2017 end of the year lists

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

This whole argument is flawed, because there's no such thing as a "best" Mogwai album. They're all terrible.

Hey now, some of them are passably mediocre

I quite liked the one they did for Les Revenants TV show

Just been streaming that Saz'iso album, excellent stuff!

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

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.
DiS is no longer the commercial money chasing behemoth it once was.
it's his site, he can do whatever he feels like as far as i am concerned.
i guess he just got fed up with having to sort all the crap out and came up with a wordy way to basically say : "fuck you, this is my list."

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” STOP RIGHT THERE

haha.
well, there is that.
but i have been guilty of such indulgence, and will be again.
so who am i to judge.

glad to see the Kelly Lee Owens album do so well on these lists so far

Absolutely.

Can already see happening what I'd imagined: the Microphones record is so *painfully* good it's not gonna place anywhere.

The Mount Eerie record? I doubt that.

Soz yeah, meant Mt Eerie. Doubt what though? It's not popped up in some places where one could expect it to.

I like it and admire that it was made. And I feel for the guy. Wouldn't call it a killer album though

I wouldn't call it "killer" either (npi). It's a heck of an album though. If some douche bag at DiS can put Arcade fucking Fire at 100, you'd expect this one to be in the low 80s at least.

it's a great album imo, and not as hard to listen to as many make it out to be

(though of course that could vary wildly depending on personal history)

I wonder what The Horrors have done to piss the NME off. Again.

Xpost It's the 2nd highest rated album of the year on Metacritic. Of course it will show up on some lists.

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

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.

Haha I’m just being a troll. I have never seen that site, and really don’t have a vested interest in his polling methodology or lack thereof.

I can see why ppl would think the mount eerie album is too real to be contained within the artifice of a numbered list. it feels too obviously ridiculous to rank it against other things

SA's just not very bright.

He put Wolf Alice at the number one, so this seems to be the sole non-failure of music criticism so far.

xps highly recommend that saz’iso album! check it out if you haven't :)

Not into the Saz'iso album. I do like Justin Adams' Ribbons from the Songlines list.

no consensus in 2017

Was hoping for Albanian sounds more like this (even if more traditionally orchestrated). Or this or this. (I don't know this stuff, just pulling videos by artists who recorded the handful of Albanian mp3s I have and like.)