2017 end of the year lists

Not sure why AOTY didn't include the Norman records list yet, and while they did put Mount Eerie at the top, they are also donating all profits to the Candlelighters cancer charity.

https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-year-2017

I'm sampling stuff from the Classic Rock list right now, which is pretty bonkers, but entertaining.

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2017/

Gorilla vs Bear always make interesting lists imo

very cool list, lots to check out

01 YAEJI | EPs
02 KELLY LEE OWENS | Kelly Lee Owens
03 TOPS | Sugar at the Gate
04 ALDOUS HARDING | Party
05 LAUREL HALO | Dust
06 SHABAZZ PALACES | Quazarz
07 PLAYBOI CARTI | Playboi Carti
08 FAYE WEBSTER | Faye Webster
09 KING KRULE | The OOZ
10 MEGA BOG | Happy Together
11 TORO Y MOI | Boo Boo
12 VINCE STAPLES | Big Fish Theory
13 NITE JEWEL | Real High
14 YUMI ZOUMA | Willowbank
15 ALESSANDRO CORTINI | Avanti
16 ALVVAYS | Antisocialites
17 FEVER RAY | Plunge
18 DEMEN | Nektyr
19 MEN I TRUST | Tailwhip EP
20 HATER | You Tried
21 HOOPS | Routines
22 KEDR LIVANSKIY | Ariadna
23 JULIA LUCILLE | Chthonic
24 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | Good Time OST
25 JULIE BYRNE | Not Even Happiness
26 ANNA OF THE NORTH | Lovers
27 SHE-DEVILS | She-Devils
28 SZA | Ctrl
29 WASHED OUT | Mister Mellow
30 EQUIKNOXX | Colón Man
31 MOUNT KIMBIE | Love What Survives
32 BLUE HAWAII | Tenderness
33 HAND HABITS | Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)
34 BIG THIEF | Capacity
35 KENDRICK LAMAR | DAMN.
36 SASSY 009 | do you mind
37 KARA-LIS COVERDALE | Grafts
38 YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN | Images
39 DJ SPORTS | Modern Species
40 JLIN | Black Origami
41 GRIZZLY BEAR | Painted Ruins
42 KELELA | Take Me Apart
43 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH | The Kid
44 LUKE REED | Won’t Be There
45 ANGEL OLSEN | Phases
46 CHOPSTARS x BARRY JENKINS | Purple Moonlight
47 MOLLY BURCH | Please Be Mine
48 JOHNNY JEWEL | Windswept
49 JOSEPH SHABASON | Aytche
50 LANA DEL REY | Lust For Life
51 DRAB MAJESTY | The Demonstration
52 AMBER MARK | 3:33 am
53 EXIT SOMEONE | Dry Your Eyes
54 CHARLI XCX | Number 1 Angel
55 CARLA DAL FORNO | The Garden
56 MOLLY NILSSON | Imaginations
57 JOHN MAUS | Screen Memories
58 NMESH | Pharma
59 SUSANNE SUNDFØR | Music For People in Trouble
60 RAMZi | Phobiza Noite Vol. 2

She-Devils record was pretty good!

http://www.thefader.com/2017/12/03/best-songs-2017-apple-music-spotify-playlist/tay-k-the-race

Finally, a more diverse/pop-oriented list! And girlpool at 19! Not sure about that #1 though, which i admittedly haven't heard

Whoops, that link goes right to the bottom. Here's it starting at 101 if you like a countdown

http://www.thefader.com/2017/12/03/best-songs-2017-apple-music-spotify-playlist

Digging this Mega Bog. Had never heard of them before.

kind of stunned that the Fader picked "Daddy Issues", what a terrible song

I’ve agreed with chris from gvb’s lists wholeheartedly since discovering his blog back in 2005.

A couple of albums from that one which I still haven’t catched on the hype are Yaeji and King Krule and I’ve tried hard. KK I just can’t... I find his drunkard voice and aloof style a bit annoying... Yaeji is way more digestable to my ears but it doesn’t sound that special to me atm.

Happy to see Laurel Halo, TOPS and that Kelly Lee Owens album. Haven’t seen them mentioned that much and they deserve every bit of top love in this EoY lists. I’d definitely add those 3 to my own top 10.

I know only 15 songs of the top 50 in that Fader list. Have some home listening to do.

That TOPS album is sooooo good

Their last one is also excellent. They need to get more recognition.

The Quietus

http://thequietus.com/articles/23660-albums-of-the-year-2017

Here's that Quietus list in full...

1: Richard Dawson - Peasant
2: Zimpel/Ziołek - Zimpel/Ziołek
3: Fever Ray - Plunge
4: The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
5: Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
6: Kelela - Take Me Apart
7: James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
8: Princess Nokia - 1992
9: Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
10: Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
11: Liars - TFCF
12: Lotto - VV
13: Call Super - Arpo
14: Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
15: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed The Rats
16: Laura Cannell - Hunter Huntress Hawker
17: GNOD - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
18: Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
19: Circle - Terminal
20: Rûwâhîne - Ifriqiyya Electrique
21: Man Forever - Play What They Want
22: Madonnatron - Madonnatron
23: Endon - Through The Mirror
24: Algiers - The Underside Of Power
25: Justin Walter - Unseen Forces
26: BNNT - The Multiverse
27: $hit & $hine - Total Shit!
28: Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
29: Vanishing - Vanishing
30: Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
31: Björk - Utopia
32: Arca - Arca
33: Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness
34: Re-TROS - Before The Applause
35: Jlin - Black Origami
36: Kemper Norton - Hungan
37: Chloe x Halle - The Two Of Us
38: The Granite Shore - Suspended Second
39: The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 3
40: Teleplasmiste - Frequency Is The New Ecstasy
41: Botanist - Collective: The Shape Of He To Come
42: British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
43: Al-Namrood - Enkar
44: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
45: Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
46: Perc - Bitter Music
47: Gazelle Twin - Kingdom Come
48: Gary Numan - Savage
49: Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
50: Alan Vega - IT
51: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
52: Deaf Kids - Configuração do Lamento
53: The Inward Circles - And Right Lines Limit And Close All Bodies
54: I, Ludicrous - Songs From The Sides Of Lorries
55: Japan Blues - Sells His Record Collection
56: Powertrip - Nightmare Logic
57: Riddlore - Afro Mutations
58: Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
59: Godflesh - Post Self
60: Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
61: Total Leatherette - For The Climax Of The Night
62: Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
63: Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
64: Colleen - A Flame My Love, A Frequency
65: J Hus - Common Sense
66: Unsane - Sterilize
67: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async
68: SZA - Ctrl
69: Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
70: MXLX - Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
71: Siavash Amini - TAR
72: Yossarians - Fabric Of Time
73: UUUU - UUUU
74: Hey Colossus - The Guillotine
75: Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
76: Sote - Sacred Horror In Design
77: Laraaji - Bring On The Sun
78: Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
79: Laibach - Also Sprach Zarathustra
80: STILL - I
81: Targ - Bargou 08
82: Aquaserge - Laisse ça être
83: M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix
84: Part Chimp - IV
85: Daniel O'Sullivan - Veld
86: Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
87: Wire - Silver/Lead
88: Laurel Halo - Dust
89: MHYSA - Fantasii
90: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe
91: Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
92: Here Lies Man - Here Lies Man
93: Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
94; Actress - AZD
95: Rose Dougall - Stellular
96: Simon Fisher Turner - Giraffe
97: Cardi B - Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2
98: Akatombo - Short Fuse
99: The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert
100: Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators Of Moral Matrix

sweet list!
gonna re-listen to the zimpel/ziołek album right now :)

Kelly Lee Owens is #12 on http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2017/ so hardly overlooked anymore

I don't know much on the Norman list but what i do know I really like = likely to check out other stuff. Especially seeing Grizzly Bear and James Holden in the top 3, as they're probably my two favourites.

The Quietus know what's up

I really love that Moonlandingz record too, even if it's probably too silly and too British for 95% of ILX

(full disclosure: it's a cosmic psych-pop fuckaround)

Are 'Moon' bands the new Black Crystal Wolf?

nice to finally see Algiers show up

the moonlandingz record is ok but i was promised motorik and the first track instead gives you gary glitter. they do eventually do a proper motorik beat but i've heard way too many records like this for this particular record to stand out.

I just assumed it would be Gorillaz-level twatting about.

Chino Amobi - Paradiso at #1 in The Wire

^^^this album is wild, holy crow

looking forward to digging into the Wire and Quietus lists this week

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed The Rats

This is the most Quietus thing ever. The Call Super album at #13 is fantastic though.

lol my thought exactly when i saw that artist/title

The Guardian's Top 100 tracks

that Chino Amobi album is fantastic!

glad to see M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix show up on the Quietus list

Guardian tracks top ten:

1. Lorde – Green Light
2. Charli XCX – Boys
3. Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE.
4. Selena Gomez – Bad Liar
5. Future – Mask Off
6. Perfume Genius – Slip Away
7. The Horrors – Something to Remember Me By
8. Stormzy – Big for Your Boots
9. Drake – Passionfruit
10. Paramore – Hard Times

It's really sweet how the Guardian still persists in caring about The Horrors after pretty much everyone else lost interest.

Going through the Quietus list from the bottom up. So far the most arresting discovery has been Re-TROS, who purvey a particularly vivid & mathy Chinese techno-punk

That Horrors song does nil for me

Pigs x7 are peak Quietus sure but I think two of them are also in Richard Dawson's backing band

I love that Horrors song tbh

quietus generally where i get all my late year finds; excited to explore that

I love the Quietus lists as well. So many things I've not heard of AND good blurbs.

95: Rose Dougall - Stellular

this is great btw

Really excited by the opening track but didn't think it held up after that. Might return to it though

Bumped another thread for the MHYSA album, which is p interesting too - a bit sad that on another weird r&b tip the Harriet Brown album from their half-year list has vanished

Man the Re-TROS is great! Dance-rock you can turn to when you realise how bori[remainder of post redacted]

I've never heard of Chino Amobi, but it sounds absolutely fantastic, and like the most Wire thing ever.

Anyone has the Wire list online?

Wire list in full:

1. Chino Amobi - Paradiso
2. Richard Dawson - Peasant
3. Klein - Tommy
4. Jlin - Black Origami
5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
6. Jana Rush - Pariah
7. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality
8. Pan Daijing - Lock
9. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die
10. Circuit des Yeux - Reaching for Indigo
11. Actress - AZD
12. Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar
13. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
14. Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand
15. Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt
16. Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements
17. Ellen Arkbro - For Organ and Brass
18. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
19. Diamanda Galas - All the Way
20. Mhysa - Fantasii
21. Children of Alice - Children of Alice
22. Strange U - LP #4080
23. Phew - Voice Hardcore
24. The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert
25. Áine O'Dwyer - Gallarais
26. Juana Molina - Halo
27. Saicobab - Sab Se Purani Bab
28. Golden Teacher - No Luscious LIfe
29. Brooklyn Raga Machine - Terry Riley In C
30. Sote - Sacred Horror In Design
31. Laurel Halo - Dust
32. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run
33. Akio Suzuki & John Butcher - Immediate Landscapes
34. Circle - Terminal
35. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
36. Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness
37. Sadaf - Shell
38. Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
39. Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File
40. Karen Gwyer - Rembo
41. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
42. Once and Future Band - Once and Future Band
43. Gnod - Just Say No To the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
44. Pancrace - Pancrace
45. Lil B - Black Ken
46. John Maus - Screen Memories
47. Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For the South Side
48. Carla dal Forno - The Garden
49. Mahmoud Gania - Colours of the Night
50. Gosheven - Leaper

thx

Is the Tyler album any cop or is it just Wire madness talking?

A lot of people like it. It's no Culture though, that's for sure. Actually, I'm really surprised at how little Migos there are on these lists.

Feels like these lists are pretty short on rap music in general tbh

Everyone in the comments section for the Guardian list needs to have their internet privileges revoked ASAP

The Joshua Abrams record is really good.