Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

I'm not much into emo lyrics but her singing is very genuine so I'll buy in... also she's such a good guitar player! I'm yet to hear a live performance of her where she doesn't have a great tone on her guitar.

https://youtu.be/Tkot9YL3YyQ

It's such a clean performance each time... studio engineers love her I bet.

she has a dedicated thread FYI. I think she's gonna have a huge year.

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle, my god

Thank you! Search hasn't been working for me in weeks.

that Julie Byrne record is lovely, especially "Sleepwalker"

Mmm Jan. Top 10 songs:

Grouper - I'm Clean Now (yeah I know its from the last week of december but I'm counting it)
Jens Lekman - What's that perfume that you wear?
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Ariel Pink - Tears on Fire
XX - Replica
Sia - The greatest (kda rmx)
C Duncan - Sibling
Luyas - Self Unemployed
Elliot Smith - I figured you out
Ibibio Sound Machine - pot is on fire

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

some nice balearic adventures

co-sign "Sibling". I later discovered a lot of his album is in the same vein, but this is still a particularly beautiful example

Other January favourites not yet mentioned:

Wiley - "Speakerbox"
Bridgit Mendler - "Do You Miss Me at All" (Marian Hill Remix) + ditto (Pusher Remix)
Mr Tophat ft. Robyn - Trust Me EP
Goldfrapp - "Anymore"
MUNA - "Crying On The Bathroom Floor"
Tinawiren - "Assàwt"
Kumisolo - "La tête ailleurs"
Louis The Child ft. Elohim - "Love Is Alive"
Nadia Rose - "Puddycat"
Zooey - The Drifters (album)

Good track: Mariam the Believer - "Crust"
Good album: V/A - Sensate Silk

Trax I'm into

Ódú - Different
Joe Goddard ft. SLO - Music Is the Answer
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason; The Pot Is on Fire
Shiny Darkly - The Other Man
Tei Shi - Keep Running
With You ft. Bobby Saint - Black Bamboo

Albums

Kehlani - Sweetsexysavage
Mega Bog - Happy Together
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Jardín

New Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood collab song "Tears on fire"

KILL THIS SONG WITH FIRE AND THROW IT INTO SPACE

they should have stuck with the Mering & Rosenberg name

"Tears On Fire" is dreamy

Hahaha I think Tears on Fire is amazing but I wont fight anyone who thinks otherwise. I've been annoying all my friends with it for the past few weeks.

Tears On Fire sounds like a merger of Wicker-Man style folk with Air. It works, I think.

Currently into Julie Byrne's new one, Robyn, Kid Koala and Rose Elinor Dougall (ex Pipettes)

Rose Elinor Dougall

I just noticed yesterday that the album came out. Started listening to it and got distracted. Need to get back to it.

Oh, I forgot to mention Syd's album Fin which is about 75% amazing.

This is what I've enjoyed the most this year so far (in no particular order)

Piano Magic – Closure
Brian Eno - Reflection
Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
Michael Chapman – 50
Mark Eitzel – Hey Mr Ferryman
Matt Jencik - Weird Times
Draugsól – Volaða Land
Au champ des morts – Dans la joie
Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial
Laster – Ons vrije fatum
Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats
Kevin Hufnagel – The Protected Shards
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Lorn - Arrayed Claws

Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much

This is wild!

Landlady - "Cadaver," from The World is a Loud Place -- some kind of entrancing herky-jerky prog pop

https://youtu.be/f_NXf3usZ7s

can't decide if i love or hate the band name pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs

foxy dads - mr spilled milk

https://foxydads.bandcamp.com/track/mr-spilled-milk

Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet

Bryan Ferry should work with this guy, it's crazy how the guitars sound imported from Avalon or late solo Ferry.

Also "Voices" with its "In Your Eyes" re-appropriation is gorgeous

I don't think there's an appropriate rolling genre thread to put this in so here we go:

https://visualdisturbances.bandcamp.com/album/uncanny-valley

Over one and a half hours of anxious avant-noise-rock. The first music in a long time that me think HOLY FUCK more than once. It rules.

Prefer this over the album that placed in 2016 EOY: https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/the-distance

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y: https://thehardytree.bandcamp.com/album/through-passages-of-time

They talked about the Stabscotch in LJ's new thread (which needs a revive anyways) xp to ultros

rolling attention deficit 2017 -> 999999999999 -> 999999999999999999

I forgot what that thread was called, thanks

Technically 2016 but this is lovely and Ghost Box-y
…and intheyearendpoll-y and gotonevotefromjustme-y

harrumph

;-)

Chromatics (no, not them, the hip-hop/Soca artist from Trinidad) - "Mapepire"

https://youtu.be/DtiAl2mOvPs

Jeff W all ahead of the curve-y

Still digesting the overt trop house vibes of the Wednesday Campanella album but I think it's good?

The Hardy Tree LP is wonderful. Best thing yet on Clay Pipe.

"Cave Me In" - Gallant, Tablo, Eric Nom: https://youtu.be/NQunCjYdAcU

This song has been ruling my world for the past couple of weeks

Little Dragon - High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AsLISPht_M

"In a part of Dublin known as the Liberties, which is also where the Vikings settled 1000 years ago, there is a small community of rebel horse owners. And a few years ago, a travelling street musician who goes by the name, "The Musical Slave", accidentally crashed her van into the wall of one of their urban horse yards – and out came a horse and a few boys. One of them brought her for a spin with a horse and two-wheeler, and from that day on she was hooked. She ended up buying her own horse and moving him into the yard...

The Musical Slave is a street musician and storyteller from Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. She plays tropical punk, and sings about love, the forces of nature, and the world economy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19A53SyAUak

Are all of those youtube comments trolling?

?

They're all saying it's the most beautiful thing ever / they cried/ they watch the video daily to feel inspired.

Im pretty certain theyre not trolling

ok holy heckin shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO769KQ_skE

getting some "Groove is in the Heart" vibes from that

"Slide" by Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos is a joyful tune

I'm really into the new Entrance album 'Book of Changes' which you can hear on bandcamp. Classic-sounding folk/pop kind of stuff. A couple of highlights: Molly, I'd Be a Fool

I cannot stop listening to the new Tinariwen. Desert Blues is all I need right now.

The new Bing & Ruth album. It's lovely.

Snail Mail - Habits album

Snail Mail's voice kinda reminds me of Pumpkin Wentzel from Guv'ner.

re: monotony's list

I came around really late on the Sophia Kennedy album, and then promptly forgot to vote for it in the eoy poll (despite nominating it myself). Hope it places despite me.

I never heard that Nilüfer Yanya song before today, but it's marvelous.

love nilufer