Best albums of 2017 ...so far

dindude

Hhhmmm the ones I was most looking forward too Wolf Alice and Arcade Fire are good but not as good as I was hoping for, although Everything Now is my song of the year by some margin.

seem to be enjoying:

Ryan Adams: Prisoner
Steven Wilson: To The Bone
Everythjng Everything: A Fever Dream

stimpsonslostson

Reverend said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Hot Water Music: Light it up. 
I've listened to it FAR more often that is healthy. 


I love this band- Chucks voice is brilliant. Their previous album was superb too. 

Presumably you are a Leatherface fan?

Yep. They did a split EP with HWM a while back. 

equalsql

Moonchild - Voyager

d8m

In no particular order:

• The National - Sleep Well Beast
• Idles - Brutalism
• 68 - Two Parts Viper
• Brand New - Science Fiction
• The Menzingers - After The Party
  

Fuengi

d8m said:

In no particular order:

• The National - Sleep Well Beast
• Idles - Brutalism
• 68 - Two Parts Viper
• Brand New - Science Fiction
• The Menzingers - After The Party
  

I've got the Brand New album, listened a couple of times and like it, must give it another couple of spins. 

piercelmno

Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

Moss

piercelmno said:

Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

Such an amazing album - I bumped into her in DC a couple of weeks back too!

MagicPigDetective

Been listening to Loyle Carner’s album. Easily the best hip hop from the UK I’ve heard. Yes even better than Goldie Lookin Chain. 

Stuckfast

BigLicks67 said:

Lambchop - Flotus (technically 2016 but my most played record in 2017)

Is this good then? I absolutely love What Another Man Spills but nothing else they've done has come close IMO. But I've not heard this one.

Fuengi

Stuckfast said:

BigLicks67 said:

Lambchop - Flotus (technically 2016 but my most played record in 2017)

Is this good then? I absolutely love What Another Man Spills but nothing else they've done has come close IMO. But I've not heard this one.

Really good. Well, well worth a listen. 

BigLicks67

Stuckfast said:

BigLicks67 said:

Lambchop - Flotus (technically 2016 but my most played record in 2017)

Is this good then? I absolutely love What Another Man Spills but nothing else they've done has come close IMO. But I've not heard this one.

It's not really like anything else they've done, it's more into the realms of electronica and it takes a bit of getting into, but I love it. I like WAMS, have you listened to Awe Cm'on Now You C'mon, Is A Woman & Nixon? They are not a that far off WAMS in style. 

Stuckfast

Yes I've got all of those but I find none of them is anything like as good as WAMS, not quite sure why.

One of the best gigs I have ever seen was Kurt Wagner solo, a year or two after WAMS came out. I guess it was his golden period or something.

GavRichList

Moss said:

I have a spreadsheet because I'm a special type of sad music nerd

Here's the top 25 at the moment:

1. Wooop! We made the list!
2. I’d add Regrowth by Kauf

Moss

GavRichList said:

Moss said:

I have a spreadsheet because I'm a special type of sad music nerd

Here's the top 25 at the moment:

1. Wooop! We made the list!
2. I’d add Regrowth by Kauf

1. It's a seriously great album man
2. It's been on my 'to listen' list for a while - I'll put it on later

GavRichList

Moss said:

GavRichList said:

Moss said:

I have a spreadsheet because I'm a special type of sad music nerd

Here's the top 25 at the moment:

1. Wooop! We made the list!
2. I’d add Regrowth by Kauf

1. It's a seriously great album man
2. It's been on my 'to listen' list for a while - I'll put it on later

Very kind indeed. Got the final mix of a new track through today 

ewal

The New Year - Snow. I''m amazed how little coverage this album has got.

ewal

In addition to The New Year:

Hammock - Mysterium
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Hey Colossus - The Guillotine
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
Johann Johannsson - Orphee
Flat Worms - Flat Worms
Widowspeak - Expect The Best

and others...

Babones

Milk Music - Mystic 100's

Philly_Q

Philly_Q said:

It's at times like these that I realise how few new albums I actually buy or hear so I might as well just list them all.  Some are not even particularly good...

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Youngblood Supercult - The Great American Death Rattle
Ruby the Hatchet - Planetary Space Child
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Alunah - Solennial
The Obsessed - Sacred
Siena Root - A Dream of Lasting Peace

I've got another one I've been listening to a lot the last couple of weeks:

Pallbearer - Heartless

Octahedron

For me, Thunder are still winning the year with "Rip it Up"

There's some hot contenders out there, though... I really like the new Styx album, and Night Ranger.

Black Star Riders, Royal Blood, The Darkness, Strangers, many bands produced great new albums this year. Even the new Nickelback wasn't too bad, bit of a bounce-back from No Fixed Address which was shite.