2017 end of the year lists

"ugh, how apathetic the pens of scribes recommending platitudinous trollop SZA when Yrrrt Grvlakak released an album on Bandcamp"

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, November 20, 2017 5:14 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha this particular 'dumb stupid motherfucking asshole' gun was loaded a whole fortnight ago :D

I was not aware of the Ibeyi album until Matos mentioned a song on Facebook and holy shit this is gorgeous.

Ben Ratliff, who used to be at the NY Times, but now freelances, writes books and teaches, made an alphabetical list of 15 for Esquire, while critiquing the whole list-making thing and endorsing sites from Quietus to Norteno Blog and Na Mira da Groove

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a13587928/best-albums-2017-alphabetical-order/

Future-Hndrxx
Girlpool-Powerplant
Grace Sings Sludge-
Laurel Halo-Dust
JLin-Black Origami
Kendrick Lamar-Damn
Arto Lindsay-Cuidado Madame
Nkisi-Kill
Protomartyr-
Ryuichi Sakamoto-Async
Sampha-Process
Jay Som-Everybody Works
Thundercat-Drunk
Tyler the Creator-Flower Boy
David Virelles-Gnosis

Tyler the Creator's doing way better on these lists than I would ever have guessed.

even I like the Ibeyi album

i've been tyler agnostic for a very long time, but the new album is really nice

Ibeyi is hitting me a little like an updated iteration of Les Nubiens

i heard priests album this week

p good

shes tasted maggots

SZA album has some real highlights but they're not the big singles (imo) - e.g. Pretty Little Birds is *lovely*

ok on second listen the opening track is quite something

i don't know why the sza album got basically no attention on here really

ibeyi album is absolutely a top ten for me
SZA is great, prob top fifteen or so

lex/rtc selfban pact iirc xp

the sza album is awesome

iirc i talked about it in the r&b thread a little but like... ilx is different this year lol

i'm kinda upset that the kehlani record isn't getting as much traction but i would be

cosigning all the Ibeyi love, really beautiful and powerful

I'm surprised by the Kehlani absence. That record seemed to immediate to me.

I'm not surprised that it's not been mentioned anywhere given their career arc, but this year's Cut Copy record was really really good. I had totally given up on them.

xp the curse of a January release date? (re: Kehlani)

i only like half believe in that curse

If you’re listening to Ibeyi for the first time please listen to their previous album too. It’s amazing.

i had to listen to that war on drugs album recently and man, men get such a wide berth for '80s pastiche. kitten (who i was also listening to in advance of their boston show) does it so much better

kitten don't really do tunnel of love era bruce / dire straits pastiches tho?

I'm not surprised that it's not been mentioned anywhere given their career arc, but this year's Cut Copy record was really really good. I had totally given up on them.

― evol j, Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:11 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought I was listening to a new song by them until someone pointed out that it was actually a new Beck song. I was confused.

that james holden record that's making some lists is fun

tremendous album that. don’t know if it got much traction in actual psych rock circles, but it’s my favourite psych record this year

noted!

You might like it sleeve! Has the ritualistic feeling of something like the Master Musicians of Bukkake but played with something approaching a Boredoms-ish energy in places. Also lots of synth.

Song Exploder had a good episode on Ibeyi's "Deathless":
http://songexploder.net/ibeyi

oh my god how had I not heard this James Holden record yet

if it's as all as good as 'spinning dance' then...damn

james holden is definitely my favourite find from lists so far, it's fantastic

the cut copy album was quite good and better than their last one

kehlani not getting much traction is definitely confusing + a shame

thanks for that songexploder, i had been wondering about the story behind deathless

xps kitten rule

james holden record is super good

cool list from Stranded Records, gotta check out that new Bill Orcutt and the Alan Vega

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/stranded-favorites?mc_cid=25b6891673&mc_eid=4d62f33c41

i'm no War On Drugs super-fan, but maura piqued my interest in Kitten ... what album is a good starting point with them?

they have one album iirc. in terms of '80s pastiche they mainly survey dance pop and freestyle (sorta); they're simultaneously an early '90s britpop pastiche

one of the coolest bands going imo

they have a similar identity crisis to wolf alice but the poles they travel between are more interesting (for me) (wolf alice is great don't get me wrong)

I'm not surprised that it's not been mentioned anywhere given their career arc, but this year's Cut Copy record was really really good. I had totally given up on them.

― evol j

Yeah, I thought this album was really great too. I still don't know how In Ghost Colours seemed to pass all the critics by (excluding Pitchfork) back in 2008. I would have thought they had all the right ingredients to get there. Same goes for The Juan Maclean's last couple of albums.

I liked some of the stuff off that ambient tape they put out last year

January tape

Holden album largely does keep it up! A few tracks are a little more noodly/aimless than others but largely a very good job I'd say

I fell down a Shabazz Palaces rabbit hole and am super, super happy about it

https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/434wnb/noisey-100-best-songs-of-2017

Say what you will about noisey/vice but imo they made some great choices in their top five (that alex g song in particular is a total heartbreaker and it's definitely making my ilx ballot)

xp
Tendai Marare (of SP) produced one of my favorite albums this year: Pierre Kwenders "MAKANDA"
I should really start a thread for it, but I have a hard time describing it: sunny, groovy, multilingual afropop but with some of that SP heaviness

Say what you will about noisey/vice but imo they made some great choices in their top five (that alex g song in particular is a total heartbreaker and it's definitely making my ilx ballot)

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, December 7, 2017 4:55 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow, Cardi B and Lil Uzi Vert, color me impressed

I don't get why everyone is THAT into Cardi B. Like, that song is okay? I don't turn it off when it comes on the radio but I don't actively seek it out.

people love cardi b the person and love that her song became such a massive hit

ah, okay, that's fair enough