Mind you, as said above, Mhysa album worth a listen
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 10:52 (six years ago) link
Great list from the Blackest Ever Black shop in London:https://lowcompany.co.uk/collections/best-of-2017
― Barnaby, Hardly, Friday, 15 December 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
Nathan Rabin's Top 10
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
(oops, meant to post that in the year-end film thread)
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Complex UK’s Best Albums Of 2017
http://www.complex.com/music/2017/12/complex-uk-best-albums-of-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
No results found for "that fraud basinski".
― Cardi Acs (imago)
wtf is the matter with you, stop it
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
― 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, 15 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
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, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
cool stuff on that list, thanks, need to hear SUED 16 and the Christoph de Babalon right off the bat
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
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)
― 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
― afriendlypioneer
Yeah, that's my take on it as well. I enjoy investigating lists like this.
― Barnaby, Hardly, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGE7q0oDlEI
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
haha Paul F. Tompkins is hilarious
― Evan, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
― 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??
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Listening to the Heavy Metal band off that list. Shades of Earl Brutus/The Pre New, but we'll see if it takes
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
I am kind of getting Nathan Barley vibes off that list tbh
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
don't you have a thread for this, my friend, do you need another one?
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
everybody be nice to blackest ever black!!!
otm
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
dig the stuff i know off that list, will be checking the other 99% out haha
― nxd, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
the 154 reissue is a must, if you're into super gauzy ambient with muted kick drums
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
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
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
I'm giving this list a go ffs
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
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"
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
i mean, i remember you posting your personal 2016 list
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
Three pages in and the only name I even recognize is Photek.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
that's why it's depressing! i kind of feel like a personal failure for not having heard of any of blackest ever black's list. it feels like stuff i _should_ have known about.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
ha, no worries, this is always a humbling time of year, see also the Textura list
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
not to mention blues rock review amirite?
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Traxsource Top 100 Artists of 2017
http://news.traxsource.com/articles/2741/traxsource-top-100-artists-of-2017
20: Pablo Fierro19: Atjazz18: Jesse Rose17: Karizma16: CamelPhat15: Hyenah14: Full Intention13: Franky Rizardo12: Rocco11: Honey Dijon
10: DJ Spen9: Kink8: Angelo Ferreri7: The Deepshakerz6: Louie Vega5: Enoo Napa4: Dr Packer3: Black Loops2: Joey Negro1: David Penn
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
lol Whiney
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
this is a good list https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-experimental-albums-of-2017/?page=2
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
XLR8R's Best of 2017: Releases
https://www.xlr8r.com/features/2017/12/xlr8rs-best-of-2017-releases/
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
^ always has a few things that other people missed
Always glad to see another Feelies mention in lowcompany. I love The Necessaries - Event Horizon, discovered that a couple years ago -- Arthur Russell with Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) doing new wave/power pop in '82! I forgot that it was officially reissued, not sure why Big Sky (1981) sessions weren't included. Not all the songs were redone for EH. Pablo Gad was also a relatively recent discovery.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
11: Honey Dijon
reminded me to listen to her album - sounds p solid on first pass
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
FACT - Best Tracks of 2017
http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/15/best-tracks-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
nice list with nice write ups
― nxd, Friday, 15 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Bandcamp has finished posting their top 100 albums:https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/15/the-best-bandcamp-albums-of-2017-20-1/
1. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism2. Jlin - Black Origami3. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda4. Spellling - Pantheon of Me5. Charly Bliss - Guppy6. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator7. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone8. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps10. L’Rain - L’Rain11. Alvvays - Antisocialites12. Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often13. EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring14. Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light15. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle16. Tica Douglas - Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us17. Actress - AZD18. Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse19. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die20. Pallbearer - Heartless
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:41 (six years ago) link
they also had a bunch of artists share their favorite bandcamp albums:https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/15/biggest-ups-bandcamp-artists-share-their-favorite-albums-of-2017/
― stritram, Saturday, 16 December 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
might check out that B L A C K I E record!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Saturday, 16 December 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
not technically a list but dj earworm’s year end mashup of the year’s top 25 songs is here. what a turd of a yearhttps://youtu.be/oQxKEtoHygY
― maura, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
The Bandcamp top 20 is definitely the best list I've encountered this year. For L'Rain and especially Spellling alone, just fantastic. Even the indie-type stuff in there isn't bad.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Rush it's not depressing tho? I mean to care about consuming too much is depressing to me, there's not enough time to hear every record and if I did I would probably devalue them by not listening that closely anyway
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
The person that knows the names of all the trees forgets their true value
― saer, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
om shanti
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
great player
― saer, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
This Nadah El Shazly album is really good so far, certainly better than a lot of the token Arab music that crosses over to western lists. Not sure it can be considered strictly Arab music, but that's a big part of what's going on in the music.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
(It's definitely not one of those ultra-classical recordings I have sometimes pushed in the past.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link