the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

this thread's ex eye fans need to push their product more directly into the path of potential listeners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGebX6Iwtc

Chuck Johnson - Balsams

This is my favorite record of the year so far

but maybe those threads will be around for ages and if the album is canonized or rediscovered or the artist blows up or the song is featured on an episode of future Sopranos it'll be cool to have the thread

not sure what people expect from album threads

― niels, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1:20 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean, what do people expect from... a music message board?

haha

I think it's okay that sometimes there's not that much to say abt a new album besides "this rules check it out"

Chuck Johnson - Balsams

this is a beaut, thanks

Oh I know what's passed under the radar round here...

Gaussian Curve - The Distance: think of the Blue Nile doing ambient instrumentals crossed with late 70s in his more blissed out balearic moments

should be "late 70s John Martyn"

Oh man I'm loving that album. Just picked it up finally a few weeks ago. Had meant to buy it as soon as it came out. So good.

It's a real grower too, the more you go back to it the deeper you get

Agreed.

It's such still perfect music, it's like they're so into the moment that they're trying to play without disturbing any of the air molecules in the room

yeah that Gaussian Curve album is brilliant, in fact all the projects Jonny Nash has been involved in this year have been massively overlooked

Yeah I need to go back to the Suzanne Kraft one

Think I will ultimately plump for this utterly lovely little record by Cheer Accident which nobody's heard (listen if you like: gorgeous, knotty prog-pop - this album comes off as an older, wilder American cousin of Field Music maybe?) Oh look, there's me commenting on it and all

or rather, Cheer-Accident (sorry)

I'm surprised Laura Marling - Semper Femina hasn't gotten more love, it's really good!

It seems like the loudest Laura Marling boosters (on this board) lost interest with the last album. I think it's an excellent album but it's still just not really my type of thing. But if anything I like it better as an album overall than what she's done before (and I liked Short Movie more than what came before that).

nikki lane highway queen is pure flames thank you johnny fever for mentioning it itt

semper famina is very good

I think my favorite discovery from this thread so far is Lowly.

Read a review that said there's too much going on in "Still Life." There's not too much going on in "Still Life!"

Little bit similar to Mr. Twin Sister (but I haven't listened closely to the whole album yet so that may be off overall).

not for the first time a new CHURCH album will be 'overlooked'

Oh I know what's passed under the radar round here...

Gaussian Curve - The Distance: think of the Blue Nile doing ambient instrumentals crossed with late 70s in his more blissed out balearic moments

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, October 6, 2017 1:51 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should be "late 70s John Martyn"

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, October 6, 2017 1:52 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hellooooo

I've been compulsively listening to Demen's Nektyr so if we go by replay value alone…

^^^ that record rules

on an ambient/ post-whatever tip really enjoying the recent From the Mouth of the Sun album

Snapped Ankles’ Come Play the Trees? Other than a pretty enthusiastic review in The Quietus, I haven’t seen much buzz about them.

Gaussian Curve sounds great!

my favourite thing on it is the title track which is here on youtube

The speech parts of "Murmure" remind me of Robert Ashley

And Henri Chopin, right. Semi-aware of that when I listen but wasn't naming it to myself.

It reminds me of everything.

Gwyneth Glyn - Tro

https://open.spotify.com/album/3CoF76Y21sqQqCoW9hulxZ

Welsh-language folk with kora accompaniment by Seckou Keita on a few tracks. The tracks with the kora are sublime.

guassian curve - "four for you" - what a track! thanks to this thread

OH god yes, I was thinking of mentioning that one in particular. So beautiful.

Also, again I'd really like to encourage people to try the Chuck Johnson - Balsams record beyond merely mentioning it earlier. It's gorgeous.

Du-Rites "Greasy Listening"

I have seen very little on ILX or in the English-speaking press about the new Melanie De Biasio album -- it's v. good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0We6e7bZfA

she's got a thread at least...

Oh I hadn't even noticed -- she didn't last time I checked, I was thinking of starting one.

I have seen very little on ILX or in the English-speaking press about the new Melanie De Biasio album -- it's v. good.

4 star review in mojo.

This doesn't seem like an album I should have to post about here, it seems like it would be huge, but I'm surprised I haven't seen more mention of the Moses Sumney record?

I have a third release to propose here. The Weather Station's s/t fourth album. Tamara Lindeman seems like a heir of Joni Mitchell and Mary Margaret O'Hara. Some more excellent personal female songwriting from Canada. The album sounds like an instant classic.

I listened to three songs from the Melanie de Biasio record, it is a little on the dark side but definitely worth to check out more.

I'm gonna broken-record a little and repost a link to the Drab Majesty album so that people don't forget about it:

https://drabmajesty.bandcamp.com/album/the-demonstration

i don't know how overlooked it's going to be but klockworks 20 is the best thing i've heard this year.

surely a matter of time before Weather Station starts to blow up, new record is stellar

jasss' weightless is my lite industrial noise techno album of the year for sure

Justin Walter - Unseen Forces: somewhere btw Jon Hassell and Tim Hecker

thanks for this one

Selffish's He She Them Us. Genuinely soothing.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press

An EP from this absoulutely fantastic band from Melbourne.