2017 end of the year lists

The Finest Kiss 40 Singles & EPs of the year. Several aren't available on Spotify, and there's also an annoying trend with labels such as Market Square and Too Pure to not even sell digital versions, only vinyl. UGH!!

https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2017/12/26/2017-singles-of-the-year-20-1/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2wFuaCEFIfaNrbvl2v1nUv

Not sure if this was posted, Psych Lovers Top 10:

https://psychinsightmusic.com/2017/12/18/psych-lovers-top-ten-albums-of-2017/

Who is finestkiss? Does he/she have a spotify profile or is he/she an ilm poster? I’m absolutely in love with this list.

Presentable Corpse. Nice. I prefer the B-side though.

worked out an end of year mix if anyone's interested, should be up in a few days

tracklist

1. charlotte gainsbourg - deadly valentine (soulwax remix)
2. camille from OHM Makes Me Feel Loved - Machine Woman
3. blue ivorson - fake loathe
4. tove lo - disco tits
5. bicep - glue
6. ciel - elevate (go off mix)
7. dj khaled ft. beyonce and jay-z - shining
8. johnny jewel - windswept
9. skee mask - routine
10. burial - rodent
11. ionnalee - gone
12. peaking lights - love can move mountains
13. s.a.m. - pour aisha
14. s.o.n.s. - a new life (planet earth mix)
15. japanese breakfast - diving woman
16. shinichi atobe - regret
17. talaboman - samsa
18. tornado wallace - voices

Finest Kiss is a guy named Toby who lives in Portland. I don't think he posts here but we could invite him. He does an amazing job of finding singles along the lines of dream/jangle pop and some punk. He should have an album list coming too.

I did manage to buy the Market Square singles on Amazon. I prefer to pay for lossless FLAC over MP3 usually. But man, the Seize The Chair Too Pure single is not to be found anywhere.

The slow roll for StonerHive is complete, this time an aggregate of 91 lists:

http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-countdown-so-far.html
http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/01/number-1.html

Electronic Sound magazine Top 30 albums
https://electronicsound.co.uk/blog/albums-of-the-year-2017/

01. The Caulfield Beats 'New Acid' (TCB303)
02. Hannah Peel 'Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia' (My Own Pleasure)
03. V/A 'Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronic 1974-1984' (Cherry Red)
04. Floating Points 'Reflections - Mojave Desert' (Pluto)
05. Blanck Mass 'World Eater' (Sacred Bones)
06. Mary Epworth 'Elytral' (Sunday Best)
07. Radiophonic Workshop 'Burials in Several Earths' (Room 13)
08. Blancmange 'Unfurnished Rooms' (Blanc Check)
09. Snapped Ankles 'Come Play The Trees' (The Leaf Label)
10. Warm Digits 'Wireless World' (Memphis Industries)
11. Soulwax ‘From Deewee’ (PIAS)
12. Fujiya & Miyagi ‘Fujiya & Miyagi’ (Impossible Objects Of Desire)
13. Fader ‘First Light’ (Blanc Check)
14. OMD ‘Punishment Of Luxury’ (100%)
15. Dave Clarke ‘The Desecration Of Desire’ (Skint)
16. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ‘The Kid’ (Western Vinyl)
17. !!! ‘Shake The Shudder’ (Warp)
18. Hex Void ‘Deathcount In Silicon Valley’ (Burning Witches)
19. Stefan Bachmeier ‘Anomaly On Meadow Lane’ (Spun Out Of Control)
20. James Holden & The Animal Spirits ‘The Animal Spirits’ (Border Community)
21. Lone Taxidermist ‘Trifle’ (Memetune)
22. Scanner ‘Fibolae’ (Pomperipossa)
23. I Speak Machine ‘Zombies’ (Lex)
24. Steve Cobby ‘Hemidemisemiquaver’ (Declasse)
25. Gnoomes ‘Tschak!’ (Rocket)
26. Nathan Fake ‘Providence’ (Ninja Tune)
27. The Belbury Circle ‘Outward Journeys’ (Ghost Box)
28. Saint Etienne ‘Home Counties’ (Heavenly)
29. L Pierre ‘1948-’ (Melodic)
30. Jane Weaver ‘Modern Kosmology’ (Fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQJPL9Yuq0

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-avant-albums-of-2017-w514243

nice, thx

psyched you love the kid as much as i do whiney

Yeah, it got plenty of attention this year but should have gotten more

I wish you/RS wouldn't lump jazz together with the noise and the other stuff on that list, but I get why you do it. In any case, I need to check out that Sult/Marhaug album.

cheers whiney, great list going on the stuff i know and lots to check out :)

https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/albums-of-2017/

Man, wish I'd heard of Finest Kiss before. Based on the 30% or so of what I recognize from his lists and his descriptions of what I don't recognize, I'm really looking forward to going through them. Loving everything I've clicked on so far.

I did talk up The Finest Kiss back on December 9!

Yes, but at that point I was too busy marveling over Raven Sings the Blues to check out anything else!

Dusted (3 lists so far, probably more to come)
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/tagged/yearend-2017

My year-end list and comments, highlighted by a joke I've recycled three times (and may not be finished with yet).

enjoyed that, good comments

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/01/05/peter-margasaks-40-favorite-albums-of-2017-numbers-10-through-1

1. Richard Dawson-Peasant
2. JD Allen - Radio Flyer
3. Circuit des Yeux, Reaching for Indigo
4. Pancrace, Pancrace
5.Chris Speed Trio, Platinum on Tap

Am curious about a Brazilian fave of his from further down the list--Negro Leo-Action Lekking (sept. 17 on bandcamp)

that guy knows what's up. will check out all of those

circuit des yeux sounded so exciting from the preview tracks that I might just buy it

Good album, not wholly won over by her voice. But then again, Scott Walker elicits similar feelings from me.

Does the comparison stop at 'difficult vocals', or is Circuit de Yeux musically akin to late Walker too?

that Pancrace album is awesome, one of my favorites of the year

There's a bit of overlap beyond the vocals, though CDY is less prone to atonalism. Their feeling for the theatrical strikes me as rather similar.

xp

*feel for the theatrical

man, Margasak's top 40 list is mind-boggling

A-Musik Record Store, Cologne: http://a-musik.blogspot.de/2017/12/a-musik-top-50-2017.html

polite bump to remind you all about ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

http://www.post-punk.com/post-punk-com-best-of-2017/

Post-Punk album of the year:

Drab Majesty - The Demonstration

The rest of the best:

Slowdive - Slowdive
Sally Dige - Holding On
The Horrors - V
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Second Still - Second Still
Pawns - The Gallows
Egrets On Ergot - Surfeit of Gemütlich
Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow
Boy Harsher - Country Girl EP

Honorable mentions:

Choir Boy - Sunday Light
Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
Death Bells - Standing at the Edge of the World
Glaare - To Deaf a Day
Bootblacks - Fragments
Azar Swan - Savage Exile
Ride - Weather Diaries
Die Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt
Odonis Odonis - No Pop
Martial Canterel - Lost At Sea
The Iron Oak - Dune Messiah
Veil of Light - Front Teeth
Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
Sextile - Albeit Living
Multiple Man - New Metal

Going to check everything from that list because of DRAB MAJESTY NUMBER ONE!

Late, but great RS list Whiney

thx fgti! i hope you like my display name

I don't get it but I love it

fgti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1FrqheQNI

Lol yay

“Faghetti”

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2017.cfm

Pokey Bear -Bear Season
O.B. Buchana --- Swing On With O.B.
Pokey Bear --- Bear Season
Miss Portia --- All In My Feelings
Uncle Wayne --- The Birth Of Hithm And Bluez
Ms. Jody --- Thunder Under Yonder
Jeter Jones --- Trailride Certified
Sharnette Hyter --- Grown Folks Talkin'
Lady Di --- Three Way Love Affair
Angel Faye Russell --- A Taste Of Angel
Mo B --- Toast It Up
Joe "Blues" Butler --- Full Figured Woman
David Brinston --- Sidepiece Motel
Mr. Sam --- Make Time (For Her)
Stevie J. Blues --- Back 2 Blues
Big G --- Darkest Hour
Sweet Angel --- Can't Walk Away
El' Willie --- The Game Changer
Rashad --- Country Soul
Stan Butler --- The Blues In Me
Nellie "Tiger" Travis --- Mr. Sexy Man: The Album
Jaye Hammer --- Last Man Standing
Bigg Robb --- Born 2 Do This
Latimore --- A Taste Of Me: Great American Songs
Tre' Williams --- Chocolate Soul
Lacee --- Mind Gone
Lomax --- Is This What You Want
Tyree Neal --- Still Called The Blues
Simone De --- Unbelievable
J. Red --- J. Red The Nephew And Friends
Beat Flippa producer, Various Artists --- Trailride Music Vol. 1

I randomly came across this blog's 2017 list, seemed ILM-friendly enough to post it here.

50. Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata (Leisure System)
49. Succumb - Succumb (The Flenser)
48. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City (Northern Electronics)
47. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers (Constellation Records)
46. Clark - Death Peak (Warp Records)
45. F ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out (Blackest Ever Black)
44. Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder (Arts & Crafts)
43. GAS - Narkopop (Kompakt)
42. White Suns - Psychic Drift (The Flenser)
41. Demen - Nektyr (Kranky)
40. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (Domino Records)
39. Ariel Pink - Dedicated To Bobby Jameson (Mexican Summer)
38. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent (Domino Records)
37. King Krule - The Ooz (True Panther Sounds)
36. Chino Amobi - PARADISO (UNO)
35. Autumns - Suffocating Brother (Clan Destine Records)
34. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (Milan Records)
33. Björk - Utopia (One Little Indian)
32. John Maus - Screen Memories (Domino Records)
31. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan Records)
30. Forest Swords - Compassion (Ninja Tune)
29. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (Def Jam)
28. Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)
27. Uniform - Wake In Fright (Sacred Bones Records)
26. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
25. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA Records)
24. King Woman - Created In The Image Of Suffering (Relapse Records)
23. Downtown Boys - Cost Of Living (Sub Pop)
22. Perfume Genius - No Shape (Matador Records)
21. Big Thief - Capacity (Saddle Creek)
20. Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File (Dais Records)
19. Zola Jesus - Okovi (Sacred Bones Records)
18. Prurient - Rainbow Mirror (Hospital Productions)
17. Kelela - Take Me Apart (Warp Records)
16. TOPS - Sugar at The Gate (Arbutus Records)
15. Pharmakon - Contact (Sacred Bones Records)
14. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (Top Dawg Entertainment)
13. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord Records)
12. Jlin - Black Origami (Planet Mu)
11. Pan Daijing - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN)
10. Arca - Arca (XL Recordings)
9. Damien Dubrovnik - Great Many Arrows (Posh Isolation)
8. JASSS - Weightless (IDEAL Recordings)
7. Austra - Future Politics (Domino Records)
6. Blanck Mass - World Eater (Sacred Bones Records)
5. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon Records)
4. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
3. Fever Ray - Plunge (Brille Records)
2. Slowdive - Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
1. Drab Majesty - The Demonstration (Dais Records)

Waah! Drab Majesty again at #1! Why aren't these people on ILM?

we're so friendly

These lists are coming out earlier every year:
https://www.popjustice.com/articles/the-top-33-albums-of-2018/

lol