2017 end of the year lists

11: Honey Dijon

reminded me to listen to her album - sounds p solid on first pass

FACT - Best Tracks of 2017

http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/15/best-tracks-2017/

nice list with nice write ups

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 - Aromanticism
2. Jlin - Black Origami
3. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
4. Spellling - Pantheon of Me
5. Charly Bliss - Guppy
6. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
7. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
8. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
10. L’Rain - L’Rain
11. Alvvays - Antisocialites
12. Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
13. EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
14. Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
15. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle
16. Tica Douglas - Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
17. Actress - AZD
18. Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
19. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die
20. Pallbearer - Heartless

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/

might check out that B L A C K I E record!

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 year


https://youtu.be/oQxKEtoHygY

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.

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

The person that knows the names of all the trees forgets their true value

om shanti

great player

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.

(It's definitely not one of those ultra-classical recordings I have sometimes pushed in the past.)

does bandcamp release a list of bandcamp-only / self-released stuff? I'd be curious to see something like that.

yeah that L'Rain album is really nice, a lot of other interesting-looking things too

L'Rain album was my discovery of the bandcamp list, it's fantastic.

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.

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 EP
https://dazeyandthescouts.bandcamp.com/album/maggot?from=embed

Peninsula, LALALALALALA
https://peninsulawebpage.bandcamp.com/album/lalalalalala

gSp (girlSperm) – gSp EP (Thrilling Living)
https://thrillingliving.bandcamp.com/album/12

Cocaine Piss - Piñacolalove EP
https://cocainepiss.bandcamp.com/album/pi-acolalove

Patsy - LA Women MLP
https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/la-women-mlp

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

1. Fever Ray - Plunge
2. Jlin - Black Origami
3. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
4. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
5. Laurel Halo - Dust
6. Yaeji - EP2
7. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
8. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia
9. DJ Sports - Modern Species
10. Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
11. Equiknoxx - Colón Man
12. Midland - Fabriclive 94
13. Call Super - Arpo
14. Four Tet - New Energy
15. Karen Gwyer - Rembo
16. Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy
17. Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
18. UMFANG - Symbolic Use of Light
19. Nídia - Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida
20. Actress - AZD

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.

Second the moderate hyping of L'Rain after listening to it because of the bandcamp list.

i am hard pressed to consider Fever Ray an "electronic album"

in what way isn't it?

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.

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

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

lol that poor sad guy

Second the moderate hyping of L'Rain after listening to it because of the bandcamp list.

― _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

"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."

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.

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."

10 Best Albums of 2017 to Pump Up Your Productivity Over the Holiday Break - You won't be disappointed by any of these albums.

There ought to be a "shit that looks like a clickhole but isn't" thread, too

this is v exciting at first but is possibly a little too shapeless for me

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, December 18, 2017 5:22 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get this, it's "fleeting" in a way. But it's a helluva trip imo, I keep coming back to it. The shapelessness appeals to me, in that I don't necessarily need to know where what song begins or ends.

Last night I was getting frustrated with how much of what I've been listening to year-end is a bit shapeless and "experimental" in a way that often ends up sounding the same to me (possibly my fault). I like tunes, but admittedly, I usually pass over some genres where they can be found. I haven't listen to L'Rain enough to know what I think about it specifically though. But in general, I get a little frustrated by the lack of sharp lines in much of the year-end alternative/underground/experimental I check out.

The L'Rain album clocks in under 30 minutes iirc, and it's got a story to tell, too. That's pretty succinct and manageable. The 'sharp lines', or red thread, or story, or whatever you want to call it, draws itself.

I need to listen again more attentively.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/12/18/aquarium-drunkard-2017-year-in-review/

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2017-favorite-50-music-releases

Aguarium Drunkard the first to give The New Year a well deserved nod?

Brand New album seems erased from collective memory. It's a shame, but probably for the best.

Spin's list is up: https://www.spin.com/featured/50-best-albums-2017/

cool. it looks like all the other lists :)

:D

maybe like a tiiiiiny bit more Brad-tastic than the others. does he write for them? ;)

^makes sense, at least a quarter of all of the summaries were written by ilxors!

haha wait he DOES - i don't even know if i knew that

*retracts any grouchiness implied above*

I don't know why I always think Aquarium Drunkard is an Americana site until they put out eoy lists full of electronic stuff and then I forget again until the next year