2017 end of the year lists

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)

...I still listen to stuff from the first two A/F releases

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

I'm sure you don't need any help with that. I see A Crow has risen to 14 in the aggregate list. Did you know AOTY has a deal with Apple that the final top 10 will be placed on your iPhones and Pads? They've thoughtfully set it up so certain tracks will automatically be made into your ring tones and alarms...

"You should definitely write this out so a better singer can perform it (but I like Jethro Tull too!)" - what I imagine my composition prof would have said if I submitted "Ogre" in my third-year portfolio. (I like Dawson and his voice, ftr.)

I would agree with your composition prof. idk? Dawson is kind of a composite of a tonne of freak-folk stuff. I like his chord/melody left-turns but Josephine Foster/Born Heller does the same. I don't have a taste for groups of people mewling but when I do it's mid-period Cerberus Shoal or some recent Big Blood stuff. There isn't a lot of music that I'd leave the shop if it came on but I think he's one of them. Curious as to why people like him so much!

i'm just waiting for time to drop their annual 'worst songs of the year' list

if you have the time, there have been some brilliant reviews of it on here: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/richard-dawson/peasant/ - including one in French that's well worth running through Google Translate

idk what to say, for me it towers over all the other music this year. its melodic sensibility is so wry and stimulating, its sonic make-up is a box of mad wonders and the lyrics and attitude of the project are just so welcoming, but also literary in the best sense. there's endless generosity and liveliness of mind here. in our dull fucked country walking off the edge of petty idiocy he feels like one of only a very few trying to build an alternative

tl;dr: his is the soundtrack of the corbyn revolution

Are you trying to make people listen to it or not listen to it?

:D

Well I hope no-one else listens to it so I have something else to feel superior about

FYI: The metal + heavy rock poll nominations thread is now open.

ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

Noisey:
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/pazbwn/noisey-100-best-albums-of-2017

Revolver:
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/20-best-albums-2017

Enjoying the Kehlani album! The ILX r&b crew may be depleted but its influence lives on peace god

Here's one I haven't seen anywhere: Magnetic Fields- 50 Song Memoir

Last Dawson post I promise but ya I do like his lyrics a lot ofc

I don't know anything in the bottom half of the Noisey list but everything in the top half is good and fair and just

nice to see a decent helping of metal in a general-purpose list

Here's one I haven't seen anywhere: Magnetic Fields- 50 Song Memoir

― President Keyes, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 10:26 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Vulture had it at #4: http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/the-10-best-albums-of-2017.html

The metal is all from Kim Kelly, an excellent writer who publishes in nearly every metal publication of note. Up until the top 10, the Noisey list is pretty unique.

oh I'm familiar with the great KK

i always like chris richards' end of year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/best-music-of-2017-cardi-b-paints-the-world-bodak-yellow/2017/12/06/cad4d6be-d5fc-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html

Dizzee Rascal album not getting mentioned at all either