2017 end of the year lists

@ FGTI, that sounds pretty amazing. Can imagine the buzzing of the airco's going by the new one (which is quite melodic tbf).

The CD is OOP apparently and the LP's go for 100 a pop, going off discogs. Shame. Also he's hot, like a very young Jim O'Rourke.

it's on Spotify fwiw

ty!

All of Cortini’s albums are great and worth checking out.

And yeah that James Holden album is super.

That Norman Records list is awesome! Best one so far.

http://tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2017.html

jazz and more critic's top 100 albums (more includes Bjork, Teddy Afro from Ethiopia, Dayme Arocena from Cuba, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Betty Buckley...)

That Ted Gioia list has a lot of intriguing titles on it.

the HAIM record is killer imo, no idea why no one liked it or talked about it. peters out in the last third i suppose. 'little of your love' is my jam

like the haim record a lot ^ but yeah seems underrated

Cool, my partner is the chorus manager for bk youth chorus. That album is great!

(Dayme too)

(Cool album i mean, not that my partner is dayme )

from what I've seen so far the following albums are generally missing in these lists:

Destroyer - Ken
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
The Weather Station - s/t
Four Tet - New Energy
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

Seems Haim had 3 singles off the album and the last 2 of those didn't even make it into the uk Top 75. All of their previous singles were Top 30/40/50. The bottom kinda dropped out of the whole campaign somehow.

I've seen Julien Baker here and there xp

Top 25 Classic Rock Albums of 2017
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/2017-best-rock-albums/

1. Robert Plant - Carry Fire
2. Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?
3. Gregg Allman - Southern Blood
4. Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie - Buckingham/McVie
5. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
6. Chuck Berry - Chuck
7. Styx - The Mission
8. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
9. Ray Davies - Americana
10. Alice Cooper - Paranormal
11. Cheap Trick - Were All Alright
12. David Bowie - No Plan
13. Govt Mule - Revolution Come Revolution Go
14. Bob Dylan - Triplicate
15. U2 - Songs of Experience
16. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Barefoot in the Head
17. Todd Rundgren - White Knight
18. John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
19. Chris Hillman - Bidin My Time
20. Van Morrison - Roll With the Punches
21. Blondie - Pollinator
22. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Live at Royal Albert Hall
23. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Live From The Fox Oakland
24. Deep Purple - Infinite
25. Mike Nesmith - Infinite Tuesday Autobiographical Riffs

maybe i should listen to that Buckingham/McVie record

Capital XTRA Albums Of The Year List 2017
http://www.capitalxtra.com/features/lists/albums-of-the-year-list-2017/

20. Lil Uzi Vert - 'Luv Is Rage II'
19. Bryson Tiller - 'True To Self'
18. Jhene Aiko - 'Trip'
17. Wiley - 'Godfather'
16. Loyle Carner - 'Yesterday's Gone'
15. Big Sean - 'I Decided'
14. J. Cole - '4 Your Eyez Only'
13. Future - 'Future'
12. Chris Brown - 'Heartbreak On A Full Moon'
11. DJ Khaled - 'Grateful'
10. Mura Masa - 'Mura Masa'
9. Post Malone - 'Stoney'
8. Khalid - 'American Teen'
7. SZA - 'CTRL'
6. Migos - 'CULTURE'
5. Sampha - 'Process'
4. Stormzy - 'Gang Signs & Prayer'
3. JAY-Z - '4:44'
2. J Hus - 'Common Sense'
1. Kendrick Lamar - 'DAMN.'

seems like huge male bias there. how is that Jhene Aiko?

Jlin - Black Origami - Percussion-Driven Multicultural Dance Music

bless you ted g

from what I've seen so far the following albums are generally missing in these lists:

Destroyer - Ken
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
The Weather Station - s/t
Four Tet - New Energy
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

Feist too. I liked that album.

Feist was in the Drowned in Sound top 10.

not seeing Mark Eitzel either, but that's the usual

really loving this Brooklyn Youth Chorus album, dang

that list is a goldmine, thx curmudgeon

If Ted Gioia listened to more metal, I think my tastes in contemporary music might be about as close to his as they could be to any critic's. (Hudson is my #1 atm, though.) Guess I should actually shell out for the JLA.

Somehow, I didn't know there was a Theo Bleckmann album this year. Sounding p good so far.

xp yeah Feist album was really good, a grower

Hold on. Have The Courtneys had any recognition yet???

they showed up on Pitchfork's Overlooked Albums list iirc

Pitchfork sadly otm. That album is loads of fun

tour is such a jam

how is that Jhene Aiko?
― damian green is people (NickB)

Very, very long. First few tracks are awesome but the second half (disc?) felt increasingly self-indulgent.

Evan otm

rom what I've seen so far the following albums are generally missing in these lists:

Destroyer - Ken
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
The Weather Station - s/t
Four Tet - New Energy
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
The Clientele - Music for the Age of Miracles

― niels

Yeah noticed that too! Another one which I thought would be the indie rock record pick in almost every list is

Alvvays - Antisocialites

Other artists which I thought would appear in several lists but I also haven’t seen mentioned that much: Jens Lekman, War on Drugs, Ariel Pink, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Fleet Foxes, Sun Kill Moon, Vince Staples, Big Krit

not that it matters in any real way but here's my first very fast pass on favorite albums of the year thus far:

2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
21 Savage - Issa Album
A-Wax - Rx Lord
Alash Ensemble - Achai
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics
Andrew Bird - Echolocations: River
Angaleena Presley - Wrangled
Bargou 08 - Targ
Bicep - Bicep
Big Boi - Goomiverse
Bjork - Utopia
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Bola - D.E.G.
Brooklyn Rider - Spontaneous Symbols
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Canzoniere
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers
Chloe x Halle - The Two of Us
Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory
Daniel Caesar - Freudian
Dawn Richard - Infrared DELUXE
DBH - Mass
Deem Spencer - We Think We Alone
Devin the Dude - Acoustic Levitation
DJ Quik - Rosecrans
DJ Raff - Movimiento
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
Efrén López Trio - Taos
Fat Joe - Plata O Plomo
Fatima Yamaha - Araya
Fever Ray - Plunge
Floating Points - Reflections-Mojave Desert
Floor Plan - Let the Church
Frankie Bones - Bonesbreaks Vol 16
Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live twice
Gabriel Garzò-Montano - Jardin
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged Deluxe
Goapele - Dreamseeker
Gunplay - The Plug
HAIM - Something to Tell You
Hauschka - What If
***Ibeyi - Ash
Iron and Wine - Beast Epic
Jamila Woods - HEAVN
Juana Molina - Halo
***Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Kronos Quartet - Folk Songs
Lecrae - All Things Work Together
Mark McGuire - Ideas of Beginnings
Matt Martians - The Drum Chord Theory
Migos - Culutre
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Oddisee - The Iceberg
Paramore - After Laughter
Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe
Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
Sevyn Streeter - Girl Disrupted
Snoop Dogg - Neva Left
Somi - Petite Afrique
Stokley - Introducing Stokley
Stormzy - Gang Signs and Prayer
Syd - Fin
SZA - Ctrl
THEY. - Nu Religion: HYENA
Tony Allen - The Source
TQD - UKG
Trad.Attack! - Kullakarva
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Weaves - Wide Open
Wiley - Godfather

lol at "goomiverse"

what do the *** signify?

oh, heh, that was a "things likely to be in the top ten" signifier; this is rough draft stuff. I would tentatively call this a top 11 but things are moving around... I'm sure I've forgotten at least twenty other albums that should be in there and i've got a backlog of another hundred "i should listen to this first"

***Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics
***Bicep - Bicep
***Daniel Caesar - Freudian
***Gabriel Garzò-Montano - Jardin
***Ibeyi - Ash
***Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
***Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
***Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe
***Stokley - Introducing Stokley
***Syd - Fin
***SZA - Ctrl

one album i haven't seen in any of these is the jonny nash record, passive aggressive. prob one of my favourites this year.

that was the collab with suzanne kraft right? still haven't got round to getting that but his other album, eden, is really good. also gaussian curve obviously! that guy's been a regular brian ebow this year

there's a couple tacks on that i really love but it's not a patch on his album Eden from this year, imo

xp ha yes

I know it's niche music pandering directly to my musical interests but I hope The Demonstration by Drab Majesty makes an appearance somewhere

Good luck with that. As I was ranting in the psych thread, it appears, not necessarily ILMers, but the yobs making most of these lists, have settled into very limited range of genres and rarely venture outside of their comfort zones. All I'll say here is it's unhealthy in a variety of ways.

i would like to see more ibeyi in these lists! second album was a quantum leap forward imo

Folks are pigpiling on Pop Matters, but this is one of the best metal lists I've seen so far:

https://www.popmatters.com/the-best-metal-of-2017-2513310213.html

New to me:
5. Rebirth of Nefast: Tabernaculum (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
6. Endon: Through the Mirror (Hydra Head)
13. Aosoth: V: The Inside Scriptures (Agonia)
18. Succumb: Succumb (The Flenser)

Listening to the Best of episode of Sound Opinions, and while there a few okay choices, probably the best recommendation was from their producer Ayana Conteras (39 minutes into podcast):
http://www.soundopinions.org/show/627

Bottle Tree - Bottle Tree (International Anthem)
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/bottle-tree

"Bottle Tree is a new collaboration conjured from the Southside Chicago storefront chapel of singer/scholar A.M. Frison and composer/cornetist Ben Lamar Gay (AACM). With Italian expat Tommaso Moretti on traps, the sound-rendered folklore of Bottle Tree embodies a heart beating to West African mutated funk with the spirit of avant-garde jazz and a Motown-molded melodic mind — like a futuristic fantasy of Stevie Wonder backed by Don Cherry and Novos Baianos in the early 1970s."

Listened to the Daniel Brandt album that was listed in, I think, the Norman Records list (or was it the Bleep list?) - it's terrific. Now I've gone back to discover his group Brandt Bauer Frick. All of which has a strong Dawn of Midi vibe.

Nearly every year there's an album that's grossly overrated because it's an uncomfortably personal moment of oversharing by someone who is grieving. The untimely loss of a loved one is an experience many of us will unfortunately have to endure much sooner than others. I listened to A Crow Looked at Me, and it's a plodding, maudlin, terrible album. I can't imagine listening to this again in any circumstance. It doesn't seem like it would be cathartic while going through a similar experience, just soul-crushing. Perhaps some masochists would choose to wallow in this. I'm not saying it shouldn't have been released, as it was apparently therapeutic for the artist, who I empathize with. But perhaps even his wife might have preferred he made something that had a least a little joy and humor in tribute to her, and would have preferred this had stayed in the vault.

well that is a take