the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

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

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should be "late 70s John Martyn"

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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.

the title track of that EP is great

I second the Moses Sumney record. Not that it's generally overlooked (great reviews all around) but I'm just a little surprised it's not discussed here at all.

i'm gonna go with NOT EVEN HAPPINESS by julie byrne. spectacular folk record full of melancholy observations on the livelihood of a transient traveling across america trying to find a sense of home. its meditative center feels especially comforting and refreshing in these times we're living in. might be my AOTY.

new florist:

https://florist.bandcamp.com/

It feels like outside of a few records everything is overlooked now, especially on ILM. Records come out, get good reviews, BNM, whatever, and there is maybe a mention or two of them, unless there's some controversy attached, and a week later they've vanished from the planet.

love that Julie Byrne record

Keyes otm, but what to do about it?

nothing to do really. I was just noticing that 3 or 4 of the records posted in this thread were P4K BNM recipients, which used to mean that a record was not overlooked. Maybe it still does, on Twitter or somewhere.

This might be getting props elsewhere but it's pretty overlooked on RYM and and not even mentioned on here: Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly

I gave some stuff from his first album a listen and while it's OK it's total Jools Holland bait, but this record's quite an eclectic and oddball art-pop concept album, about... well you'll pick up the gist if you listen. tbh I'm mostly mentioning this album since I think my AOTY is fairly well-recieved, and it's not metal either which is what I mostly post about, I hope this could be something that the general ILM populace might find interesting.

I haaaated his first album but that has me intrigued!

My AOTY is the same as yours but it's gotten quite a few props. My suggestion in this thread is another one we both like but one that like its parent band ought to be a byword for critical apathy

Sadly yeah, I didn't even think of boosting them :/

If B. Clementine's voice bothered you I wouldn't bother with this one, the music's pretty neat though, almost like prog in disguise. I would love it if he reached to Scott Walker levels of inaccessibility in the future lol

Oh it was his piano that bothered me before, that and the lack of interesting songs. Sounds like he's addressed that. Voices never put me off! Except for múm, sheesh

And Kiedis

This might be getting props elsewhere but it's pretty overlooked on RYM and and not even mentioned on here: Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly

It's ranked #104 for 2017 on RYM right now, which is pretty good. If you filter out the metal albums it's probably top 50.

I think the Liima record that's about to come out will figure large for me, it's basically an Efterklang side project, last year's record was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1P-n5nMFk

xp fair enough, I don't actually look at the charts much so I probably shouldn't comment on stuff like that, I just haven't noticed much discussion about that album

I'd never heard of Benjamin Clementine. Maybe he's not got as much buzz here in the States - or maybe I'm just out of it. I'm liking it though - lands somewhere in a quadrant between Julia Holter and Frank Ocean.