this is a nice list toohttp://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
― 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.
― how's life, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
xps yeh orange milk slayed it this yearshout out to plus100 too!
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
here's the whole of the Crack list in case you're struggling to view it:
100. Snoop Dogg - Neva Left99. Show Me the Body - Corpus I98. Future & Young Thug - Super Slimey97. Jakuzi - Fantezi Müzik96. CupcakKe - Queen Elizabitch95. MoStack - High Street Kid94. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet93. Masta Killa - Loyalty is Royalty92. Marika Hackman - I'm Not Your Man91. Tricky - Ununiform90. Tim Darcy - Saturday Night89. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club - Sketches of Brunswick East88. Special Request - Belief System87. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls86. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas - Square One85. Girlpool - Powerplant84. Pan Daijing - Lack 惊蛰83. 21 Savage - Issa Album82. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens81. Meek Mill - Wins & Losses80. Umfang - Symbolic Use of Light79. Various - New Gen78. The Big Moon - Love in the 4th Dimension77. James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits76. Red Axes - The Beach Goths75. Bicep - Bicep74. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts73. DJ Manny - Greenlight72. Ulricka Spacek - Modern English Decoration71. 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music70. Steffi - World of the Walking State69. Patrick Cowley - Afternooners68. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle67. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid66. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory65. Laurel Halo - Dust64. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City63. Colleen - A flame my love, a frequency62. Future - Hndrxx61. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism60. Hype Williams - Rainbow Edition59. DJ Sports - Modern Species58. Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - MILANO57. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan56. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone55. Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness54. JASSS - Weightless53. Big Thief - Capacity52. DJ Lycox - Sonhos & Pesadelos51. Alvvays - Antisocialites50. John Maus - Screen Memories49. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats48. Pessimist - Pessimist47. Jana Rush - Pariah46. Mike Cooper - Raft45. Brockhampton - Saturation II44. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage43. Aldous Harding - Party42. Blue Iverson - Hotep41. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas40. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION39. GAS - Narkopop38. Hitmakerchinx - Shades and Monsters: FDM Classics37. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer36. Angel Olsen - Phases35. Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love34. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives33. Sevdaliza - ISON32. Actress - AZD31. SYD - Fin30. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket29. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel28. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel your Love27. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural26. Jay-Z - 4:4425. King Krule - The Ooz24. Bjork - Utopia23. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy22. IDLES - Brutalism21. Kelela - Take Me Apart20. Jlin - Black Origami19. Drake - More Life18. William Basinski - A Shadow In Time17. J Hus - Common Sense16. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage15. Migos - Culture14. Thundercat - Drunk13. Slowdive - Slowdive12. Perfume Genius - No Shape11. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia10. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream9. Richard Dawson - Peasant8. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda7. Various - Mono No Aware6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.5. Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?4. SZA - Ctrl3. Fever Ray - Plunge2. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life1. Arca - Arca
https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-100-51/https://crackmagazine.net/article/feature-lists/albums-2017-50-1/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
i love that arca record btw
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
:D
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― damosuzuki, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
That's totally in character for two out of three of those publications. Not familiar with Cracked.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Crack, not Cracked. I wonder what a Cracked list would look like, lol
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― damosuzuki, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
sometimes an album is so obviously, screamingly great that it cannot be downplayed
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
that mono no aware album is so so good
Having a first listen to this just now and yeah, it's quite wonderful
― doug watson, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
didn't realise she had a new record out - will check itshe had one a couple of years ago that was great
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
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
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
it's very soft and lovely btw
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
(listening now)it is :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
John Mulvey's annual list of a zillion albums for Uncut:http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/favourite-albums-2017-102550
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
have held a comically petty grudge against that guy for years since he gave Life Without Buildings a one-star review in the NME but there are a few good records among all the plaid shirt stuff
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
baja fresh is a cool record
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
This is lush. Would fit really well in a playlist after Colleen's latest album (not seen her on any list yet iirc)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
can't lie, i was a bit disappointed with the colleen album after loving captain of none so much. i just didn't find the sounds that she was getting from her new synth to be very compelling
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
I can see that. To me, soundwise, it harkens back to her first couple of records, the sound of the music boxes on 'The Golden Morning Breaks' and 'Les Ondes Silencieuzes' that make it sounds very familiar. Do you know those?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
I don't know those I'm afraid, I somehow leapfrogged from Everyone Alive Wants Answers to The Weighing of the Heart. I like the way she keeps changing though, kind of like Richard Youngs but with a slower work rate
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
I guess I'm lazy, but it would be nice if Mulvey could've written a few quick snippets for his top choices. I find a long list like that a little too intimidating to bother with without any text.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I like the new Colleen record though it's not my favorite of hers. There's a simplicity to it - not a lot layers. At times that achieves a really awesome, hypnotic effect. But other times it drags.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
That Upper Wilds album is worth a listen (it's from the Parts & Labor guy)
https://upperwilds.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-module-2017
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Richard Dawson makes me feel a certain way where this particular kind of annoyingness will in five years either be thought upon fondly (like Los Campesinos) or with a what-the-hell-were-we-thinking facepalm (like Moldy Peaches, Akron Family)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
lol
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
somehow everything I type in response to that is insufficient
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
imagine a bearded, 30-year-old man walking through Victoria Station, empurpling
i'll pass thanks
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
fgti should be forced to listen to 'downloading porn with davo' on repeat for like a week, then given the sweet release of 'ogre'. it's the only way
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to "Ogre" right now and this is basically a music major's junior tutorial project, right?
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm getting a little tired of Dawson. During my previous year-end binges, he's served as a nice palate cleanser, but not doing it for me this time. Stuff from that Mutant Standard was more like a sandblast to the brain. It shook something loose, most likely some upcoming nightmares about body horror and the apocalypse.
Man Forever is good, John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions of Oneida), collaborates with Laurie Anderson on one track.
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society did a cool collaboration with Bitchin Bajas in 2015 called Automaginary. The new one is without BB, but continues to explore that territory.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
psherb’s top 50 electronic tracks:
http://www.the-dowsers.com/playlist/best-electronic-music-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Brooklyn Raga Massive - Terry Riley In C is some solid Hindustani Classical. They also did a Coltrane tribute that isn't getting as much attention. I forgot about Arbouretum, solid psych with a bit of folk/Americana. I'm not as enthusiastic about folk as Mulvey, but everything he lists sounds pretty good.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Old-school West African faves ---Oumou Sangaré, Orchesta Baobab, & the Trio da Kali w/ Kronos Quartet album, from the Songlines list. The Trio da Kali w/ Kronos one has also made Uncut and the fRoots lists
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
F Roots list-
Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band- Big MachineRhiannon Giddens-Freedom HighwayLisa Knapp-Til April Is DeadLankum-Between The Earth And SkyLeveret-InventionsOffa Rex-Queen of HeartsOrchestra Baobab-Tribute To Ndiouga DiengOumou Sangare-MogoyaSaz’iso-At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At MeTrio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet-Ladilikan
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/lists/music/best-latin-songs-of-2017/
#2. "Tú y Yo" - La Favi
#3"Mi Gente" - J Balvin, Willy William
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
BBC 6 Music
1. Thundercat – Drunk2. alt-J – RELAXER3. Sampha – Process4. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy5. Idles – Brutalism6. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice7. Nadine Shah – Holiday Destination8. Big Thief – Capacity9. Tom Williams - All Change10. Phoebe Bridges - Stranger in the Alps
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
that IDLES is sheer garbage
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
nah it's fun
― niels, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
if by 'fun' you mean 'future of the left with literally every single positive feature removed'. i get suspicious of conversations where the appropriation of genre by hipsters is decried but this comes off precisely as the sort of punk that a record company dreamt up to sell units
― imago, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
I dunno, saw them at a festival show and it was definitely fun, can't say I've spent much time with the record
― niels, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Are they the ones responsible for that atrocious 'Mary Berry likes reggae' song? Fuck that shit.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
fastnbulbous can you post a top 10 most overrated albums of the year, seems like it'd be worth checking out
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
haha yes please
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
I didn't know about the Kara-Lis Coverdale record either and this is marvellous.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
I tried out IDLES this morning and while my intrest was piqued by the first few songs, it quickly stopped doing anything for me.
― how's life, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link