King Krule only white male in the top 10
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
Full Pfork list:
50 Yaeji - EP/EP249 Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream48 (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket47 Kehlani - SweetSexySavage46 Laurel Halo - Dust45 Girlpool - Powerplant44 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid43 Lil B - Black Ken42 Vagabon - Infinite Worlds41 Zola Jesus - Okovi40 The xx - I See You39 Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up38 Drake - More Life37 Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness36 Syd - Fin35 Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti34 Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives33 Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens32 Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life31 Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference EP30 Slowdive - Slowdive29 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 328 Ibeyi - Ash27 Future - HNDRXX26 Jay Som - Everybody Works25 Priests - Nothing Feels Natural24 Thundercat - Drunk23 Big Thief - Capacity22 St. Vincent - Masseduction21 Arca - Arca20 Björk - Utopia19 Migos - Culture18 Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights17 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest16 Perfume Genius - No Shape15 Sampha - Process14 Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me13 JAY-Z - 4:4412 LCD Soundsystem - American Dream11 The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding10 Jlin - Black Origami9 Fever Ray - Plunge8 Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy7 Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory6 Moses Sumney - Aromanticism5 Lorde - Melodrama4 Kelela - Take Me Apart3 King Krule - The OOZ2 SZA - Ctrl1 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
― willem, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:00 (six years ago) link
Late Junction's albums of the year 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5BJCPM3tRkrr0Yd10SmgkPK/late-junctions-albums-of-the-year-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
loving sean's list
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
was into that Late Junction list before Arca showed up
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
love that arca album fwiw
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
not as much as the pan daijing record that's shown up in a couple of lists though. that thing is a blast
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
love the arca record too
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
not to call you out specifically but the representational olympics people do with these lists is so silly to me
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
yep
Late Junction list seemed to be another 'obscure stuff only' one, then Arca butts in, then Kendrick and Bjork just to make sure haha
n.b. DAMN is one of the albums of the year, I just don't need it in every list :)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
xp haha, perhaps
I think it's cool to see traditional biases challenged though, a nice counterpoint to the Ultimate Classic Rock list
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
both lists are irritating but at least UCR have a limiting remit, pfork are an aggressively editorialised hipster megachurch, in their own way just as conservative as UCR and just as unsurprising
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
they made good #1 and #2 choices though
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
Slowdive only number thirty?! I don’t even know Pitchfork anymore.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
xp the fact that you find p4k's list predictable does not make the values guiding the selection less important, for comparison here's the 2007 album top 10, equally "predictable" but very different in representation:
10. Burial - Untrue9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime8. Battles - Mirrored7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam5. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?4. Radiohead - In Rainbows3. M.I.A. - Kala2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
and equally irritating! and those are baaaad 1/2 choices haha
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
NPR: The 50 Best Albums Of 2017
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/12/568400855/the-50-best-albums-of-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
^^ good list. Quite some albums I'd like to check out.
(is this one of the first EOY lists to have included Kesha?)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
and equally irritating!
Really? I don't like everything in the 2017 list but it's *a lot* less obviously head-in-sand than the 2007 one.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
*cough*
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
i meant that the 2007 list was equally irritating! and perhaps even more so, now you mention it
enjoying Circuit Des Yeux fyi
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
indie list is indie
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
decent NPR list, Ron Miles album sounds great and the ÌFÉ is very interesting
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
Most of the records on that 2007 list are really well remembered, though? It's not 'head-in-sand' as much as it's from a genre website, and focuses on that genre. A very white, very male genre. It's kinda interesting that the first poc to top the pitchfork list was Kanye in 2010, but now it's happened 6 out of 8 years this decade. Indie is dead, band music in general is kinda dead, even the indierockers they put on their list is mostly solo acts. It's also old news, and seeing Kendrick top the list for the third time with a not that original album makes me think a backlash could be on the way. That is kinda the most boring choice they could have made.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
yeah lists are much better if you top them with some random obscuro shit just to blow minds
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
I have not heard a single album on that NPR list, damn
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), 12. december 2017 14:30 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or Taylor Swift. Now that would have been a mindfuck!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
'boring choices' are the natural result of these sort of consensus lists, and this year wasn't really one for 'event albums' in the way that the last two years had been
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
it's weird it's like popular things are popular
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
Pitchfork should have picked an album they never even reviewed, preferably one from 1993. Only available on CD-Rom.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
I feel like that Pitchfork list is exactly the kind of list a whole lot of people used to give them shit for years for not producing. There's a lot of stuff on there I personally don't like (and a lot that I do) but the vast majority of those artists are at the very least pretty adventurous and forward-thinking, and taken as a whole it's a group that's going in a lot of different directions (R&B, folk, electronic, hip-hop, etc.).
― evol j, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Mixmag - Top 100 Tracks of 2017http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
god I bet there's no indie in that list at all
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
mixmag list is almost unreadable on my work computer so if anyone feels the urge to post the thing in plain text...
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
top 10 looks great but i had to wait several minutes for it to load and for some reason the font was about eight times the size of my monitor
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
15'GLUTES’ PATRICE BÄUMEL (AFTERLIFE)
aw i think this track is just the best, glad to see it on the mixmag list
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
decent NPR list, Ron Miles album sounds great and the ÌFÉ is very interesting― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― niels, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:36 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah this ÌFÉ is beautiful.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
this is a fun listhttp://bittersoutherner.com/the-best-southern-albums-of-2017https://open.spotify.com/user/thebittersoutherner/playlist/1RUQPusiY1kqt7JIBBTbzb
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Kinda typical southern indie, rap & Americana list. But no soul like Ms Jody, no gospel...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
Rolling Stone - best pop albums:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-pop-albums-of-2017-w513516
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
This thread has enough warmed over irony to last anyone another whole year.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Has anyone linked this already? Said the Gramophone’s Bedt 100 songs of 2017. Nice one as always and several songs that went under my radar:
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2017.php
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
he linked it himself! but seems p interesting yeah
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
FACT: The 20 best house and techno tracks of 2017http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/12/best-house-techno-tracks-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
well at least bicep got on the genre list. it deserves much better
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
I liked some of the photos in that record but I didn't agree with writing words on the screen, stopping the picture when the music pause, or any of the music
― saer, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
I was going to risk playing one of the other records on that list but I saw the words bittersweet banger, and coupled with its inauspicious first selection I decided to watch that video of Jack Charlton rapping again instead
― saer, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
Nigerian Entertainment Today - 10 Best Albums of 2017http://thenet.ng/net-list-10-best-albums-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
mixmag tracks list is out http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017
― austinb, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Yay, Mr Eazi is #2 on Nigerian list.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link