Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

is forks not appropriating these tracks in a spotify playlist for his person gain ?

*personal gain?

Would you?

I only just started listening to that Saagara album, it is top notch. I was aware of Zimpel and like his stuff, but didn't realise he had a project with an Indian orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBMOHtCtq3k

Reminds me of Broadcast

lol I'm trying to get my 2017 playlist to 1000 by year's end
https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/6pCb9T2HX2RSyHEuDJRH9w

xp: Zimpel is half the story, the last 3 albums have been with electronica producer Mooryc.

Finally got my 2017 playlist off the ground.

https://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/3Le5HtWcbKrzMNodRgf5oT

I have lists too

Trax: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/492tLJNTpDfo0vlxcu2rWp
Albums: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/1SVGQrg4reHr1XlUvrIOht

Oh those two are excellent! A couple of brilliant tracks I had missed.

Specially liking yours JF:.. heavy on the outsider pop and r&b... Where do you find all those songs in the first place? Most of these are very off radar for me but have great production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRwOzI6mKs
https://youtu.be/e1VSa3Nl6zo

revisiting Loud City Song, feels more relaxed

Where do you find all those songs in the first place? Most of these are very off radar for me but have great production.

Lots of going back and getting up to speed on new tracks from artists I've liked in previous years, plus a fair amount of rabbit holing on Spotify itself. I wish I still had time to scour blogs, but a) I don't and b) so many blogs are just dumping grounds for free PR mp3s or soundcloud links now.

Oh, and also soundcloud. Rabbit holing on there is usually productive.

ILM's 2017 Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread Spotify Playlist

Juana Molina - Cosoco

(I thought it was already on this thread.)

Doughnuts Hole - Otono no Okite

Mike WiLL Made-It – Ransom 2
https://open.spotify.com/album/0jqcY0azNzkluuC8hxNGlw

Megumi Hayashibara/Shiina Ringo - Imawa no Shinigami

I'm enjoying H. Hawkline's new song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqphXJZqS8

He's like a poppier, more high-strung Cate Le Bon, which makes sense since she plays on all his albums and he plays on all her albums (and they play in each other's live bands).

Young Marco's compilation on his own Safe Trip label, Welcome To Paradise (Italian Dream House 89-93) is highly recommended. The vinyl's long sold out (although is getting reissued I think) but you can get both volumes digitally for just £8 on Amazon

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5WUAL9FJjUqx4sV8M7kaAHjRbNsc8nV2

Paramore - Hard Times

(has already grown on me in 24 hours)

it's good!

maybe a tetch more trop than i need outta them but it's summery and fun

Addendum:

Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act II

Also, pretty sure this will ascend to and remain in my top 3 once released in May:

Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Curao

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1786310372_10.jpg

Yeah, I just listened to this ^ over the weekend and it's fantastic. More "streamlined" I guess than her older stuff, but more in my wheelhouse.

Listening to it now, and am enthusiastically on board.

she should be blowing up. i think she's only been mentioned a handful of times on ILM. Thermo iirc is a big fan.

they're solid live.

My singles

March & April favourites:

ANONHI - Paradise EP (all of it, but especially the title track and "Jesus Will Kill You")
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - "Undying Love For Humanity", "Love Captive", "Galactic Emergence"
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye LP
Nicki Minaj - "Regret In Your Tears"
T Q D - "Hold Me"
Devon Sproule - The Gold String LP <—her best yet?
Otoboke Beaver - "Love Is Short"
Angel Haze - "Candles"
Only Girl - "Fortune"
Betty Who - "Blue Heaven Midnight Crush"
Machinedrum - "U Betta"
Ondatrópica - Baile Bucanero LP
No Joy - Creep EP
Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larsson - "Symphony"
Pye Corner Audio & Faten Kanaan - "The Darkest Wave"
Pye Corner Audio - The Spiral EP
Kendrick - "LOYALTY" (ft. Rihanna), "PRIDE"
Trina - "Tongue Song"
Charli XCX ft. cupcakKe - "Lipgloss"
Tove Styrke - "Say My Name"
Maya Vik - "Beyond"
Arca - s/t LP
Sarah Angliss - Ealing Feeder LP (video for 'A Wren in the Cathedral')

Digging this new Chastity Belt track from their forthcoming LP:

https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/chastity-belt-5am

Amber Mark - "Can You Hear Me?"

(Listening to the rest of the album for the first time now.)

Brian Ellis - Mirror Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQxrRtr3-Y

https://open.spotify.com/album/3ATbXbtxqCPE248vnew0Bx

I'm about to dive headfirst into a bunch of albums that I've been neglecting due to a stressful couple of months (Kendrick, Betty Who, New Pornographers, Mountain Goats), but since I haven't done one of these since the end of January, here are some tracks that I've been collecting since then:

MUNA - Around You
Bill & Joel Plaskett - Solidarity
Aimee Mann - Stuck in the Past
Aimee Mann - Lies of Summer
Charly Bliss - Glitter
Waxahatchee - Silver
Bright Light Bright Light - Stay (I Missed You)
HAIM - Want You Back
Prince - Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden
WHY? - Easy
Laura Marling - The Valley

This Maya Jane Cole EP, Won't Let You Down, is pretty nice.

If you liked the previous Chastity Belt album, you are in for a treat.

thanks all for posting upthread about Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche - this album is so much fun guys

yeah that's a really really great album, best Constellation thing in a long time

My faves up to now:

Aimee Mann - Mental Illness (return to form)
Girl Ray - Trouble (those harmonies, song of the year up till now)
Hauschka - What If (exciting piano music in between classic, jazz and ambient)
Joan Shelley - s/t (calm, understated, glowing)
Juana Molina - Halo (twisted is the word that comes to mind to describe this music)
The New Year - Snow (perfect chillout album)
Pumarosa - The Witch (London indie rock that kicks ass)
Tinariwen - Elwan (nicely meandering Sahara blues)

Tarantula Wallpaper, Dracula Screensaver is the debut album from Danish band Starcrash and I am loving it - it's kinda classic rock/power pop with indie sensibilities, I'm thinking fans of Teenage Fanclub and perhaps Flaming Lips will be into it. Unfortunately I can't find much info about the band and I haven't read a single review of the record. But so far it's one of my 2017 faves.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6shsR188FNYn98VTR6f8hb

Feel like posting it a rolling genre thread, but not sure where it would fit.

Fede Lijtmaer - warmup @ Phonotheque 13-5-2017

Ghostcast 001 - Krn

mellifluous feelings to all, good day to you

My albums so far, unranked.

Top 10 so far:
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Immolation - Atonement
The Stroppies - The Stroppies
Extremity - Extremely Fucking Dead (EP)
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Laura Marling - Semper femina

My (unranked) faves from first half of the year:

Albums:

* Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1 The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane
* Bargou 08 - Targ
* Ed Askew - Woodbine Street
* Elko B - I Bambini Di Basilisco
* Eric Arn - Orphic Resonance
* House And Land - S/t
* Jlin - Black Origami
* Jonas meersmans - Monnift I
* Kendrick Lamar - Damn
* Laurel Halo - Dust
* Mind Rays - Nerve Endings
* Richard Dawson - Peasant
* Seekers International ‎– Gunman Cult Clasixx Mix
* Shabazz Palaces - Quazarz: Born On a Gangster Star
* Strategy - The Infinity File
* The Terminals - Antiseptic
* V/A - Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992
* V/A - Studio One Rocksteady 2
* William Basinski - A Shadow In Time

A selection of these aired last week in my radio show (Dutch spoken): https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-16-juni-2017-mid-year-roundup-2017

Tracks:

* Davy Kehoe - Storm Desmond
* J Hus (Feat. MoStack & MIST) – Fisherman
* Leif – July V
* Migos - Bad and Boujee
* Mura Masa - Love$Ick (Mumdance Remix)
* Oneohtrix Point Never (Feat. Iggy Pop) – The Pure And The Damned
* Prince - Electric Intercourse
* Richard Dawson - Ogre
* Sampha – (No One Knows Me) Like The Piano
* Shabazz Palaces - Shine A Light
* Special Request – Stairfoot Lane Bunker (Minor Science Remix)
* Vince Staples (Feat. Ty Dolla Sign) – Rain Come Down
* Young Thug – On Fire

Romeo Santos - Imitadora

Really love this Ross From Friends EP, especially Talk to Me You'll Understand.

Thank you rolling techno/house bobbins. It seems like I'm mostly finding things on the rolling threads and then plopping them here when I think they deserve the added attention.

May & June faves. Finally starting to see some quality albums although 2017 still more about the EPs so far.

Saint Etienne - Home Counties LP
She Makes War - "I Want My Country Back"
PRISTIN - "Wee Woo"
Sigrid - "Don't Kill My Vibe"
GIRLI - Feel OK EP
Ondatrópica - Baile Bucanero LP
Selena Gomez - "Bad Liar"
Lethal Bizzle ft. Skepta - "I Win"
This Is The Kit - "Moonshine Freeze"
Deerful - Peach LP
Martin Jenkins - Dance Cave EP
Juana Molina - Halo LP
Miley Cyrus - "Malibu"
Omar Souleyman - "Ya Bnayya"
Jlin - "Hatshetsup", "1%", "Challenge (To Be Continued)"
Modern Cosmology - Summer Long EP
The Comet Is Coming - Death to the Planet EP
Little Mix ft. Stormzy - "Power"
Ellen Allien - "Call Me"
Vanishing Twin - Dream By Numbers EP
Soulwax - From Deewee LP
Robot Koch - Fluid EP
Todd Terje ft. Det Gylne Triangel - "Maskindans (Erol Alkan rework)"
Lorde - "Homemade Dynamite", "Supercut"
ToiToiToi - Im Hag LP
Vic Mars - The Consumer Programme LP
Mura Masa - "WAVE" (and pretty much everything else he's released or been involved in this year tbh)
Cornelius - "Sometime / Someplace"
Kero Kero Bonito - "Trampoline (Saint Etienne remix)", "Forever Summer Holiday"

Ross from Friends - Crystal Catcher (weed)

i wasn't really into previous chastity belt albums but i dig the new one, and "complain" is the song i play in the morning as i play fetch with my dog in the park.