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
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.
― 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
does bandcamp release a list of bandcamp-only / self-released stuff? I'd be curious to see something like that.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
yeah that L'Rain album is really nice, a lot of other interesting-looking things too
― ufo, Monday, 18 December 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
L'Rain album was my discovery of the bandcamp list, it's fantastic.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
stritram, thanks for the Big Ups link! I didn't know Perturbator had a new one out this year. I'm not much into the synthwave scene, but this guy does everything I like about the genre.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 December 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Bandcamp list also had a couple unique punk/post-punk choices:
Agent Blå – Agent Blue (Luxury) - Swedish post-punk and dream pop, better than Makthaverskan, nearly as good as Desperate Journalist, just more shambolic production along the lines of Orion.https://agentbla.bandcamp.com/album/agent-bl
French Vanilla – French Vanilla (Danger Collective) - L.A. minimalist art punk with saxophones, plus a song about Carrie!https://frenchvanilla.bandcamp.com/album/french-vanilla-2
Spiritual Cramp – Mass Hysteria EP (React!) - This was recommended by Kristina Esfandiari of King Woman.https://reactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mass-hysteria
These were recommended by members of French punk band Mary Bell. I got their album when it came out in Jan, kind of got tired of it, but am enjoying it more again - https://marybellftw.bandcamp.com/album/mary-bell-lp
Dazey And The Scouts - Maggot EPhttps://dazeyandthescouts.bandcamp.com/album/maggot?from=embed
Peninsula, LALALALALALAhttps://peninsulawebpage.bandcamp.com/album/lalalalalala
gSp (girlSperm) – gSp EP (Thrilling Living)https://thrillingliving.bandcamp.com/album/12
Cocaine Piss - Piñacolalove EPhttps://cocainepiss.bandcamp.com/album/pi-acolalove
Patsy - LA Women MLPhttps://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/la-women-mlp
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-electronic-albums-of-2017/
1. Fever Ray - Plunge2. Jlin - Black Origami3. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens4. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives5. Laurel Halo - Dust6. Yaeji - EP27. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage8. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia9. DJ Sports - Modern Species10. Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue11. Equiknoxx - Colón Man12. Midland - Fabriclive 9413. Call Super - Arpo14. Four Tet - New Energy15. Karen Gwyer - Rembo16. Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy17. Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game18. UMFANG - Symbolic Use of Light19. Nídia - Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida20. Actress - AZD
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Ha, I discovered L'Rain a week or so ago when someone who plays on it shared it on a jazz guitar group I read. It's pretty cool.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 18 December 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Second the moderate hyping of L'Rain after listening to it because of the bandcamp list.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
i am hard pressed to consider Fever Ray an "electronic album"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
in what way isn't it?
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
in comparison to, say, actress or karen gwyer? I think of the primary instrument with fever ray being Karin's voice. if fever ray is an electronic album, so is bjork's.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
FR's primary instrumentation is electronic i suppose but so is Migos?
pfork painted themselves into a corner by filling their experimental list with gloopy electronica
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Inc.com - 10 Best Albums of 2017 to Pump Up Your Productivity Over the Holiday Break
https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/10-best-albums-of-2017-to-pump-up-your-productivity-over-holiday-break.html
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
lol that poor sad guy
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, December 18, 2017 9:50 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is v exciting at first but is possibly a little too shapeless for me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
"If you don't know the band Elbow, you're missing out. Prog rock masters from England, the band released an organic-sounding album that fits perfectly with your daily work duties."
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
Reuniting to make their finest album, Wolf Parade seems like a basic punk band with two people playing synth, but they write with revelatory insight. You're Dreaming is their best song, mostly because it made me type faster and think about post-work activities.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
this needs a poll
"If you don't know the band Elbow but are wondering who that git is singing on the John Lewis advert with a stage northern accent that makes you want to kill, maybe give them a miss as doing time for murder will decrease your productivity."
― all this youthless booty (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
10 Best Albums of 2017 to Pump Up Your Productivity Over the Holiday Break - You won't be disappointed by any of these albums.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link