Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

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Yes it's shameful but I've started a list:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/78nDved7zIQ5QvrzwmuTNG

So far:

The XX - Say Something Loving
Brian Eno - Reflection excerpt (this actually counts as a 2017 album not a song but spotify has it as an excerpt so...)

Actually 2016 singles but full albums get released this month

Grouper - I'm Clean Now
Ondatropica - Lazalypso

see you in a month or so

I'm gonna mention the new Krallice even though it was released on December 21

Moka, are you saying there's a new Grouper in 2017?

Yes! And if these two are any indication it will be the best thing she has released since 2007.

Updated playlist to include new jesus & mary chain, cafe tacvba and Ibibio Sound Machine

Where is there word that a new Grouper album is confirmed for 2017?

Insider intel.

Well, not really... I was sure I read about it somewhere but I've been searching and I can't find anything... maybe I suck and I'm wrong and I just got you excited over nothing.

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

Trax I'm into

Ódú - Different
Joe Goddard ft. SLO - Music Is the Answer
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason; The Pot Is on Fire
Shiny Darkly - The Other Man
Tei Shi - Keep Running
With You ft. Bobby Saint - Black Bamboo

Albums

Kehlani - Sweetsexysavage
Mega Bog - Happy Together
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Jardín

New Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood collab song "Tears on fire"

KILL THIS SONG WITH FIRE AND THROW IT INTO SPACE

they should have stuck with the Mering & Rosenberg name

"Tears On Fire" is dreamy

Hahaha I think Tears on Fire is amazing but I wont fight anyone who thinks otherwise. I've been annoying all my friends with it for the past few weeks.

Tears On Fire sounds like a merger of Wicker-Man style folk with Air. It works, I think.

Currently into Julie Byrne's new one, Robyn, Kid Koala and Rose Elinor Dougall (ex Pipettes)

Rose Elinor Dougall

I just noticed yesterday that the album came out. Started listening to it and got distracted. Need to get back to it.

Oh, I forgot to mention Syd's album Fin which is about 75% amazing.

This is what I've enjoyed the most this year so far (in no particular order)

Piano Magic – Closure
Brian Eno - Reflection
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
Michael Chapman – 50
Mark Eitzel – Hey Mr Ferryman
Matt Jencik - Weird Times
Draugsól – Volaða Land
Au champ des morts – Dans la joie
Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial
Laster – Ons vrije fatum
Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats
Kevin Hufnagel – The Protected Shards
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Lorn - Arrayed Claws

Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much

This is wild!

Landlady - "Cadaver," from The World is a Loud Place -- some kind of entrancing herky-jerky prog pop

https://youtu.be/f_NXf3usZ7s

can't decide if i love or hate the band name pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs

foxy dads - mr spilled milk

https://foxydads.bandcamp.com/track/mr-spilled-milk

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

Bryan Ferry should work with this guy, it's crazy how the guitars sound imported from Avalon or late solo Ferry.

Also "Voices" with its "In Your Eyes" re-appropriation is gorgeous

I don't think there's an appropriate rolling genre thread to put this in so here we go:

https://visualdisturbances.bandcamp.com/album/uncanny-valley

Over one and a half hours of anxious avant-noise-rock. The first music in a long time that me think HOLY FUCK more than once. It rules.

Prefer this over the album that placed in 2016 EOY: https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/the-distance

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/album/through-passages-of-time

They talked about the Stabscotch in LJ's new thread (which needs a revive anyways) xp to ultros

rolling attention deficit 2017 -> 999999999999 -> 999999999999999999

I forgot what that thread was called, thanks

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y
…and intheyearendpoll-y and gotonevotefromjustme-y

harrumph

;-)

Chromatics (no, not them, the hip-hop/Soca artist from Trinidad) - "Mapepire"

https://youtu.be/DtiAl2mOvPs

Jeff W all ahead of the curve-y

Still digesting the overt trop house vibes of the Wednesday Campanella album but I think it's good?

The Hardy Tree LP is wonderful. Best thing yet on Clay Pipe.

"Cave Me In" - Gallant, Tablo, Eric Nom: https://youtu.be/NQunCjYdAcU

This song has been ruling my world for the past couple of weeks

Little Dragon - High

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

"In a part of Dublin known as the Liberties, which is also where the Vikings settled 1000 years ago, there is a small community of rebel horse owners. And a few years ago, a travelling street musician who goes by the name, "The Musical Slave", accidentally crashed her van into the wall of one of their urban horse yards – and out came a horse and a few boys. One of them brought her for a spin with a horse and two-wheeler, and from that day on she was hooked. She ended up buying her own horse and moving him into the yard...

The Musical Slave is a street musician and storyteller from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. She plays tropical punk, and sings about love, the forces of nature, and the world economy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19A53SyAUak

Are all of those youtube comments trolling?

?

They're all saying it's the most beautiful thing ever / they cried/ they watch the video daily to feel inspired.

Im pretty certain theyre not trolling

ok holy heckin shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO769KQ_skE

getting some "Groove is in the Heart" vibes from that

"Slide" by Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos is a joyful tune

I'm really into the new Entrance album 'Book of Changes' which you can hear on bandcamp. Classic-sounding folk/pop kind of stuff. A couple of highlights: Molly, I'd Be a Fool

I cannot stop listening to the new Tinariwen. Desert Blues is all I need right now.

The new Bing & Ruth album. It's lovely.

Snail Mail - Habits album

Snail Mail's voice kinda reminds me of Pumpkin Wentzel from Guv'ner.

Landlady album reminds me quite a bit of Stump (posts v much in character sorry)

parts of the new jesca hoop album are wonderful

^ yes, there was a little bit of discussion about it on her dedicated thread; may still be available via the most recently updated threads links

February round-up:

Anna Wise - "Coconuts"
Stormzy - "Big For Your Boots"
Stormzy ft. Kehlani - "Cigarettes & Cush"
Jesca Hoop - "Cut Connection"
Ondatrópica - "Bogotá"
Nubian Mindz - "Somebody Else (Cavern of Anti-Matter remix)"
SiR ft. Anderson .Paak & King Mez - "New LA"
Jlin - "Nyakinyua Risa"
Fatima Yamaha - Araya EP
Sondre Lerche - "I Know Something That's Gonna Break Your Heart"
Emma Dewing - "Buttons"
Bugzy Malone - "Aggy Wid It"
Todd Terje - "Jungelknugen (Prins Thomas remix)"
Thundercat - "Friend Zone" (and some other bits and bobs from Drunk)
DJ Premier & Miguel - "2 Lovin U"
Jason Derulo ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign - "Swalla"
Bebe Rexha ft. G-Eazy - "F.F.F."
Belbury Poly & Moon Wiring Club - "The Music Room"

I love "Friend Zone" and "Them Changes" from the new Thudercat album although a lot of the rest is kinda clickbait Shuggie Otis, but I need a few more listens. I love the line "I'd rather play Mortal Combat anyway" on "Friend Zone"

it's Mortal Kombat dude c'mon

Its been a long time

Really digging on Austra - Future Politics and in particular the track Utopia. I'm bad at describing things like this, kinda reminds me of Kate Bush, or I suppose Dido? I dunno.

https://youtu.be/7rzmhbiKUo0

Michael Pisaro - Resting in a Fold of the Fog
Linda Catlin Smith - Drifter

Some of my favourites so far

Tracks

Lana Del Rey - Love
Charli XCX - Pull Up
Lowly - Not So Great After All
Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm
Lorde - Green Light
Todd Terje - Jungelknugen (Prins Thomas Remix)
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume You Wear?
Jesca Hoop - The Lost Sky
Goldfrapp - Anymore
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Future Islands - Ran

Albums

Ronika - Lose My Cool
Lowly- Heba
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai
The XX - I See You
Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
Kehlani - Sweetsexysavage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRES6Af_Wyg

^^^ kind of what I was hoping the last Chairlift album to sound like

That Anna Wise track mentioned in this thread is dope

I'm loving this Greek Theatre album. Gorgeous psych-folk-country-rock from Sweden.

The Greek Theatre - Broken Circle
https://thegreektheatre1.bandcamp.com/album/broken-circle

http://i.imgur.com/vyJTMGL.jpg

Top 4 so far

Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
Migos - Culture
Thundercat - Drunk
Ibibio Sound System - Uyai

I wish I liked the Thundercat album more, but so much of it is just goofy shit.

I kinda love the goofy bits beacuse its amongst some very strong songs

Laura Marling - Semper Femina

^
I'm liking this so far. It's nice that she keeps taking her music in new directionsite. More polished and jazzy than Short Movie.

*directions

I really like it. The video for "Soothing" is a bit er, um.

I'm really loving Tennis - Yours Conditionally. Perfect for Sunday.

Still warming up to "Semper Femina" - "Don't Pass Me By" is a great track.

A couple days ago I thought I wasn't even going to be able to get through the album (LM is pretty outside my usual) but then I came back to it the next day with Wild Once, which really clicked; then came back around and listened to the whole thing.

Yeah it's outside my usual as well Rudipherous, tbh I like songs like "Soothing" and "Gurdijeff's Daughter" more than the other ones I've heard, which probably makes it clear I'm not familiar with her.

"Gurdjieff's Daughter" is my favorite song of hers. Maybe it is Laura Marling for people who aren't into Laura Marling. I've always wanted to like her though. She always seemed really solid, just making types of music I don't listen to much.

"Gurdijeff's daughter" is like a really solid Pretenders homage IMO

"Gurdjieff" definitely one of her catchier tunes. It's not my favorite on "Short Movie" any more though. That honor would go to the lovely "Easy". Of the three albums I have by her, they all have there fair share of keepers.

Mordy mentioned them upthread but the Sacred Paws album is great in an 'Electrelane play Vampire Weekend' kind of way. I really like the final track 'Getting Old'

Out of curiosity, how much overlap is there between the Linda Catlin Smith and Charli XCX crowds?

EP:

Seiho - Un/Real

especially "Inmost."

Is there a Spotify playlist for this thread this year or did forks get sued?

Actually it's just UNREAL, no slash. Slash on the cover confused me.

confused himself I bet

The recent Linda Catlin Smith album on Another Timbre is frikkin' gorgeous.

Enjoying these from the first trimester.

Saagara - 2 (Instant Classic is the best label)
Blanck Mass - World Eater
The Necks - Unfold
Ronika - Lose My Cool
Lusine - Sensorimotor
Clap! Clap! - A Thousand Skies
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai

oh nice didn't know about new Lusine

I am enjoying the new Orchestra Baobab album.

Q1 favourites: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/159053421427/q1-2017

My Q1 favorites - (top 30 but it shoudl actually be a top 50 as I always end up with a top 200 every year)

Anna Wise - Coconuts
Ariel Pink - Tears on Fire
C Duncan - Sibling
Calvin Harris - Slide
Elliott Smith - I figured you out
Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
Grouper - I'm Clean Now
Hoops - Rules
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Jens Lekman - What's that perfume you wear?
Lana del Rey - Love
Laure Briard - Les pins des landes
Little Dragon - High
Lusine - Ticking Hands
Megabog - TV MAC
Molly Burch - Try
Nite Jewel - 2 good 2 be true
Sacred Paws - Everyday
Sir - New LA
She Devils - The World Laughs
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Spoon - Can I sit next to you
Superorganism - something for your m.i.n.d.
Tei Shi - Keep Running
Ten Fe - Another Way
Tennis - My emotions are blinding
Thundercat - A fan's mail
Woods - Love is love
The XX - Replica
Yaeji - Noonside

And a spotify playlist (I'm almost at 100 tracks atm and I said before I try my best to keep it down to 200 per year so I might need to cut down some in the following months):

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/78nDved7zIQ5QvrzwmuTNG a través

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.

I can't decide if "Ross from Friends" is one of the most
obnoxious or one of the best names I've seen this year.

Ross from Friends is the kind of band name that makes me want to punch a kestrel. See also Scott and Charlene's Wedding.

I sampled his/their latest EP just to see if it sounded like the character's hilarible sound effects collages from the series, and it only sorta did a little bit.

As long as I don't have to hear an NPR announcer say the name, I'll be fine.

migos culture
rich the kid - rich forever 3
randomer - smokin
charly bliss - guppy
tess roby - ballad 5
sahbabii sandas
chief keef thot breaker
hank youngman - mister bongo
sob x rbe
cardi b - bodak yellow
steffi fabric
domenique dumont - +371
yu su - soon (moa mix)
jayda g - heaven could be lately
pelada - desatado
d.tiffany - blue dream
laurel halo - moontalk
big thief - mythological beauty
kane west - definitely come together
tops - petals
sza - love galore
jlin black origami
valee - shell
objekt - theme from q
talamanca system
jhus - good luck chale
jhus common sense
harry styles - sign of the times
quelle chris - buddies
v/a - welcome to paradise: dream house 89-93
playboi carti
tee grizzley - first day out
kendrick - humble
goldlink - crew
tqd - vibsing ting
kodak black - tunnel vision
mike will made it ft. lil yachty - hasselhof
drake more life
pressa - tbh
justin cudmore - forget it
maggie rogers - dog years
julia michaels - issues
omb peezy - when i was down
kehlani sweetsexysavage
nba youngboy - 38 baby
the xx - on hold
esb - words for us
ambien baby - ab2
analogue cops - shonen jump
dean blunt - as long as ropes unravel fake rolex will travel
she-devils - hey boy
casey dienel - high times
trey songz - nobody but you
lil wayne & t-pain - listen to me
rich homie quan - word of mouth

Zeena Parkins - Muted

(track since I haven't actually heard the full album yet: Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics)

laurel halo - Dust
Robyn/Mr. Tophat
Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet
Lorde - Melodrama
Nite Jewel - Real High/Obsession (EP)
Paramore - After Laughter
Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite
Kelly Lee Owens - S/T
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm
Beach House - B-Sides and Rarities
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Actress - AZD
Talaboman - The Night Land
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology

Steve Roden - Thousand Breathing Forms (a massive 2003-2008 comp)
Trio Heinz Herbert - The Willisau Concert
Varg - nordic flora pt. 3, gore-tex city
Miles Okazaki - Trickster
Thelonious Monk - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (previously unreleased soundtrack to 50's Vadim movie)
Eric Bibb - Migration Blues
Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts
Joana Gama, Luís Fernandes, Ricardo Jacinto - Harmonies
Arthur Russell - Tower of Meaning
Midori Takada - Through the Looking Glass
unnatural ways - we aliens
nicole mitchell- mandorla awakening ii, emerging worlds

Todd Terje ft. Det Gylne Triangel - "Maskindans (Erol Alkan rework)"

Btw: the Todd Terje main track is itself a rework of such a rare beast as a 1982 Norwegian synthpop single. Youtube here.

^ awesome

Matthew Shipp Trio - Piano Song

Albums I'm into right now:

HAIM - Something To Tell You
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Penelope Trappes - Penelope One
Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
Group Doueh + Cheveu - Dakhla Sahara Session
Christian Scott - Diaspora
Harriet Brown - Contact

Here's where I am.

What!? there's a new Arto Lindsay album!!! Brb

Playlist is updated; flirting with 400 tracks just past midyear

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

Some fave tracks so far:

Nicki Minaj - Regret In Your Tears
Ariel Pink - Another Weekend
Yu Su - Soon (Moa Mix)
Oneohtrix Point Never - The Pure and the Damned feat. Iggy Pop
Petals - TOPS
Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence
Burna Boy - Rock Your Body
Superpitcher - Howl
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Calvin Harris - Slide feat. Frank Ocean & Migos
Kinetic Electronix - DewDropInn
Anthony Naples - Sky Flowers
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Playboy Carti - Magnolia
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Shanti Celeste - Good Spirits
DeJ Loaf - No Fear
Jayda G - Heaven Could Be Lately
Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like (Remix) feat. Gucci Mane

Very much enjoying Dauwd's Theory of Colours. Glass Jelly stands out at the moment, but the whole album is good.

enjoying the Dauwd, thanks

i was sure i had posted a list on here at some pt anyway here's my fave albums of the year so far:

Sacred Paws - Strike a Match
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Tinariwen - Elwan
Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
VA - Zaire 74: The African Artists
Miranda Lee Richards - Existential Beast
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

My new favorite album of the year is Gurr's 'In My Head,' and I don't give a shit that it came out in October 2016. I didn't hear it until last night.

This already has a reserved slot in top ten tracks of 2017

https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/track/blue-ring

^Moon Diagrams is Moses Archuleta from Deerhunter, who has been quietly releasing great low-key ambient music over the last few years

At some point I'll give a fuller accounting of tracks that I'm loving this year but for the moment will just leave this one here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1CcOVvSjbM

I'm all in on Hazel English

I kinda thought Hazel English was neat when there was a steady drip of singles every few weeks, but once I heard them all together on a single album I got bored by the sameyness.

Understandable! I listened to it due to circumstances (it was the only thing I had for a few days) and I went from liking its vibe to (most of) the individual songs.

In addition to titles I mentioned above

Juana Molina - Halo
Bola - D.E.G.
Sudan Archives - Sudan Archives
9T Antiope - Of Murk and Shallow Water
Hauschka - What If
Yasmine Hamdan - Al Jamílat
Nídia Minaj - Nídia é má, Nídia é fudida
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Slowdive - Slowdive
Emel - Ensen
Deena Abdelwahed - Klabb
Karen Gwyer - Rembo Tech House, Wonky Techno

and the Mori-Ra EP

Since last time, I would add:

The Stevens - Good (Aussie slacker indie)
Undergang - Misantropologi (Danish death metal)
Temple of Void - Lords of Death (American death doom)

so is it just me or is this the best year for new music in quite a while?

It's been pretty great!

cosign

Its been awful in pop music, though.

it's been a super deep year, but not so heavy at the top

Warm Digits (ft. Field Music) - End Times

Masasolo - Idaho

Really enjoying the recent Chris Bathgate record, starts out as a folksy singer-songwriter thing, spreads out into the cosmos, then recedes back.

Ruby Haunt - Destroyer. Some nice downer dream pop just in time for summer's end.

End-of-summer update:

Desperate Journalist - Why Are You So Boring?
Worriers - Future Me
The New Pornographers - Play Money
The Regrettes - Juicebox Baby
The Magnetic Fields - '69: Judy Garland
Guided by Voices - Overloaded
Charli XCX - Boys
Downtown Boys - A Wall
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses

A few more somehow since the last time I posted.

Brand New - Science Fiction (aoty)
Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come

Jessie Ware - Selfish Love

Geez, violent ending to the video though.

Bicep album is great

also, as long as I'm putting up some suggestions from the last month of 2017 listening:
Daniel Caesar
Iron and Wine
Snoop
Felicia Atkinson
Mount Eerie
Floating Points
Bargou 08
Jamila Woods
Mark McGuire
Dua Lipa

into this from manchester young'un iamddb

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

Current things:

Iron and Wine - Beast Epic
Portico Quartet - Art in the Age of Automation
Various - Sweet as Broken Dates
Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes
Akira Rabelais – Spellewauerynsherde

July & August favourites:

Mura Masa - s/t LP
The Japanese House - Saw You in a Dream EP
This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze LP
Nova Materia - "On/Av"
GIRLI - "Hot Mess"
Maya Jane Coles - "Weak"
Charli XCX - "Boys"
Kesha - "Praying"; "Learn To Let Go"; "Godzilla"
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria LP
Bugzy Malone - King of the North EP
Astrid S - "Such A Boy"
Mura Masa ft. Moses Boyd - "Untitled"
Wolf Alice - "Beautifully Unconventional"
Allie X - "That’s So Us"
The Focus Group - "New Toytown Walk"
Confidence Man - "Boyfriend (Repeat)" (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix)
Kesha - Rainbow LP
Karen Gwyer - Rembo LP
Bertrand Burgalat - Les choses qu’on ne peut dire à personne LP
Simon James - Akiha Den Den LP
Jazmine Sullivan x Bryson Tiller - "Insecure"
Red Velvet - "Zoo"
Deerhoof ft. Laetitia Sadier - "Come Down Here & Say That"
Even As We Speak - "Such A Good Feeling"
Alex the Astronaut - "Not Worth Hiding"
SZA - "Drew Barrymore"
ZHU - stardustexhalemarrakechdreams EP
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"; "To Follow & Lead"
Ride - "Lateral Alice" (original & Cavern of Anti-Matter remix)
Aly & AJ - "Take Me"

I was staying in a pub near Hawarden for work last month and they had this channel on that played all this weird and wonderful music but I didn't have a pen with me to write any of it down but I was able to get another guest to record this for me. I can't remember the name of the channel and last time I was there I couldn't find the pub either (it was a last minute booking and I paid cash)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU-3E5OsK9U

The only other record I remembered was Marching on Together but I don't like that one

Roman Rauch - Don't You Try

Men I Trust - "Tailwhip"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmtBJRykck

I loved their track "Lauren", this is nice too!

Perversely unmentioned to date:

Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory (you know what to expect, close/contact mic sax aping minimalists, good but diminishing returns)
Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble (acoustic-to-orchestral angst favored by fans of her last, ABBA-esque album. Spoken word bits belong elsewhere)
Sevdaliza - Ison (close in conception to FKA Twigs, Arca-inspired downtempo with strong cabaret vocals by an Iranian expat)
Kaleida - Tear The Roots (Soft Cell backing Tracey Thorn is an idea I can get behind. The EPs were better)
Allie X - CollXtion II (craftmanlike synthpop, chugging away without much attention)
London Grammar - Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Hannah Reid is probably more talented than your favorite current vocalist)
Nídia - Nídia é má, Nídia é fudida (ok, I mentioned this upthread, but Afro-house/electronica fans should be all over this)
Hammock - Mysterium (plugging away at the ambient side of shoegaze for over a decade, this is among their best)
Widowspeak - Expect the Best (more Mazzy twang indie. A personal weakness)
Ifriqiyya Électrique - Rûwâhîne (Gnawa inspired call/response with sympathetic production)
Anneli Drecker - Revelation for Personal Use (I'd love to see a S/D for post Bel Canto Drecker)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid (cheating: out 6 October. Florid bucolic dreampop, as one might expect)

Rich The Kid - New Freezer ft. Kendrick Lamar

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp totally fucking up my year-end list with this:
https://www.discogs.com/label/1188972-The-Art-Of-PerelmanShipp

His quartet album - Not Bound is brilliant as well.

brian eno / kevin shields - "only once away my son": https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/brian-eno-with-kevin-shields

massive

Not Bound: so good so far.

Some favourite 2017 tracks so far:

The Jungle Giants - Bad Dream
Grace Mitchell - Now
Tops - Petals
I Know Leopard - Let Go
Men I Trust - Tailwhip
MK - 17
Oliver - Chemicals (feat. MNDR)
Polish Club - Where U Been
Sylvan Esso - The Glow
Young Mopes - Louise Burns

September & October

LPs:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Meridian Brothers - ¿Dónde Estás María?
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Fever Ray - Plunge

EPs:
DMX Krew - The Wiggly Worm
spaceprodigi - Launch
Sorcerer - Dream Season
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
Even As We Speak - The Black Forest

Tracks:
Prins Thomas - "Apokalypso 1" (original / Øyvind Morken’s Trance Dance rework)
Prins Thomas - "Montague Grant"
Tove Lo - "Disco Tits"
Kero Kero Bonito - "Rock n Roll Star"
ILoveMakkonen ft. Rae Sremmurd - "Love"
Tove Styrke - "Mistakes"
Barry Adamson - "I Got Clothes (ACR:MCR rework)"
FEMM - 浪漫飛行 (Roman Hikou)
S U R V I V E - "Cutthroat (Lena Willikens Remix)"
Camille - "Twix"
Demi Lovato - "Sexy Dirty Love"
Hyuna - "Mirror"
Saint Etienne - "London Like A Distant Sun"
Saint Etienne - "Dive (Matt Berry remix)"
Björk - "the gate"
Wolf Alice - "St. Purple & Green"
GIRLI - "Can I Say Baby"
Japanese Breakfast - "Till Death"
Wyvern Lingo - "Out Of My Hands"
Clark - "Honey Badger"
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - "Son of a Lady"
tUnE-yArDs - "Look At Your Hands"
Nadia Rose - "Big Woman"
Solarstone & John 00 Fleming - "Hemispheres (Expanded)"

Dennis Gonzalez Ataraxia - Ts'iibil Chaaltun
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
Rudresh Mahanthappas - Indo Pak Coalition
Aine O'Dwyer - Gallarais
Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa
Wadada Leo Smith - Reflections and Meditations on Monk
Matt Mitchell - A Pouting Grimace
Jane Ira Bloom - WIld Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
Victor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Guitars?
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Paint

albums I liked recently.

Ooh, new Anouar Brahem! Not sure I've reached the point of diminishing returns with him, but every time I put one of the albums on, its lovely.

It's either the zenith of boredom or very beautiful, or maybe both - but I still love it!

Big Thief - Haley

One of the best songs this year! Hear it right now!

It sounds like something I would have been listening to in 1983, maybe from Touch and Go Records, but so far I am enjoying it a lot, even though I hardly listen to anything like this these days:

Melkbelly - Nothing Valley

I think this vocalist has a good punk voice.

She reminds me a bit of Mary Timony.

The drummer is quite good too, and the guitars hit the spot for me (though there are no surprises). Very hooked on this for the moment.

I'm not familiar with Mary Timony except as a name--and I also recognize her photo. I'll have to check out some of her projects while I seem to be in the mood for this-sort-of-thing.

Nothing she's ever done sounds much like this—maybe Melkbelly and Autoclave could overlap on a venn diagram on a good day—but she's neat. You may like her.

Listening to some Autoclave. Not too similar, but not bad. It would be an understatement to say I'm not a fan of most 90s rock, but as a result I also haven't heard a lot of it (where I might have listened to equivalently positioned bands in the 80s).

Wish I could understand Arabic as this is gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3eBNWwoa4

It's already gone from youtube? Checking Spotify. Is this going to be dance meets Sun Ra meets Arab music?

(Called out sick today so I'm going to be around more than usual for better or worse.)

the youtube clip is working for me

That video still doesn't work for me. Maybe it's not available in North America (though it doesn't say anything that specific).

I've also seen comparisons between Miranda Winters' vocals and Girlpool's vocals. I don't hear it based on what little I've heard of Girlpool (which is pretty zzzzzzz to me). Winters has a raw, slightly husky sound that somehow seem very unaffected and not as smug as so man indie vocals. She's hitting a familiar (that word looks weird to my sudafedinated brain) sound but I can't think of other vocalists that sound that similar. They probably exist though! So much that could be related to this that I haven't heard.

Track's also on Spotify, but then maybe not in North America.

olivia block - piano and organ - beautiful

https://www.discogs.com/Jürg-Frey-Lâme-Est-Sans-Retenue-I/release/11051567

also, Another Timbre (label) has been on a tear for the last two years.. high quality albums, popping up a good clip

White Reaper - Judy French

keep forgetting about lindsey buckingham & christine mcvie "in my world" ... that's a jam

xp great song

xposts

sigh Mashrou Leila... I wish I had heard of them before this year as they are ridiculously amazing. Wondering if we can still nominate their latest album for the EOY poll - first came out in 2015 but re-released as a deluxe edition this year with a few extra tracks.

Love this song, basically queer Depeche Mode with Muslim instead of Catholic guilt: https://youtu.be/mSnJJv_cBDw

Also this video is fire: https://youtu.be/NF__cpsDmZk

yeah, they're great.

woah, thanks for this, it rules

The Blind Boys of Alabama - “Train Fare”

(Scrubbed from YouTube but streaming everywhere)

Apologies beforehand because I'm about to use this thread to sort out my 200 favorite songs of the year. I'm at 180 right now and some of this might be changed with whatever I find in the EOY lists that will start appearing by the hundreds in the following weeks.
Adam Port, Simple Symmetry - I Never Wear Black - Simple Symmetry Remix
Allan Rayman - 13
alt-J - 3WW
Alvvays - Dreams Tonite
Animal Collective - Man Of Oil
Anna Of The North - Lovers
Anna Wise - Coconuts
Arcade Fire - We Don't Deserve Love
Atelje - 50/50
Axel Boman - Hello
Baba Stiltz - Can't Help It
Bedouine - Dusty Eyes
Big Thief - Haley
Billy Lemos, Stevan - Can't Be // How U Feel
Bonobo, Rhye - Break Apart
Boris Dlugosch, Cassara - Traveller
BOSCO, St. Beauty - Castles (feat. St. Beauty)
Bosq, Megan Doherty - Can't Seem to Hide
Boy Azooga - Face Behind Her Cigarette
Broken Social Scene - Stay Happy
BRONCHO - Get in My Car
Burna Boy - Rock Your Body
C Duncan - Sibling
Calvin Harris, Jessie Reyez - Hard to Love
CCFX - The One to Wait
Charlotte Adigéry - 1,618
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
Cherushii, Maria Minerva - Thin Line (feat. Maria Minerva)
Chris Stapleton - Either Way
Chromatics - Shadow
Chromeo - Juice
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Claude Speeed - Dreamdream
Colter Wall - Thirteen Silver Dollars
Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Dirty Projectors, Dawn Richard, Dre Skull - Cool Your Heart - Dre Skull Remix
Drake - Passionfruit
The Drums - Blood Under My Belt
Easy Life - Pockets
Elliott Smith - I Figured You Out
Elsa Hewitt - Breathing SpaceX
EMA - Down and Out
Emily King - For Them
Everything Is Recorded, Sampha - Close But Not Quite
Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
Fenne Lily - Three Oh Nine
Fever Ray - Mustn't Hurry
Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Grease
Frankie Rose - Trouble
Fuga Ronto - L'uomo invisible
Future - Mask Off
Generationals - Catahoula Man
Girls Night Out - Orange Peeling
Gorillaz, DRAM, Purple Disco Machine - Andromeda (feat. DRAM) - Purple Disco Machine Remix
Goto80 - Birds on Fire Note
Grouper - I'm Clean Now
HAIM - Something To Tell You
Halo Maud - Du pouvoir
Hand Habits - All the While
Hoops - Rules
Hundred Waters - Particle
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason
Iron & Wine - Call It Dreaming
Jae Tyler - Show and Tell
James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner - Mercury
Japanese Breakfast - Machinist
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
Jerry Folk - Money
Joe Goddard, SLO, RAC - Ordinary Madness - RAC Mix
John Maus - Teenage Witch
Joseph Shabason - Aytche
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
Kelly Lee Owens - Throwing Lines
Kerri Chandler - Stop Wasting My Time (DJ-Kicks) - Mixed
Kevin Morby - City Music
King Henry, Rhye - Moment
Knox Fortune - No Dancing
La Luz - Believe My Eyes
Lali Puna - Two Windows
Lana Del Rey - In My Feelings
Laura Marling - Wild Fire
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
LCD Soundsystem - oh baby
Life in Sweatpants - Girls
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Lindstrøm, Jenny Hval - Bungl (Like a Ghost)
Little Dragon - Strobe Light
Lord Echo, Mara TK - The Sweetest Meditation
Lorde, Chromeo - Green Light - Chromeo Remix
Louis The Child, Ashe - Right To It (feat. Ashe)
LOVE SICK - Bullet
Lusine, Vilja Larjosto - Just a Cloud
The Luyas - Fed to the Lions
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Marcioz - The Very, Very $hy Pearl (The Pulse)
Mary Lattimore - Wawa by the Ocean
Matthias Meyer, Ryan Davis - Hope
Maya Jane Coles, Chelou - Darkside (feat. Chelou) - Edit
Mega Bog - T.V. M.A.C.
Melanie De Biasio - Gold Junkies
Men I Trust - Tailwhip
Mesita - Compliments
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Michael Mayer, Joe Goddard, DJ Koze - For You - DJ Koze Mbira Remix
Montero - Tokin' the Night Away
Moon Diagrams - End of Heartache
Moon Duo - Sevens
Mount Kimbie, Micachu - Marilyn
Mr. Tea - Ashram's Groove
Mt. Joy - Sheep
NE-HI, Jamila Woods - The Times I'm Not There
Nilüfer Yanya - Golden Cage
Nite Jewel - 2 Good 2 Be True
NVDES - Do You Think About Me
Oliver, De La Soul - Heart Attack (feat. De La Soul)
Omni - Equestrian
One Sentence. Supervisor - Hedera Helix
Orgone, Jesse Wagner - P.C.H. (One More Mile)
The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt
Oxia, Robag Wruhme - Domino - Robag's Lasika Cafa Nb
Ozel AB - Orbit 416
Parcels - Overnight
Pastaboys, Osunlade, Rampa - Deep Musique - Rampa Remix
Peking Duk, AlunaGeorge - Fake Magic
Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
Pykäri, SOMA - Touch
Radiohead - I Promise
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars
Rebolledo, Maceo Plex - Discotico Plexico - Maceo Plex Remix
Red Axes - Earth Core
Rhye - Taste
Rose Droll - A Change in Weather
Russ Chimes, Iris Gold - Drift (feat. Iris Gold)
Ryan Adams - To Be Without You
SACRED PAWS - Everyday
Sam Amidon - Juma Mountain
(Sandy) Alex G - Sportstar
SASSY 009 - Pretty baby
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Shabazz Palaces, Quazarz, Thaddillac - Shine a Light
Sia, Kendrick Lamar, KDA - The Greatest - KDA Remix
SiR, Anderson .Paak, King Mez - New LA (feat. Anderson .Paak & King Mez)
Sky Ferreira - Easy - Music From The Motion Picture Baby Driver
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Snoh Aalegra, Vince Staples - Nothing Burns Like The Cold
Soul Clap, Ebony Houston, Aquiles Navarro, David Marston, Myles Karp - Numb - David Marston & Myles Karp Remix feat. Aquiles Navarro
Spoon - Can I Sit Next to You
Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way
Sufjan Stevens - Wallowa Lake Monster
Sun-El Musician, Samthing Soweto - Akanamali (feat. Samthing Soweto)
Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
Sylvan Esso - Die Young
SZA - Prom
Talaboman, John Talabot, Axel Boman - Safe Changes
Tei Shi - Justify
Ten Fé - Another Way
Tennis - Modern Woman
Thundercat - A Fan's Mail (Tron Song Suite II)
Tinariwen, Kurt Vile, Mark Lanegan - Nannuflay
Todd Terje, Prins Thomas - Jungelknugen - Prins Thomas Remix
TOPS - Cutlass Cruiser
Tornado Wallace, Sui Zhen - Today (feat. Sui Zhen)
Tunnelvisions - Guava
Tycho, Beacon - See (feat. Beacon)
U.S. Girls - Mad As Hell
The War On Drugs - Pain
Washed Out - Get Lost
White Denim - Let's Switch It Up
Whitney - You and Me - Demo
Willie Nelson, Tony Joe White, Leon Russell, Jamey Johnson - God's Problem Child
With You., Bobby Saint - Black Bamboo (feat. Bobby Saint)
Wolf Alice - Beautifully Unconventional
Woods - Love Is Love
Xinobi - Far Away Place
The xx - Replica
YesYou, Damon Trueitt - Change Is Gonna Come
Yumi Zouma - Depths (Pt. I)
!!! - The One 2

uh whut lol

thin line is from 2015 moka :)

Ah yes it is... I don't remember putting it there hahaha I think I might have dragged and dropped to the incorrect playlist. Thanks for the heads up.

good list. and a huge cheers on the US GIRLS

Change "Thin line" for Kolsch - Liath I was forgetting that one!

US GIRLS is fun! Love that one.

great list, one of my fav posters tbh.

Really enjoying the Miranda Lee Richards album Existential Beasts. At times it sounds like a companion piece to the Suzanne Sundfør album.

https://www.discogs.com/Argoman-Chimicalissimo/release/10579142

Thanks Ross! Big love to you too.

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/78nDved7zIQ5QvrzwmuTNG

New additions to the playlist and a change (Knox Fortune song switched because I think I like this one better, but the whole album is good probably one of my favorites of the year) :

James Holden & the Animal Spirits - Each Moment Like the First
Grapetooth - Trouble
Knox Fortune - Lil Thing
The Shacks - Fly Fishing
E Ruscha V - Who Are You
The Proper Ornaments - Memories

James Holden, Grapetooth and Knox Fortune might be appealing to BOC fans. It sounds very much post-BOC and nothing like them but there's some elements: hip hop beats, vintage and eerie synths, summer feels, a certain childhood nostalgia to them. Holden in particularly is close to that sound but the other two sound like pop singles produced by BOC.

Before the year is over I'll try to cut the whole thing down to 50 songs. It's so hard, there's been so many good music this year.

Read BOC as Blue Oyster Cult before realizing you probably meant Boards of Canada

Ah yes that's Boards of Canada! Sorry.

Presentable Corpse - Through Waves of Fog
Ge-Ology - Re-Fingered with Love

Love that new James Holden album.

Just wanted to mention that Romeo Santos' "Imitadora" (which I already listed upthread) is great in various ways, despite some drawbacks.

SAICOBAB. New project of YoshimiO. Vocals + sitar + frame drum + bass. Whole album is great, but "Bx Ax Bx" is a good a place to start as any.

^ some righteous shit, Jeff

https://thebaggagehandlerdotme.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/el-jefe-antena-3.jpg

this is really good! although bx ax bx is the only one on their bandcamp so that's as far as i've got

Justin Adams - Ribbons

It is partly a more abstract take on various world music, which sounds like a frightening description, but I think the music is good nevertheless. Some tracks have Anneli Drecker on them (not someone I am familiar with, although I guess I have been very vaguely aware of the existence of Bel Canto). "Crow Dream" is a standout track (ahem, ulysses).

Electric guitar-oriented.

No Moon - I Left My Dial In Pirovac (Pt.2)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Crumbling Castle

Big thief lp

Was just listening to the accompanying playlist on shuffle and after a couple songs I wasn't too thrilled about, I hit one that finally made me ask "What is this?!" meaning: this is awful. Arcade Fire.

https://leegamble.bandcamp.com/album/lee-gamble-mnestic-pressure-hdbcd037

first listen (cursory), this is some cut n'pasty, OPN-like bullshit. 2nd listen, this is nowhere near KOCH levels. Third listen, 'holy shit!' - it's **dope** "af".. ultra-lean and concise, need to hear it again.

It's a fantastic album, one of his best (up there with 'Diversions').

Jungle/dnb died 16, 17 years ago*. Metalheadz, Fabio, Grooverider, Optical & Rush, Doc Scott: I commend them for plowing on, but it's sad really. *Nothing* of note, nothing evolutionary, nothing forward thinking - let alone brash futuristic, a core element of the genre - has come out since 2000 or so.

The only to in some way do justice, and use the breaks and synths of jungle past, is what Gamble does so masterfully. He doesn't do 'nods', but echoes and mutates what was so great about it and incorporates it into a sound palette of now.

* Disclaimer: I was a teenage junglist.

I think I like Mnestic Pressure even more than Diversions, it's definitely one of my favorite albums of the year

What is this year's big art-rock album? I feel like I'm missing something - a Let England Shake, a Moon Shaped Pool?

Don't know if it is art-rock but it sounds big (and fantastic): Oxbow's Thin Black Duke.

dog latin you might like this Chino Amobi thing

lee gamble album will provide me listening adventure for a long time, i'm still processing koch

yea, dog latin and imago should check out Chino Amobi.. Lee Bannon's stuff on NON as Dedekind Cut is super fucked up as well

has anyone heard the new Rabit album?

http://www.discogs.com/Rabit-Les-Fleurs-Du-Mal/release/11091789

i'll check out chino. cheers all

Okay... this is amazing. I don't usually like this cut-up nightmare music but this is just too much of a trip

xo
the Rabit album is great

this chino amobi album absolutely rules

No mention of the Errorsmith album, Superlative Fatigue? Android techno with a dancehall riddim vibe. It's pretty special.

yes! it's a great album! only found it last week so i'm guessing it's newly released or i'm very behind haha

Fits nicely into my current obsession with experimental riddim - Equiknoxx, Still, Palmistry etc

the Errorsmith album is good except the last track which is garbage but if you can get the chance you absolutely should go see him DJ, I saw him in January and it was INCREDIBLE, just so much energy and looseness and humour

Think I saw somewhere he's playing round my neck so I'll keep an eye out

Ok this is a top 25 in no order... I might do a top 50 because I felt there’s many left behind. Top 10 would likely be: big thief, laurel halo, sassy009, men i trust, shabazz palaces, slowdive, selena gomez, tornado wallace, tops, us girls.

BIG THIEF - haley
DRAKE - passionfruit
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - close but not quite
FEVER RAY - mustn’t hurry
FUTURE - mask off
HAND HABITS - all the while
JENS LEKMAN - whats that perfume that you wear?
JULIEN BAKER - funeral pyre
KNOX FORTUNE - lil thing
LAUREL HALO - moontalk
LUYAS - fed to the lions
MEN I TRUST - tailwhip
MOUNT KIMBIE - marilyn
NILUFER YANYA - golden cage
SACRED PAWS - everyday
SANDY ALEX G - sportstar
SASSY 009 - are you leaving
SELENA GOMEZ - bad liar
SHABAZZ PALACES - shine a light
SLOWDIVE - sugar for the pill
SUDAN ARCHIVES - come meh way
TEI SHI - justify
TOPS - cutlass cruiser
TORNADO WALLACE - today
US GIRLS - mad as hell

That definitely looks like it's in order to me

Ok this is a top 25 in no order... I might do a top 50 because I felt there’s many left behind. Top 10 would likely be: big thief, laurel halo, sassy009, men i trust, shabazz palaces, slowdive, selena gomez, tornado wallace, tops, us girls.

BIG THIEF - haley
DRAKE - passionfruit
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - close but not quite
FEVER RAY - mustn’t hurry
FUTURE - mask off
HAND HABITS - all the while
JENS LEKMAN - whats that perfume that you wear?
JULIEN BAKER - funeral pyre
KNOX FORTUNE - lil thing
LAUREL HALO - moontalk
LUYAS - fed to the lions
MEN I TRUST - tailwhip
MOUNT KIMBIE - marilyn
NILUFER YANYA - golden cage
SACRED PAWS - everyday
SANDY ALEX G - sportstar
SASSY 009 - are you leaving
SELENA GOMEZ - bad liar
SHABAZZ PALACES - shine a light
SLOWDIVE - sugar for the pill
SUDAN ARCHIVES - come meh way
TEI SHI - justify
TOPS - cutlass cruiser
TORNADO WALLACE - today
US GIRLS - mad as hell

<a href="http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a13587928/best-albums-2017-alphabetical-order/";>'The Right Way to Do Year End Lists Is in Alphabetical Order'</a>

bah.
'The Right Way to Do Year End Lists Is in Alphabetical Order'

In anticipation of the ILM poll (starting shortly!), this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Favorite Thread Spotify Playlist

moka, not sure why you'd place Today over voices if it's down to what's best, but YMMV

I’m still unsure about many of these not my final list. Almost every artist in there has another song or two which I can gladly replace. I have my own stupid rule of only one song per artist though... I might end changing some of these in the following qeeks.

admire yer commitment Moka, tho

one song per artist is not stupid tbh

I wish the 77 had that rule tbh

Didn't know there was a new Errorsmith album, thanks for the tip DL

I wish the 77 had that rule tbh

I do too, actually. At least as far as the rollout goes (highest voted song by the artist is their de facto single appearance), but people would riot.

Especially since I'm guessing the # of nominated tracks and albums goes up every year with the hyperavailability offered by streaming services

I wrote in some other thread the same proposal. 77 songs, no repeating artists and maybe acknowledge the next two most voted songs from artists with more than one song in the real top 77. when the rollout is over post the 'real' top 77 with repeating artists. In 2014 we had like 5 Taylor Swift songs and in 2015 4 CRJ and 3 Grimes songs. This year I think will be a tad more surprising but we'll still get 3 or more Kendrick songs in there.

I see the problem about changing the rollout and I don't really see it happening but you can't deny it would be a bit more interesting. After all the real surprises are always in the lower numbers.

I propose that every year and get shouted down but imo we should take an actual vote or something

I'm in but someone else should do the writeup about the proposal in a poll. I suck at explaining things convincingly, specially in english.

If we get two more posters in who like the idea I could draft it.

As ever, strongly disagree

Bring on all the Kendrick

include it as a question on the voting form this year, with it taking effect the following year with a majority vote

Why wait a year? If it passes (which, tbh, I don't think it would), I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to adjust the rollout.

that works too, I just think wrapping it into the actual process is the only way to ensure that everyone who cares sees it in time

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