Your favorite 2017 albums/songs so far? (translated from cobblerese)

[kabigon]

Let the cobblerese thread titles flow

 

[Hewson]

i think it was like, "ya favourite 2017 albums" or something, i forgot.

There were no actual words, all anagrams and abbreviations.

 

[Mack_Again]

i think it had some actual words, but again my memory is blurry my brain has no space for some shitty titles

 

[IWasBored]

2k17? What the actual fuck.

 

[Axver]

Don't act like you haven't seen people write 2k14 or whatever in previous years this decade.

 

[LemonMelon]

2k17 isn't quite as egregious of an abbreviation as The 2, but it's close.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

The 2 is awesome, now that I would put on a hat.

 

[IWasBored]

Don't act like you haven't seen people write 2k14 or whatever in previous years this decade.

If I did, I blocked it from memory because it's beyond pointless.

 

[womanfish]

lots of good ones listed. Haven't seen New Pornographers, Ryan Adams or Aimee Mann mentioned yet. All some of their best work in years.

 

[nielsgov]

Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes

I think I've listened to the NPR stream 8 times over the past three days.

Other good stuff:
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
Spinvis - Trein Vuur Dageraad
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Communions - Blue
Elbow - Little Fictions
STUFF. - Old Dreams New Planets (this is great avant-garde band from Belgium if you want to hear some weird groovy stuff)
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Talaboman - The Night Land

 

[LemonMelon]

lots of good ones listed. Haven't seen New Pornographers, Ryan Adams or Aimee Mann mentioned yet. All some of their best work in years.

I gave Ryan Adams some love in the post I linked to. Totally agreed on that Aimee Mann album.

 

[Salome]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Nadia Reid - Preservation
Idles - Brutalism
Forest Swords - Compassion
The Feelies - In Between

 

[LemonMelon]

Idles - Brutalism

Been my gym music this year

 

[womanfish]

As we await new U2, i searched out this thread again.

Would love to hear from more people on what they are liking so far.

For me,

These are some of my favorite songs so far.

Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Blossoms - Honey Sweet
Fazerdaze - Last to Sleep (Thanks Axver)
Geowulf - Won't Look Back
Keaton Henson - Epilogue
Me Not You - Kill the Noise (Thanks Axver)
Neon Waltz - Heavy Heartless
Pale Waves - There's A Honey
RAC - This Song (ft. Rostam)
Ryan Adams - Shiver And Shake
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill (Axver is correct on this being the song to beat)
Sylvan Esso - Die Young
The New Pornographers - This Is The World Of The Theater
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Waxahatchee - Never Been Wrong


That's about all for now. Love getting new ideas from you guys.

 

[Mack_Again]

i also thought that SZA's album was quite great too.

 

[Mack_Again]

i listened to first 2 songs off of new Jute Gyte album and man, they're intense as hell i like these

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Agree that Shiver and Shake by Ryan Adams is a solid track from 2017. I feel like I'm finally getting to know that album, and the Prisoner B-Sides collection has some gems as well.

 

[cobl04]

People have slept on Los Campesinos' Sick Scenes, which is a real shame, because the public lethargy is going to kill them as a band.

 

[womanfish]

Just listened through the new Manchester Orchestra. Wow. Pretty good stuff. The Mistake is my favorite so far, but lots of solid material on it.
Also, Rostam has a new album coming in the fall. Bike Dream is a great song he released so far

 

[cobl04]

I meant to listen to that album that he put out last year. It got really great reviews.

 

[intedomine]

Sick Scenes is alright, on just a handful of listens. Can't see it having staying power over a longer term though, in that i'd have an urge for repeat listens. Renato Dell'ara and For Whom The Belly Tolls stood out as good fun tracks

 

[Axver]

Fazerdaze - Last to Sleep (Thanks Axver)
...
Me Not You - Kill the Noise (Thanks Axver)
...
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill (Axver is correct on this being the song to beat)

Hey, cheers, in particular glad somebody has picked up on Fazerdaze. Given how well she's doing in the music press down here, I figured she'd maybe catch the ears of a few people here. Friggin' Cobbler, you should at least get onto her music. I can't wait for her little tour in a month.

Some favourite tracks to add to my earlier list:

Cloud Control - Rainbow City (easily the best thing they've ever done)
Ride - Lannoy Point
Totty - Riff

And albums:

Deafcult - Auras (probably my favourite so far)
Palehorse/Palerider - Burial Songs
Ride - Weather Diaries
See Through Dresses - Horse of the Other World
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm

I'm a bit disappointed not to add Major Leagues' new album to this list, but it's too patchy. Still, they're a great band more people should know about. "Good Love" is a real standout from the album, and "Someone Sometime" from an earlier EP is one of the best Aussie songs full stop.

Another Aussie band to watch are Egoism. They released a solid EP earlier this year, It's Wearing Off, and between its launch in February and their set last night supporting Deafcult, they've taken further strides.

 

[Joey788]

People have slept on Los Campesinos' Sick Scenes, which is a real shame, because the public lethargy is going to kill them as a band.

Probably my favorite album of this year so far. Only one of three 9/10s I've given for my album reviews this year. Renato Dall'Ara, I Broke Up In Amarante, A Slow Slow Death, 5 Flucloxacillin and Got Stendhal's are all amazing songs.

 

[cobl04]

You're forgetting The Fall of Home, Sad Suppers, For Whom the Belly Tolls. Pound for pound it's amazing.

 

[Axver]

I'm sorry but For Whom the Belly Tolls is one of the stupidest puns ever and I can't stand the song.

A Slow Slow Death is easily the standout track.

 

[cobl04]

You can't stand it because of the pun?

Because the song fucking rocks

 

[AntonCorbijn]

It’s always a pleasure to get to know everybody’s musical taste apart from U2.

And there are some great mentions, on here.

I have quite a few troubles naming whole albums, however.

Still I’d like to add a few tracks, which I believe need to be heard:

Blue Collars “Miss Muck“ and “Sex Drive“ which deserves a mention for rhyming ‘daily routine’ with ‘navy blue jeans’, alone, if you ask me

Shame “Tasteless“

Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness“

Isaac Gracie “ All in My Mind“

Amazons “Junk Food Forever“

Grace LIghtman “Halloween is Over“

Paul Weller “Long Long Road“

YOWL “My Headache Likes To Speak“

Alvvays “In Undertow“

Frank Ocean “Chanel“

Everything is Recorded “Close But Not Quiet“

The XX “Dangerous“

Kate Tempest “Europe is Lost“ (which might have been released in 2016, already, but I only started to play it on repeat, this year). Superb track, nonetheless.

 

[LemonMelon]

The best album I've heard since posting my list has sadly not been officially released yet but leaked a few weeks ago: Ariel Pink's Dedicated to Bobby Jameson. Usually, I have a rule to only listen to albums once pre-release and then return to them when full quality is on offer, but I can't with this one. It's too good. It's his most consistent, mature work to date, loaded with delicious, genre-bending pop music. Time to Live and Another Weekend are wonderful pre-release singles and made me seek the whole thing out the moment I could:





The whole album is out September 15.

tl;dr: I'd take on a musket for this album. It joins the shortlist of albums from this year that I absolutely love and could see myself keeping in regular rotation.

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
Sampha - Process
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket

 

[Mack_Again]

Alvvay's In Undertow was one of the best songs I've listened to this year, indeed

 

[Axver]

You can't stand it because of the pun?

Because the song fucking rocks

No, it's definitely one of the worst on the album.