End of Year poll 2017

mosstin

Might be treading on lordgoat's toes here and, if so, feel free to delete, but I enjoy reading what people enjoyed every year. Lots of really good records this year but not one of them towers above the others.
Anyway, I'll set the ball rolling......

Best album (choose 5)
1. Music for the Age of Miracles - The Clientele
2. Slowdive - S/T
3. Stranger In The Alps - Phoebe Bridgers
4. Kelly Lee Owens - S/T
5. Melodrama - Lorde

Also enjoyed St. Vincent, LCD Soundsystem, Aimee Mann, Blanck Mass, Four Tet, Magnetic Fields and Iron and Wine.

Best song (choose 5)
1. 'Falling Asleep' - The Clientele
2. 'To the Moon and Back' - Fever Ray
3. 'Scott Street' - Phoebe Bridgers
4. 'Home Made Dynamite' - Lorde
5. 'Something New' - Saint Etienne

Best video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJjGZkPl9Tw

Best gigs (choose 5)
1. St. Vincent - The Olympia
2. LCD Soundsystem - The Olympia
3. Magnetic Fields - NCH
4. Kraftwerk - BGE Theatre
5. Aphex Twin - Forbidden Fruit

mosstin

This has gone well.

Acosta

Top 10 albums

Paul Draper - Spooky Action

British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party

Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry

Percolator - Sestra

Slowdive - Slowdive

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

Ty Segall - Ty Segall

Meatbodies - Alice

Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees

Also liked albums from Jane Weaver, Thee Oh Sees, Wand, Grandaddy and Broken Social Scene.

Other than the 5 times I've gone to BSP this year and Desertfest Berlin, I've not made it to much gigs unfortunately

lordgoat

Not at all man. It was on my list of things to do but real life is a killer this year!

I'll stick up my list this week.

UrbanSprawl

Had a good think and review of the songs and albums I listened to most over the year ..
Albums:
1)Otherkin -OK ..amazing achievements in 2017 and an excellent album,one that I have played on repeat play since release .
2)No Middle Name-Fondness.Bought this album physical copy,one of only a few I acquired non digitally this year, got many listens earlier in the year,suits a particular nostalgic mood.
3)The World is a Beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to die-Always Alien..some really excellent tracks and then a few not so great but overall their most coherent,enduring and listenable to date. Faker is a top tune.
4)The Future West - Holy Sh1t, Here Come The Future West..Bursting out of Dundalk, a brilliant sounding album with a lyrical style wholly unique to themselves.Great storytelling depth in the lyrics and awesome musical accompaniments,not sure why it wasn't more warmly received by Irish Journos..
5) Oh sees .ORC -Guitar ear candy,their album is a sonic assault, their live shows look like tremendous fun!

Honorable mentions Xiu Xiu Forget,Doom Side of the Moon - Doom Side of the Moon, Brand New -Science Fiction,The Birthday Massacre -Under Your Spell.


Tunes (not ranked by position)
1)Protomatyr-Dont go to Antica
2)Cold Cave - Glory
3)Gallops -Dark Jewel
4)Public Service Broadcasting -Progress
5)Vulpynes -Slica
6)Lee Randalo -Circular
7)Otherkin- Enabler
8)Thumper-Loser
9)Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
10)Mastadoon -Show Yourself

Gigs
Only went to a few this year and from those

Otherkin@Whelans
Clap your hands say Yeah@Whelans

Videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ThsyIJpKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4SdCVAiZ7c

Birneybau

mosstin wrote: »

This has gone well.

Unfortunately this place doesn't pick up much traffic. It's a damn shame.

mosstin

Birneybau wrote: »

Unfortunately this place doesn't pick up much traffic. It's a damn shame.

Died on its arse in recent years alright.

Anesthetize

Best album
1. Alvvays - Antisocialites
2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
3. Slowdive - Slowdive
4. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
5. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Best song
1. Alvvays - 'In Undertow'
2. The War on Drugs - 'Thinking of a Place'
3. Slowdive - 'Star Roving'
4. Japanese Breakfast - 'Road Head'
5. Lorde - 'Homemade Dynamite'

Best video
Nope

Best gigs
Didn't get to go to any this year.

machiavellianme

mosstin wrote: »

Died on its arse in recent years alright.

Sadly, thats just like the Alternative and Indie genres. Everything has either been done to death or is duller than dishwater. Where's all the cool bands waiting to explode onto a new scene with something cool, different or out there? It's all too sad, hipster and poseur these days. I may not be down with the kids, but I'd kick my own ass if I was. I've been waiting for the next movement defining band like the Sex Pistols/Clash, Dinosaur Jr/Pixies/Nirvana or even Blur/Oasis for a heck of a long time now and nothing has come close to that kind of breakout.

So much so, that for 2017, I've barely found any albums in the aforementioned genres to return to more than a couple of listens. The sheen just wears off. The few I have given a whirl more than once include:

Radiohead OKNOTOK (probably doesnt count but it is still awesome)
Tori Amos - Native Invader
Bjork - Utopia
Afghan Whigs - In spades
Wavves - You're Welcome

lordgoat

mosstin wrote: »

Died on its arse in recent years alright.

I blame the millenials...

machiavellianme wrote: »

Sadly, thats just like the Alternative and Indie genres. Everything has either been done to death or is duller than dishwater. Where's all the cool bands waiting to explode onto a new scene with something cool, different or out there? It's all too sad, hipster and poseur these days. I may not be down with the kids, but I'd kick my own ass if I was. I've been waiting for the next movement defining band like the Sex Pistols/Clash, Dinosaur Jr/Pixies/Nirvana or even Blur/Oasis for a heck of a long time now and nothing has come close to that kind of breakout.

On this I'd say they are probably still there but what's happening might not suit you.

Plenty of acts have come out that are genre defining, granted they might nor be punk/rock/alt rock/brit pop/ genre flavour. But it just happens that when we add on the years the stuff that has appeals to you sticks and there's less room for newer acts.

For me, the last 5 years of hip hop has been astounding. now back on Topic.
I kept them alt indie and based in ireland.

Albums:
Ryan Adams
Julien Baker
Sampha

Gigs
Mountain goats
Ryan Adams

Shout out to this!
DAMN - Kendric

Rumple Stillson

Haven't listened to a huge amount of new music this year but my favourite albums are as follows;

Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
Sampha - Process
Real Estate - In Mind
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
QOTSA - Villains
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Don't think it's been a great year for music really?

loyatemu

Albums:

Real Estate - "In Mind"
Slowdive - "Slowdive"
Four Tet - "New Energy"

Songs (a selection of stuff not on those 3 albums):

Blanck Mass - "Rhesus Negative"
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - "French Press"
Grizzly Bear - "Wasted Acres"
The Horrors - "Something to remember me by"
Big Thief - "Mythological Beauty"

Amirani

My most enjoyed/listened to this year probably:

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Bicep - Bicep
Bonobo - Migration
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Ships - Precision

Other listens were Everything Now (Arcade Fire), Who Stole The Moon (Noel Gallagher), A Deeper Understanding (The War on Drugs). All had their moments but wouldn't consider them great albums.

Irish_rat

Slowdive - Slowdive
Wolf Alice - Visions of a life
Everything Everything - A fever Dream
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Elbow - Little Fictions

Robotito

Albums
1. Protomartyr 'Relatives In Descent'
2. John Murry 'A Short History Of Decay'
3. Slowdive 'Slowdive'
4. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 'The Nashville Sound'
5. Fleet Foxes 'Crack Up'


Songs (not on above albums)
1. Everything Now (Arcade Fire)
2. Mourning Sound (Grizzly Bear)
3. Do You Still Love Me? (Ryan Adams)
4. Pain (War On Drugs)
5. Pure Comedy (Father John Misty)


Gigs
Hamilton Leithauser (Workmans Club)
Protomartyr (Whelans)
Radiohead (3 Arena)
Band Of Horses (Electric Picnic)
Karl Blau (Cyprus Avenue)

Heisenberg.

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UrbanSprawl

Anesthetize wrote: »

Best album
1. Alvvays - Antisocialites
2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
3. Slowdive - Slowdive
4. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
5. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Best song
1. Alvvays - 'In Undertow'
2. The War on Drugs - 'Thinking of a Place'
3. Slowdive - 'Star Roving'
4. Japanese Breakfast - 'Road Head'
5. Lorde - 'Homemade Dynamite'

Best video
Nope

Best gigs
Didn't get to go to any this year.

First time I listened to 1. Alvvays - Antisocialites I was bored beyond belief now it would in my top 5 of 21017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXu6q-6JKjA

iomega

Albums
1. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
2. St. Vincent - Masseduction

The rest in no order:
King Gizzard & the lizard wizard - sketches of Brunswick east
Yazz Ahmed - Lasaboteuse
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Foxygen - Hang

GIgs (only went to 3)
St Vincent
Syd Arthur
Jane Weaver

scottmcb04

Best album
1. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
2. The National - Sleep Well Beast
3. Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory
4. Slow Meadow - Costero
5. The Horrors - V

Best songs
Jean-michel blais and CFCF - Hypocrite
Wy - Bathrooms
Mt Wolf - Hex
Matyn Heyne - Carry
Zola Jesus - Wiseblood
Colin Stetson - Spindrift
Moses Sumney - Doomed
Gang of Youths - Perservere, Let me down easy, Do not let your spirit wane

Best gigs
1. Sigur Ros @ walt disney concert hall
2. Moses Sumney
3. FM Belfast
4. Pinegrove
5. Caspian
6. The war on drugs
7. Slowdive
8. The National
9. Kate Tempest
10. Gordi