Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

Great news! So the new LP is called I'm Clean Now, or are you referring to the single?

I looked thoroughly online but see no reference to a LP. Hoping for one of course :)

Great news! So the new LP is called I'm Clean Now, or are you referring to the single?

― flappy bird

She released a 7" with two new songs (I'm Clean Now / Headache) called Paradise Valley on Dec. 21st. New LP is a rumor that apparently I started because I can't find any info about it so... noone know if there's actually a new LP coming up or what its name is.

New Jens Lekman!

https://soundcloud.com/secretlycanadian/jens-lekman-whats-that-perfume-that-you-wear-2#t=0:20

Contains a sample of The Path:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJwG2nK5VMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4cc8lzPBI

Ralph MacDonald samples starts around min 6.

Also a more recent remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hC5ZmmCldc

new-old Elliott Smith song "I Figured You Out" is stunning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhLxyFJhKbw

https://soundcloud.com/ouijaboys/ouijabs_saltflats

https://ouijaboys.bandcamp.com/

that Ouija b's is real, raw.. give it a spin round the block, absorb the details (relish the trough)

New Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood collab song "Tears on fire" is catchy as hell, chorus is jarring on first listen but the whole thing has grown on me. Probably my favorite thing he's been involved in years.

I gotta say I kinda love the v balearic new Jens Lekman song

I gotta say I kinda love the v balearic new Jens Lekman song

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

The album is great.

2017 so far: the Brian Eno album, Laster - Ons vrije fatum (black metal) and the Kevin Hufnagel EP The Protected Shards.

oh and this track from the upcoming Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche album:

https://soundcloud.com/constellation-records/alize-et-margaret-d-midi-moins-le-quart-sur-la-plage-un-palmier-ensanglante-ii

the black crowes thread bump got me to pull out their greatest hits tonight. i'm a few american domestics deep and thoroughly enjoying it.

i've also been playing the sheer mag ep from last year and some select lee hazlewood.

what does "a few american domestics deep" mean?

He's presumably talking about beer, not domestic disturbances.

makes sense

2017 faves so far

Mark Eitzel, "An Answer"
Julien Baker, "Funeral Pyre"
Kehlani, "Undercover"
Julie Byrne, "I Live Now As a Singer"
Laura Marling, "Wild Fire"
Jens Lekman, "What's That Perfume You Wear?"

My top 1 of the year so far: https://soundcloud.com/theblackmadonna/theblackmadonna_heisthevoiceihear

I haven't been too keen on recent Paul Weller but this one is him at his soulful velvety best imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLCi1flvg5U

you're going to have to do better than "at his soulful velvety best" to get me to listen to Paul Weller...

I had to come up with something...it's a nice track if you like smooth, lush 70s soul. Sounded perfect strolling in the countryside yesterday morning

I have just been listening to that Senyawa album from late last year, I think. It is totally out there world music drone type gear with some marvellous Tibetan throat style chanting vocals.

i really like this SACRED PAWS - Strike a Match debut

Very much enjoyed the new Temples (not the mathrock one) single "Strange or Be Forgotten" -- kinda Super Furry Animalish. I guess they were playing it live last year but recorded it this year...

https://open.spotify.com/track/2TS4pqGwXQBBtcDbJWjtkx

Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound

Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods

Real Estate - Darling
Dam-Funk - Your House
Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever - French Press
Echaskech - Twich

Man. The new Julie Byrne album just knocks me off my feet, every time. Whispery folky singer-songwriter so good I've not heard since the last great albums by Julie Doiron or Laura Veirs ~ and both have been a while. So stark, so gorgeous.

Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone
Japandroids - North East South West
Japandroids - True Love and a Free Life of Free Will
Japandroids - Midnight to Morning
Japandroids - In a Body Like a Grave

Have you heard Julie Byrne's live cover of Photobooth by Death Cab? She takes it to another level... there's something about her performances which really gets to me and I usually hate that emo lyrics + folk guitar combo.

She recently showed up on my release radar, enjoyed it but couldn't figure out if it was the kind of singer songwriter material the world has plenty of already

Hell no. She's really something else. Give her a shot.

Julie Byrne's "Prism Song" was one of my favourites from 2014, so cool to be reminded me of her now. Will need to check the album out :)

I like her but I wouldn't say she's something else, I'm just a sucker for that kind of stuff (Alela Diane, Marissa Nadler etc.). I prefer Rooms With Walls and Windows but this one is solid too.

Have you heard Julie Byrne's live cover of Photobooth by Death Cab?

I think you're thinking of Julien Baker.
www.avclub.com/video/julien-baker-covers-death-cab-cuties-photobooth-237511

now there's a unique singer songwriter!

Hah I was thinking Julien Baker. I love her.

I also like Julie Byrne but yeah I was actually talking about Baker.

I'm not much into emo lyrics but her singing is very genuine so I'll buy in... also she's such a good guitar player! I'm yet to hear a live performance of her where she doesn't have a great tone on her guitar.

https://youtu.be/Tkot9YL3YyQ

It's such a clean performance each time... studio engineers love her I bet.

she has a dedicated thread FYI. I think she's gonna have a huge year.

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle, my god

Thank you! Search hasn't been working for me in weeks.

that Julie Byrne record is lovely, especially "Sleepwalker"

Mmm Jan. Top 10 songs:

Grouper - I'm Clean Now (yeah I know its from the last week of december but I'm counting it)
Jens Lekman - What's that perfume that you wear?
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Ariel Pink - Tears on Fire
XX - Replica
Sia - The greatest (kda rmx)
C Duncan - Sibling
Luyas - Self Unemployed
Elliot Smith - I figured you out
Ibibio Sound Machine - pot is on fire

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

some nice balearic adventures

co-sign "Sibling". I later discovered a lot of his album is in the same vein, but this is still a particularly beautiful example

Other January favourites not yet mentioned:

Wiley - "Speakerbox"
Bridgit Mendler - "Do You Miss Me at All" (Marian Hill Remix) + ditto (Pusher Remix)
Mr Tophat ft. Robyn - Trust Me EP
Goldfrapp - "Anymore"
MUNA - "Crying On The Bathroom Floor"
Tinawiren - "Assàwt"
Kumisolo - "La tête ailleurs"
Louis The Child ft. Elohim - "Love Is Alive"
Nadia Rose - "Puddycat"
Zooey - The Drifters (album)

Good track: Mariam the Believer - "Crust"
Good album: V/A - Sensate Silk

Yeah, I think that's a good approach.

I am not in favor of the change fwiw, especially since it opens up a lot of grey areas wrt collabs and guest appearances

OK, so no repeat appearances according to top billing. How many tracks have popular artists sharing equal billing?

Guys, this change ain't gonna happen. It's one of the flaws of a consensus poll. If a person votes for a song, that vote should count.

the vote would count, on the "pure points" 77.

Trust me, I'm in favor of a more diverse rollout, but it is what it is.

i also support this move, the nay-sayers have no argument

Trust me, I'm in favor of a more diverse rollout, but it is what it is.

lol wtf kind of argument is this? if it's a flawed system let's fix it! we don't have to lobby fucking congress.

ha, you're talking to the guy who runs the system!

lol I'm bad at paying attention to who does what, but still, "this is how we've always done it" doesn't cut it for me idk

I'd always assumed people would get mad if their third favorite Young Thug feature didn't show up in the 77, but if that's not the case, it's something everyone can decide on before the 2018 poll. Too late for this one.

Is it actually prohibitively difficult to add a two-option poll to the eventual tracks ballot (assuming there's sufficient interest beyond....*counts*...five posters)? Or is it just annoying? (That's not me being petty, it would be a completely fair reason, since I can extrapolate how much work running this poll would be from running a relatively piddly single-artist one.)

The thing is the second, third, fourth song do appear as if in the real top 77 but they’re hidden until the top song appears in the rollout.

Example:

3. KENDRICK LAMAR - DNA (1827 points, 34 N1 votes)
[13. HUMBLE (1762 points), 24. ELEMENT (1365 points) 45. FEAR (678 points)]

The benefit of doing it in that way is that you get to discuss 77 different artists and songs and when an artist with several songs in the top 77 appears you get to discuss all those in the context of album. And now we’re not only discussing the top 77 songs were discussing at least 10 more.

I know there’s a rollout with everything else below in the end but once the rollout is over people stop paying attention...

Far shot and in the end it’s your call JF since you’re the real ceremony master in here, just a suggestion of what it could be.

Either way, you know I love your effort and the top 77 is always fun and one of my favorite EOY polls if only because of how varied the voters personal tastes are.

The main reason I'm pushing any changes to 2018 is because I'm 99% sure this is the last year I'm gonna be part of the team putting the poll together, and I wanna go out on an easy breezy high note. :)

Wait What? why?

save us

lol this will be my eighth year. It's just time.

Here's my albums list. I may do a tracks one, but I may not (I usually don't). https://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-cox/end-user-2017/10154932095861237/

i also support this move, the nay-sayers have no argument

― ogmor, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:10 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been bugging me, but it now occurs that the solution is beautifully simple: this is a tracks poll, not an artists poll

With apologies to ulysses when he's already juggling multiple other playlists, here's my November and December tracks picks. Just for completeness, you understand.

Shystie - "Bluka"
Denise Johnson - "I’m Not In Love"
Pye Corner Audio - "Greenpoint Hangover"
The Bongolian - "I’m a Bigger Badder Bro than any Game of Thrones"
Lee Ann Womack - "He Called Me Baby"
Avalon Emerson - "One More Fluorescent Rush"; "Finally Some Common Ground"
Willow - "And Contentment"
Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Sylvia Says"; "Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)"
Omar Souleyman - "Tensana"
Björk - "saint"
Björk & serpentwithfeet - "Blissing Me" (version)
Prins Thomas - "Here comes the band"
Kelly Lee Owens - "CBM"
Gazelle Twin - "The Suburbs"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Romance Apocalypse"; "Flashback"
Nilüfer Yanya - "Baby Luv"
Green Gartside & Alexis Taylor - "Repair Man" (Green Gartside version / Blended Mix)
Pye Corner Audio - "Mainframe"
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)"
Bicep - "Glue"
Maggie Lindemann - "Pretty Girl (Cheat Codes X CADE Remix)"
Portugal. The Man - "Feel It Still"
Tyler, The Creator - "Enjoy Right Now, Today"
Addictive TV - "Beachcoma"
Little Tornados feat. Caroline Says - "I Disappear"
La Féline feat. Laetitia Sadier - “À La Divinité (The Belief Song)”
FEMM - "Sotsugyo"
Red Velvet - "Attaboy"
Suzanne Ciani - "Help, Help, The Globolinks!" (Part One & Two)
yaeji - "after that"
Miles From Kinshasa - "FIREWORKS"
Taylor Swift - "Delicate"
Sinkane - "Telephone" (original / Roosevelt Remix)
K. Michelle - "God, Love, Sex and Drugs"; "Fuck Your Man - Interlude"
Confidence Man - "Better Sit Down Boy"
Hyuna - "Lip & Hip"
HAIM - "Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix)"
Jadu Heart and Mura Masa - "U Never Call Me"
Isolée - "Pisco"
Tomaga - "Memory in Vivo Exposure Pt. 1 & 2"
Moses Sumney - "Quarrel"
Laurent Garnier - "1-4 Doctor C'est Chouette"
Billie Eilish with Vince Staples - "&burn"
Tove Styrke - "liability (demo)"
Aly & AJ - "I Know"; "Promises"; "The Distance"

lol, it's good; i'm curious what everyone's listening to or else i wouldn't do it!

immediately, thanks for that first avalon emerson track and for giving me the song i needed to really want to crack open that K. Michelle album in earnest

Girls In Airports are one of the most underrated bands int he world today and they released a fantastic live album this year

Probably not going to nominate this for our poll, but Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's Lekhfa is worth a listen. Arab indie. I think I'm missing a lot in this case by not being able to understand the words.

recent heavy rotation

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press EP
Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
Joe Henry - Thrum
Rips - Rips
Neil Young - Hitchiker
Wooden Wand - Clipper Ship
Bardo Pond - Under the Pines
Balmorhea - Clear Language
Michael Chapman - 50

https://weareacr.bandcamp.com/album/fairfax
https://ceephax.bandcamp.com/album/acid-fourniture-ep
https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-under-the-earth
Olivia Block - s/t / piano and organ
Jürg Frey ‎– Ephemeral Constructions

Charlotte Dos Santos - Sumer Is Icumen In

is brilliant and needs attention. Not going to nominate it for the poll, I don't think, since I'll be voting for the album.

Sterrenplaten's (my radio show) end-of-year list, in a 2h Dutch speaking show:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-22-december-2017-best-of-2017/

and in a non-ranked list:

* Chino Amobi - Paradiso (NON)
* Bargou 08 - Targ (Glitterbeat)
* Circle - Terminal (Southern Lord Recordings)
* Circuit Des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo (Drag City)
* Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1 The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane (Luaka Bop)
* Elodie - Vieux Silence (Ideologic Organ)
* Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine (Rocket Recordings)
* Irreversible Entanglements - S/t (International Anthem Recording Co. / Don Giovanni)
* Jlin - Black Origami (Planet Mu)
* Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid (Western Vinyl)
* Kendrick Lamar - Damn. (TDE)
* Klein - Tommy (Hyperdub)
* Migos - Culture (Quality Control Music)
* Mourning A Blkstar - Blk Muzak (Glue Moon Records)
* NRSD - The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings (Stroom)
* Prince - Purple Rain From The Vault & Previously Unreleased
* Richard Dawson - [Peasant (Weird World)
* Richard Horowitz - Eros In Arabia (Freedom To Spend)
* Strategy - The Infinity File (Geographic North)
* The Terminals - Antiseptic (Ba Da Bing)
* 21 Savage, Offset, Metro Booming - Without Warning (Slaughter Gang)
* Tzusing - 東方不敗 (L.I.E.S.) /一瞬千撃 ‎12" (Bedouin Records)
* V/A - Diggin' In The Carts, A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music (Hyperdub)
* V/A - Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992 (Music From Memory)
* V/A - Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa (Ostinato Records)
* Yair Elazar Glotman - Compound (Subtext)

Good to see both Culture and Without Warning on that list :)

Jo Harman - Person of Interest

Fantastic track from the Outro Tempo compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9b6Wc-5wQ

My end of year compilation:

1. Claire M Singer - Solas (technically from last year but ...)
2. Colleen - Separating
3. Ian Hawgood - She
4. Ian William Craig - Arrive, Arrive (Slow Vessels version)
5. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Hangout
6. Grizzly Bear - Four Cypress
7. High Plains - Cinderland
8. Olivier Alary - Nollywood
9. Jacaszek -
10. Max Richter - Tuesday
11. Oliver Cherer - Unspoken

i enjoyed so many house/tech etc eps this year.. some of these are on the lo-fier side

Mark Du Mosch - The Red Hour
Schwefelgelb - Dahinter Das Gesicht
Ancient Methods - The First Siren
Roza Roza - Sadok Sudei
Body-san - Pacific Reasons EP
RAJA - Amadeus EP
Reedale Rise - Eternal Return
Person Of Interest - Down For Your Fantasy EP
Odes - Frank & Tony
Money Morning ‎– Corporate Karma
Accelera - Surplus
D Tiffany - Blue Dream

Last chance to vote in the ILM EOY poll! Voting ends tonight-ish.

working mostly to an ilx deadline i finalised my own list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/169917908547/favourite-music-2017

thread of some of my favourite songs from this year (2017)
↓

— Sam (@fuiud) November 28, 2017

working mostly to an ilx deadline i finalised my own list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/169917908547/favourite-music-2017

― monotony

Great lists. Very happy to see some more love for Do It by Rae Morris. I only discovered it when Popjustice made it their single of the year. I've been obsessively watching the video since then.

re: monotony's list

I came around really late on the Sophia Kennedy album, and then promptly forgot to vote for it in the eoy poll (despite nominating it myself). Hope it places despite me.

I never heard that Nilüfer Yanya song before today, but it's marvelous.

love nilufer