2017 end of the year lists

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.

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

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

Sote is good yeah.

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

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

Wait, why? What story am I missing?

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]

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.

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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/gunfire-erupts-migos-beat-sean-kingston-nevada-event-article-1.2978956

what the

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.

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

they were in the RS top 10, just saying

16. Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements

I discovered this on Bandcamp last week when I was listening to Bottle Tree, who are on the same Chicago based International Anthem label. Interesting stuff.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible-entanglements
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/bottle-tree

19. Diamanda Galas - All the Way

She was intense at Roadburn last year, her set was a stripped down evil folk blues.

42. Once and Future Band - Once and Future Band

I was excited for this prog pop project early in the year but sort of forgot about it. Will re-listen.

43. Gnod - Just Say No To the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine

I get why PigsX7 and Gnod are Quietus/Wire approved, just arty and political enough. Both are fine, but there are over a hundred albums that do that thing in a more fun and satisfying way.

9. Diamanda Galas - All the Way

She was intense at Roadburn last year, her set was a stripped down evil folk blues.

Diamanda Galas, intense?

Cheeky. Put that album on casually and it might seem unlistenable. But I enjoyed the live show, perhaps because after a variety of blackened death metal, sludge, prog and hardcore, it was a good change of pace. Or maybe it was all the secondhand smoke.

The version of "O Death" on All The Way is one of the best things she ever done

I mean it's really really next-level even for her

Recorded live at Mars Volta ATP in 2008 I think?

Anyway https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/track/o-death

So far the most arresting discovery has been Re-TROS, who purvey a particularly vivid & mathy Chinese techno-punk

This is nice, though I don't particularly hear "mathy" or even "techno-punk". "Pigs in the River" sounds a bit like The Specials "Ghost Town" as performed by Depeche Mode.

i heard diamanda do 'o death' live at the end of last year(?) and it sorta opened her up to me as an artist so yeah, i agree

This is nice, though I don't particularly hear "mathy" or even "techno-punk". "Pigs in the River" sounds a bit like The Specials "Ghost Town" as performed by Depeche Mode.

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that track is a bit of an outlier I think! Hailing Drums is a dance-rock beast and possibly one of the tracks of the year

Liked what I heard of Once & Future Band as well. This decade didn't know it needed its own Jellyfish!

Never heard of Chino Amobi before but that record sounds awesome on paper.