Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

"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.