Rubin Farr Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Now that bleep, Norman, Boomkat etc. are playing this game, what say you are your favorites this year? There have been some excellent LPs for sure. IMO: AFX - London 03.06.17 [field day] Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI Polypores - The Impossibility FSOL - Archived : Environmental : Views FSOL - 2017 Calendar Album The Eyes and The Mistoids - MECHA Carbon Based Lifeforms - Derelicts Aleksi Perala - Simulation Jon Brooks - Autres Directions Folklore Tapes - The Folklore of Plants Daphni - FABRICLIVE 93 Radiophonic Workshop - Burial in Several Earths Children of Alice - S/T Nmesh - Pharma The Voyager Golden Record Box Set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Actress - AZD Boris - Dear The Focus Group - Stop-Motion Happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I always feel disappointed with end of year lists, because in black and white they look so dull and boring, yet I've discovered so much great music over the last 12 months (in my own private time traveling machine) If I had to choose from Rubins' list I'd choose my version of AFX Field Day (a few tracks deleted from the running order). In fact reading that list and a few others appearing it shows how little new music I've even bothered with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Kangding Ray - Hyper Opal Mantis Wiley - Godfather Julie Byrne - Not even happiness Daphni - Joli Mai John Maus - Screen Memories Lau Nau - Poseidon Msafari Zawose - Uhamiaji Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins Phonophani - Animal Imagination Glenn Astro & Ajnascent - Even Kondi Band - Salone Slowdive - Slowdive Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens Kariem Riggings - Headnod Suite Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus Naka Naka - Mundo Harsh Comp: Various Artists - Mono No Aware EPs: Ivy Lab - Peninsula EP Ariel Pink & Weyes Blood - Myths 002 Lanark Artefax - Whities 11 Lake People - Break the pattern Too much stuff I haven't had time to listen to properly or forgotten, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Gorillaz - Humanz Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time These are the only 2017 releases I can put off the top of my head right now, all great imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaggerMcGuirk Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I'm old, so I usually use lists like this to find "new" music, but here's mine. Aphex new bleep store tracks AFX - Field Day Kendrick - DAMN. Thundercat - Drunk Sakamoto - Async Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson Slowdive - Slowdive Johnny Jewel - Windswept LCD Soundsystem - American Dream Angel Olsen - Phases Yaeji - EP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 rolando simmons - world building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 In no particular order, this is what I've got so far. There's some stuff from this year I haven't yet bought/fully digested and may need to add on to this list later. LPs Actress - AZD Rime Trails - Solstice Smackos - A Vampire Goes West Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure Claude Speeed - Infinity Ultra Nathan Fake - Providence Pausal - Avifaunal EPs S Olbricht - Purpleblue Lorn - A/D exm - ineSix/Cider Acrelid - Things That Aren't There Ruby My Dear - Basic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Blanck Mass - Worldeater. Nothing else really got close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennylogg Bubblebath Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 A few off the top of my head... Bibio - Phantom Brickworks Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins LCD Soundsystem - American Dream AFX - Field Day collection Thundercat - Drunk OPN - Good Time OST Com Truise - Iteration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Pancreatic carcinogenesis - demo AFx - LOndon field lp + bonustxxx thundercat - drunks John mau5 - screen memories taake - kong vinter congrats to the winners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flacid Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 varient - vortexual [tape sessions] series collection Vytear - Kingtrips ep1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omnii Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 #1 Qebrus - ◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙https://exophobiaorgqebrus.bandcamp.com/album/--5 #2 Fever Ray - Plunge #3 Thundercat - Drunk #4 Jonwayne - Rap Album Two #5 Grandaddy - Last Place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewps Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I've listened to nothing this year Arca - Arca Bedwetter - Volume 1. Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the PresentFreddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wiceM.E.S.H. - Hesaitix Rolando Simmons - World Building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 some of my longtime faves released this year so it's been good for me. The Bug + Earth - Concrete Desert Fret - Over Depth Godflesh - Post-Self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Partial list for me but... zvλd - Baklava Hello Spiral - Detached Objects Rolando Simmons - World Building Siriusmo - Comic wAgAwAgA - Totangled Aleksi Perala - Simulation AFX - London/Field Day LP Com Truise - Iteration Tsrono - Erythric Limnes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sagan Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 rolando simmons - world building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendish Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 nmesh - pharma migos - culture really culture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Vingoe Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 1) rolando simmons - bridgeland pt 303 albums vince staples - big fish theory rolando simmons - world building john maus - screen memories deepchord - auratones angel olsen - phases +the vast majority of the "new" afx from the blerpstore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scumtron Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Mount Eerie Slowdive Blanck Mass The National The War on Drugs Perfume Genious Gas Motorpsycho Four Tet Arca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendish Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Mount Eerie Slowdive Blanck Mass The National The War on Drugs Perfume Genious Gas Motorpsycho Four Tet Arca war on drugs is an excellent very very well produced album....i'd also add the new broken social scene to that...didn't really get into the new national though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taphead Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I'm still finding stuff from this year and there's a bunch of stuff that I know I want to hear but haven't yet, but these are the ten that were the biggest for me 1. Laurel Halo - Dust 2. Jürg Frey - L'ame est sans retenue I 3. Jaap Vink - Jaap Vink 4. Sote - Sacred Horror In Design 5. Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand 6. Brother Ah - Searching 7. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid 8. Bhob Rainey - From Null Lands Led, Starrily 9. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage 10. Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death Mask and here's some words on each one of those 1. Laurel Halo - Dust https://laurelhalo.bandcamp.com/album/laurel-halo-dust-hdblp036 There's just so much going on here, there's that weird sort of sterile hyperreal sort of sound that is very contemporary, but it's tweaked to feel more subdued/monochrome which is totally contradictory. And then there's the contradiction of the strict quantized stock drum sound tracks vs the spacier stuff with Eli Keszler drumming. I don't understand why this works for me so well but it all cohered into this one whole thing that left a big impression on me this year. 2. Jürg Frey - L'ame est sans retenue I http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/EC002.html This is a six hour album that is mostly silence. Absolute, null value silence. The rest is recordings from a park, essentially recordings of air that occasionally have music intruding in them off in the distance. I know, this probably sounds incredibly pretentious. But there is something very special to the way this album purely works with the barest materials to play with the perception of time. I think it's fair to treat this like a psychedelic experience, like you set out to listen to this and that's the thing that you're going to do today. A lot of people may think it's a waste of time and that's their right but if you're interested and really commit to it I think this has something very special to offer. 3. Jaap Vink - Jaap Vink http://editionsmego.com/release/REGRM018EXT I haven't heard the giant Roland Kayn thing that came out recently, but from what I understand this is similar territory. This is music generated by elaborate electronic systems, without human intervention outside of the curation of the material and creation of the system as far as I understand (it gets very complicated though so I may be misunderstanding). There is something very human and composed about this material to me though. The drifting sheets of sound are right up my alley on the aesthetic taste side of things, and while I did use the word "drift" just now, the music still feels like it builds to moments with a sense of purpose. Basically if you like ambient or drone type of stuff, I'd strongly recommend this one to you. 4. Sote - Sacred Horror In Design http://opaltapes.com/album/sacred-horror-in-design You may know this guy from his old Warp 12" or releases in the past few years on Morphine or Record Label Records, but this new one isn't really on the IDM side of things. I've been into those recent albums a lot, there's something about his approach to synthesis that captures this feeling of hyperbole for me that I can't get enough of. On this album, he takes that hyperbole to electroacoustic music that incorporates traditional instruments and tuning from Persian culture. I've seen comparisons to Dariush Dolat-Shahi's classic Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar, but that album had the electronics and traditional instruments coexisting separately in space. But on this Sote album, the traditional instruments wear the electronics, and they get exaggerated with this hyperbolic sound and it's really incredible. The last track flips the script and goes into extended technique with the traditional instruments and throws in some Serge from EMS and it is an incredibly satisfying conclusion. 5. Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/hand-in-hand I wasn't clued in on Atkinson's stuff before 2015's A Readymade Ceremony, but from what I understand that album marked a large change in how she operates. I guess she was on that ambient drone sort of thing, but A Readymade Ceremony was more like this sort of prosumer lofi computer music where it doesn't exactly sound lofi because it's made with prosumer equipment but there's an exploitation of the weird dryness and usage of intentional clipping. This album is much more refined, and a huge step up as far as I'm concerned. It's a very particular sort of computer music that feels like it could only be made now, but with a drab sort of quality to the sound that flies in the face of so much of what's going on right now. That drabness may read as boring but I found that getting on its wavelength to lead to a really engaging experience. And it is relatively accessible in the way the songs incorporate rhythm and pretty clear forms with a sense of development, you shouldn't have to try too hard if it's something you'd be into. 6. Brother Ah - Searching https://brotherah.bandcamp.com/album/searching-1985 This was part of a 3 disc set of unreleased archival material from Brother Ah, but I wasn't so into the first two discs. The first one had vocals that I could not get past, and the second one just didn't seem all that striking. But this disc is really something. Super 80s synths stretching out into a beautiful new age tomorrow with some trumpet, flute, and of course some fucking conch shell. Gotta have my conch. This is good Sunday music. 7. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid So I know that Smith's stuff may be too soft for some of you guys, but I've been on board with her stuff since Euclid, and one of the many satisfying musical threads of this decade has been seeing her continuing to step up her game. The sound keeps getting richer and the songwriting is moving away from the mantra type of stuff into something more dynamic. I'm into it. 8. Bhob Rainey - From Null Lands Led, Starrily https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-null-lands-led-starrily Here's one for any of you all who are into the old academic electronic stuff, this is an excellent sound adventure in that mold. The middle track slows things down and rides the consistency, but the bread on this sandwich has that whole thing with the longform progression of sound objects and phrases. I have a weakness for that sort of thing but I feel like Rainey brings a special dose of personality to the proceedings, and the structures seem to take advantage of the extreme clarity that is available in musical production today to create a feeling of chaotic activity but with a lot of breathing room to it. 9. Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage https://visiblecloaks.bandcamp.com/album/reassemblage Here is another album which just on a superficial level I love because it sounds very good. I'm glad it's been getting some recognition from publications, this one really deserves it. That moment around 1:30 in Terrazzo (Ft. Motion Graphics), where this really sharp sound pops in after some flute and synth doodling, and everything all snaps into focus and primes you for when the synths really start descending in a few moments. That shit is really great. There's a lot of stuff on this album that is really satisfying in how it's put together. 10. Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death Mask https://taiwanhousingproject.bandcamp.com/album/veblen-death-mask This is great rock music. Sorry for the massive amount of text, I tried to spoiler it but it wasn't working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon Clark - Death Peak Godflesh - Post Self Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven Laurel Halo - Dust Dauwd - Theory of Colors Altarage - Endinghent Patricia - Several Shades of the Same Color 36 - Black Soma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-a-m-o Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 LPs : AFX - London field day LP Iglooghost - Neo wax bloom Aleksi Perala - Simulation EPs : EOD - Swurlk Lanark artefax - whities 011 Lorenzo Senni : XallegroX/The shape of trance to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markedone Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Bibio - Phantom brickworks Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives King Krule - The Ooz Garrett - Private Time DJ Python - Dulce Compania Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage ep Cloudface - Super You Patricia - Autonomy Neo Image - MH017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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