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
There ought to be a "shit that looks like a clickhole but isn't" thread, too
― Evan, Monday, 18 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
I need to listen again more attentively.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/12/18/aquarium-drunkard-2017-year-in-review/
― tylerw, Monday, 18 December 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2017-favorite-50-music-releases
― Dan S, Monday, 18 December 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
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.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
Spin's list is up: https://www.spin.com/featured/50-best-albums-2017/
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
cool. it looks like all the other lists :)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
:D
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
maybe like a tiiiiiny bit more Brad-tastic than the others. does he write for them? ;)
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
^makes sense, at least a quarter of all of the summaries were written by ilxors!
― Dan S, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
haha wait he DOES - i don't even know if i knew that
*retracts any grouchiness implied above*
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
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
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, December 18, 2017 12:40 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i submitted a list and wrote the kehlani blurb
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
xp i mean, AD's name leans Americana, haha (a wilco reference). I contribute there, the writers are all pretty wide open listeners, in my experience. this year's list seems even more eclectic.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
AD's list > everything
― Dinsdale, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that list is fantastic.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 18 December 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
The AD list is indeed great. I'm kinda shocked the twofer reissue of Ornette Coleman's Crisis and Ornette at 12 didn't make it, though.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 18 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
That AD list has given me the willies. I need a dictionary of the sublime(s), in which there'd be a big entry for the 'sublime of the unheard' - a Borgesian audio library containing all those bits of music you've missed, avoided, will never hear, multiplying recklessly in the dank infinities of the great inner ear.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 18 December 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-pop-and-randb-albums-of-2017/
1. SZA - Ctrl2. Lorde - Melodrama3. Kelela - Take Me Apart4. Sampha - Process5. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest6. Ibeyi - Ash7. St. Vincent - Masseduction8. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life9. Syd - Fin10. The xx - I See You11. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage12. Sevdaliza - ISON13. Paramore - After Laughter14. Charli XCX - Pop 215. Sophia Somajo - Freudian Slip16. Khalid - American Teen17. Goldfrapp - Silver Eye18. Haim - Something to Tell You19. Rina Sawayama - RINA20. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link