Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

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)"

Dennis Gonzalez Ataraxia - Ts'iibil Chaaltun
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
Rudresh Mahanthappas - Indo Pak Coalition
Aine O'Dwyer - Gallarais
Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa
Wadada Leo Smith - Reflections and Meditations on Monk
Matt Mitchell - A Pouting Grimace
Jane Ira Bloom - WIld Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
Victor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Guitars?
Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Paint

albums I liked recently.

Ooh, new Anouar Brahem! Not sure I've reached the point of diminishing returns with him, but every time I put one of the albums on, its lovely.

It's either the zenith of boredom or very beautiful, or maybe both - but I still love it!

Big Thief - Haley

One of the best songs this year! Hear it right now!

It sounds like something I would have been listening to in 1983, maybe from Touch and Go Records, but so far I am enjoying it a lot, even though I hardly listen to anything like this these days:

Melkbelly - Nothing Valley

I think this vocalist has a good punk voice.

She reminds me a bit of Mary Timony.

The drummer is quite good too, and the guitars hit the spot for me (though there are no surprises). Very hooked on this for the moment.

I'm not familiar with Mary Timony except as a name--and I also recognize her photo. I'll have to check out some of her projects while I seem to be in the mood for this-sort-of-thing.

Nothing she's ever done sounds much like this—maybe Melkbelly and Autoclave could overlap on a venn diagram on a good day—but she's neat. You may like her.

Listening to some Autoclave. Not too similar, but not bad. It would be an understatement to say I'm not a fan of most 90s rock, but as a result I also haven't heard a lot of it (where I might have listened to equivalently positioned bands in the 80s).

Wish I could understand Arabic as this is gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3eBNWwoa4

It's already gone from youtube? Checking Spotify. Is this going to be dance meets Sun Ra meets Arab music?

(Called out sick today so I'm going to be around more than usual for better or worse.)

the youtube clip is working for me

That video still doesn't work for me. Maybe it's not available in North America (though it doesn't say anything that specific).

I've also seen comparisons between Miranda Winters' vocals and Girlpool's vocals. I don't hear it based on what little I've heard of Girlpool (which is pretty zzzzzzz to me). Winters has a raw, slightly husky sound that somehow seem very unaffected and not as smug as so man indie vocals. She's hitting a familiar (that word looks weird to my sudafedinated brain) sound but I can't think of other vocalists that sound that similar. They probably exist though! So much that could be related to this that I haven't heard.

Track's also on Spotify, but then maybe not in North America.

olivia block - piano and organ - beautiful

https://www.discogs.com/Jürg-Frey-Lâme-Est-Sans-Retenue-I/release/11051567

also, Another Timbre (label) has been on a tear for the last two years.. high quality albums, popping up a good clip

White Reaper - Judy French

keep forgetting about lindsey buckingham & christine mcvie "in my world" ... that's a jam

xp great song

xposts

sigh Mashrou Leila... I wish I had heard of them before this year as they are ridiculously amazing. Wondering if we can still nominate their latest album for the EOY poll - first came out in 2015 but re-released as a deluxe edition this year with a few extra tracks.

Love this song, basically queer Depeche Mode with Muslim instead of Catholic guilt: https://youtu.be/mSnJJv_cBDw

Also this video is fire: https://youtu.be/NF__cpsDmZk

yeah, they're great.

woah, thanks for this, it rules

The Blind Boys of Alabama - “Train Fare”

(Scrubbed from YouTube but streaming everywhere)

Apologies beforehand because I'm about to use this thread to sort out my 200 favorite songs of the year. I'm at 180 right now and some of this might be changed with whatever I find in the EOY lists that will start appearing by the hundreds in the following weeks.
Adam Port, Simple Symmetry - I Never Wear Black - Simple Symmetry Remix
Allan Rayman - 13
alt-J - 3WW
Alvvays - Dreams Tonite
Animal Collective - Man Of Oil
Anna Of The North - Lovers
Anna Wise - Coconuts
Arcade Fire - We Don't Deserve Love
Atelje - 50/50
Axel Boman - Hello
Baba Stiltz - Can't Help It
Bedouine - Dusty Eyes
Big Thief - Haley
Billy Lemos, Stevan - Can't Be // How U Feel
Bonobo, Rhye - Break Apart
Boris Dlugosch, Cassara - Traveller
BOSCO, St. Beauty - Castles (feat. St. Beauty)
Bosq, Megan Doherty - Can't Seem to Hide
Boy Azooga - Face Behind Her Cigarette
Broken Social Scene - Stay Happy
BRONCHO - Get in My Car
Burna Boy - Rock Your Body
C Duncan - Sibling
Calvin Harris, Jessie Reyez - Hard to Love
CCFX - The One to Wait
Charlotte Adigéry - 1,618
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
Cherushii, Maria Minerva - Thin Line (feat. Maria Minerva)
Chris Stapleton - Either Way
Chromatics - Shadow
Chromeo - Juice
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Claude Speeed - Dreamdream
Colter Wall - Thirteen Silver Dollars
Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Dirty Projectors, Dawn Richard, Dre Skull - Cool Your Heart - Dre Skull Remix
Drake - Passionfruit
The Drums - Blood Under My Belt
Easy Life - Pockets
Elliott Smith - I Figured You Out
Elsa Hewitt - Breathing SpaceX
EMA - Down and Out
Emily King - For Them
Everything Is Recorded, Sampha - Close But Not Quite
Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
Fenne Lily - Three Oh Nine
Fever Ray - Mustn't Hurry
Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Grease
Frankie Rose - Trouble
Fuga Ronto - L'uomo invisible
Future - Mask Off
Generationals - Catahoula Man
Girls Night Out - Orange Peeling
Gorillaz, DRAM, Purple Disco Machine - Andromeda (feat. DRAM) - Purple Disco Machine Remix
Goto80 - Birds on Fire Note
Grouper - I'm Clean Now
HAIM - Something To Tell You
Halo Maud - Du pouvoir
Hand Habits - All the While
Hoops - Rules
Hundred Waters - Particle
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason
Iron & Wine - Call It Dreaming
Jae Tyler - Show and Tell
James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner - Mercury
Japanese Breakfast - Machinist
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?
Jerry Folk - Money
Joe Goddard, SLO, RAC - Ordinary Madness - RAC Mix
John Maus - Teenage Witch
Joseph Shabason - Aytche
Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
Kelly Lee Owens - Throwing Lines
Kerri Chandler - Stop Wasting My Time (DJ-Kicks) - Mixed
Kevin Morby - City Music
King Henry, Rhye - Moment
Knox Fortune - No Dancing
La Luz - Believe My Eyes
Lali Puna - Two Windows
Lana Del Rey - In My Feelings
Laura Marling - Wild Fire
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
LCD Soundsystem - oh baby
Life in Sweatpants - Girls
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Lindstrøm, Jenny Hval - Bungl (Like a Ghost)
Little Dragon - Strobe Light
Lord Echo, Mara TK - The Sweetest Meditation
Lorde, Chromeo - Green Light - Chromeo Remix
Louis The Child, Ashe - Right To It (feat. Ashe)
LOVE SICK - Bullet
Lusine, Vilja Larjosto - Just a Cloud
The Luyas - Fed to the Lions
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Marcioz - The Very, Very $hy Pearl (The Pulse)
Mary Lattimore - Wawa by the Ocean
Matthias Meyer, Ryan Davis - Hope
Maya Jane Coles, Chelou - Darkside (feat. Chelou) - Edit
Mega Bog - T.V. M.A.C.
Melanie De Biasio - Gold Junkies
Men I Trust - Tailwhip
Mesita - Compliments
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Michael Mayer, Joe Goddard, DJ Koze - For You - DJ Koze Mbira Remix
Montero - Tokin' the Night Away
Moon Diagrams - End of Heartache
Moon Duo - Sevens
Mount Kimbie, Micachu - Marilyn
Mr. Tea - Ashram's Groove
Mt. Joy - Sheep
NE-HI, Jamila Woods - The Times I'm Not There
Nilüfer Yanya - Golden Cage
Nite Jewel - 2 Good 2 Be True
NVDES - Do You Think About Me
Oliver, De La Soul - Heart Attack (feat. De La Soul)
Omni - Equestrian
One Sentence. Supervisor - Hedera Helix
Orgone, Jesse Wagner - P.C.H. (One More Mile)
The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt
Oxia, Robag Wruhme - Domino - Robag's Lasika Cafa Nb
Ozel AB - Orbit 416
Parcels - Overnight
Pastaboys, Osunlade, Rampa - Deep Musique - Rampa Remix
Peking Duk, AlunaGeorge - Fake Magic
Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
Pykäri, SOMA - Touch
Radiohead - I Promise
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars
Rebolledo, Maceo Plex - Discotico Plexico - Maceo Plex Remix
Red Axes - Earth Core
Rhye - Taste
Rose Droll - A Change in Weather
Russ Chimes, Iris Gold - Drift (feat. Iris Gold)
Ryan Adams - To Be Without You
SACRED PAWS - Everyday
Sam Amidon - Juma Mountain
(Sandy) Alex G - Sportstar
SASSY 009 - Pretty baby
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Shabazz Palaces, Quazarz, Thaddillac - Shine a Light
Sia, Kendrick Lamar, KDA - The Greatest - KDA Remix
SiR, Anderson .Paak, King Mez - New LA (feat. Anderson .Paak & King Mez)
Sky Ferreira - Easy - Music From The Motion Picture Baby Driver
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Snoh Aalegra, Vince Staples - Nothing Burns Like The Cold
Soul Clap, Ebony Houston, Aquiles Navarro, David Marston, Myles Karp - Numb - David Marston & Myles Karp Remix feat. Aquiles Navarro
Spoon - Can I Sit Next to You
Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way
Sufjan Stevens - Wallowa Lake Monster
Sun-El Musician, Samthing Soweto - Akanamali (feat. Samthing Soweto)
Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
Sylvan Esso - Die Young
SZA - Prom
Talaboman, John Talabot, Axel Boman - Safe Changes
Tei Shi - Justify
Ten Fé - Another Way
Tennis - Modern Woman
Thundercat - A Fan's Mail (Tron Song Suite II)
Tinariwen, Kurt Vile, Mark Lanegan - Nannuflay
Todd Terje, Prins Thomas - Jungelknugen - Prins Thomas Remix
TOPS - Cutlass Cruiser
Tornado Wallace, Sui Zhen - Today (feat. Sui Zhen)
Tunnelvisions - Guava
Tycho, Beacon - See (feat. Beacon)
U.S. Girls - Mad As Hell
The War On Drugs - Pain
Washed Out - Get Lost
White Denim - Let's Switch It Up
Whitney - You and Me - Demo
Willie Nelson, Tony Joe White, Leon Russell, Jamey Johnson - God's Problem Child
With You., Bobby Saint - Black Bamboo (feat. Bobby Saint)
Wolf Alice - Beautifully Unconventional
Woods - Love Is Love
Xinobi - Far Away Place
The xx - Replica
YesYou, Damon Trueitt - Change Is Gonna Come
Yumi Zouma - Depths (Pt. I)
!!! - The One 2

uh whut lol

thin line is from 2015 moka :)

Ah yes it is... I don't remember putting it there hahaha I think I might have dragged and dropped to the incorrect playlist. Thanks for the heads up.

good list. and a huge cheers on the US GIRLS

Change "Thin line" for Kolsch - Liath I was forgetting that one!

US GIRLS is fun! Love that one.

great list, one of my fav posters tbh.

Really enjoying the Miranda Lee Richards album Existential Beasts. At times it sounds like a companion piece to the Suzanne Sundfør album.

https://www.discogs.com/Argoman-Chimicalissimo/release/10579142

Thanks Ross! Big love to you too.

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/78nDved7zIQ5QvrzwmuTNG

New additions to the playlist and a change (Knox Fortune song switched because I think I like this one better, but the whole album is good probably one of my favorites of the year) :

James Holden & the Animal Spirits - Each Moment Like the First
Grapetooth - Trouble
Knox Fortune - Lil Thing
The Shacks - Fly Fishing
E Ruscha V - Who Are You
The Proper Ornaments - Memories

James Holden, Grapetooth and Knox Fortune might be appealing to BOC fans. It sounds very much post-BOC and nothing like them but there's some elements: hip hop beats, vintage and eerie synths, summer feels, a certain childhood nostalgia to them. Holden in particularly is close to that sound but the other two sound like pop singles produced by BOC.

Before the year is over I'll try to cut the whole thing down to 50 songs. It's so hard, there's been so many good music this year.

Read BOC as Blue Oyster Cult before realizing you probably meant Boards of Canada

Ah yes that's Boards of Canada! Sorry.

Presentable Corpse - Through Waves of Fog
Ge-Ology - Re-Fingered with Love