2017 end of the year lists

King Krule only white male in the top 10

not to call you out specifically but the representational olympics people do with these lists is so silly to me

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 :)

xp haha, perhaps

I think it's cool to see traditional biases challenged though, a nice counterpoint to the Ultimate Classic Rock list

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

they made good #1 and #2 choices though

Slowdive only number thirty?! I don’t even know Pitchfork anymore.

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 - Untrue
9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
8. Battles - Mirrored
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
5. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. M.I.A. - Kala
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

and equally irritating! and those are baaaad 1/2 choices haha

NPR: The 50 Best Albums Of 2017

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/12/568400855/the-50-best-albums-of-2017

^^ good list. Quite some albums I'd like to check out.

(is this one of the first EOY lists to have included Kesha?)

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.

*cough*

i meant that the 2007 list was equally irritating! and perhaps even more so, now you mention it

enjoying Circuit Des Yeux fyi

indie list is indie

decent NPR list, Ron Miles album sounds great and the ÌFÉ is very interesting

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.

yeah lists are much better if you top them with some random obscuro shit just to blow minds

I have not heard a single album on that NPR list, damn

yeah lists are much better if you top them with some random obscuro shit just to blow minds

― 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!

'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

it's weird it's like popular things are popular

Pitchfork should have picked an album they never even reviewed, preferably one from 1993. Only available on CD-Rom.

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.).

Mixmag - Top 100 Tracks of 2017
http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017

god I bet there's no indie in that list at all

mixmag list is almost unreadable on my work computer so if anyone feels the urge to post the thing in plain text...

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

15
'GLUTES’ PATRICE BÄUMEL (AFTERLIFE)

aw i think this track is just the best, glad to see it on the mixmag list

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

Yeah this ÌFÉ is beautiful.

this is a fun list
http://bittersoutherner.com/the-best-southern-albums-of-2017
https://open.spotify.com/user/thebittersoutherner/playlist/1RUQPusiY1kqt7JIBBTbzb

Kinda typical southern indie, rap & Americana list. But no soul like Ms Jody, no gospel...

Rolling Stone - best pop albums:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-pop-albums-of-2017-w513516

This thread has enough warmed over irony to last anyone another whole year.

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

he linked it himself! but seems p interesting yeah

FACT: The 20 best house and techno tracks of 2017
http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/12/best-house-techno-tracks-2017/

well at least bicep got on the genre list. it deserves much better

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

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

Nigerian Entertainment Today - 10 Best Albums of 2017
http://thenet.ng/net-list-10-best-albums-2017/

mixmag tracks list is out http://mixmag.net/feature/the-top-100-tracks-of-2017

Yay, Mr Eazi is #2 on Nigerian list.

fwiw here is what I played on the radio that I actually enjoyed, I also played some bad indie records by GBV and Orb and others.

basically in chronological order through the year...

Ty Segall - S/T
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
Sleater-Kinney - Live In Paris
The Feelies - In Between
Pink Martini - Je Dis Oui!
Gas - Narkopop
Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick
United Bible Studies - Soregh, Murne & Fast
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Tinariwen - Elvan
Robyn Hitchcock - S/T
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Damage & Joy
Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla II
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - Moomins OST (archival)
Mountain Goats - Goths
Andre Cymose - Black Man In America EP
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now?
Magnetix - Live In San Francisco
She-Devils - Come
Husker Du - Savage Young Du (reissue/archival)
Neil Young - Hitchhiker (archival)
Mdou Moctar - Sousoume Tamachek
Cornelius - Mellow Waves
Oh Sees - Orc
Zola Jesus - Okovi
Lee Ranaldo - Electric Trim
Avery Tare - Eucalyptus
Zimpel/Ziołek - S/T
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
Delia Gonzalez - Horse Follows Darkness
TSA (a.k.a. Robyn Nice) - Home Of The Green Wave
Ana Poulo - Poulo Warali
Michael Hurley - Redbirds At Folk City (archival)

I didn't know there was a Robyn Hitchcock album this year, probably because it's been about fifteen years since I worked with the one person I ever knew who was a big fan.

that's Andre *Cymone*, obv.

and the Tinariwen album is "Elwan"

the Avey Tare album is really good, and I have historically disliked his work. Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney are all over it as hired guns.

Hey Dinsdale thanks for posting that Columnfortably Numb list

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-rock-albums-of-2017/

1. King Krule - The OOZ
2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
3. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
4. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
5. Big Thief - Capacity
6. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
7. Jay Som - Everybody Works
8. Slowdive - Slowdive
9. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
10. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
11. Girlpool - Powerplant
12. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
13. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
14. The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
15. The Courtneys - II
16. The National - Sleep Well Beast
17. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
18. Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer
19. Destroyer - ken
20. White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band

First mention of Afghan Whigs?

Tonstartssbandht! Yay!