2017 end of the year lists

NME started censoring 'fuck' etc at some point in the 1980s (mark s may well have been there at the time this happened). SWells not amused, iirc.

If you’re going to use a word and then censor it yourself, why not choose another word instead? Like say

Kendrick Lamar was certainly not exhibiting his genitalia around

i don't think that's what donk means

Songlines best albums of 2017:

http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/2017/11/songlines-best-albums-of-2017/

Only album I know from that list is Orchestra Baobab (cool artwork btw). Might need to find some time to listen to the rest.

I've long suspected that traditional Albanian music is underexploited by the world music scene. Will have to check out that file title.

(Second to last.)

you really should, it's great and the group are even better live

Lmfao

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” to open it up to conversation about the records people are passionate about. Allow for revisions to the list.
Instead I’ve misjudged and offended people for a variety of reasons.
I’m truly sorry. https://t.co/jPZiboYFMT

— Sean Adams (@seaninsound) November 23, 2017

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

People got offended? Out of the loop here.

ahahaha

in the replies below that tweet, he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

I was just happy to see the Paramore album high up on the Drowned In Sound list.

he demonstrates his complete disconnection from reality by claiming the new mogwai 'might be their best'

Yeah, i was beginning to feel sympathy for him, but he lost me there

This whole argument is flawed, because there's no such thing as a "best" Mogwai album. They're all terrible.

Hey now, some of them are passably mediocre

I quite liked the one they did for Les Revenants TV show

Just been streaming that Saz'iso album, excellent stuff!

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.
DiS is no longer the commercial money chasing behemoth it once was.
it's his site, he can do whatever he feels like as far as i am concerned.
i guess he just got fed up with having to sort all the crap out and came up with a wordy way to basically say : "fuck you, this is my list."

Made a list of albums.
Thought it would be “fun” STOP RIGHT THERE

haha.
well, there is that.
but i have been guilty of such indulgence, and will be again.
so who am i to judge.

glad to see the Kelly Lee Owens album do so well on these lists so far

Absolutely.

Can already see happening what I'd imagined: the Microphones record is so *painfully* good it's not gonna place anywhere.

The Mount Eerie record? I doubt that.

Soz yeah, meant Mt Eerie. Doubt what though? It's not popped up in some places where one could expect it to.

I like it and admire that it was made. And I feel for the guy. Wouldn't call it a killer album though

I wouldn't call it "killer" either (npi). It's a heck of an album though. If some douche bag at DiS can put Arcade fucking Fire at 100, you'd expect this one to be in the low 80s at least.

it's a great album imo, and not as hard to listen to as many make it out to be

(though of course that could vary wildly depending on personal history)

I wonder what The Horrors have done to piss the NME off. Again.

Xpost It's the 2nd highest rated album of the year on Metacritic. Of course it will show up on some lists.

Apology not accepted. I can never, ever forgive him.

to be fair i have no issue re such a groove by the so called Evil Overlord (his avatar description) of DiS.

Haha I’m just being a troll. I have never seen that site, and really don’t have a vested interest in his polling methodology or lack thereof.

I can see why ppl would think the mount eerie album is too real to be contained within the artifice of a numbered list. it feels too obviously ridiculous to rank it against other things

SA's just not very bright.

He put Wolf Alice at the number one, so this seems to be the sole non-failure of music criticism so far.

xps highly recommend that saz’iso album! check it out if you haven't :)

Not into the Saz'iso album. I do like Justin Adams' Ribbons from the Songlines list.

no consensus in 2017

Was hoping for Albanian sounds more like this (even if more traditionally orchestrated). Or this or this. (I don't know this stuff, just pulling videos by artists who recorded the handful of Albanian mp3s I have and like.)

i don't know much about albanian music but i like the gjirokaster vocal ensemble's "albanie, polyphonies vocales du pays lab".

also "don't trust your neighbors" is a good archival albanian comp if you like the old stuff.

Probably too classic and hardcore for me in this case. Maybe I could get to appreciate it, but I tend to like the more contemporary beat-heavy Albanian music I've heard, with sinuous electric/electronic sounds (but not the perhaps still more contemporary things that imitate western pop almost totally).

it's all good, thanks for the links rudipherous I'll check them out next week!

I have an Albanian coworker I should really ask for tips on this stuff.

glad to see the Kelly Lee Owens album do so well on these lists so far

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, November 23, 2017 6:19 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been going down the Drowned in Sound list, one by one. This one was great! Expected her to be country pop or something with that name though.

Really liked the EMA album too.

Consequence of Sound

well, there you go: Mt. Eerie at #8

Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2017-w511763

1. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
2. Lorde - Melodrama
3. U2 - Songs of Experience
4. Kesha - Rainbow
5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
6. Khalid - American Teen
7. Taylor Swift - Reputation
8. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
9. Migos - Culture
10. Sam Smith - The Thrill of It All
11. The National - Sleep Well Beast
12. Jay-Z - 4:44
13. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
14. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
15. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
16. Margo Price - All American Made
17. Harry Styles - Harry Styles
18. St. Vincent - Masseduction
19. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
20. SZA - Ctrl
21. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
22. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love
23. Jlin - Black Origami
24. Valerie June - The Order of Time
25. Paramore - After Laughter
26. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
27. Drake - More Life
28. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
29. Jay Som - Everybody Works
30. Chris Stapleton - From a Room: Volume 1
31. Songhoy Blues - Résistance
32. Robert Plant - Carry Fire
33. Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over
34. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
35. Bob Dylan - Triplicate
36. Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie - Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie
37. Liam Gallagher - As You Were and Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds - Who Built the Moon?
38. Residente - Residente
39. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
40. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
41. Gregg Allman - Southern Blood
42. Beck - Colors
43. Ornette Coleman - Celebrate Ornette
44. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
45. Tracy Bonham - Modern Burdens
46. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman
47. Low Cut Connie - Dirty Pictures (Part One)
48. Chronixx - Chronology
49. Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
50. Code Orange - Forever

37 wtf?

poor Bjork, should have bumped up that release date by a couple of weeks