don't you have a thread for this, my friend, do you need another one?
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
everybody be nice to blackest ever black!!!
otm
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
dig the stuff i know off that list, will be checking the other 99% out haha
― nxd, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
the 154 reissue is a must, if you're into super gauzy ambient with muted kick drums
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
no wire jokes, imago
davy kehoe album sounded good from the couple of tracks i heard. don't totally buy into the whole BEB aesthetic project though tbh
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
this is just the worst attitude, i mean, really??
― brimstead
no malice meant. it's been a very long year and i'm very tired. i feel like i put in a lot of work listening to music, obviously it's rewarding and enjoyable but it's also work, and to see somebody come up with a list of fifty records i've heard nary a whiff of is kind of depressing.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
I'm giving this list a go ffs
― Cardi Acs (imago), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
xp it's kinda funny, rushomancy, because i remember you posting a 2016 list last year and i was all "whoa i ain't heard of ANY of this"
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
i mean, i remember you posting your personal 2016 list
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
Three pages in and the only name I even recognize is Photek.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
that's why it's depressing! i kind of feel like a personal failure for not having heard of any of blackest ever black's list. it feels like stuff i _should_ have known about.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
ha, no worries, this is always a humbling time of year, see also the Textura list
― sleeve, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
not to mention blues rock review amirite?
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Traxsource Top 100 Artists of 2017
http://news.traxsource.com/articles/2741/traxsource-top-100-artists-of-2017
20: Pablo Fierro19: Atjazz18: Jesse Rose17: Karizma16: CamelPhat15: Hyenah14: Full Intention13: Franky Rizardo12: Rocco11: Honey Dijon
10: DJ Spen9: Kink8: Angelo Ferreri7: The Deepshakerz6: Louie Vega5: Enoo Napa4: Dr Packer3: Black Loops2: Joey Negro1: David Penn
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
lol Whiney
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
this is a good list https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-experimental-albums-of-2017/?page=2
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
XLR8R's Best of 2017: Releases
https://www.xlr8r.com/features/2017/12/xlr8rs-best-of-2017-releases/
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
^ always has a few things that other people missed
Always glad to see another Feelies mention in lowcompany. I love The Necessaries - Event Horizon, discovered that a couple years ago -- Arthur Russell with Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) doing new wave/power pop in '82! I forgot that it was officially reissued, not sure why Big Sky (1981) sessions weren't included. Not all the songs were redone for EH. Pablo Gad was also a relatively recent discovery.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
11: Honey Dijon
reminded me to listen to her album - sounds p solid on first pass
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
FACT - Best Tracks of 2017
http://www.factmag.com/2017/12/15/best-tracks-2017/
― faust apes (NickB), Friday, 15 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
nice list with nice write ups
― nxd, Friday, 15 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Bandcamp has finished posting their top 100 albums:https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/15/the-best-bandcamp-albums-of-2017-20-1/
1. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism2. Jlin - Black Origami3. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda4. Spellling - Pantheon of Me5. Charly Bliss - Guppy6. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator7. Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone8. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps10. L’Rain - L’Rain11. Alvvays - Antisocialites12. Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often13. EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring14. Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light15. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle16. Tica Douglas - Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us17. Actress - AZD18. Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse19. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die20. Pallbearer - Heartless
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 16 December 2017 08:41 (six years ago) link
they also had a bunch of artists share their favorite bandcamp albums:https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/15/biggest-ups-bandcamp-artists-share-their-favorite-albums-of-2017/
― stritram, Saturday, 16 December 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
might check out that B L A C K I E record!
― Cardi Acs (imago), Saturday, 16 December 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
not technically a list but dj earworm’s year end mashup of the year’s top 25 songs is here. what a turd of a yearhttps://youtu.be/oQxKEtoHygY
― maura, Saturday, 16 December 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
The Bandcamp top 20 is definitely the best list I've encountered this year. For L'Rain and especially Spellling alone, just fantastic. Even the indie-type stuff in there isn't bad.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Rush it's not depressing tho? I mean to care about consuming too much is depressing to me, there's not enough time to hear every record and if I did I would probably devalue them by not listening that closely anyway
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
The person that knows the names of all the trees forgets their true value
― saer, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
om shanti
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
great player
― saer, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
This Nadah El Shazly album is really good so far, certainly better than a lot of the token Arab music that crosses over to western lists. Not sure it can be considered strictly Arab music, but that's a big part of what's going on in the music.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
(It's definitely not one of those ultra-classical recordings I have sometimes pushed in the past.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
does bandcamp release a list of bandcamp-only / self-released stuff? I'd be curious to see something like that.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
yeah that L'Rain album is really nice, a lot of other interesting-looking things too
― ufo, Monday, 18 December 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
L'Rain album was my discovery of the bandcamp list, it's fantastic.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
stritram, thanks for the Big Ups link! I didn't know Perturbator had a new one out this year. I'm not much into the synthwave scene, but this guy does everything I like about the genre.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 December 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Bandcamp list also had a couple unique punk/post-punk choices:
Agent Blå – Agent Blue (Luxury) - Swedish post-punk and dream pop, better than Makthaverskan, nearly as good as Desperate Journalist, just more shambolic production along the lines of Orion.https://agentbla.bandcamp.com/album/agent-bl
French Vanilla – French Vanilla (Danger Collective) - L.A. minimalist art punk with saxophones, plus a song about Carrie!https://frenchvanilla.bandcamp.com/album/french-vanilla-2
Spiritual Cramp – Mass Hysteria EP (React!) - This was recommended by Kristina Esfandiari of King Woman.https://reactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mass-hysteria
These were recommended by members of French punk band Mary Bell. I got their album when it came out in Jan, kind of got tired of it, but am enjoying it more again - https://marybellftw.bandcamp.com/album/mary-bell-lp
Dazey And The Scouts - Maggot EPhttps://dazeyandthescouts.bandcamp.com/album/maggot?from=embed
Peninsula, LALALALALALAhttps://peninsulawebpage.bandcamp.com/album/lalalalalala
gSp (girlSperm) – gSp EP (Thrilling Living)https://thrillingliving.bandcamp.com/album/12
Cocaine Piss - Piñacolalove EPhttps://cocainepiss.bandcamp.com/album/pi-acolalove
Patsy - LA Women MLPhttps://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/la-women-mlp
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-electronic-albums-of-2017/
1. Fever Ray - Plunge2. Jlin - Black Origami3. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens4. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives5. Laurel Halo - Dust6. Yaeji - EP27. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage8. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia9. DJ Sports - Modern Species10. Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue11. Equiknoxx - Colón Man12. Midland - Fabriclive 9413. Call Super - Arpo14. Four Tet - New Energy15. Karen Gwyer - Rembo16. Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy17. Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game18. UMFANG - Symbolic Use of Light19. Nídia - Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida20. Actress - AZD
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Ha, I discovered L'Rain a week or so ago when someone who plays on it shared it on a jazz guitar group I read. It's pretty cool.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 18 December 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Second the moderate hyping of L'Rain after listening to it because of the bandcamp list.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 18 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
i am hard pressed to consider Fever Ray an "electronic album"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
in what way isn't it?
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
in comparison to, say, actress or karen gwyer? I think of the primary instrument with fever ray being Karin's voice. if fever ray is an electronic album, so is bjork's.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
FR's primary instrumentation is electronic i suppose but so is Migos?
pfork painted themselves into a corner by filling their experimental list with gloopy electronica
― Cardi Acs (imago), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
Inc.com - 10 Best Albums of 2017 to Pump Up Your Productivity Over the Holiday Break
https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/10-best-albums-of-2017-to-pump-up-your-productivity-over-holiday-break.html
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
lol that poor sad guy
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link