2017 end of the year lists

i love that arca record btw

:D

Richard Dawson is 1st on Quietus list, 2nd on Wire's and now another top ten position on Cracked's, damn, who would have thunk.

That's totally in character for two out of three of those publications. Not familiar with Cracked.

Crack, not Cracked. I wonder what a Cracked list would look like, lol

oh yes of course, my bad haha. And I knew he was a house hold name in Wire, but scoring both top two in BOTH of the most idiosyncratic lists is pretty impressive.

sometimes an album is so obviously, screamingly great that it cannot be downplayed

that mono no aware album is so so good

Having a first listen to this just now and yeah, it's quite wonderful

74. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

it deserves far, far better but lately this has become my go-to soundtrack for blankly staring at a spreadsheet in a post-lunch torpor.

didn't realise she had a new record out - will check it
she had one a couple of years ago that was great

i think it's missing from a few lists because it's one of those is it an album, is it an ep, or is it a single jobs? it's just one 22 minute track

it's very soft and lovely btw

(listening now)
it is :)

John Mulvey's annual list of a zillion albums for Uncut:
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/favourite-albums-2017-102550

have held a comically petty grudge against that guy for years since he gave Life Without Buildings a one-star review in the NME but there are a few good records among all the plaid shirt stuff

baja fresh is a cool record

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

This is lush. Would fit really well in a playlist after Colleen's latest album (not seen her on any list yet iirc)

can't lie, i was a bit disappointed with the colleen album after loving captain of none so much. i just didn't find the sounds that she was getting from her new synth to be very compelling

I can see that. To me, soundwise, it harkens back to her first couple of records, the sound of the music boxes on 'The Golden Morning Breaks' and 'Les Ondes Silencieuzes' that make it sounds very familiar. Do you know those?

I don't know those I'm afraid, I somehow leapfrogged from Everyone Alive Wants Answers to The Weighing of the Heart. I like the way she keeps changing though, kind of like Richard Youngs but with a slower work rate

I guess I'm lazy, but it would be nice if Mulvey could've written a few quick snippets for his top choices. I find a long list like that a little too intimidating to bother with without any text.

I like the new Colleen record though it's not my favorite of hers. There's a simplicity to it - not a lot layers. At times that achieves a really awesome, hypnotic effect. But other times it drags.

That Upper Wilds album is worth a listen (it's from the Parts & Labor guy)

https://upperwilds.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-module-2017

Richard Dawson makes me feel a certain way where this particular kind of annoyingness will in five years either be thought upon fondly (like Los Campesinos) or with a what-the-hell-were-we-thinking facepalm (like Moldy Peaches, Akron Family)

lol

somehow everything I type in response to that is insufficient

imagine a bearded, 30-year-old man walking through Victoria Station, empurpling

i'll pass thanks

fgti should be forced to listen to 'downloading porn with davo' on repeat for like a week, then given the sweet release of 'ogre'. it's the only way

I'm listening to "Ogre" right now and this is basically a music major's junior tutorial project, right?

Yeah I'm getting a little tired of Dawson. During my previous year-end binges, he's served as a nice palate cleanser, but not doing it for me this time. Stuff from that Mutant Standard was more like a sandblast to the brain. It shook something loose, most likely some upcoming nightmares about body horror and the apocalypse.

Man Forever is good, John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions of Oneida), collaborates with Laurie Anderson on one track.

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society did a cool collaboration with Bitchin Bajas in 2015 called Automaginary. The new one is without BB, but continues to explore that territory.

psherb’s top 50 electronic tracks:

http://www.the-dowsers.com/playlist/best-electronic-music-2017/

Brooklyn Raga Massive - Terry Riley In C is some solid Hindustani Classical. They also did a Coltrane tribute that isn't getting as much attention. I forgot about Arbouretum, solid psych with a bit of folk/Americana. I'm not as enthusiastic about folk as Mulvey, but everything he lists sounds pretty good.

Old-school West African faves ---Oumou Sangaré, Orchesta Baobab, & the Trio da Kali w/ Kronos Quartet album, from the Songlines list. The Trio da Kali w/ Kronos one has also made Uncut and the fRoots lists

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/

F Roots list-

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band- Big Machine
Rhiannon Giddens-Freedom Highway
Lisa Knapp-Til April Is Dead
Lankum-Between The Earth And Sky
Leveret-Inventions
Offa Rex-Queen of Hearts
Orchestra Baobab-Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng
Oumou Sangare-Mogoya
Saz’iso-At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet-Ladilikan

http://remezcla.com/lists/music/best-latin-songs-of-2017/

#2. "Tú y Yo" - La Favi

#3"Mi Gente" - J Balvin, Willy William

BBC 6 Music

1. Thundercat – Drunk
2. alt-J – RELAXER
3. Sampha – Process
4. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
5. Idles – Brutalism
6. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
7. Nadine Shah – Holiday Destination
8. Big Thief – Capacity
9. Tom Williams - All Change
10. Phoebe Bridges - Stranger in the Alps

that IDLES is sheer garbage

nah it's fun

if by 'fun' you mean 'future of the left with literally every single positive feature removed'. i get suspicious of conversations where the appropriation of genre by hipsters is decried but this comes off precisely as the sort of punk that a record company dreamt up to sell units

lol

I dunno, saw them at a festival show and it was definitely fun, can't say I've spent much time with the record

Are they the ones responsible for that atrocious 'Mary Berry likes reggae' song? Fuck that shit.

fastnbulbous can you post a top 10 most overrated albums of the year, seems like it'd be worth checking out

haha yes please

I didn't know about the Kara-Lis Coverdale record either and this is marvellous.

I tried out IDLES this morning and while my intrest was piqued by the first few songs, it quickly stopped doing anything for me.

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2017/

Stereogum usually do great lists imo and this one delivers. Charly Bliss and Waxahatchee in the top 10 is exactly my kind of list

I love Thundercat so much I'm glad BBC6 put it on top

The Richard Dawkins/Moldy Peaches comparison is not as good as the Akron Family comparison

*furiously listens to akron/family*

(maybe)