the single best album of 2017 you feel is overlooked

I'm gonna broken-record a little and repost a link to the Drab Majesty album so that people don't forget about it:

https://drabmajesty.bandcamp.com/album/the-demonstration

i don't know how overlooked it's going to be but klockworks 20 is the best thing i've heard this year.

surely a matter of time before Weather Station starts to blow up, new record is stellar

jasss' weightless is my lite industrial noise techno album of the year for sure

Justin Walter - Unseen Forces: somewhere btw Jon Hassell and Tim Hecker

thanks for this one

Selffish's He She Them Us. Genuinely soothing.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press

An EP from this absoulutely fantastic band from Melbourne.

the title track of that EP is great

I second the Moses Sumney record. Not that it's generally overlooked (great reviews all around) but I'm just a little surprised it's not discussed here at all.

i'm gonna go with NOT EVEN HAPPINESS by julie byrne. spectacular folk record full of melancholy observations on the livelihood of a transient traveling across america trying to find a sense of home. its meditative center feels especially comforting and refreshing in these times we're living in. might be my AOTY.

new florist:

https://florist.bandcamp.com/

It feels like outside of a few records everything is overlooked now, especially on ILM. Records come out, get good reviews, BNM, whatever, and there is maybe a mention or two of them, unless there's some controversy attached, and a week later they've vanished from the planet.

love that Julie Byrne record

Keyes otm, but what to do about it?

nothing to do really. I was just noticing that 3 or 4 of the records posted in this thread were P4K BNM recipients, which used to mean that a record was not overlooked. Maybe it still does, on Twitter or somewhere.

This might be getting props elsewhere but it's pretty overlooked on RYM and and not even mentioned on here: Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly

I gave some stuff from his first album a listen and while it's OK it's total Jools Holland bait, but this record's quite an eclectic and oddball art-pop concept album, about... well you'll pick up the gist if you listen. tbh I'm mostly mentioning this album since I think my AOTY is fairly well-recieved, and it's not metal either which is what I mostly post about, I hope this could be something that the general ILM populace might find interesting.

I haaaated his first album but that has me intrigued!

My AOTY is the same as yours but it's gotten quite a few props. My suggestion in this thread is another one we both like but one that like its parent band ought to be a byword for critical apathy

Sadly yeah, I didn't even think of boosting them :/

If B. Clementine's voice bothered you I wouldn't bother with this one, the music's pretty neat though, almost like prog in disguise. I would love it if he reached to Scott Walker levels of inaccessibility in the future lol

Oh it was his piano that bothered me before, that and the lack of interesting songs. Sounds like he's addressed that. Voices never put me off! Except for múm, sheesh

And Kiedis

This might be getting props elsewhere but it's pretty overlooked on RYM and and not even mentioned on here: Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly

It's ranked #104 for 2017 on RYM right now, which is pretty good. If you filter out the metal albums it's probably top 50.

I think the Liima record that's about to come out will figure large for me, it's basically an Efterklang side project, last year's record was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj1P-n5nMFk

xp fair enough, I don't actually look at the charts much so I probably shouldn't comment on stuff like that, I just haven't noticed much discussion about that album

I'd never heard of Benjamin Clementine. Maybe he's not got as much buzz here in the States - or maybe I'm just out of it. I'm liking it though - lands somewhere in a quadrant between Julia Holter and Frank Ocean.

juile byrne record is so good. so early in the year and time moves fast and is so beguiling, it's easy to forget records.

Benjamin Clementine is....not what I expected!

Consigning Julie Byrne, that record is beautiful.

Is the Klockworks thing a mix? I'm not sure about listening to 20 separate Berghain techno tracks one after the other, it's not really what they're for is it?

Think of it as 3 double 12"

not my post, but yeah holy shit this album

this Zimpel/Ziolek is incredible.

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Yes. I've been pushing the Zimpel side of the Instant Classic label on ILM for 2+ years. I came to it via Polish advocates on RYM, but it's worth spreading.

the Julie Byrne album has hung tough in my top 3ish of the year ever since it came out. so good.

i don't think of it as overlooked, though. not mega-hyped, obviously, but it got a lot of good reviews. (i'm not quarreling w/ it being in this thread, to be clear.)

Surprised there hasn't been more mentions of the Bedouine album. Some beautiful low-key folk and pop songs. She's Syrian, via Saudi and LA, and the timbre of her voice and the arrangements remind me of Nick Drake and Robert Kirby.

https://www.youtu.be/z0tv_pVvp4Q

Christ but embedding links in iOS is a massive ballache (or I'm a bellend. Or both.): https://youtu.be/z0tv_pVvp4Q

^^ was thinking about starting a thread for her, gorgeous album, very Cohen-esque.

the real highlight (and anomaly) from that album is "Summer Cold": https://youtu.be/yZlhNjLTPc0

Jen Cloher's self-titled album is awesome and I hadn't heard anything about her until seeing her open for Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett.

In a quite similar vein as Barnett (who's her wife, as it turns out). The album is great if you're a fan of CB: https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album/jen-cloher

Voices never put me off!

This is almost unimaginable to me. Voices put me off all the time.

I just got tipped to that Bedouine album about a week ago. It's very beautiful stuff.

People on ILM (who like things from the vaguely punk rock end of the spectrum*) should be all over Melkbelly's Nothing Valley by now. I'm tempted to start a thread on the album but I think I may have run out of things to say about it.

*On the other hand, I'm mostly indifferent to that sort of music these days, but I love this. Still, I tend to like a bit more punk in my rock than what most indie rock I hear provides.

Melkbelly save rock music!

These guitars are very Butthole Surfers fan friendly, if not generally as psychedelic or quite as variable.

I'll add more votes for the Eitzel and Gaussian Curve albums. Also Ed Dowie's The Uncle Sold is excellent and should appeal to one's post-Wyatt sensibilities.

gonna campaign like mad to get Eitzel in the 77

I've nominated half a dozen now, but not seen this mentioned elsewhere: Nev Cottee's Broken Flowers. He's new to me; reminds me of Lanegan circa Whisky for the Holy Ghost, Jack, Tindersticks, a bit, and Lee Hazleweood.

welp that's essential listening based on that description

I've probably doomed it with those comparisons, but still.

Also, mea culpa Whiskey, ffs.

République Amazone by Les Amazones d'Afrique; a supergroup of sorts of African women singers including Mariam of Amadou & Mariam, Nneka (her involvement is how I found it), and Angélique Kidjo. The production is amazing. There's only a little bit of sung English on it, but the overarching theme is apparently female equity and gender equality. I feel it. Let these women take over.

I first came across it a few months ago, but this past weekend it really clicked and now it's in my top 3 shortlist for 2017.

^thank you for this

A friend put me on to this, and I don't know if it's the "single best" anything -- single best improv hurdy-gurdy drone music, probably -- but it is overlooked and it is super cool:

Razen The xvoto reels

https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/the-xvoto-reels

(And weirdly, that means my only two contributions to this thread are by Belgians. May be related to all the sour beer I've been drinking.)