2017 end of the year lists

The Benjamin Clementine track on that NPR list is really good fyi

This is a good jazz list (except for the #1 pick - that Thundercat album suuuuucks) and the intro is interesting.

https://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/10-best-jazz-albums-2017/

Mixmag - The Top 50 Albums of 2017

http://mixmag.net/feature/50-albums-12-months

That Sinjin Hawke album sounded amazing on my first listen and unbearable on my second (but maybe I just wasn't in the right mood)

Ann Powers' Top 10 Underheard Albums Of 2017

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/12/14/570576493/ann-powers-top-10-underheard-albums-of-2017

the "Cat Person" of pop songs is Laura Marling's "My Manic and I"

I thought that was "Wild Fire"

that anna tivel song/album are great though

Just out of idle curiosity: that last Rolling Stones album, Blue and Lonesome, came out in December 2016, too late for a lot of last year's lists. Has it showed up anywhere this year?

not according to this aggregator http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/63124-the-rolling-stones-blue-lonesome.php

have to say I'd find it a weird, or at least very surprising, inclusion

the 2 best rap lists

https://themartorialist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-obligatory-best-rap-songs-of-2017_14.html

http://noz.agency/2017/12/14/best-rap-2017/

xxxpost Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin are two Portland folk singers who should be much more widely known, imo. they tour together, play on each others' songs (and I assume they are in a relationship, tho I'm not positive). Martin put out an incredible album this year, too:

https://jeffreymartinportland.bandcamp.com/

listen to "Poor Man" at least

lol @ 11 on the noz list

aside from his cosign of t shirt which i still find 'ok' lol i find it vindicating to see in the comments hes basically in agreement w me about migos/future/thug burnout

xxxpost Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin are two Portland folk singers who should be much more widely known, imo. they tour together, play on each others' songs (and I assume they are in a relationship, tho I'm not positive).

― alpine static

read that as "they are in a relationship, tho it's not positive" and thought that was a pretty harsh zing

anna tivel is a perfect fit for anybody who actually gives a shit about short stories which appear in the new yorker

i'm more interested in the "cat people" of pop songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpdHMaccjw4

My list is here: https://2012yearinmusic.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-favorite-new-albums-of-2017.html

damn, the Quietus, NPR and RS EDM lists are quite awesome.

SW rules, btw. Untitled A2 is gonna make my tracks ballot.

Pitchfork - The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2017

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

^

1. Arca - Arca
2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
3. Various Artists - Mono No Aware
4. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
5. GAS - Narkopop
6. Blanck Mass - World Eater
7. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
8. Joni Void - Selfless
9. Lushloss - Asking/Bearing
10. Mhysa - fantasii
11. Forest Swords - Compassion
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
13. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green
14. Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold
15. Yves Tumor - Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
16. Eluvium - Shuffle Drones
17. L’Rain - L’Rain
18. Amnesia Scanner - AS TRUTH
19. Klein - Tommy EP
20. Pharmakon - Contact

cheers
haven't heard l'rain - will check that out this morning

*slow clap for pitchfork*

Slow Hand Clap For Pitchfork's drone album is excellent and should definitely be on that list.

is it painfully cool boring rubbish, cos if so yeah

No results found for "that fraud basinski".

Mind you, as said above, Mhysa album worth a listen

Great list from the Blackest Ever Black shop in London:
https://lowcompany.co.uk/collections/best-of-2017

Nathan Rabin's Top 10

(oops, meant to post that in the year-end film thread)

Complex UK’s Best Albums Of 2017

http://www.complex.com/music/2017/12/complex-uk-best-albums-of-2017/

No results found for "that fraud basinski".

― Cardi Acs (imago)

wtf is the matter with you, stop it

Great list from the Blackest Ever Black shop in London:
https://lowcompany.co.uk/collections/best-of-2017

― Barnaby, Hardly

i don't think i'm hip enough to listen to any of this! nothing i had heard of until page 5

Lists like that don't make me feel un-hip. They make me grateful there's people out there curating stuff I wouldn't have heard otherwise. Thanks for the list.

cool stuff on that list, thanks, need to hear SUED 16 and the Christoph de Babalon right off the bat

i don't think i'm hip enough to listen to any of this! nothing i had heard of until page 5

― bob lefse (rushomancy)

A lot of it was only familiar from being on their mailing list (which is well worth signing up for). Though plenty was completely new to me.

Lists like that don't make me feel un-hip. They make me grateful there's people out there curating stuff I wouldn't have heard otherwise. Thanks for the list.

― afriendlypioneer

Yeah, that's my take on it as well. I enjoy investigating lists like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGE7q0oDlEI

haha Paul F. Tompkins is hilarious

Great list from the Blackest Ever Black shop in London:
https://lowcompany.co.uk/collections/best-of-2017

― Barnaby, Hardly

i don't think i'm hip enough to listen to any of this! nothing i had heard of until page 5

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, December 15, 2017 7:00 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is just the worst attitude, i mean, really??

Listening to the Heavy Metal band off that list. Shades of Earl Brutus/The Pre New, but we'll see if it takes

I am kind of getting Nathan Barley vibes off that list tbh

don't you have a thread for this, my friend, do you need another one?

everybody be nice to blackest ever black!!!

otm

dig the stuff i know off that list, will be checking the other 99% out haha

the 154 reissue is a must, if you're into super gauzy ambient with muted kick drums

no wire jokes, imago

davy kehoe album sounded good from the couple of tracks i heard. don't totally buy into the whole BEB aesthetic project though tbh

this is just the worst attitude, i mean, really??

― brimstead

no malice meant. it's been a very long year and i'm very tired. i feel like i put in a lot of work listening to music, obviously it's rewarding and enjoyable but it's also work, and to see somebody come up with a list of fifty records i've heard nary a whiff of is kind of depressing.

I'm giving this list a go ffs

xp it's kinda funny, rushomancy, because i remember you posting a 2016 list last year and i was all "whoa i ain't heard of ANY of this"