Best New Albums of 2017 *

They are great. For some of the albums I post, there isn't another thread I could post them on.

 

Schnellertollermeier - Rights

Another Cuneiform Records artist that is pretty much an instant buy (but still after sampling). Post-rock/math rock trio.

Rights, by Schnellertollermeier

 

Haven't seen any mention of The Granite Shore, they released a very nice pop record in 2017, Suspended Second, on Occultation Recordings. Made it onto quite a few of the off the main street top of the year lists, I only heard about it because I was searching for any recent news on The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus who are also on Occultation...

 

Dutch Uncles yeah heard a track of them in ⭐️ bucks Streetlife

 

Gave all three a listen. Very impressed with Aldous Harding. Bought her 2nd album and watched loads of live videos so thanks again for the recommendations.

 

Great, glad you like it. Shark Smile and Nothings gonna hurt you - are the best two Big Thief and Cigarettes songs as an entry way drug...

 

My favorite albums from 2017

Favorites (in no order)

Steven Wilson - To The Bone
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Beck - Colors
Jeff Beck - Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Big Big Train - Grimspound, Second Brightest Star
The Black Angels - Death Song
Blitzen Trapper - Wild and Reckless
David Bowie - Cracked Actor
Cage The Elephant - Unpeeled
Cotton Mather - Wild Kingdom
The Dears - Times Infinity Volume 2
Death From Above 1979 - Outrage! Is Now
Noel Gallagher - Who Built The Moon?
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
Peter Himmelman - There Is No Calamity
King Crimson - Live In Chicago
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Preservation Hall Jazz Band - So It Is
The Rails - There Are Other People In This World Not Just You
The Rolling Stones - From The Vault: Sticky Fingers Live At The Fonda Theater
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark
The Shins Heartworms
Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics II, Acoustic Rarities, Live At Rockpalast
Robin Trower - Time And Emotion
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Wolf Parade - Cry, Cry, Cry

The Rest:

Blackfield - Blackfield V
Matt Cameron - Cavedweller
The Clientele - Music For The Ages
Bruce Cockburn - Bone On Bone
Ray Davies - Americana
Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe
Mutemath - Play Dead
Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral Part 2
Queens Of The Stoneage - Villains
U2 - Songs Of Experience

 

Oh Sees and OCS take the crown, as per usual for me....

 

Amazing, my Grandmother's list is identical. Apart from the Noel Gallagher one of course, even she wouldn't listen to that!

 

At the moment, we are still enjoying Aldous Harding and Cigarettes after Sex. My favourite vinyl was the Gillian Welch reissue and the A Winged Victory for the Sullen older vinyl that I picked up.

 

Did I already mention the Virginia Wing / XAM Duo album?

Yea, looking back I guess a few times (or more), but in case anyone missed it ...

 

BRIGHT PHOEBUS

The watersons really have their work cut out for them to make a better one.

 

Juana Molina - Halo, not sure but this sounds like Ambient Fado (?), there's a new genre for you.

 

I'm finally getting around to listing my favorites of the year. It will probably take a couple of weeks to finish posting all of them.

My favorite albums of 2017

 

Does anyone have the vinyl on this? What do you think of it?

 

Personal favorite of mine released in 2017:

Red Gone

 

My top 10 rock albums

1. Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
2. Saltland - A Common Truth
3. Juana - Molina Halo
4. Schnellertollermeier - Rights
5. Markus Reuter featuring SONAR and Tobias Reber - Falling for Ascension
6. Delicate Steve - This Is Steve
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
8. Six Organs of Admittance - Burning the Threshold
9. The Kraken Quartet - Separate | Migrate
10. Here Lies Man - Here Lies Man

I've also posted my top 5 Folk and top 5 Early Music albums here My favorite albums of 2017

 

My favorite avant garde/experimental releases of 2017

1. Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand
2. John McCowen - Solo Contra
3. Various Artists - John Zorn: The Interpretation of Dreams
4. Nathan Hubbard ER Quartet - Lattice Trust
5. Hear in Now (Mazz Swift/Tomeka Reid/Silvia Bolognesi) - Not Living in Fear
6. Craig Taborn and Ikue Mori - Highsmith
7. Tony Conrad - Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
8. The Necks - Unfold
9. Simulacrum - John Zorn: The Garden Of Earthly Delights
10. Garth Knox/The Saltarello Trio - Leonard: John Zorn's Book Of Angels Volume 30

Two great archival releases. All of the above are new music. Since these aren't, I didn't include them in the list but they'd both be near the top if I did.
Charlemagne Palestine - The Lower Depths
Franz Zwartjes - Zwartjes. Tapes 1

My favorite albums of 2017

 

Wow, just found out that they are opening for Hookworms tonight, totally wasn't aware of that. So I might get two records from the merch tonight

 

Looking back, this is my revised list (in no particular order):

1. All Them Witches -- Sleeping Through the War
2. Chuck Prophet -- Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
3. Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black
4. Michael Chapman - 50
5. Deep Dark Woods - Yarrow
6. Cat Stevens - The Laughing Apple

Should be something there for everyone.

 

Yea, should be a cool set of shows, got a mention in the 2018 thread too ... Best New Albums of 2018

Also just got notice that the new Lake Ruth record is gonna be out next week, Birds of America. Gonna get me a copy of the vinyl pre-ordered.

 

My favorite jazz albums from 2016

1. Yacine Boularès/Vincent Segal/Nasheet Waits - Abu Sadiya
2. Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
3. Idris Rahman/Leon Brichard/Emre Ramazanoglu/Yahael Camara-Onono - ILL CONSIDERED
4. jaimie branch - Fly or Die
5. Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
6. Tomas Fujiwara - Triple Double
7. Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
8. The Comet Is Coming - Death To The Planet
9. Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts
10. Gyan Riley/Julian Lage - Midsummer Moons
11. Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Incidentals
12. Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
13. Collocutor - The Search
14. BANANA - LIVE
15. Gary Peacock Trio - Tangents

Honorable Mentions, some of these are here only because they were purchased late in the year and I really haven't listened enough.

Aalberg/Kullhammar/Zetterberg/Santos - Basement Sessions Vol.4 (The Bali Tapes)
Benny Greb - Grebfruit 2
Björn Meyer - Provenance
Elliott Sharp (with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot) - Err Guitar
GLiTS - Getting Lost in Tiny Spaces
Harris Eisenstadt - Recent Developments
Idris Rahman/Leon Brichard/Tom Skinner - WILDFLOWER
Krokofant - Krokofant III
Led Bib - Umbrella Weather
Louis Sclavis/Dominique Pifarély/Vincent Courtois, - Asian Fields Variations
Mary Halvorson - Paimon: John Zorn's The Book of Angels Volume 32
Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
Paolo Fresu/Uri Caine - Two Minuettos (Live in Milano)
Raoul Bjorkenheim / eCsTaSy - Doors of Perception
Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For The South Side
The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks
Tyshawn Sorey - Verisimilitude


My favorite albums of 2017

 

My top 20 classical releases from last year

My favorite albums of 2017

This doesn't include early music which was in an earlier list. For the most part, this is 21st century music with a few albums of older compositions thrown in. The only pre-20th century music, is the transcription of Bach for marimba.

1. Christoph Sietzen - Attraction
2. Various Artists - Rory Boyle: Music for Clarinet
3. Roderik Povel/Nathalie Forget/Studium Chorale - Niels Rønsholdt: Songs of Doubt
4. Various Artists - Flaminis aura - works by Tommie Haglund
5. Various Artitsts - Carter: Late Works
6. Various Artists - Aho: Saxophone Concerto and Quintet
7. Los Angeles Percussion Quartet - Beyond
8. Nicolas Horvath - Rääts: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
9. Jeremy Kerner/Isaura String Quartet - Daniel Corral: Refractions
10. Kuniko Kato - Bach: Solo works for marimba
11. Barbara Hannigan - Crazy Girl Crazy
12. Tetraktis Ensemble - Ionisation - Percussion Music by Varèse, Reich, Chavez, Chavez, Chavez, Cowell, Harrison, Cage
13. Third Coast Percussion - Philippe Manoury: The Book of Keyboards
14. Emil Jonason - Emil Jonason plays Lindberg and Golijov
15. Various Artists - Tüür: Peregrinus ecstaticus - Le poids des vies non vécues - Noesis
16. Due East/Third Coast Percussion - Jeff Herriott: The Stone Tapestry
17. Various Artists - Harrison: Violin Concerto, Grand Duo & Double Music
18. Daniel Bjarnason - Recurrence (ISO Project, Vol. 1)
19. Ensemble Aleph - Kagel: The 8 Pieces of the Wind Rose
20. Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble - Hushers

A single that is actually my favorite release. I just didn't want to put a single in the list

Roomful of Teeth - How A Rose​

I also didn't want to put these two EPs in the list, but they are excellent.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen - Waley-Cohen: Permutations & Unveil
Various Artists - Molly Joyce: Lean Back and Release​

Boxed set I didn't want to put in the list.

Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection: Volume XXI-XXVIII​

 

Great list...the only change I would make is to get Nicole Mitchell from the honorable mention area to the main list.

 

It was a hard list to narrow down. All of the honorable mentions are great albums.