2017 end of the year lists

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

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link

The Quietus

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

Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Monday, 4 December 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link

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

Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 4 December 2017 10:02 (six years ago) link

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

nxd, Monday, 4 December 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link

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

niels, Monday, 4 December 2017 10:38 (six years ago) link

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 4 December 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link

The Quietus know what's up

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link

Are 'Moon' bands the new Black Crystal Wolf?

FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 4 December 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link

nice to finally see Algiers show up

Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link

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.

bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 4 December 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link

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

Matt DC, Monday, 4 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link

Chino Amobi - Paradiso at #1 in The Wire

Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 4 December 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link

^^^this album is wild, holy crow

Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link

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

sleeve, Monday, 4 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link

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.

Matt DC, Monday, 4 December 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link

lol my thought exactly when i saw that artist/title

call all destroyer, Monday, 4 December 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link

The Guardian's Top 100 tracks

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link

that Chino Amobi album is fantastic!

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

Dan S, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link

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

faust apes (NickB), Monday, 4 December 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link

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

Matt DC, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link

I love that Horrors song tbh

Simon H., Monday, 4 December 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link

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

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 4 December 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link

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

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link

95: Rose Dougall - Stellular

this is great btw

President Keyes, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link

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

Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link

Anyone has the Wire list online?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link

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

Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link

thx

sleeve, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link

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

Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link

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.

Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

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

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link

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

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link

The Joshua Abrams record is really good.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link

smh @ the three rap albums being Tyler, Kendrick and Lil B

mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link

Keep meaning to hear that Sote record and the Mhysa one too

faust apes (NickB), Monday, 4 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link

Sote is good yeah.

That Amobi record had best be great if Wire are to claim a 'know what's up' from me ;)

imago, Monday, 4 December 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link

xpost Fader seem to have lumped Migos in with K*d*k Bl**k & X*XT****C**N, probably not the only ones

drab daddy (mahica), Monday, 4 December 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link

Wait, why? What story am I missing?

Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link

I don't have an answer for you Fred, but I like this detail from their wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migos#2016-2017:_Continued_legal_issues

On July 7, 2017, Takeoff was asked to leave a flight from Atlanta to Des Moines, Iowa, after he reportedly refused to move his bag from the floor to an overhead storage bin prior to takeoff.[53]

how's life, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link

Yeah, they have had a lot of legal issues, but there's some distance from that and to X*XT**etc, I would have thought.

Frederik B, Monday, 4 December 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link

It's this story: https://pitchfork.com/news/71471-migos-not-cool-with-support-of-ilovemakonnens-homosexuality-thats-wack-bro/

Fader's list did include Slide (the Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean collab) but then the blurb sounds kind of taunting:

It sucks that we had to wait until 2017 to get a disco song about buying Picassos and smoking weed before gay sex, but I’m glad “Slide” is finally here. Calvin Harris managed to pull off three impressive tricks: he turned Migos into disco divas, somehow got Frank Ocean to make a radio-friendly song, and made a ’70s-inspired pop track that sounds completely new.

drab daddy (mahica), Monday, 4 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link

On July 7, 2017, Takeoff was asked to leave a flight from Atlanta to Des Moines, Iowa, after he reportedly refused to move his bag from the floor to an overhead storage bin prior to takeoff.

how can takeoff do anything at all prior to takeoff? that seems like it would be a physical impossibility.

fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link

def surprised by lack of migos (as a group or individuals) on the fader's lists. blue cheese, slippery, motorsport, you said, and no complaints all have a claim for inclusion

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