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
AD is blocked at my work - if someone could post it here that'll be appreciated!
― nxd, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
Noisey - The 36 Best Overlooked Albums of 2017
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvajp/the-best-overlooked-albums-of-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
no lists from RA this year but they have this instead:
RA: 2017 in electronic music
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3090
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
AD is blocked at my work - if someone could post it here that'll be appreciated!― nxd, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 10:42 AM (forty-eight minutes ago)
― nxd, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 10:42 AM (forty-eight minutes ago)
(unranked)
Circuit Des Yeux – Reaching for IndigoArthur Russell – InstrumentalsKaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The KidAlice Coltrane – World Spirituality Classics 1 / The Ecstatic Music of Alice ColtraneHiroshi Yoshimura – Music For Nine PostcardsMidori Takada – Through the Looking GlassJoan Shelley – Joan ShelleyGunn Truscinski Duo – Bay HeadNeil Young – HitchhikerOutro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992Tonstartssbandht SorcererHorse Lords – Mixtape IVVarious – Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984Bitchin Bajas – Baja FreshVarious Artists – Tokyo FlashbackPharoah Sanders – Tauhid, Jewels of Thought, Summun Bukmun Umyun (Deaf Dumb Blind)Kamasi Washington – Harmony of DifferenceJoe Henderson – The ElementsGal Costa – ÍndiaYoko Ono – FlyLaraaji – Sun Gong/Bring on the SunOCS – Memory of a Cut Off HeadPaul Major – Feel the Music, Vol. 1Omni – Multi-taskOté Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya on Reunion Island 1975-1986Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali – LadilikanZazou/Bikaye/CY1 – Noir et BlancMarijata – This Is MarijataRev. Lonnie Farris – A Night at the House of PrayerPastor T.L. Barrett – Do Not Pass Me By Vol. 2Kikagaku Moyo – Stone GardenHeadroom – Head in the CloudsEndless Boogie – Vibe KillerChildren of Alice – Children of AliceMary Lattimore – Collected PiecesCharlotte Gainsbourg – RestJosiah Steinbrick – Meeting of WatersJoseph Shabason – AytcheEddie the Wheel – Leave BehindEven a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973Helado Negro – Private EnergyDestroyer – kenThe Myrrors – Hasta La VictoriaSix Organs of Admittance – Burning the ThresholdThe Feelies – In BetweenKevin Morby – City MusicThe War On Drugs – A Deeper UnderstandingLCD Soundsystem – american dreamSpiritual Jazz 7: IslamPauline Anna Strom – Trans-Millenia MusicPenguin Cafe The Imperfect Sea/Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Union CafeBob Dylan – Trouble No MoreThe Beach Boys – Sunshine TomorrowWooden Wand – Clipper ShipChuck Johnson – BalsamsBill Orcutt – Bill OrcuttElkhorn – The Black RiverKing Krule – The OOZGreg Fox – The Gradual ProgressionJefre Cantu-Ledesma – On the Echoing GreenJuana Molina – HaloMakaya McCraven – Highly RareColleen – A Flame My Love A FrequencySinkane – Life & Livin ItShabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star/Quazarz vs. the Jealous MachinesRolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The French Press EPTony Conrad – Ten Years Alive on the Infinite PlainBill MacKay – EskerDustin Wong & Takako Minekawa – Are EuphoriaThe Clientele – Music for the Age of MiraclesSloppy Heads – Useless SmileKelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee OwensKendrick Lamar – DAMN79rs Gang – Dead and Gone” b/w “Wrong Part of TownThundercat – DrunkYishak Banjaw – Love Songs, Vol. 2Awa Poulo – Poulo WaraliVarious Artists – Agrim AgadezThe Original Sound of MaliBrooklyn Raga Massive – Terry Riley In CLes Filles de Illighadad – Eghass MalanPopol Vuh – Agape–Agape Love Love/Spirit of PeaceMt. Kimbie – Love What SurvivesCoupler – Gifts from the Ebb TideAnna Makirere – Tiare AvateaWilco – Being ThereTrummors – HeadlandsJake Xerxes Fussell – What in the Natural WorldJoshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – SimultonalityHiss Golden Messenger – Hallelujah AnyhowMarvin Pontiac – The Asylum TapesThe Weather Station – The Weather StationBright Phoebus: The Songs of Mike and Lal WatersonMountain Goats – GothsHayden Pedigo – Greetings from AmarilloCourtney Barnett and Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea LiceFletcher Tucker – Cold SpringPhilip Lewen – Am I Really Here All Alone?Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band – Dreaming in the Non-DreamKacy & Clayton – The Siren’s SongJackie Shane – Any Other WayLink Wray – S/TJan Schulte: Tropical Drums of DeutschlandLuka Productions – FasokanMind Over Mirrors – Undying ColorDavid Bazan – CareJulie Byrne – Not Even HappinessJessi Colter – The PsalmsAhmad Jamal Trio – The AwakeningCan – The SinglesSweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of AfricaRobyn Hitchcock – S/TNick Lowe – Party of OneAcetone – 1992-2001Skyway Man – Seen Comin’ from A Mighty EyeThe New Year – SnowMaston – TulipsMichael Nau – Some TwistBonnie “Prince” Billy – Best TroubadourHouse and Land – S/TOn Fillmore: The Happiness of LivingJaimie Branch – Fly Or DieSam Amidon – The Following MountainPsychic Temple – IV: Chris Schlarb
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
thank you!
― nxd, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
Top 10 Hottest Nigerian Artists For 2017 | Jaguda.com
http://jaguda.com/editorial/top-10-hottest-nigerian-music-artists-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
The Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2017
http://thequietus.com/articles/23768-tracks-of-the-year-songs-2017
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
jesus I've only hears like 5 albums on the Noisey overheard list. this Gang of Youths record is a thing
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
man I need to hear that Six Organs, totally spaced it
― sleeve, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
the Quietus #1 track does nothing for me, esp the vocal
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
i think it'd be good without the tone-deaf mark hollis impression yeah
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
good stuff on the quietus list still
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
just want to lobby a bit for the sophia somajo record
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Sucks that ResidentAdvisor wont do a tracks EOY list, they were one of my favorites.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link