2017 end of the year lists

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.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 01:45 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

i've listened to it about 10 times in a row today and yesterday

Crack Magazine:
https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-100-51/
https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-50-1/

ha i've tried a few times and that one keeps breaking my browser

got it now, that mono no aware album is so so good
also the album carrying my favourite song of the year placed nicely too :)

this is a nice list too
http://mutantstandard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/top-10-albums-of-2017.html

^^^that looks very interesting and has loads of stuff that isn't elsewhere

lack of orange milk on any list is predictable i guess but a bit sad, i'm sure you'll agree

I always discover a lot of great stuff from the Anti Gravity Bunny lists. Here's the first:

Top 10 (Not Drone Or Metal) - http://www.antigravitybunny.com/?p=11320

10. CHLOÉ – Endless Revisions (LUMIÈRE NOIRE)
9. GWENDOLEN OSMOND – The Mermaid (WAS IST DAS?)
8. JOSHUA SABIN – Terminus Drift (SUBTEXT)
7. HARVESTMAN – Music For Megaliths (NEUROT)
6. ANDREW WEATHERS ENSEMBLE – Build A Mountain Where Our Bodies Fall (FULL SPECTRUM)
5. UPPER WILDS – Guitar Module (THRILL JOCKEY)
4. LE FRUIT VERT – Paon Perdu (THREE:FOUR)
3. KELLY LEE OWENS – Kelly Lee Owens (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND)
2. DIET CIG – Swear I’m Good At This (FRENCHKISS)
1. MIDWIFE – Like Author, Like Daughter (WHITED SEPULCHRE)

this is a nice list too
http://mutantstandard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/top-10-albums-of-2017.html

― nxd, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:47 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So many album covers with human faces that it's like a class picture.

xps yeh orange milk slayed it this year
shout out to plus100 too!

here's the whole of the Crack list in case you're struggling to view it:

100. Snoop Dogg - Neva Left
99. Show Me the Body - Corpus I
98. Future & Young Thug - Super Slimey
97. Jakuzi - Fantezi Müzik
96. CupcakKe - Queen Elizabitch
95. MoStack - High Street Kid
94. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
93. Masta Killa - Loyalty is Royalty
92. Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man
91. Tricky - Ununiform
90. Tim Darcy - Saturday Night
89. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club - Sketches of Brunswick East
88. Special Request - Belief System
87. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
86. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas - Square One
85. Girlpool - Powerplant
84. Pan Daijing - Lack 惊蛰
83. 21 Savage - Issa Album
82. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
81. Meek Mill - Wins & Losses
80. Umfang - Symbolic Use of Light
79. Various - New Gen
78. The Big Moon - Love in the 4th Dimension
77. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
76. Red Axes - The Beach Goths
75. Bicep - Bicep
74. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
73. DJ Manny - Greenlight
72. Ulricka Spacek - Modern English Decoration
71. 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
70. Steffi - World of the Walking State
69. Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
68. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle
67. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
66. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
65. Laurel Halo - Dust
64. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City
63. Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency
62. Future - Hndrxx
61. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
60. Hype Williams - Rainbow Edition
59. DJ Sports - Modern Species
58. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - MILANO
57. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
56. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
55. Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness
54. JASSS - Weightless
53. Big Thief - Capacity
52. DJ Lycox - Sonhos & Pesadelos
51. Alvvays - Antisocialites
50. John Maus - Screen Memories
49. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats
48. Pessimist - Pessimist
47. Jana Rush - Pariah
46. Mike Cooper - Raft
45. Brockhampton - Saturation II
44. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
43. Aldous Harding - Party
42. Blue Iverson - Hotep
41. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
40. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
39. GAS - Narkopop
38. Hitmakerchinx - Shades and Monsters: FDM Classics
37. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
36. Angel Olsen - Phases
35. Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love
34. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
33. Sevdaliza - ISON
32. Actress - AZD
31. SYD - Fin
30. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
29. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
28. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel your Love
27. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
26. Jay-Z - 4:44
25. King Krule - The Ooz
24. Bjork - Utopia
23. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
22. IDLES - Brutalism
21. Kelela - Take Me Apart
20. Jlin - Black Origami
19. Drake - More Life
18. William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
17. J Hus - Common Sense
16. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
15. Migos - Culture
14. Thundercat - Drunk
13. Slowdive - Slowdive
12. Perfume Genius - No Shape
11. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia
10. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
9. Richard Dawson - Peasant
8. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
7. Various - Mono No Aware
6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
5. Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
4. SZA - Ctrl
3. Fever Ray - Plunge
2. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
1. Arca - Arca

https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-100-51/
https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-50-1/

i love that arca record btw

:D

Richard Dawson is 1st on Quietus list, 2nd on Wire's and now another top ten position on Cracked's, damn, who would have thunk.

That's totally in character for two out of three of those publications. Not familiar with Cracked.

Crack, not Cracked. I wonder what a Cracked list would look like, lol

oh yes of course, my bad haha. And I knew he was a house hold name in Wire, but scoring both top two in BOTH of the most idiosyncratic lists is pretty impressive.

sometimes an album is so obviously, screamingly great that it cannot be downplayed

that mono no aware album is so so good

Having a first listen to this just now and yeah, it's quite wonderful

74. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

it deserves far, far better but lately this has become my go-to soundtrack for blankly staring at a spreadsheet in a post-lunch torpor.

didn't realise she had a new record out - will check it
she had one a couple of years ago that was great

i think it's missing from a few lists because it's one of those is it an album, is it an ep, or is it a single jobs? it's just one 22 minute track

it's very soft and lovely btw