the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

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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...

bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link

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.

mark e, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

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?

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 October 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link

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.

Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link

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

Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link

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

map, Monday, 16 October 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link

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

niels, Monday, 16 October 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link

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

adam, Monday, 16 October 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link

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

Rad Macca (Craig D.), Monday, 16 October 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link

thanks for this one

Dinsdale, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link

Selffish's He She Them Us. Genuinely soothing.

pomenitul, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press

An EP from this absoulutely fantastic band from Melbourne.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link

the title track of that EP is great

Dinsdale, Monday, 23 October 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link

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.

ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 23 October 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link

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.

joshywinty (josh), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 01:39 (seven years ago) link

new florist:

https://florist.bandcamp.com/

ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link

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.

President Keyes, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link

love that Julie Byrne record

Simon H., Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link

Keyes otm, but what to do about it?

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link

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.

President Keyes, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link

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.

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link

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

imago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link

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

imago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link

And Kiedis

imago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link

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.

President Keyes, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link

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

MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link

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

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link

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.

o. nate, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link

juile byrne record is so good. so early in the year and time moves fast and is so beguiling, it's easy to forget records.

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link

Benjamin Clementine is....not what I expected!

imago, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 08:27 (seven years ago) link

Consigning Julie Byrne, that record is beautiful.

Is the Klockworks thing a mix? I'm not sure about listening to 20 separate Berghain techno tracks one after the other, it's not really what they're for is it?

Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 09:22 (seven years ago) link

Think of it as 3 double 12"

badg, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 10:11 (seven years ago) link

not my post, but yeah holy shit this album

this Zimpel/Ziolek is incredible.

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus)

sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link

Yes. I've been pushing the Zimpel side of the Instant Classic label on ILM for 2+ years. I came to it via Polish advocates on RYM, but it's worth spreading.

DeStRoy DeSiRe (Sanpaku), Thursday, 26 October 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link

the Julie Byrne album has hung tough in my top 3ish of the year ever since it came out. so good.

i don't think of it as overlooked, though. not mega-hyped, obviously, but it got a lot of good reviews. (i'm not quarreling w/ it being in this thread, to be clear.)

alpine static, Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link

Surprised there hasn't been more mentions of the Bedouine album. Some beautiful low-key folk and pop songs. She's Syrian, via Saudi and LA, and the timbre of her voice and the arrangements remind me of Nick Drake and Robert Kirby.

https://www.youtu.be/z0tv_pVvp4Q

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link

Christ but embedding links in iOS is a massive ballache (or I'm a bellend. Or both.): https://youtu.be/z0tv_pVvp4Q

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link

^^ was thinking about starting a thread for her, gorgeous album, very Cohen-esque.

the real highlight (and anomaly) from that album is "Summer Cold": https://youtu.be/yZlhNjLTPc0

bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link

Jen Cloher's self-titled album is awesome and I hadn't heard anything about her until seeing her open for Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett.

In a quite similar vein as Barnett (who's her wife, as it turns out). The album is great if you're a fan of CB: https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album/jen-cloher

Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link

Voices never put me off!

This is almost unimaginable to me. Voices put me off all the time.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link

I just got tipped to that Bedouine album about a week ago. It's very beautiful stuff.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 November 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link

People on ILM (who like things from the vaguely punk rock end of the spectrum*) should be all over Melkbelly's Nothing Valley by now. I'm tempted to start a thread on the album but I think I may have run out of things to say about it.

*On the other hand, I'm mostly indifferent to that sort of music these days, but I love this. Still, I tend to like a bit more punk in my rock than what most indie rock I hear provides.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link

Melkbelly save rock music!

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link

These guitars are very Butthole Surfers fan friendly, if not generally as psychedelic or quite as variable.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link

I'll add more votes for the Eitzel and Gaussian Curve albums. Also Ed Dowie's The Uncle Sold is excellent and should appeal to one's post-Wyatt sensibilities.

doug watson, Friday, 3 November 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link

gonna campaign like mad to get Eitzel in the 77

Simon H., Friday, 3 November 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link

I've nominated half a dozen now, but not seen this mentioned elsewhere: Nev Cottee's Broken Flowers. He's new to me; reminds me of Lanegan circa Whisky for the Holy Ghost, Jack, Tindersticks, a bit, and Lee Hazleweood.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 6 November 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link


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