Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

^ awesome

Matthew Shipp Trio - Piano Song

Albums I'm into right now:

HAIM - Something To Tell You
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Penelope Trappes - Penelope One
Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
Group Doueh + Cheveu - Dakhla Sahara Session
Christian Scott - Diaspora
Harriet Brown - Contact

Here's where I am.

What!? there's a new Arto Lindsay album!!! Brb

Playlist is updated; flirting with 400 tracks just past midyear

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

Some fave tracks so far:

Nicki Minaj - Regret In Your Tears
Ariel Pink - Another Weekend
Yu Su - Soon (Moa Mix)
Oneohtrix Point Never - The Pure and the Damned feat. Iggy Pop
Petals - TOPS
Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence
Burna Boy - Rock Your Body
Superpitcher - Howl
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Calvin Harris - Slide feat. Frank Ocean & Migos
Kinetic Electronix - DewDropInn
Anthony Naples - Sky Flowers
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Playboy Carti - Magnolia
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Shanti Celeste - Good Spirits
DeJ Loaf - No Fear
Jayda G - Heaven Could Be Lately
Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like (Remix) feat. Gucci Mane

Very much enjoying Dauwd's Theory of Colours. Glass Jelly stands out at the moment, but the whole album is good.

enjoying the Dauwd, thanks

i was sure i had posted a list on here at some pt anyway here's my fave albums of the year so far:

Sacred Paws - Strike a Match
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Tinariwen - Elwan
Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
VA - Zaire 74: The African Artists
Miranda Lee Richards - Existential Beast
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

My new favorite album of the year is Gurr's 'In My Head,' and I don't give a shit that it came out in October 2016. I didn't hear it until last night.

This already has a reserved slot in top ten tracks of 2017

https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/track/blue-ring

^Moon Diagrams is Moses Archuleta from Deerhunter, who has been quietly releasing great low-key ambient music over the last few years

At some point I'll give a fuller accounting of tracks that I'm loving this year but for the moment will just leave this one here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1CcOVvSjbM

I'm all in on Hazel English

I kinda thought Hazel English was neat when there was a steady drip of singles every few weeks, but once I heard them all together on a single album I got bored by the sameyness.

Understandable! I listened to it due to circumstances (it was the only thing I had for a few days) and I went from liking its vibe to (most of) the individual songs.

In addition to titles I mentioned above

Juana Molina - Halo
Bola - D.E.G.
Sudan Archives - Sudan Archives
9T Antiope - Of Murk and Shallow Water
Hauschka - What If
Yasmine Hamdan - Al Jamílat
Nídia Minaj - Nídia é má, Nídia é fudida
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Slowdive - Slowdive
Emel - Ensen
Deena Abdelwahed - Klabb
Karen Gwyer - Rembo Tech House, Wonky Techno

and the Mori-Ra EP

Since last time, I would add:

The Stevens - Good (Aussie slacker indie)
Undergang - Misantropologi (Danish death metal)
Temple of Void - Lords of Death (American death doom)

so is it just me or is this the best year for new music in quite a while?

It's been pretty great!

cosign

Its been awful in pop music, though.

it's been a super deep year, but not so heavy at the top

Warm Digits (ft. Field Music) - End Times

Masasolo - Idaho

Really enjoying the recent Chris Bathgate record, starts out as a folksy singer-songwriter thing, spreads out into the cosmos, then recedes back.

Ruby Haunt - Destroyer. Some nice downer dream pop just in time for summer's end.

End-of-summer update:

Desperate Journalist - Why Are You So Boring?
Worriers - Future Me
The New Pornographers - Play Money
The Regrettes - Juicebox Baby
The Magnetic Fields - '69: Judy Garland
Guided by Voices - Overloaded
Charli XCX - Boys
Downtown Boys - A Wall
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses

A few more somehow since the last time I posted.

Brand New - Science Fiction (aoty)
Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come

Jessie Ware - Selfish Love

Geez, violent ending to the video though.

Bicep album is great

also, as long as I'm putting up some suggestions from the last month of 2017 listening:
Daniel Caesar
Iron and Wine
Snoop
Felicia Atkinson
Mount Eerie
Floating Points
Bargou 08
Jamila Woods
Mark McGuire
Dua Lipa

into this from manchester young'un iamddb

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

Current things:

Iron and Wine - Beast Epic
Portico Quartet - Art in the Age of Automation
Various - Sweet as Broken Dates
Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes
Akira Rabelais – Spellewauerynsherde

July & August favourites:

Mura Masa - s/t LP
The Japanese House - Saw You in a Dream EP
This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze LP
Nova Materia - "On/Av"
GIRLI - "Hot Mess"
Maya Jane Coles - "Weak"
Charli XCX - "Boys"
Kesha - "Praying"; "Learn To Let Go"; "Godzilla"
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria LP
Bugzy Malone - King of the North EP
Astrid S - "Such A Boy"
Mura Masa ft. Moses Boyd - "Untitled"
Wolf Alice - "Beautifully Unconventional"
Allie X - "That’s So Us"
The Focus Group - "New Toytown Walk"
Confidence Man - "Boyfriend (Repeat)" (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix)
Kesha - Rainbow LP
Karen Gwyer - Rembo LP
Bertrand Burgalat - Les choses qu’on ne peut dire à personne LP
Simon James - Akiha Den Den LP
Jazmine Sullivan x Bryson Tiller - "Insecure"
Red Velvet - "Zoo"
Deerhoof ft. Laetitia Sadier - "Come Down Here & Say That"
Even As We Speak - "Such A Good Feeling"
Alex the Astronaut - "Not Worth Hiding"
SZA - "Drew Barrymore"
ZHU - stardustexhalemarrakechdreams EP
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"; "To Follow & Lead"
Ride - "Lateral Alice" (original & Cavern of Anti-Matter remix)
Aly & AJ - "Take Me"

I was staying in a pub near Hawarden for work last month and they had this channel on that played all this weird and wonderful music but I didn't have a pen with me to write any of it down but I was able to get another guest to record this for me. I can't remember the name of the channel and last time I was there I couldn't find the pub either (it was a last minute booking and I paid cash)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU-3E5OsK9U

The only other record I remembered was Marching on Together but I don't like that one

Roman Rauch - Don't You Try

Men I Trust - "Tailwhip"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmtBJRykck

I loved their track "Lauren", this is nice too!

Perversely unmentioned to date:

Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory (you know what to expect, close/contact mic sax aping minimalists, good but diminishing returns)
Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble (acoustic-to-orchestral angst favored by fans of her last, ABBA-esque album. Spoken word bits belong elsewhere)
Sevdaliza - Ison (close in conception to FKA Twigs, Arca-inspired downtempo with strong cabaret vocals by an Iranian expat)
Kaleida - Tear The Roots (Soft Cell backing Tracey Thorn is an idea I can get behind. The EPs were better)
Allie X - CollXtion II (craftmanlike synthpop, chugging away without much attention)
London Grammar - Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Hannah Reid is probably more talented than your favorite current vocalist)
Nídia - Nídia é má, Nídia é fudida (ok, I mentioned this upthread, but Afro-house/electronica fans should be all over this)
Hammock - Mysterium (plugging away at the ambient side of shoegaze for over a decade, this is among their best)
Widowspeak - Expect the Best (more Mazzy twang indie. A personal weakness)
Ifriqiyya Électrique - Rûwâhîne (Gnawa inspired call/response with sympathetic production)
Anneli Drecker - Revelation for Personal Use (I'd love to see a S/D for post Bel Canto Drecker)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid (cheating: out 6 October. Florid bucolic dreampop, as one might expect)

Rich The Kid - New Freezer ft. Kendrick Lamar

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp totally fucking up my year-end list with this:
https://www.discogs.com/label/1188972-The-Art-Of-PerelmanShipp

His quartet album - Not Bound is brilliant as well.

brian eno / kevin shields - "only once away my son": https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/brian-eno-with-kevin-shields

massive

Not Bound: so good so far.

Some favourite 2017 tracks so far:

The Jungle Giants - Bad Dream
Grace Mitchell - Now
Tops - Petals
I Know Leopard - Let Go
Men I Trust - Tailwhip
MK - 17
Oliver - Chemicals (feat. MNDR)
Polish Club - Where U Been
Sylvan Esso - The Glow
Young Mopes - Louise Burns

September & October

LPs:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
Meridian Brothers - ¿Dónde Estás María?
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Fever Ray - Plunge

EPs:
DMX Krew - The Wiggly Worm
spaceprodigi - Launch
Sorcerer - Dream Season
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
Even As We Speak - The Black Forest

Tracks:
Prins Thomas - "Apokalypso 1" (original / Øyvind Morken’s Trance Dance rework)
Prins Thomas - "Montague Grant"
Tove Lo - "Disco Tits"
Kero Kero Bonito - "Rock n Roll Star"
ILoveMakkonen ft. Rae Sremmurd - "Love"
Tove Styrke - "Mistakes"
Barry Adamson - "I Got Clothes (ACR:MCR rework)"
FEMM - 浪漫飛行 (Roman Hikou)
S U R V I V E - "Cutthroat (Lena Willikens Remix)"
Camille - "Twix"
Demi Lovato - "Sexy Dirty Love"
Hyuna - "Mirror"
Saint Etienne - "London Like A Distant Sun"
Saint Etienne - "Dive (Matt Berry remix)"
Björk - "the gate"
Wolf Alice - "St. Purple & Green"
GIRLI - "Can I Say Baby"
Japanese Breakfast - "Till Death"
Wyvern Lingo - "Out Of My Hands"
Clark - "Honey Badger"
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - "Son of a Lady"
tUnE-yArDs - "Look At Your Hands"
Nadia Rose - "Big Woman"
Solarstone & John 00 Fleming - "Hemispheres (Expanded)"