now

he really is a prize twat

all-female top ten is a nice if a bit weird & overreaching gesture i suppose

I love the inclusion of Arcade Fire at 100. That seems like a really lovely gesture.

almost an all female top 10 from DiS

Bjork album that hasn't been released or leaked yet at #15.

The NME one is actually pretty good until you get to Liam Gallagher at #10. Props for putting J-Hus at #6 though.

as you were LG x

I love the inclusion of Arcade Fire at 100. That seems like a really lovely gesture.

Sean on the forum: "Was surprised to see how many people who read the site like it (can’t stand it, hence its positioning)"

How fortunate then that there were only 100 albums released in 2017.

Some very good records on Picadilly's Compilations of the Year:

https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=853

Bjork album that hasn't been released or leaked yet at #15.

― Matt DC, Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:42 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The leak's been out there for over a week now tbh

Really surprised by that, because in The Guardian last week-

She has been working on this album for two and a half years. I have heard it exactly once. Seventy-five minutes ago, in the room next door, I plugged earphones into a laptop and listened to Utopia all the way through. Straight afterwards, I walked into this room to talk to Björk about what I’d just heard. I can’t hear Utopia any other way because Björk’s last album, Vulnicura, was leaked online three months before its release date. 

That interview would have taken place several weeks ago in fairness. And they can hardly admit to having illegally downloaded it in any case.

xp Head thee to the Björk thread

If you're the first to mention a new list that's available online, please link ya lazy sods!

http://www.nme.com/list/nmes-albums-of-the-year-2017-2161481

Those with Kindle Fires or other e-readers, NME offered a free digital subscription all year. Except sometime in the past week they all disappeared from my Kindle as if they were never there. Very strange. It wasn't exactly riveting reading (the what's on your headphone section generally made me despair for humanity), but it helps me feel somewhat connected to what's happening in pop.

Some thoughts. Been enjoying Sheer Mag, The Moonlandingz, Fever Ray, Methyl Ethel, Wiley, Wolf Alice.

On the fence: Creeper (goth themed mall punk?), The Big Moon, Austra, Princess Nokia, Alvvays, SZA, Lorde, Stormzy, Sampha, Kevin Morby, Paramore (liked last one), Loyle Carner

The albums were pretty big letdowns -- The xx, Phoenix, Arcade Fire, St. Vincent.

Creeper (goth themed mall punk?)

yep! i love them

yes we have enthused about them on the emo thread already, they'll be on my ballot and I might make a (futile) push for "Misery" or Riding With Boys" in the tracks poll

Kendrick Lamar was certainly not d**king around

Censoring even words like that? Was the NME always this prudish?

maybe had to tighten up now they foist it on randomers rather than sell it

NME started censoring 'fuck' etc at some point in the 1980s (mark s may well have been there at the time this happened). SWells not amused, iirc.

If you’re going to use a word and then censor it yourself, why not choose another word instead? Like say

Kendrick Lamar was certainly not exhibiting his genitalia around

i don't think that's what donk means

Songlines best albums of 2017:

http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/2017/11/songlines-best-albums-of-2017/

Only album I know from that list is Orchestra Baobab (cool artwork btw). Might need to find some time to listen to the rest.

I've long suspected that traditional Albanian music is underexploited by the world music scene. Will have to check out that file title.

(Second to last.)

you really should, it's great and the group are even better live

Lmfao

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” to open it up to conversation about the records people are passionate about. Allow for revisions to the list.
Instead I’ve misjudged and offended people for a variety of reasons.
I’m truly sorry. https://t.co/jPZiboYFMT

— Sean Adams (@seaninsound) November 23, 2017

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

People got offended? Out of the loop here.

ahahaha

in the replies below that tweet, he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

I was just happy to see the Paramore album high up on the Drowned In Sound list.

he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

Yeah, i was beginning to feel sympathy for him, but he lost me there