Best Albums of 2017

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It's that time of year. Bring on your top 10s.

Mine's something like this although almost impossible to separate the top 5, it's been a blinding year for music (again).

  1. Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
  2. Hallelujah Anyhow – Hiss Golden Messenger
  3. The Navigator – Hurray for the Riff Raff
  4. Pangs – Alasdair Roberts
  5. Peasant – Richard Dawson
  6. Let the Dancers Inherit the Party - British Sea Power
  7. Orc - Oh Sees
  8. Future Echoes - Pictish Trail
  9. Newk Wight Delhi Allstars - Yorkston Thorne Khan
  10. Out of Range - Gun Outfit

alittleotter replied on

In no particular order

1.Ian Felice-In The Kingdom Of Dreams.

2.Grandaddy-The Last Place.

3.Run The Jewels-RTJ3

4.Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever-French Press

5.Kevin Morby -City Music.

6.Woods-Love is Love.

7.Spoon-Hot Thoughts.

8.Julie Byrne-Not Even Happiness.

9.Peter Perrett-How The West Was Won.

10.The Shins- Heartworms.

decemberboy replied on

1) Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
2) Slowdive - Slowdive
3) Ryan Adams - Prisoner
4) The Jesus & Mary Chain - Damage & Joy
5) The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understaning
6) Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
7) British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
8) Conor Oberst - Salutations
9) Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Revival
10) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex

jedthehumanoid's picture jedthehumanoid replied on

Grandaddy - Last Place

Ed Dowie - The Uncle Sold

Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand

North Atlantic Drift - Departures Vol.1

Mogwai - Every Country's Sun

Thundercat - Drunk

Manoganon - Killmens

Big Thief - Capacity

Gill Landry - Love Rides a Dark Horse

Conor Oberst - Salutations

 

ray_rad's picture ray_rad replied on

you people are all listening to completely different records to me

'adios senor pussycat' - michael head

'sandgrown' - jack cooper

'mapache' - mapache

'we are millionaires' - pete fij + terry bickers

'30 seconds to the decline of planet earth' - sun kil moon

'common as light and love are red valleys of blood' - sun kil moon

'another summer of love' - gospelbeach

'crack-up' - fleet foxes

'existential beast' - miranda lee richards

'a crow looked at me' - mount eerie

'volcano' - temples

'foxhole' - the proper ornaments

Nathan replied on

Cry Cry Cry - Wolf Parade

A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie

Modern Kosmology - Jane Weaver

Prince of Tears - Baxter Dury

Moonshine Freeze - This is the Kit

Capacity - Big Thief (Album of the Year)

Preservation - Nadia Ried

Planatarium Sufjan et al. 

Honourable Mention: Ride. and Phases by Angel Olsen. 

LIVE AWARD: RIchard Dawson. 


Slugger's picture Slugger replied on

 

So many magnificent albums this year including ...

Sam Amidon  -  The Following Mountain

Kevin Morby   -   City Music

The Barr Brothers   -   Queens of the Breakers

Blue Rose Code     -    The Water of Leith

Seamus Fogarty    -   The Curious Hand

Michael Chapman   -   50

Angus and Julia Stone    -   Snow

Waxahatchee   -   Out in the Storm

Peter Oren   -   Anthropocene

Offa Rex   -   The Queen of Hearts

Hurrah for the Riff Raff  -  The Navigator

Hamell on Trial - Tackle box

Most disappointing album: The Mountain Goats   -  Goths  (betcha it would sound great live at GM 18 though!!!)

Best Live Album:  Hamell on Trial - Big Mouth Strikes Again

Best new-old album: Neil Young   -   Hitchhiker

 

peridot's picture peridot replied on

Well one or two of you get a few marks for trying but it's a pretty piss poor effort overall I have to say.

Before anyone else embarasses themselves the correct answer, in no particular order, is ...

Trampolene - Swansea to Hornsey
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood
Pumarosa - The Witch
HMS Morris - Interior Design
Richard Dawson - Peasant
U2 - Songs of Experience
Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
Loyle Carner  - Yesterday’s Gone 
Samantha Crain - You Had me at Goodbye
Toby Hay - The Gathering
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference

Krasnyi's picture Krasnyi replied on

U2? Oh you are a one peridot!

The Samantha Crain album was one of my disappoitments of the year. It's not bad but not, in my opinion, a patch on her earlier stuff.

Slugger's picture Slugger replied on

 

 

 

I didn't even get 1 out of 10 

 

and I tried really hard this year

 

 

... insert sad face emoji here

waveydavey replied on

In no particular order:

Atomic Bomb Band - Atomic Bomb Band

Every Valley - Public Service Broadcasting

Every Country's Sun - Mogwai

Party - Aldous Harding

Yesterday's Gone - Loyle Carner

Bicep - Bicep

Resistance - Songhoy Blues

Two Trains - Hogni

Mary Casio:Journey to Cassiopeia - Hannah Peel

George Best 30 - The Wedding Present

born in the fifties's picture born in the fifties replied on

And any of the following who haven't played GM would be more than welcomed by me next year (as well as those who already have):

Algiers – The Underside of Power
Kevin Morby – City Music
Neil Young – Hitchhiker
Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
Peter Perrett – How the West Was Won*
Pumarosa – The Witch
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talk Tight
The National – Sleep Well Beast
The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

Single : W.H.Lung - Inspiration! / Nothing Is

*Although it's only the 2nd best of the two 'How the West Was Won' albums I have.

Chrissied's picture Chrissied replied on

Colorama - Some Things Just Take Time

Marty Stuart - Way Out West

HGM - Hallelujah Anyhow

Michael Chapman - 50

The Weather Station

James Elkington - Wintres Woma

Joan Shelley

Yorkston Thorne Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars

Chris Hillman Bidin' My Time

GospelbeacH - Another Summer of Love

Rodney Crowell - Close Ties

blackpumpkinhead replied on

Wonderful album,very difficult/emotional to sit through---would love to hear it performed live but unsure if it would get the silence required from the crowd at a festival.

ray_rad's picture ray_rad replied on

it was gruelling (though wonderful) to see one of the shows of 'crow' material

but phil said that he won't be doing the songs live again